🔒 Private by default. Unlocked only when it matters.

Give surveillance video Hollywood-grade protection.

Video-security breaches happen far too often. Our mission is to protect privacy. LockedStream secures your existing video AI surveillance system. Plain English defines the policies that decide who can watch. LockedStream keeps surveillance video of your kids, your elderly loved ones, and your employees private by default.

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Runs on the cameras you already own · Open-source edition free forever

Authoring a LockedStream policy in plain English on a phone: 'Only release footage when a fall is detected in the living room. Give access to Mom's two daughters and her on-call nurse — nobody else.'
8 years of R&D at Scenera, Inc. 3 granted U.S. patents on event-gated access
15 granted U.S. patents on video pipelines and edge AI Backed by Sony · Nikon · Wistron Founding team members behind HDMI & MPEG content security
The problem

Cameras are everywhere.
The video is wide open.

Schools, hospitals, warehouses, and homes are blanketed with cameras — but the footage they produce moves across networks, clouds, and inboxes with essentially no content protection at all. The industry keeps having data breaches, exposing video. Nobody has secured the video.

2021 · Verkada

~150,000 cameras exposed

A single breach exposed live feeds from inside schools, hospitals, jails, and factories — footage that was never wrapped in the protection a movie gets by default.

2026 · Flock Safety

Unencrypted live feeds

License-plate and community cameras have continued to expose unencrypted live video — surveillance sold as “security” that leaves the footage itself in the clear.

Every new camera

Compounding exposure

Each added camera compounds liability under FERPA, HIPAA, and GDPR — without adding a shred of control over who can actually watch.

The solution

Write the rules in plain English. LockedStream enforces them.

Every two-hour movie you buy or stream is wrapped in encryption, rotating keys, and hardware-backed DRM, to prevent piracy. LockedStream applies those same technologies to the footage of your kids, your parents, and your team, to ensure privacy.

Encrypted video clips are unviewable by default.

Say “only release footage when a fall is detected” — it becomes policy.

Test before you deploy.

Dry-run policies against what-if scenarios to see exactly who would get access.

Runs on cameras you already own.

On-prem or cloud — private by default either way.

CAM-04 · 03:14:07 ENCRYPTED AI EVENT? KEY 0x9F3A… rotates every 5s ⟳ POLICY · PLAIN ENGLISH “Release footage only when a fall is detected — to Mom’s daughters and her on-call nurse. Nobody else.”
How it works

Four steps from open footage to sealed by default

1

Encrypt at capture

Every clip is encrypted the instant it's recorded, with a key that rotates every 5 seconds. Footage stays sealed at rest and in transit.

2

Keys stay locked

Decryption keys are held back by default. Storage admins, cloud providers, and anyone who copies a disk get encrypted noise.

3

AI opens the door

A key is released only when the AI detects an event — a fall, a fire, a theft — or your policy criteria are met, and only for the relevant clips.

4

Only the right people

Keys go to the specific roles your policy authorizes — a caregiver, a facilities manager, the police — and no one else.

For developers

For integrators: Three lines to seal a stream.

LockedStream is middleware for integrators and vendors — drop it in as a Python SDK, no rip-and-replace. Seal footage at capture, link clips to whatever the AI detects, and let the policy agent handle key release, role checks, and the audit trail. No cryptography to wire up yourself.

Seal at capture.

ls.lock(video_clip) encrypts a clip the instant it's recorded.

Attribute on an AI event.

ls.attribute(video_clips, ai_event.category) links the relevant clips to what your model detected.

Clips or continuous streams.

Working with a live stream instead of clips? Mark the start and end timepoints of the span.

The policy agent handles the rest.

Key release, role-based access, and the signed audit trail — all enforced for you.

ai_application.py
import lockedstream as ls # 1 — seal a clip the moment it's captured ls.lock(video_clip) # 2 — when your AI fires an event, attribute # the relevant clips to its category if ai_event: ls.attribute(video_clips, ai_event) # continuous stream instead of clips? # mark the start and end timepoints of the span if ai_event: ls.attribute(stream, ai_event, start=t_start, end=t_end) # 3 — the LockedStream policy agent handles # the rest: key release, role checks, audit
Editions

Free for the community. Pro for scale.

The same core protection, packaged for home tinkerers and for facilities running thousands of cameras.

LockedStream Free

Open source, free for non-commercial use

Free forever · for personal & non-commercial use
  • Fully open source, community-maintained
  • Drops into Frigate and Home Assistant
  • Rotating-key encryption + event-gated key release
  • Plain-English policy authoring for everyday setups
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LockedStream Pro

Court-ready protection for organizations

Commercial licensing · contact sales
  • For facilities, campuses, and vendors at scale
  • Role-based policy engine with a signed, court-ready audit trail
  • Hardware-backed DRM, SSO/OIDC, chain-of-custody exports
  • Deploys on-prem or cloud — private by default
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Why now

We're leveraging the proven security stack for the content that matters.

Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay already ship on billions of devices, and modern cameras can run apps and encrypt encoded video. We're composing the same content-protection stack that protects Netflix, the Apple App Store, and Amazon Kindle — and aiming it at surveillance footage.

WidevinePlayReadyFairPlayMPEG-CENCFrigateHome Assistant
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Who's behind it

Built by veterans of video, AI, and content security

LockedStream is built by the team at Scenera, Inc. — with deep roots in the standards that protect the world's premium video.

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Patryk Laurent

CEO & CTO

Two decades building computer-vision and edge-AI systems (Brain Corp, LeEco, Scenera). Ph.D. in computational cognitive neuroscience. pakl.net

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Andrew Wajs

Chief Security Officer

Contributor to MPEG content-security standards, including the forensic watermarking that protects the world's premium video. Now aiming that expertise at surveillance.

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David Lee

Chief Strategy Officer

Creator of HDMI and DVI — the standards that carry protected video to nearly every screen on earth. Unmatched depth in how content protection ships at scale.

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Make privacy the default.

See LockedStream running on the cameras you already own — or get notified when the open-source edition ships.

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