MISSION
Put video, sensors and AI into systems operations can run — on fleets, sites and streets.
Fleets · Energy · Mining · City
Streets, sites and fleets that
stay in service.
Gaucho Australis works on fleets, energy, mining and the smart, safe city. Government and high-security programs when the work requires it. We consult, we install a working system, or we source the factory and the product. Cameras, sensors and AI become something operations can run.
VISION
Streets, sites and fleets that stay in service. Fewer pilots. The client still owns the system at day ninety.
VALUE
Field-first design. Vendor-agnostic architecture. Evidence over slides. Delivery you can operate.
Gaucho Australis at a glance
Consult
Architecture and
selection
selection
Install
A working system
on site
on site
Source
Factory and product
when we do not make it
when we do not make it
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Bases
Buenos Aires · New Mexico
Buenos Aires · New Mexico
The firm
A technology practice for places that cannot afford theater.
Gaucho Australis is the firm of record for fleets, energy, mining and the smart, safe city. Government and high-security work when the program requires it. We consult, we deliver an installed system, or we source the factory. Cameras and sensors have to become an operating system — not a graveyard of pilots.
We stay close to the stack: architecture, product selection, edge and site design, integration with the systems operations already run, and the commissioning that puts a live system in service.
Write to the firm →The system
Video. Movement. Public space.
Video, AI, and IoT only create value when they share context — the same identity, the same map, the same incident clock.
Video AIoT
We fuse AI-powered video analysis with connected sensors so cameras stop being a recording archive and become an operational system. Events carry location, asset identity, and a next action — not just a bounding box.
Asset tracking
Follow vehicles, containers, tools, and high-value equipment across yards, depots, and corridors. Video identity is tied to IoT tags and fleet IDs so operations see where an asset is, how long it has been idle, and whether it left an authorized zone.
Predictive maintenance
Use visual inspection plus vibration, temperature, and duty-cycle sensors to catch wear before a vehicle or roadside asset fails. Models flag leaks, misaligned doors, damaged guards, or abnormal dwell so maintenance is scheduled, not improvised.
Operational efficiency
Automate exception workflows: occupancy, queue length, dock occupancy, PPE compliance, and process steps that today depend on a person watching a wall of screens. Insights land in the same queue the operator already uses.
Benefit: real-time insight and automated workflows, with edge inference where bandwidth or privacy requires it.
Smart Mobility
We design intelligent transportation systems for cities, transit agencies, and commercial fleets — from the depot to the curb — so movement is measured, predicted, and managed on one clock.
Traffic flow
Corridor and intersection insight from video and roadside sensors: occupancy, turning movement, spillback, and near-miss patterns. Used to brief signal timing, work-zone staging, and special-event plans with evidence instead of anecdote.
Public transit
Onboard and wayside video fused with AVL/CAD: crowding, dwell, bunching, stop-level safety, and operator assist. Designed so scheduling, safety, and customer-experience teams share the same event, not three exports.
Commercial fleets
Logistics and field-service fleets get video + telematics as a single case file: route adherence, harsh events, cargo status, and yard flow. Improves safety scores and last-mile reliability without a second operations screen.
Benefit: less delay, fewer blind spots between safety and operations, and a system that still works when the next vendor changes.
Safe Cities
Public-safety and emergency-management programs that help cities monitor urban space, reach an incident faster, and raise the baseline of resident well-being — without treating every camera as an open feed.
Urban monitoring
Policy-aware coverage for streets, parks, transit hubs, campuses, and critical facilities. Detection is tuned to the event types a city will actually act on: crowding, perimeter breach, abandoned objects, traffic conflict — not an unbounded watchlist.
Faster incident response
A shared incident layer for traffic, transit, and public safety: the same map, the same clock, the same evidence package for the PSAP or command center. Operators see what happened, where, and who owns the next step.
Resident well-being
Safer streets and venues with retention, access, and audit designed in from day one. Programs are built so a city can explain the system in public — what is collected, for how long, and under which policy.
Benefit: faster, cleaner response and a privacy posture that can survive council, counsel, and the next election.
How we engage
Consult. Install. Source. Same unit.
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Consulting
Requirements, architecture and selection. What the operation needs, not what a catalog wants to sell. The client keeps the dossier.
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Installed solution
A working system on site: design, product, integration, commissioning. The client buys a result in the field.
