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IP CCTV
4K PoE network cameras, NVR recording, on-camera AI and viewing from your phone — designed against your site rather than a package, installed by our own engineers, and shipped with twelve months of AMC included.
From optics to network. Select a component for a closer look.
The lens, infrared LEDs and image sensor capture the scene.
The processing board encodes video for the network.
The PoE network port carries data and power through one Ethernet cable.
8 MP
4K per camera, not per system
100 m
one CAT6 run, power and video
500+
systems installed across Chennai
12 months
free AMC included
Power + video
Digitises at the lens — 2, 4 or 8 MP
One CAT6 per camera, power and video both ways
Records every channel, holds weeks of footage
Cloud P2P — no static IP, no port forwarding
No separate power run at any camera
01Before you buy
It is the right answer often enough that we install far more of it than anything else — but a site with good coax in the walls and a deterrence brief does not need it. Here is where the extra money comes back, and where it does not.
Faces at a counter, number plates at a gate, a label on a carton. 4 MP and 8 MP sensors hold detail through digital zoom that a 2 MP analog frame simply does not contain.
Adding a camera is adding a port on a switch. An analog DVR is fixed at the channel count you bought — the sixteenth camera on a 16-channel DVR means a new DVR.
Human-versus-vehicle classification, line crossing, intrusion zones and loitering run on the camera itself. That is the difference between a system you review after an incident and one that tells you during it.
New construction or a fit-out already pulling CAT6. Running network cable for cameras at the same time costs a fraction of retrofitting it into a finished building later.
Branches, floors or units viewed and managed together, with user roles per site. Analog systems stay islands unless you bolt extra hardware onto each one.
HD-over-coax runs 5 MP down the 3+1 already in the building. Reusing it can halve the cost of an upgrade in an occupied office or an older apartment block.
Four cameras on a shopfront that will still be four in five years. What IP really buys is cheap change later, and on a system that never changes that advantage is never spent — while the price difference is real on day one.
A well-placed analog HD system that actually gets installed beats an IP quote that gets postponed. We will say so during the survey rather than after it.
02What you are buying
Most CCTV quotes price the cameras and hide everything that determines whether the system still works in year five. These are the five things we specify, and they all appear on the paper you get.
2 MP for corridors and general coverage, 4 MP for most working areas, 8 MP where a face or a plate has to be readable. Chosen per position during the survey — a site does not need 4K everywhere and paying for it wastes storage as well as budget.
One shielded CAT6 run per camera in conduit, terminated and labelled at a PoE switch. Power and video travel the same cable, so there is no adapter at any camera and no separate power run to fault-find later.
A 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64-channel recorder sized to the camera count you will have in two years, with surveillance-grade drives rated for continuous write. Storage is specified from a retention target, not guessed.
The cameras sit on their own VLAN, away from your office traffic. Default passwords are replaced, unused services closed, and remote access runs over the manufacturer's encrypted cloud rather than a port opened on your router.
Live view, playback and clip export on phone, tablet and desktop, with push alerts on the events that matter. Set up on your devices before we leave, with the people who need access actually logged in.
03Camera bodies
The body is a coverage decision, not a taste one. A panoramic unit over a hall can replace four fixed cameras; a bullet at a gate does something a dome physically cannot.
Perimeters, gates, parking. IR to 80 m, IP67.
Ceilings indoors. Vandal-resistant IK10 housing.
Pan, tilt, 25× zoom and auto-tracking from one mount.
180° or 360° from a single unit, de-warped in playback.
Plate capture and behaviour analytics on the camera.
04Storage
Resolution buys detail and spends retention. This is what one 4 TB surveillance drive gives you recording around the clock in H.265+ — the arithmetic behind the disk size on your quote.
| Resolution | Per camera | 4 cameras | 8 cameras | 16 cameras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 MP · 1080p | ~16 GB/day | 56 days | 28 days | 14 days |
| 4 MP · 2K | ~32 GB/day | 28 days | 14 days | 7 days |
| 8 MP · 4K | ~64 GB/day | 14 days | 7 days | 4 days |
Motion or event-triggered recording stretches every figure above by roughly two and a half to three times, which is usually the cheaper way to reach a 30-day retention target than buying a bigger disk. Tell us the number of days you need to keep and we will size the storage to it.
05What it costs
Hardware, CAT6 cabling, labour and the twelve-month AMC — everything except a long cable pull or a scaffold, which is exactly why the survey comes before the number.
