About
Off-grid farm security, built on the farm where it happened.
KangalGuard catches intruders at the perimeter, scares them off and proves who they were — backed by a network of nearby farms watching out for one another. It works where the mains, the Wi-Fi and the mobile signal don’t reach.
Why it exists
It started with a theft on the farm where I live. Overnight, thieves took the satellite-guidance units off two of the tractors — a unit worth the cost of a small car each — and left both machines dead in the middle of the season. Weeks later they were still parked up, waiting on replacements. It was all on camera, and the footage led nowhere.
Nothing on the market fit a working farm: cheap alarms that die the moment there’s no signal, and monitored contracts that cost a fortune and tie you in. So the answer was to build something better — for the places the signal forgot.
Who’s building it
KangalGuard is founded by Graeme Lewis, who lives on a working Essex farm and has a background in security technology — including designing a jammer-resistant cash-machine protection system and helping build one of the first web-to-mobile messaging services. The same idea behind both — keep working when the network is jammed, blocked or simply not there — is exactly what rural security has been missing.
What it does
Invisible beams across your gates and tracks raise the alarm the moment someone crosses the line. Solar power and its own long-range radio mean it keeps working with no mains and no mobile signal. Floodlights, a siren and a spoken warning scare intruders off; the cameras read plates and flag strangers; and every incident is bundled into one clear pack the police can act on. These are strong leads for the police — never a guarantee — captured carefully under data-protection rules and shared only with them.
Where we’re up to
KangalGuard is being built and proven on a real farm right now, and the watch network is forming across Essex. It isn’t a finished box on a shelf — it’s being built in the open, and the farmers who follow it now help shape what it becomes.