15 · Yards, depots and builders' merchants
Your own cameras, watched all night. You are woken for a person, not a fox.
The cameras you already have record everything and tell you nothing until morning. This reads the footage as it happens and only raises the alarm for what you said matters.
For the owner on call
Today, without it
The cameras send an alert for every cat, headlight and blowing tarpaulin.
So the alerts are muted, and the break-in is found on Monday.
Somebody spends an hour scrubbing through footage to find two minutes.
Try it
One night at the yard
Play the night. Change the rules and watch which of the twelve events would have woken you.
Made-up night. Drawn, not footage.
7pm. The yard is shut. Press play, or drag the night along.
7pm
Nothing has happened yet.
Your rules
Known vehicles
Your phone
7pm
Nothing has reached your phone.
Morning summary
0 logged
Nothing logged yet.
How it runs
Four steps, nobody chasing.
STEP 1
Your existing cameras are read as they record. No new cameras.
STEP 2
Each movement is identified: person, vehicle, animal, weather.
STEP 3
Your rules decide what matters: a person inside the fence after 7pm, a vehicle at the gate on Sunday.
STEP 4
You get one message with the picture, and a morning summary of everything else.
Your numbers
What false alarms cost in sleep and call-outs
Example figures, change them
Your camera app's notification history has the count.
Opening the app, finding the clip, deciding it is nothing.
Keyholder or call-out charge per false visit × visits a month.
Time spent checking alerts that were nothing
163.8 hours a year
- Alerts that turn out to be nothing
- 63 a week
- Time checking them
- 189 minutes a week
- False call-outs
- £1,080 a year
The sum
70 alerts a week × 90% that are nothing = 63 false alerts. 63 × 3 minutes = 189 minutes a week, × 52 weeks ÷ 60 = 163.8 hours a year. £90 a month on false call-outs × 12 = £1,080 a year.
This is arithmetic on your own figures. It is not a promise of results.
Works with what you have
Sits beside the CCTV cameras and recorder you already own.
Every demo on this site runs on made-up data. The real one is built around your phone line, your diary and the software you already use.
Get in touch
See it run on your own numbers.
Two quick answers. Adrians replies by email and shows you the system working with your figures, not ours.
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