Fifteen years, one product category
We started by assembling cameras for other people’s brands, which is an unglamorous way to learn a market and an excellent way to find out what actually fails. Condensation inside a housing. A gasket that hardens after two winters. An IR cut filter that sticks. None of it shows up in a spec sheet.
When we put our own name on a camera in 2017, the brief was narrow on purpose: fix the things we had spent six years repairing. That is still the brief.
Six people and one SMT line
Cloubay starts in Bao’an as a contract assembler for two European CCTV brands. We learn what breaks in the field by repairing other people’s mistakes.
ISO 9001 and our own mould shop
Bringing tooling in-house cuts a housing revision from nine weeks to eleven days. It is the change that makes ODM work possible.
First camera under our own name
A 2 MP PoE bullet, sold to installers in Poland and the Netherlands. It is still in service on some of those sites.
On-device AI
We stop sending frames to a cloud to be analysed. Detection moves onto the camera, which is better for latency, better for privacy, and free to run.
ColourX and the Bremen warehouse
An f/1.0 sensor package brings usable colour to 0.0005 lux, and European orders start shipping in two days instead of three weeks.
46 markets, 2.4 million units
Still the same factory, still answering the support line ourselves.
