Ascento Guard
About
About Ascento Guard
Ascento Guard combines two driven wheels with articulated legs, allowing it to roll efficiently across roads and reposition its body when crossing curbs, steps and uneven ground. Cameras, thermal imaging, microphones and navigation sensors support autonomous patrol and inspection. The robot returns to its charging station between missions and can operate for more than eight hours.
Security teams schedule routes and review alerts through an encrypted web application. The system checks doors, perimeter areas, lights, parked vehicles and thermal anomalies and can connect with existing video-management platforms. Ascento supplies Guard as a managed security service covering installation, site mapping, fleet software, maintenance and remote support.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Capability areas: Autonomous navigation
- Workflows: Industrial inspection, Security patrol workflow, Mobile security patrol
- Navigation and obstacle avoidance
Pilot - 2023-04-13 - The multi-month trial used Ascento Guard for repeated outdoor security patrols at a railway facility.
Source - Perimeter patrol
Pilot - 2023-04-13 - The multi-month trial used Ascento Guard for repeated outdoor security patrols at a railway facility.
Source - Inspection
Claimed - 2023-09-12 - The robot was designed for perimeter checks, parking control, thermal-anomaly detection and other repetitive patrol tasks at large outdoor sites.
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Timeline
- Ascento introduces Guard 2.0 for critical-infrastructure patrol
2024-11-12 - Product Launch - Guard 2.0 provides eight hours of battery life and improved front, side and rear vision for large-perimeter monitoring. Customer deployments span data centres, pharmaceutical campuses, manufacturing sites and logistics facilities. Ascento introduced Guard 2.0 with longer battery life, expanded camera coverage and upgraded lighting for outdoor security and inspection.
Source - Ascento launches autonomous outdoor security robot Ascento Guard
2023-09-12 - Product Launch - The robot was designed for perimeter checks, parking control, thermal-anomaly detection and other repetitive patrol tasks at large outdoor sites. The Robotics-as-a-Service package combined the robot with an encrypted operator application and autonomous charging.
Source - Ascento raises $4.3M pre-seed round
2023-09-12 - Funding - Wingman Ventures and Playfair Capital led the round, with participation from robotics founders and non-dilutive support from Innosuisse and ESA BIC. The financing supported fleet growth and expansion of the sales and operations team.
Source - Securitas trials Ascento security robots at an SBB site
2023-04-11 - Deployment - The trial had run for several months and covered repeated outdoor patrols at the railway facility. Ascento clarified that Securitas was testing the system and that Swiss Federal Railways was the trial site rather than a direct customer.
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Context
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