Camera survey & angles
We stand where the camera will go and check what it sees: sun in the lens, a tree in the way, the gap between two cameras nobody covers. The layout is agreed before any cable is pulled.
- sightlines
- blind spots
- sun path
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See it.Control who gets in.
Cameras planned around your actual sightlines, a recorder sized to the number of days you want to keep, and readers on the doors that matter. Fitted, configured and handed over working — on your phone before we leave.
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Anglesplanned on site
Storagesized to days kept
Accessphone & on-site
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ch01 · watch stackCCTV cameras & NVR
A camera in the wrong place is an expensive ornament. We walk the property first, work out what you actually need to see — the gate, the driveway, the back corner nobody watches — and put the cameras where those lines are.
Recorder & storage
The recorder is sized around three things: how many cameras, at what resolution, and how many days of footage you want to still have. Get that wrong and last week is already gone.
- nvr
- hard drive
- retention
Cabling & power
Proper network cable on a planned route, in trunking or conduit where it shows, with power over the same cable where the cameras support it. Ends labelled so the next person can follow it.
- poe
- trunking
- labelled ends
Phone & remote viewing
Set up on your phone at handover, with playback as well as live view. You need working internet at the property for remote viewing — we check that on the survey.
- live view
- playback
- app setup
Night & low light
Day-night cameras with infrared for after dark. Where the yard light is doing more harm than good, we say so — lighting is part of the camera plan.
- infrared
- day-night
- yard lighting
Repairs & upgrades
Already have a system that half works? We fault-find existing installs, replace failed cameras and extend what is there where the equipment allows it.
- fault finding
- extensions
- replacements
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ch02 · watch stackAccess control
Keys get copied and never come back. Access control gives everyone their own way in — and lets you take one person’s access away in a minute without changing a single lock.
Keypads & codes
Code entry on gates, doors and pedestrian gates. Give the domestic worker or a contractor their own code, and remove it the day it is no longer needed.
- pin codes
- gate & door
- per-person
Tags & fobs
Proximity tags and cards for residents, staff and tenants. Lost tags are cancelled from the system, not chased around the complex.
- proximity tags
- cards
- cancel on loss
Biometric readers
Fingerprint readers where you want the person, not the tag, to be the key. Useful on staff entrances and anywhere tags go walking.
- fingerprint
- staff doors
- no tags to lose
Intercoms & phone answer
See and speak to whoever is at the gate from inside the house — or on your phone, so the gate can be answered whether you are home or not.
- video intercom
- gate station
- phone answer
Door strikes & maglocks
The lock side of the job: electric strikes, magnetic locks, exit buttons and the emergency release, wired so the door still opens when the power does not.
- strikes
- maglocks
- exit button
Event logs
The system records which tag or code opened what, and when. On a complex or an office that record is usually the whole reason for fitting it.
- who & when
- reports
- complexes
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before we quote
helps · not requiredWhat we need to know
None of this is homework — we work most of it out on the survey. But if you have it handy when you message, the quote comes back faster.
- What is bothering youA break-in, a blind spot, a camera you cannot see on your phone, or starting from nothing.
- Property type & sizeHouse, complex, office, shop, yard or farm — and roughly how big.
- Anything already installedMake and age of an existing recorder, cameras or gate station, if you know it.
- Internet at the propertyFibre, LTE or nothing yet. This decides how remote viewing is set up.
- How long you want footage keptA few days, a week, a month. This sizes the recorder and drive.
- Which doors matterThe ones you would want logged or code-controlled, not necessarily all of them.
Do not have all of that? Message us anyway. The survey exists precisely so that you do not have to work any of this out yourself — it is free, and there is no obligation at the end of it.
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straight answers
Questions
Fewer than most people expect, if they are in the right places. Coverage is about sightlines — one camera watching the gate and driveway properly is worth three pointed at a wall. We walk the property, agree the angles with you, and quote on that.
Yes. We set the app up on your phone at handover and show you both live view and playback. Remote viewing needs working internet at the property — fibre or LTE — and we check that on the survey.
That depends on how many cameras you have, what resolution they record at, whether they record all the time or only on motion, and how big the drive is. Tell us how many days you want to be able to go back, and we size the recorder for it.
Usually. We fault-find existing installs, replace cameras that have failed and extend what is there where the equipment allows it. Where the existing kit cannot do what you want, we will tell you that rather than sell you a patch.
Day-night cameras with infrared see in the dark within their range. Very bright or badly placed yard lighting can do more harm than the dark does, so lighting gets looked at as part of the camera plan.
Cameras, recorder and router all need power. They can be put on a backup supply so the system stays up through an outage — that is worth deciding at quote stage rather than after the first blackout.
In most cases yes — a keypad, tag reader or intercom can be added to an existing gate motor. We check what motor and receiver are fitted on the survey.
Something not covered here? Ask us directly — or see the general questions.
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