Mission-Critical Monitoring for Modern Corrections
4Sight Labs engineers products with one focus: operational reliability inside demanding custodial environments. Backed by over 4M hours of biometric data from over 50,000 individuals in custody.
Built by Special Operations Veterans
4Sight Labs was founded by Special Forces veterans and tech experts with direct law enforcement experience. That expertise is behind every product decision to ensure they perform within custody environments.
Trusted across 80+ correctional facilities the platform is designed for reliability in demanding environments. Our system performs under physical stress, environmental interference, and continuous heavy use.
Ours Keeps Working
OverWatch® creates time-stamped records of biometric readings, alerts, and staff responses, helping agencies strengthen Duty of Care practices and maintain defensible documentation.
It continuously monitors heart rate, blood oxygen (SpO2), skin temperature, motion, and other key indicators.
The OverWatch® technology transmits data continuously over long-range wireless infrastructure designed to penetrate steel and concrete.
Detention facilities are hardened, high-security environments, the technology inside them must be built to perform accordingly. Ours does.
No Gaps
No Missed Alerts
Consumer wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-BLE that reside on 2.4 GHz are designed for short-range communication.
OverWatch® uses a long-range wireless network chosen for its ability to maintain reliable connectivity through steel and concrete. This results in continuous biometric monitoring without fragile communication or the need for additional infrastructure.
When combined with OptiGuard™, which uses existing camera systems to provide additional situational awareness inside housing units, agencies create a layered monitoring solution that tracks individuals and their surroundings.
Controlled From Manufacturing to Deployment
OverWatch® is fully U.S.-designed, U.S.-manufactured, and operates under a controlled hardware and firmware supply chain.
As federal agencies’ interest in custodial monitoring systems grows, supply chain integrity, data sovereignty, and compliance readiness become critical differentiators.
4Sight Labs meets this requirements at every step with end-to-end control over hardware, firmware, and infrastructure. This creates a of chain integrity and data security.
Secure and Compliant Monitoring
- Consumer-grade wireless protocols like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-BLE that reside on 2.4 GHz
- Short-range transmission dependent on signal conditions
- Greater reliance on pods, gateways, and relay points
- Adapted from commercial or convenience-oriented applications
- Supply chain not positioned for federal requirements
- Standard data hosting
- Hardened communications architecture built for detention environments
- Long-range wireless architecture engineered specifically for detention environments, that penetrates through concrete and steel.
- Streamlined deployment with fewer dependencies across the alert path
- Purpose-built for high-risk custody operations
- Fully U.S.-designed, U.S.-manufactured, federally aligned
- HIPAA-compliant architecture hosted on Microsoft Azure Government cloud infrastructure and SOC 2 compliant.
Trusted Across Jails and agencies Nationwide, to keep Staff One Step Ahead
4Sight Labs is actively deployed across numerous facilities across the country. With 99.99% system uptime and over 4,000,000 hours of biometric data collected from more than 50,000 detainees, the operational record is documented, not projected.
This data has supported early intervention across high-risk scenarios, including respiratory decline, cardiac-related distress, dehydration, and suicide-related events where abnormal physiological patterns prompted timely staff response.
Full Facility Awareness in a Single System
The platform operates within a HIPAA-aligned framework, with data hosted on MicrosoftAzure.Gov and secure integration with existing Jail Management Systems (JMS), Offender Management Systems (OMS), Electronic Medical Records (EMR), and Case Management Systems (CMS).
As part of the Unified Correctional Biometric Platform, OverWatch® can be deployed alongside OptiGuard™ to provide a layered view of both detainee biometrics and housing unit activity.
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Common questions
OverWatch® and OptiGuard™ strengthen safety and welfare oversight where it matters most.
No. OptiGuard™ is designed to enhance observation protocols, not replace them. The system provides continuous automated liveness monitoring between physical checks by detecting breathing patterns and subtle physiological movement through existing camera feeds. This added layer of awareness helps agencies maintain stronger oversight between scheduled rounds.
No. OptiGuard™ is designed to work with existing IP camera infrastructure. The system receives a live RTSP video feed from current cameras and processes it through a dedicated on-premise appliance deployed within the agency’s secure network. No modifications to camera hardware, firmware, or existing video management systems (VMS) are required.
No. Video processing occurs locally through a dedicated on-premise appliance operating within the agency’s secured network. The system analyzes video feeds for breathing and movement patterns without requiring cloud video storage, helping agencies maintain control over their data and infrastructure.
OptiGuard™ is specifically designed for high-risk, single-occupancy housing environments, including medical observation cells or other areas where enhanced monitoring is required. It provides automated liveness awareness without requiring detainees to wear biometric sensors.
Together, these systems extend biometric awareness from the individual to the environment, strengthening response capability, documentation integrity, and litigation defensibility in high-risk custody settings.
OptiGuard™ serves as the environmental monitoring layer within 4Sight Labs’ Unified Correctional Biometric Platform. When paired with OverWatch®, agencies gain two complementary monitoring capabilities:
- OptiGuard™ monitors breathing and movement within the cell environment using camera analytics.
- OverWatch® provides continuous physiological monitoring of the individual detainee through wearable biometric sensors.
Together, these systems extend biometric awareness from the individual to the environment, strengthening response capability and documentation in high-risk custody settings.
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