Technical surveillance countermeasures.
Inspection of the rooms that matter, with a plain statement of what an inspection can establish.
Smilodon inspects the rooms that matter, on a schedule or before an event, from $3,000 per set of rooms: radio-frequency survey, optical search, thermal and physical inspection, device discovery across Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular, and telephone and data line inspection. The report leads with the instruments used and what each cannot detect, and the firm never certifies a room it did not instrument.
- Format
- Per set of rooms, per event
- From
- $3,000 per event
- Never
- Jamming, interception, or recording of any person
- Licensing
- Investigative work is conducted under the applicable state license or by a licensed partner
What the engagement covers.
Coaches' offices, meeting rooms, the war room, bowl and away-game sites, the head coach's residence. On a schedule, or before an event.
The firm's field equipment finds what is actually planted in athletic programs: consumer-grade trackers, cameras and transmitters. A sealed-room certification with laboratory-grade equipment is performed with a named partner, disclosed in advance. The firm does not certify a room it did not instrument.
- Radio-frequency survey of the room and the floor.
- Optical search for camera lenses, powered or not.
- Thermal and physical inspection of fixtures, furniture and wiring.
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular device discovery.
- Telephone and data line inspection.
- A written report with photographs, and preserved evidence where anything is found.
Asked about this one.
What does a sweep actually find in an athletic program?
Consumer-grade trackers, cameras and transmitters, placed by people who had ordinary access to the room. Most often nothing is found, and the report says so plainly; the lasting value is usually in the observations about the room.
Can the firm certify a room is clean?
No honest firm can on the strength of a walk-through. A sealed-room certification with laboratory-grade equipment is performed with a named partner, disclosed in advance and quoted separately.
How often should rooms be inspected?
The assessment answers this room by room. Most programs need fewer inspections than they fear: the war room and the head coach's office on a schedule, bowl and away-game meeting rooms before the first meeting, and once after any re-key or renovation.
Read before the call.
- What a bug sweep can and cannot findInsightHow to buy a technical surveillance countermeasures sweep without being sold a walk-through: the equipment that matters, the questions to ask, and when a sweep is the wrong purchase.
- Five questions to ask before you pay for a sweepInsightTechnical surveillance countermeasures is an unregulated market with a wide range of equipment and honesty. Five questions that separate an inspection from a performance, and the answers an athletic department should expect.
- The coaches' floor: a room-assignment protocol for road gamesInsightHow to assign hotel rooms for the coaching staff on a road trip so the game plan stays in the building you are paying for. Keys, adjacency, the meeting room, and who knows the list.
Twenty minutes on a call. Then you decide.
What prompted it, the shape of the program, and whether this engagement or the assessment is the right first step. A written proposal follows within three business days.