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Commercial  CCTV  installation  for  Melbourne  businesses.

We install CCTV in Melbourne warehouses, offices and shops: cameras, cable, recorder and remote viewing, fitted by our own crew from Tullamarine.

Every camera is sited from a coverage plan before a bracket goes up, and the quote names the equipment line by line. Our technicians hold a Victorian Private Security Licence.
Sheet
CCTV installation
Area served
Melbourne & VIC
Licensing
Victorian Private Security Licence
Quote
Itemised, no charge
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What  a  commercial  CCTV  installation  includes.

Five items. The quote names the equipment in each.

Ref Item
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    Cameras

    Fixed IP cameras, each chosen and positioned for the one job it has.

    • Lens and mounting height set by the job
    • Sited from a coverage plan
    • Infrared for unlit areas
    • Weather-rated housings outdoors
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    Cable and power

    One data cable to each camera carries the picture and the power, from a PoE switch in the comms cupboard.

    • One cable per camera
    • Power over Ethernet (PoE)
    • Runs in tray or conduit
    • Mounted and labelled
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    Recorder and retention

    A network video recorder (NVR) in your rack, with drives sized for the days of footage you need to keep.

    • NVR mounted in the rack
    • Drives sized to the days of footage you keep
    • Off-site copy where required
    • UPS backup where specified
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    AI detection

    Detection that tells a person from a vehicle from a moving branch, so an alert is worth opening.

    • Person and vehicle classification
    • Line and zone rules
    • After-hours alert schedules
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    Remote viewing

    Live view and playback on a phone or a desktop, under accounts you control.

    • Live view on mobile
    • Playback and export
    • Individual user logins
    • Alerts to named people
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The  decisions  that  set  the  result.

Each one names what goes wrong when it is skipped.

01 Give every camera one job.
A camera can identify a face at a door, read a number plate at a gate or watch a whole floor. It cannot do all three. The job sets the lens and the mounting height, which is why cameras are sited from a coverage plan. Skip this and you get a wide picture of a dock in which nobody can be recognised.
02 Keep each cable run under 100 metres.
A copper data cable tops out at about 100 metres between the PoE switch and the camera. A long warehouse or a yard gate needs fibre or an intermediate cabinet, and the quote says which. The data cabling behind the cameras is labelled, and our guide to Cat6 and Cat6A cable covers which to pull.
03 Size the recorder in days.
Retention is arithmetic: cameras, resolution, frame rate and days. If a stock discrepancy surfaces at a monthly stocktake, a week of footage is no use. Drives sized to the right figure stop footage being overwritten before anyone thought to look.
04 Plan for the dark and for the glare.
Infrared lights a scene in black and white out to a set range. Past it, the picture turns to noise. A camera facing an open roller door sees a white rectangle and a silhouette. Both are fixed by position and camera choice, so tell us which areas are unlit after hours and which doors face the sun.
05 Use AI detection where it helps.
AI CCTV classifies what moved: a person, a vehicle, or neither. After hours in a yard, a car park or a loading dock, that cuts a night of alerts from rain, headlights and cats down to the two that matter.
06 Know where AI detection does not help.
It does not tell you who the person is. It does not rescue a camera mounted too far away, because a figure a few pixels tall cannot be classified. On a shop floor in trading hours everybody is a person, so the alerts are noise. It is also a filter, not a guard, so where nobody will act on an alert at night, pair the cameras with a monitored alarm system.

Send a floor plan or a site address. We attend, measure and quote, at no charge.

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How  the  job  runs.

  1. 01

    Site attendance.

    We walk the building with you and note the ceilings, the cable routes, the comms cupboard and the areas you need to see.

  2. 02

    Coverage plan and itemised quote.

    Cameras are placed on your floor plan. The quote names each camera, the recorder, the switch and the cable, line by line.

  3. 03

    Cabling and mounting.

    Our own crew runs the cable and fixes the cameras. Work that has to happen out of hours is scheduled and announced in advance.

  4. 04

    Commissioning.

    Every device is tested and demonstrated. Ask to see each camera view against the plan, and recording, retention and alerts checked before anyone leaves.

  5. 05

    Handover.

    You receive the administrator credentials, the configuration and the as-built documentation. The recorder runs on your own network, with no ongoing fee needed to keep it recording.

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What  the  quote  depends  on.

  • How many cameras, and whether each one has to identify a person or only watch an area.
  • Mounting height. An office ceiling tile needs a ladder. A warehouse roof needs a lift.
  • Cable distance, and whether there is tray or conduit to run it in.
  • Days of retention, which set the drive capacity in the recorder.
  • Outdoor and unlit positions, which need weather-rated housings and infrared.
  • Whether it is scheduled with access control, an alarm or a rack build, which share the same cable routes.

Our guide to what a commercial security system costs explains each of these and gives a checklist for comparing quotes. CCTV is one item on the schedule of what we install, and one crew does all of it.

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Questions  we  get  asked.

Questions about cameras specifically. The general ones, such as timing and ownership, are answered on the Solutions sheet.

How long should CCTV footage be kept?

Long enough to cover the gap between an incident and somebody noticing it, plus a margin. For a site that finds stock losses at a monthly stocktake, that means more than a month. If a lease or a licence condition sets a period for your site, that is the period to size the drives to.

NVR or DVR: which is better for a business?

An NVR, for a new installation. An NVR records IP cameras over data cable, which carries higher resolution and power on the one run. A DVR records analogue cameras over coaxial cable, and still makes sense where sound coaxial is already in the walls and only the recorder is being replaced.

What is AI CCTV?

It is a camera or recorder that classifies what moved in the picture as a person, a vehicle or neither. Ordinary motion detection alerts on any change in the image, including rain and headlights. Classification lets you set a rule such as “a person in the yard after 18:00” and be alerted only to that.

Can AI detection be added to the cameras we already have?

Sometimes. The analysis can run in the recorder instead of the camera, so a recorder change can add classification to existing IP cameras if their picture is sharp enough. Send us the model numbers off the recorder and one camera and we will tell you which way it falls.

Does CCTV keep recording if the internet or the power goes out?

Yes without the internet, and through a power cut only with a UPS. The recorder is on site, so recording carries on and only remote viewing stops until the connection returns. A power cut stops the cameras unless the recorder and the PoE switch are on a UPS, which is why a UPS is worth a line in the quote.

Do you need a licence to install security cameras in Victoria?

Yes, to install them as a job for someone else. Since 19 June 2025 all private security activities in Victoria are licensed activities, and acting as a security equipment installer is one of them. That covers a person employed or retained to install security equipment such as camera systems and alarms, and the regulator is Victoria Police. Our technicians hold a Victorian Private Security Licence.

Are there places in a workplace where cameras cannot go?

Yes. In Victoria it is an offence under the Surveillance Devices Act 1999 for an employer to use a camera or a listening device to watch or record workers in workplace toilets, washrooms, change rooms or lactation rooms. The coverage plan leaves those rooms out. For questions about signage and staff notice, take advice from a lawyer, not an installer.
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Related  sheets.

Send  us  the  floor  plan.

A floor plan or a site address is enough to start. We attend site, draw the coverage and send an itemised quote, at no charge.

Transmittal Issued for enquiry
To
Gentex AU · Tullamarine VIC
Reply
Phone or email, usually the same business day
Attending
Mon–⁠Fri 07:00–⁠16:00
Licensing
Victorian Private Security Licence