Rimward

Rimward is security software for solar farm portfolios. It connects to the CCTV cameras and recorders already installed at each site, checks continuously whether they are working and covering what they should, and turns what they see into alerts a monitoring team can act on. The vendor builds it for photovoltaic asset managers and states that it is backed by Y Combinator. Rimward compares each camera with a baseline of its view, day and night, so a camera that has moved or dropped offline appears as a coverage gap on a site plan, including the length of fence left uncovered. Every site is marked Ready, Degraded, Unknown or Unprotected, and anything the software cannot read is reported as unknown rather than assumed ready. On the alerting side, animals, weather and camera glitches are kept out of the monitoring queue, while a person or vehicle in a protected zone arrives as one event with a recorded clip and the views from every camera that saw it. Each alert carries its reason, its confidence and its source views, and operators acknowledge, dismiss or escalate it, with every decision kept on record for later review. Onboarding starts with read only access to existing cameras and needs no new hardware. It works alongside an existing monitoring provider, and an optional local gateway processes video on site where connectivity is poor. Pilots are described as live in France. Pricing is not published. The vendor offers a free site assessment, requested through a contact form that asks for no camera credentials at that stage.