4-channel NVR, 1 TB, up to ~200 m cabling
Independent house, small shop, clinic
₹25,000 – ₹38,000
8-channel NVR, 2 TB, PoE switch, ~400 m cabling
Office floor, showroom, small factory
₹45,000 – ₹60,000
8-channel NVR, 4 TB, AI analytics, ~400 m cabling
Retail with counters, gated entries, ANPR
₹85,000 – ₹1,20,000
Managed PoE switches, 8 TB+, RAID, multi-site view
Factory, warehouse, campus, multi-branch
From ₹1,80,000
Bands, not quotes. Cable length, mounting height and how much of the run has to be concealed move a price more than the camera model does. The full Chennai price list breaks the components down line by line.
06Where it goes
The hardware barely changes between these. What changes is the camera count, where the 8 MP units go, and how long the footage has to survive.
07How we fit it
Four to eight cameras is normally a single day on site. Sixteen to sixty-four with structured cabling is two to five days, phased so an occupied building keeps working.
An engineer walks the site, marks blind spots, checks cable routes and mounting points, and asks what you actually need to see. No charge and no obligation.
Camera positions, resolutions, switch and NVR sizing, storage set against a retention target, and an itemised price — in writing, within 24 hours of the survey.
CAT6 in conduit, concealed runs, labelled terminations and surge protection. The part that determines whether the system is still healthy in year five.
Mount, aim and focus every camera. NVR, recording schedules, AI rules, VLAN, credentials and user roles — configured, not left on defaults.
Every channel recorded, played back and exported in front of you. Apps installed on your devices, alerts verified, and the team shown how to pull a clip.
Cover starts the day the system goes live — preventive visits, priority support, firmware updates and repairs, priced into the original quote.
08Included, not upsold
Cover starts the day the system goes live and is priced into the quote you are given, not raised as a renewal six months later.
Day one to month twelve
09Questions
An IP camera digitises the video at the lens and sends it over a network cable to an NVR (network video recorder). An analog camera sends a raw signal down coax to a DVR. In practice that means an IP system gives you higher resolution (up to 8 MP against 5 MP), power delivered from the switch itself so there is no separate supply unit at any camera, AI analytics running on the camera itself, two-way audio and encrypted remote access — and it grows by adding a switch port rather than replacing the recorder.
No, and it usually costs you retention if you do. 4 MP covers most working areas comfortably. Reserve 8 MP (4K) for the positions where a face or a number plate has to be readable — entrances, counters, gates, dock doors. A mixed specification gives you better evidence where it matters and weeks more footage on the same hard disk.
On a single 4 TB surveillance drive recording 24/7 with H.265+: roughly 28 days for eight 2 MP cameras, 14 days for eight 4 MP cameras, and about 7 days for eight 8 MP cameras. Switching to motion or event-triggered recording typically stretches those by two and a half to three times. We size the disk against the retention you need rather than shipping whatever came in the box.
A four-camera 4 MP system with NVR, hard disk, CAT6 cabling and installation runs about ₹25,000 to ₹38,000. Eight 4 MP cameras with a PoE switch land between ₹45,000 and ₹60,000, and an eight-camera 4K system with AI analytics between ₹85,000 and ₹1,20,000. Cable length and mounting height move a quote more than the camera model does, which is why the survey comes before the price.
Coax cannot carry an IP camera directly, but it does not always have to be replaced. Where the existing 3+1 or RG59 is in good condition we can run IP over it using EoC converters, or reuse structured Ethernet already in the building. If neither is viable we will tell you what fresh CAT6 costs before you commit — that assessment is part of the free survey.
A four to eight camera system is normally surveyed, cabled, installed, configured and handed over in one working day. Sixteen to sixty-four cameras with structured cabling take two to five days depending on the building. You get a dated timeline with the quote, and occupied sites are phased so nothing stops.
No. Remote viewing runs over the manufacturer's encrypted cloud (P2P), so it works on an ordinary broadband or 4G connection with nothing forwarded on your router. That matters for security as much as convenience — an open port on a recorder is the single most common way CCTV systems get compromised.
The NVR and the PoE switch go on a UPS, so cameras and recording ride through the short outages Chennai gets regularly. For longer cuts we size the UPS to your generator changeover time. Cameras keep recording to an on-board SD card where the model supports it, and the footage merges back into the NVR when power returns.
Twelve months from the day the system goes live: preventive visits, camera cleaning and re-aiming, firmware updates, health checks on the disk and the network, priority helpdesk and repairs on covered faults. It is included in the installation price, not raised as a renewal six months later.
An engineer walks your site, marks the camera positions, tells you which of them genuinely need 4K and what the whole thing will cost — in writing, within 24 hours. No obligation attached to any of it.