CCTV design
A camera plan you can hold your installer to.
We design the system, specify the hardware and audit the quote. You buy the gear at cost; your contractor installs it; we sign off the result.
- Camera layout from your floor plan: blind spots, entrances, cash and access points.
- Model and lens selection from site conditions — not from whatever a supplier is clearing stock on.
- Storage and retention maths in writing: GB per day, TB across your retention window.
- A written scope of work your installer can price against, line by line.
- Acceptance at handover: every camera, alert and account tested in front of you.
Storage, in numbers
Bitrate times hours decides the disk — not the channel count on the box.
- 4MP cameraabout 20 GB a day at moderate activity
- 5MP fisheyeabout 25 GB a day for a whole floor
- 8 cameras · 30 daysroughly 5 TB — so the disk is sized before the NVR is chosen
- 10 TB surveillance driveabout 60 days at the lowest cost per TB
H.265+ and scene activity move these numbers. We size from your site, not from a table.
What you get on paper
- Layout drawingcamera positions, lens angles and coverage cones on your floor plan
- Model listwhat to buy, and what to skip
- Scope of workone page your installer can quote against
- Acceptance listthe tests run before anyone is paid
Tell us about the site.
Send the address and roughly how many cameras you are considering. We come back with what we would need to see on site — and what to ask your installer.