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Sourcing
Factory and product when Gaucho is not the manufacturer. Comparison, shortlist, technical offer — not a single-brand package.
At ninety days: a runbook, a queue owner, who holds the keys, who watches the model. The system stays with the client. Crux does not become a second operations room.
Capabilities
The stack we take responsibility for.
We start from what is already live. If it has an API, a file drop or a working protocol, it enters the picture. New product only when the installed base cannot do the job.
- Integration VMS, AVL, telematics, access, scanners — adapters first, rip-and-replace last
- Perception Detection, classification, tracking, OCR, PPE, intrusion, crowding
- Edge & network On-vehicle and roadside inference, 5G / private LTE, store-and-forward
- Platform Event bus, video archive, geospatial index, identity, audit
- Operations Dispatch views, exception queues, QA of models, SLA dashboards
- Governance Privacy by design, retention, role-based access, public reporting
- Change SOP rewrite, training, union and stakeholder alignment
Where we work
Sectors that live on video and movement.
- Public transit Bus, rail, BRT, paratransit, depots
- Commercial fleets Last-mile, logistics, utilities, field service
- Municipal programs Safe streets, downtowns, special events
- Government & high-security Programs, critical sites, crossings, scan points
- Oil & gas Shale, conventional, gathering, site security
- Mining Open pit, haul roads, plants — Argentina, Chile, Peru
Selected work
Recent work
Safe stops and Safe City video
Solution design for bus stops inside a Safe City program in Argentina, together with city video and AI: detection tuned to events the city will act on, and a shared operating picture for streets, stops and public space.
Stops: passenger information, lighting, occupancy, emergency request, and the procedure for who receives an alert. City layer: cameras, algorithms and retention rules so a stop event and a street event land on the same desk.
- Stops as coverage points of the urban system
- Video and AI for city events, with a named desk
- Outdoor and night-service conditions
Border-security solution selection
A private company was bidding into a border-security program and needed a technical position before choosing equipment. Scope covered video, sensors and scanners, plus deployment of the scan point: siting, vehicle flow, power, enclosure and operation.
We mapped the problem by crossing type and terrain, compared options against that baseline, and delivered a vendor-neutral architecture with a technical dossier for the bid.
- Requirements and concept of operations
- Scanners and scan-point layout
- Comparative evaluation and technical dossier
Oil & gas fleet solution
Solution for an oil and gas vehicle fleet in Argentina. Onboard video and vehicle data in one operating file: route, hours, harsh events, access to site and what happened on the road — used by operations and HSE, not by two separate screens.
Specified for field conditions: long hauls, night runs, contractor vehicles and a yard that cannot wait for a clean network.
- Fleet video and vehicle data on one clock
- HSE and operations on the same event
- Design for site access and field duty
Mining logistics fleet — fatigue and DMS
Solution for a mining logistics fleet in Chile. Fatigue and driver monitoring on haul and service vehicles: cabin video, alerts to the supervisor and a case file for HSE — hours, events and the stretch of road where it happened.
Specified for long cycles, night shifts and contractor trucks that enter the same pit road as the company fleet.
- DMS and fatigue on logistics and haul duty
- Event file for HSE and operations
- Company and contractor vehicles on one rule
Crux
Crux is the unit. You hire the firm.
Crux is the delivery unit of Gaucho Australis: one select team for architecture, field, install and sourcing. You contract the firm, not a name on this page. Names go in the statement of work.
Architecture
Reference design, interfaces, retention and the operating picture. What gets built, and what does not.
Field
Survey, scan-point layout, stop and curb conditions, commissioning. The work that only exists on the ground.
Install
Integration, go-live, runbooks, hypercare. When the client buys a working system, this desk owns the last mile.
Sourcing
Factory and product when Gaucho is not the manufacturer. Comparison, shortlist, technical offer — vendor-neutral.
Presence
Global market. Southern-hemisphere delivery.
Work in the Andes is staffed from Buenos Aires, on site as the SOW requires. The contracting party is The Gaucho Project LLC, trade name Gaucho Australis.
Buenos Aires
Argentina · Headquarters & engineering
Navarro 4832
C1419 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Albuquerque
The Gaucho Project LLC · North America
1209 Mountain Rd Pl NE, Ste R
Albuquerque, NM 87110
Let’s talk
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