Patent ID: 8314839

Claim:
A concealment for equipment used for remote surveillance of a monitored site to hide and conceal the equipment at the site and prevent its detection comprising: a lightweight, manually portable, frame which, when installed at a selected location at the site, forms the outline of a naturally occurring or manmade object indigenous to the location; a lightweight, non-metallic, removable and replaceable covering which fits over the frame and whose outer surface has a texture and finish that passes for the outer surface of the natural or manmade object the concealment represents; the frame providing a mounting for the equipment installed within the concealment, the equipment including one or more of a camera, audio device, a transmitter and receiver for communications between the monitored site and a distant location and means for powering the equipment, the equipment being selectively positionable in a desired orientation within the concealment so to effectively provide surveillance of the site and to provide real time information from the site to a distant location where a threat assessment of activities occurring at a localized area at the site is performed; and, the concealment being relocatable from the one monitored site to a new monitored site including removing and replacing the covering of the concealment for the concealment to be repeatedly adaptable to represent a naturally occurring or manmade object indigenous to a new monitored site.