RuralGuard Defender 360 Elite
The Defender 360 Elite is RuralGuard's flagship 4K camera, built for farms and rural properties that demand the very best. With 8MP 4K Ultra HD resolution, 36x optical zoom, 120m night vision, and an improved high-speed motor delivering full 360° continuous rotation - nothing on your land goes unnoticed. Available in 4G, WiFi, and hardwired PoE, the Elite works anywhere, including remote fields and outbuildings with no broadband connection.
Personal setup support is included with every order - most customers are up and running in minutes. Trusted by farmers across the UK with 50+ five star reviews.
RuralGuard Defender 360 Elite
Why RuralGuard?
Defender or Elite? Ten seconds, honestly:
Defender 360 — from £299.99
Same build, 5MP, human detection, 36x zoom — reads plates and faces clearly at yard and steading distances. Our best-seller for good reason.
Right for yards, steadings and sheds — where the action's within reach.
Defender 360 Elite — £399.99
8MP 4K holds that same detail at longer distances and in dimmer light — and adds vehicle detection, so you're alerted when the van pulls up, not just when someone gets out.
Right for long approaches and big perimeters — the properties with most to lose.
The £100 question: both cameras identify — the Elite just keeps identifying where the Defender's reach runs out: further away, dimmer light, faster-moving. Gate 40 metres from the mount? Either does the job well. 100 metres, or you want the alert when wheels arrive? That's the Elite. Still torn? Send us a photo of your spot and we'll tell you straight which you need.
Same trusted build. A different class of detail.
| Defender 360 | Defender 360 Elite | |
|---|---|---|
| Resolution | 5MP | 8MP — 4K Ultra HD |
| Detection | Human | Human AND vehicle |
| Optical zoom | 36x | 36x |
| Night vision | 120m | 120m |
| 4G / WiFi / PoE options | ✓ | ✓ |
| IP66 weatherproof | ✓ | ✓ |
“The cameras couldn't read the plate.”
Ask anyone who's been done over and shown the police their footage. A grey shape, a white van, a hood - and no charge, because nothing in the frame identified anyone. Rural crime is organised now: they come in vehicles, at night, and they know most cameras can't touch them.
The Elite was built for detail you can actually use - faces, vehicles, and registrations where distance, light and placement allow.
It's not a dedicated ANPR camera*
LIVE ON YOUR PHONE
This is the estate. From the sofa.
Open the app and you're standing in the estate - live view from anywhere in the world, pan and tilt from your thumb, 36x zoom on anything that catches your eye.
Something moves? The alert's on your phone before they're through the gate. Missed it? Scrub back through the timeline and watch what happened.
Works on any smartphone - and the free 1-to-1 setup call gets it on yours in minutes.
LIVE
Real footage from an Elite — exactly as it appears in the app. No filters, no edits.
HUMAN AND VEHICLE DETECTION
It knows a van from a visitor.
Organised rural crime arrives on wheels - the van that idles past twice, the pickup at the gate at 3am. The Defender tells you when a person is on your land; the Elite also tells you when a vehicle is, and follows it.
That's the alert that matters most: not when they're already in the shed - when they pull up outside it.
Alerts land on your phone as it happens — the kitchen, the mart, or a beach in Spain.
When it matters, "we got them on camera" has to mean something.
8MP 4K. 36x zoom. 120m night vision. Human and vehicle detection. The footage that identifies.
If it won't get signal at your spot, you don't buy it. That's the deal.
