No package prices, because they would be wrong
Two sites with eight cameras can differ by thousands depending on what is behind the walls. Rather than publish a number that misleads you, here is exactly what moves the price.
Cameras: how many, which type
An overview camera is cheaper than one that must read a number plate at the gate. Count matters, but the job each camera has to do matters more.
Cabling and access
The biggest variable. A single-storey tin shed is quick; heritage brick, concrete, long runs between buildings or trenching across a yard is not.
Recorder and storage
Days of retention times resolution times frame rate equals disk. Thirty days on sixteen cameras is a different machine from seven days on four.
Network
Some sites need a PoE switch and nothing else. Others need a link between buildings, a separate camera network, or power where there is none.
AI features you switch on
After-hours alerting on a few cameras is modest. Counting, zones, clips and stock-movement checks across every camera is more processing, so it costs more to run.
Support level
Monitoring the system's health, tuning as your site changes, and how fast you need someone on site when a camera drops out.
An itemised quote, not a lump sum
You see the cameras, the recorder, the labour and the AI layer priced separately, so you can stage the work or drop something without starting again.
- Hardware listed by model, so you can compare it with anyone else's quote.
- Labour estimated by area, with the hard parts called out before we start.
- The AI layer priced separately, so you know exactly what the ongoing cost is.
- Staging options when the full system is more than this year's budget.
Ways to spend less
- Keep the cameras that work. We would rather add AI to eight good cameras than sell you sixteen new ones.
- Start where the risk is. The gate, the dock and the store room first; the rest next year.
- Be honest about retention. Most businesses look at footage within a week. Paying for ninety days is often paying for nothing.
- Fix the lighting. A light at the back door is cheaper than a camera that can see in the dark.