How Many Cameras Does Your Site Actually Need?
Camera count is the wrong first question. Here is the one we ask instead — and why an eight-camera system placed well beats a sixteen-camera system placed badly.
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The questions clients actually ask us, answered properly — camera counts, retention arithmetic, PoE limits, cabling shortcuts and whether a maintenance contract is worth your money.
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Working Out How Much CCTV Storage You Really Need
Retention is where most CCTV budgets quietly break. A walk through the arithmetic of cameras, bitrate and days — and the settings that change the answer most.
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PoE Explained: One Cable for Data and Power
Power over Ethernet removes the socket next to every camera — but only if the switch budget, cable quality and distance limits are respected.
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CCTV and Privacy: Getting the Basics Right
Signage, camera aim, retention limits and who can view the footage — the practical obligations that come with pointing a camera at people.
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On-Premise Server or Cloud? A Practical Comparison
Not a verdict — a framework. Where your data sits, how fast your link is and who maintains it usually decide this long before cost does.
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Five Cabling Mistakes That Cost You Later
Copper-clad aluminium, unlabelled runs, no certification, cable shared with mains, and no spare capacity. Each one is cheap now and expensive later.
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Sizing a UPS So the Recorder Survives the Outage
A CCTV system with no protected power is a system with gaps in the footage. How to work out load, runtime and the shutdown behaviour you need.
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Is an AMC Worth It? An Honest Answer
Sometimes not. Here is where a maintenance contract genuinely pays for itself, and where you are better off calling us only when something breaks.
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