Camera system guides
Written for the person paying for the system, not for installers. Each one ends with the questions worth asking before you sign anything.
How Many Security Cameras Does My Business Need?
The number of cameras a site needs has little to do with its floor area. It depends on what you need each camera to prove, and…
Camera Resolution and Lens Choice: A Practical Guide
More megapixels do not automatically mean a more useful picture. What matters is how many pixels land on the thing you care about, and whether there…
CCTV Storage: How to Work Out Days of Retention
Storage is the one part of a camera system where the maths is simple and the guesses are usually wrong. Work out the bitrate and the…
CCTV Networks: PoE, Cabling, VLANs and Bandwidth
A camera system is a small network carrying constant traffic. Most of the problems blamed on cameras are really switch, cable or bandwidth problems.
AI CCTV vs Motion Detection: What Actually Changes
Most people who turn off their camera alerts do it for the same reason: the alerts were almost never about a person. Here is why, and…
After-Hours Intrusion Alerts That People Keep Switched On
An alerting system is only worth having if the people receiving the alerts still read them in six months. That is a design problem.
Licence Plate Cameras: What It Really Takes
Reading number plates reliably is a specialist job. It needs its own camera, pointed at one spot, set up differently to everything else on the site.
Reducing Stock Loss With Cameras and Better Process
Cameras tell you what happened to stock. Process tells you whether it can happen again. Most businesses need the second one more than they expect.
CCTV Laws for Australian Businesses: An Overview
This page is general information only, not legal advice. Surveillance and privacy rules differ by state and territory, so check the rules that apply where your…
Choosing a CCTV Installer in Australia: What to Ask
Quotes for camera systems are hard to compare because the important differences are not on the quote. These are the questions that expose them.