Frequently asked questions about Horus ISP, the Horus carrier/edge deployment for operators building new video, AI, and community services.
What is Horus ISP?
Horus ISP is the Horus deployment model for internet service providers. It turns connectivity, datacenter capacity, local support, and territorial reach into managed video, recording, AI, and community services.
What services can an ISP offer with Horus?
The operator can package managed video, mobile viewing, recording as a service, community camera networks, video analytics, intelligent alerts, and premium AI services running in the cloud, datacenter, or edge.
Does the customer need to replace existing cameras?
Not necessarily. Horus ISP is designed to integrate existing cameras when they meet minimum technical conditions for connectivity, access, and stream compatibility. Each project validates models, network, credentials, and operational quality.
Where does AI inference run?
Inference can be distributed across Horus Cloud, the ISP datacenter, or edge nodes near the customer network. The decision depends on latency, bandwidth, compute cost, privacy, availability, and the commercial model of the service.
How does Horus help monetize ISP infrastructure?
Horus ISP turns assets the operator already has, such as connectivity, support, power, datacenter capacity, and local reach, into recurring services. The ISP can sell packages by camera, site, community, recording capacity, or AI feature.
Can it support multiple customers and communities?
Yes. Horus can organize instances, users, permissions, cameras, and rules by customer, neighborhood, company, municipality, or community. This enables operational separation and controlled resource sharing when appropriate.
What role does the ISP play in the operation?
The ISP can handle installation, connectivity support, package administration, edge resource operation, and customer assistance. Fidumtec provides the Horus platform and the technical design of the service.
How does a Horus ISP project start?
A Horus ISP project starts by sizing the processing resources the operator needs to support the services it plans to commercialize: video, recording, analytics, community services, automation, or AI features.
The structure deployed at the ISP is a Kubernetes environment connected to Horus Cloud. That connection synchronizes the configurations of the Horus instances contracted through the ISP channel, while operational information and history for those instances are stored locally in the operator's infrastructure.