Security & Surveillance · Service 06 of 11
CCTV Installation.
Footage is only worth what it shows you. A camera that captures a hooded shape at the wrong angle has cost you money and told you nothing.
Retail, warehousing, manufacturing and multi-site operators who need evidence that holds up, not just a screen full of squares in the back office.
The question is never how many cameras. It is what you need to be able to prove. Identifying a face at a till needs a completely different camera and position from watching a yard for movement. Buy on camera count and you get twenty views of nothing useful. Buy on the answer you need and eight cameras will do more.
Then there is the part everybody discovers too late: retention. Most incidents are reported days after they happen. If your storage only holds a week, the footage of the thing you are now investigating no longer exists. We size retention around how long it realistically takes you to find out, not around the cheapest recorder on the shelf.
And lighting. Cameras that look impressive in a demo at 2pm are worthless at 11pm in a yard lit by one sodium lamp. We specify for the conditions each camera actually lives in, including the positions nobody wants to visit at night.
- We start from what you need to prove, then work back to camera type, position and count.
- Every position is checked for light at its worst, not at midday.
- Storage sized to a retention period that matches how long you actually take to report an incident.
- Secure remote access configured properly, so the system is not left exposed to the internet.
Questions
CCTV Installation, answered honestly.
How many cameras do we need?
It is the wrong first question, and any company that answers it before walking your site is guessing. The right question is what you need to identify: a face, a plate, a person moving through a zone. Each of those is a different camera at a different distance. Once we know that, the count answers itself, and it is usually lower than people expect.
How long should we keep footage?
Long enough to cover how late you find out. Most businesses discover a problem well after it happened, and thirty days is a common landing point. Some industries have retention rules that decide it for you. Storage is cheap compared with needing footage that has already been overwritten.
Can we view the cameras from our phones?
Yes, and it should be done carefully. Plenty of systems get put online in a way that leaves them reachable by anyone scanning for them. We set up remote access so you can see your sites from anywhere without turning your recorder into somebody else's.
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