The design
Prepared before any equipment is bought.
- Camera position and coverage plan
- Device list with make, model and quantity
- Retention and storage calculation
- Cable route and power point requirement
- Written quotation, itemised with VAT
CCTV, access control, attendance, intruder alarm, fire detection, intercom and vehicle tracking — designed against your actual layout, installed properly, documented, and kept running under a maintenance schedule.
Every system we install is some version of this line: a device that sees, something that records or decides, a network and power path that must not drop, and a screen where you actually look. Most failures happen in the middle two, which is where nobody inspects.
Camera positions and device counts come from your layout, not from a package.
Makes whose spares and service you can get locally.
Device passwords, app accounts and the as-installed layout are handed over.
Scheduled health checks catch the dead camera before the day you need the footage.
If any of these sound like your premises, a survey is the cheapest next step.
Twelve systems, supplied and serviced by one team.
Cameras chosen for the light and distance at each position, not one model repeated everywhere.
Recorder and drive sizing done from channel count, resolution and the days you need to look back.
Accounts in your name, playback that works from outside, alerts tuned so they mean something.
Readers, locks, exit buttons and emergency release, so each door opens only for the right people.
Configured against your shift pattern, exporting in a form payroll can use.
Wired into the same access system, so one card works at the gate and at the door.
Zoned panels, so a real alarm tells you which part of the building it came from.
Panels, detectors and call points zoned to the layout and tested on a schedule with a signed record.
Supplied, mounted with signage, refilled before expiry and logged.
Door stations, indoor monitors and lock release, so the resident sees before opening anything.
One app, with the owner as the only administrator.
Live location, geo-fence alerts, fuel monitoring and remote engine cut-off on confirmed theft.
These are the numbers that decide whether a system works.
2MP shows that a person passed; 4–8MP is what recognises a face or a number plate.
Quoted in days, not terabytes: 15 common, 30 sensible, 90 for disputes and claims.
About 90 m on network cable with PoE; beyond that, a switch, extender or fibre.
Plan for roughly half the figure on the box in real dust and rain.
Sized to cover recorder, switch and cameras together, with the runtime stated.
Matched to your headcount with room to grow, so old records are not deleted.
Zoned by floor or area, so the panel names the place.
One year on our workmanship; equipment warranty registered in your name.
A system is finished when you can operate it without us.
Prepared before any equipment is bought.
The part that decides whether the system lasts two years or ten.
Set up for how your premises actually runs.
Handed over on completion, and useful for years.
The design follows the premises.
Nothing is quoted before we have walked the premises.
We check the night light, the power points, the cable routes, and what has already gone wrong.
Coverage plan and itemised device list within 48 hours.
Done around your working hours, weatherproofed outdoors, labelled as it goes in.
Tested, passwords changed to yours, staff trained, documents handed over.
Scheduled visits with lens cleaning, channel checks, backup and disk health, and a signed report.
Every quotation follows the free survey.
One-time project
AMC, yearly
For a system someone else installed
Independent of supply
Security quotations are full of words that hide what is actually being sold.
IP scales better; HD analogue reuses existing coax. Mixing them badly is the problem.
One cable carries data and power, so the switch must be sized correctly.
Ask for it in days. A quotation listing only terabytes is hiding the answer.
Lets one frame handle a bright doorway and a dark interior at once.
The dust and water rating — stated, not assumed, for anything mounted outdoors.
Enough of them and the real alarm gets ignored — that is the actual danger.
Scheduled servicing and a promised response time, not a call after failure.
A boundary on the map that alerts you when the vehicle leaves it.
Usually fewer than a quotation suggests, and placed differently. The survey gives you a coverage plan.
Thirty days for most offices; ninety where a dispute could surface late.
Only if the backup covers recorder, switch and cameras together. A UPS on the recorder alone records a black screen.
Yes. You get a written condition report before spending anything.
Whichever suits the position and is serviceable locally. We quote by make and model.
You do — handed over in writing at completion.
Within 24 hours under an AMC; many faults are solved on the phone the same hour.
Yes, nationwide, with a realistic maintenance schedule for distant sites.
Call and describe what you are seeing on the screen. It is often solved on the phone before anyone travels.
We reply the same working day, and the survey costs nothing.