Security products

CCTV and video surveillance

IP camera systems designed around what has to be identified, not around a camera count. Survey, supply, installation, configuration and commissioning.

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Installation photo — IP dome camera and NVR at a security desk

Scope: Survey → commissioning → AMC
Typical use: Societies, offices, plants, retail

What it is

A camera that cannot identify anybody is a camera that cost money

Most disappointing CCTV installations were specified by camera count. The question that matters is what each camera has to deliver — monitor, detect, recognise or identify — because that sets the pixel density on target, and pixel density sets the lens, the resolution and the mounting position. A camera that covers a whole car park at a glance will not give you a number plate or a face, and that is usually what the footage is wanted for.

So the design starts on the plan with the scenes: this camera identifies at the gate, this one recognises at the lobby desk, this one detects movement across the yard. Lighting, backlight at glazed entrances, IR range at night, and the direction people actually approach from all come into it. Then storage follows from the streams and the retention period required, rather than being a number picked at the end.

The part clients feel later is the network and the retention. We size the switching, the PoE budget and the recording so the system still works with every camera streaming, set retention against what the client actually needs to be able to go back to, and hand over the camera schedule, the views as commissioned and training on export — because the moment footage is needed, somebody has to be able to get it out and give it to the police.

Equipment

What the installation is built from

Cameras selected per scene, the network that carries them, and storage sized to the retention the client actually needs.

Fixed dome and bullet camerasThe bulk of any system, with lens and resolution chosen per scene rather than per site.

PTZ camerasWhere a large area needs to be covered and then examined in detail — yards, perimeters, atria.

Number plate and people-counting camerasAt gates and entrances where the camera exists to read something specific.

Thermal and low-light camerasPerimeters and unlit plant areas where a conventional camera sees nothing useful at night.

NVR, servers and storageSized to the stream count, resolution and retention period, with RAID where footage cannot be lost.

PoE switches and structured cablingSized for the power budget and the sustained throughput, not just the port count.

Video management softwareLive views, search, export and user permissions — the part the client uses every day.

Analytics and alarm integrationLine crossing, loitering and intrusion, with alarms into the security desk rather than a dashboard nobody watches.

Monitors, video wall and remote accessAt the security desk, and on a phone for whoever gets called at night.

UPS and standby powerSo a power cut is not a gap in the footage on the night something happens.

Tell us about the project

Send the drawings or the BOQ and we will price it line by line. Most enquiries start with a site visit, because the site decides the system — not the catalogue.

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