Security Cameras, Access Control & Multi-Site Surveillance

Security infrastructure, designed and supported by your IT team

Cameras and access control are part of your IT system whether your IT team manages them or not. They run on your network, store data on your storage, integrate with your identity, and break in ways that look a lot like network problems. We deploy and support them so the same team that runs your IT runs your physical security — with documentation, monitoring, and a support phone number that picks up.

Single-site, multi-site, and multi-building campus

Single-site deployments — 2 to 32 cameras at one location. Office, restaurant, retail, clinic, warehouse. UniFi Protect or Verkada for cloud-managed; Speco or Hanwha for on-prem NVR. Typical install is 1–3 days of cabling and 1–2 days of configuration and tuning.

Multi-site deployments — restaurant groups, retail chains, healthcare practice groups with 5 to 50 locations. Verkada and Eagle Eye are the cleanest fit at this scale because the centralized management cost is justified by the operational savings — your manager in one location can pull footage from any other without bouncing through 50 separate NVR logins.

Multi-building campus deployments — public housing properties, college and university campuses, K-12 districts, hospital and healthcare campuses, multi-tenant office portfolios, distribution centers, and large industrial sites. This is its own discipline. We are currently engaged on a 28-building residential campus where Sage is the camera and network design partner across the entire complex.

What changes at campus scale: inter-building fiber backbone (single-mode OS2 over conduit between buildings); PoE+ or PoE++ switching at every building rather than centralized PoE; distributed NVR architecture so a single point of failure does not take down 200 cameras; centralized monitoring console viewable by site operators, the property manager, and where appropriate the local PD; an IP plan that gracefully grows with new buildings; physical security for the network plant in every building; and a 24/7 monitoring strategy that handles single-building outages without blowing up the entire campus dashboard. See the network design page for the network backbone side of campus work.

What we deploy

IP camera systems — modern megapixel IP cameras with proper coverage planning, true low-light performance, motion analytics, and ONVIF compliance for vendor flexibility. Lens selection matched to the actual scene rather than spec-sheet defaults. Outdoor housings, vandal-proof domes, and multi-sensor fisheye where the application warrants.

• Ubiquiti UniFi Protect — best value for SMB single-site and small-campus deployments where the network is already UniFi. No recurring license, full-featured, includes the Ubiquiti AI suite. Common pick for offices, restaurants, retail, clinics, and warehouses up to about 32 cameras per site.
• Speco Technologies — long-tenure brand for both analog-and-IP hybrid retrofits and pure IP. Strong in retail, healthcare, hospitality, and public-sector environments where local storage and audit-friendly retention matter. Their NVR platform is straightforward and well-supported.
• Verkada — cloud-managed, single-pane-of-glass for multi-location clients and centrally administered campuses. Higher recurring cost, but the management model is excellent when you have 5 or more sites or want non-IT staff to operate the system.
• Eagle Eye Networks — alternative cloud-managed VMS, often the right call for very large multi-site deployments where Verkada’s cost curve gets steep.
• Hanwha (Wisenet), Hikvision, Axis — for higher-end on-prem NVR deployments and specialized use cases — high-resolution recording, low-light, outdoor, fisheye, multi-sensor, LPR, or compliance-driven retention.

Access control — keycards, fobs, mobile wallet credentials (Apple Wallet, Google Wallet), and biometric where the policy warrants. Door hardware coordination with locksmith and door-hardware vendors. Brivo, Verkada Access, Openpath / Avigilon Alta, Kisi, Genea, and traditional standalone systems where appropriate. Identity integration with Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace and HR onboarding so when someone is hired or fired, their access updates automatically.

Intrusion alarm — door, motion, and glass-break sensors, panic buttons, central station monitoring. We partner with licensed alarm dealers; we handle the IT and integration with cameras and access for unified incident response.

Visitor management — Envoy, Greetly, SwipedOn for client-facing offices and clinics, integrated with access control for badge printing and check-in.

License plate recognition — Verkada, Hanwha, Vigilant, and Genetec LPR for gated communities, public housing entrances, parking, fleet yards, and school perimeters.

From the field

Common projects

Office buildouts where cameras, access, alarm, network, and AV are all installed at once. Camera system replacements when an old DVR-era system is at end-of-life. Multi-location standardization for restaurant groups, retailers, and clinics that grew from one to many sites with mismatched systems. Compliance-driven deployments for healthcare, retail, and warehousing where retention and chain-of-custody matter. Multi-building public housing, university, and school district deployments where central monitoring and a scalable IP plan matter as much as the camera spec sheet. Cabling-only sub-contracts where the camera vendor pulls the cable and we handle the network and switch design. See structured cabling for the cable side.

What it costs

Camera systems and access control are project-priced — the variables that move the number are camera count and resolution, mounting complexity (interior vs. exterior, low ceiling vs. high pole, conduit vs. J-hook pathway), the storage architecture (cloud vs. on-prem vs. hybrid, retention duration), door-hardware modifications, panic-bar integration, and the cabling pathway through the building. Multi-location and large-campus deployments scale with volume hardware discounts and standardized labor templates. We provide written quotes itemized line-by-line so the trade-offs between hardware tiers and storage durations are visible before you commit. Request a quote and we will walk the site or campus.

Pair with the rest of the stack

Cameras live on a network. They draw PoE from switches. They store data on NVRs or in the cloud. They integrate with access control and the building’s identity. We deliver all of that as one accountable team — see network design for the backbone, structured cabling for the wire, design-build for fully integrated buildouts, and managed IT for the ongoing 24/7 monitoring and support.