Facial Recognition CCTV: What Perth Businesses Should Check
Facial recognition CCTV used to sound like something for airports and casinos. Now it turns up in the feature lists of ordinary cameras and recorders, and it has been in…
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Office Data Cabling in Perth: Plan It Before the Desks Go In
When a business moves into a new space, the carpet, the desks and the signage get most of the attention. The data cabling gets noticed last, usually when someone discovers…
Night Vision CCTV: Why Footage Goes Grainy After Dark
The footage looks fine at 3 pm. Then someone checks the same camera after an incident at 2 am and finds a grey smear with a bright glowing patch where…
Security Installer Licence WA: How to Check Before You Hire
Anyone can mount a camera on a wall. Fewer people are allowed to do it for money. In Western Australia, installing security alarms and CCTV is licensed work, and the…
Warehouse Security in Perth: Why Cameras Alone Do Not Protect Your Stock
Ask a warehouse manager what the security system is and the answer is usually a number of cameras. That is a recording, not protection. Cameras tell you what happened after…
WiFi Dead Zones: Why Another Extender Will Not Fix the Back Bedroom
The usual sequence goes like this. One room is unusable, so you buy an extender. The extender helps a little, in a different spot, and introduces a second network name…
Video Intercoms and Smart Doorbells: What Actually Works at a Perth Front Door
These two products sit side by side in the same aisle and get talked about as if they are the same thing. They are not, and the difference shows up…
How Much CCTV Storage Do You Actually Need? Sizing an NVR Hard Drive
Most advice on CCTV storage starts with a calculator: cameras, resolution, frame rate, out comes a number of terabytes. The arithmetic is fine. The starting point is wrong. The question…
Pre-Wiring a New Build for Security and Data: What to Ask Your Builder
Every new home has one short window where cabling is easy and cheap, and it closes without anyone telling you. It opens once the frame and roof are up, and…
Perth Council CCTV and Security Rebates: How to Qualify and Actually Get Paid
Search for a Perth council security rebate, and you will find a dozen pages listing councils and amounts. Most were accurate on the day they were written and are wrong…
Cat6 vs Cat6a: Which Data Cable Does Your Perth Home or Office Actually Need?
Ask three installers whether you need Cat6 or Cat6a, and you will get three answers, usually delivered as a specification table that nobody outside the trade can read. The decision…
CCTV Laws in WA: What You Can and Cannot Record
Most people in Perth put cameras up to protect a house, a workshop or a business, not to watch anybody. The difficulty is that the line between security and surveillance…