Cameras and NVRs
Preserve candidate records and protocol evidence for cameras, recorders, and legacy video appliances.
Physical-infrastructure discovery
See the network without calling it trusted.
Camera-Location, also known as Hidden Canopy Network Discovery, is a local utility for finding cameras, NVRs, radios, switches, edge hosts, and legacy devices while preserving the evidence and uncertainty needed for a real physical attribution decision.
The boundary
Device seen on the network ≠ trusted device. Discovery creates evidence. It does not grant authorization, assign legitimacy, or make a reachable device a safe remediation target.
What it can investigate
Physical context, collected without collapsing uncertainty.
The local desktop workflow brings together bounded observations from the network and operator-confirmed location context.
Radios, switches, and hosts
Identify network infrastructure and edge devices without treating reachability or a vendor banner as proof of ownership.
Discovery signals
Use bounded ARP, ONVIF, SSDP, mDNS, RTSP, HTTP-banner, and port-probe observations as evidence for later review.
State distinctions
Observation is the beginning, not the verdict.
Declared state What an operator, site record, or facility says should exist.
Observed state What the network and discovery protocols report at a particular time.
Verified state What an operator has physically or independently confirmed.
Authorized state What a governance layer has permitted for a declared purpose.
IP address is not durable identity. Discovery is not authorization. Reachable is not safe.
Evidence to review
A handoff that keeps authority outside the scanner.
Camera-Location preserves the information needed for a governed decision while leaving trust and authorization with the appropriate operator or facility layer.
Discovery candidate
Network observations become a bounded DeviceDiscoveryCandidate that can be inspected, compared, and located without silently upgrading its status.
Operator verification
Physical attribution can produce a PhysicalLocationVerificationEvent, with an optional downstream RegOS device identity event when the governing layer accepts it.
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