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Guardian Edge designs and installs CCTV systems across the UK for commercial, industrial, residential and managed property. Cameras are specified against what the footage needs to achieve — identification, recognition, observation or detection — so that when an incident happens the recording is actually usable.

Specified for evidence, not for the number on the datasheet.

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Who this is for

  • Commercial and industrial site operators
  • Managing agents of residential developments
  • Retailers and multi-site operators
  • Owners of yards, car parks and open sites

Problems it solves

  • The system records, but faces and plates are unidentifiable
  • Cameras point at the wrong thing, or at nothing since the yard was reconfigured
  • Recording stopped months ago and nobody noticed
  • Retention is set to whatever the installer left it at
  • There is no remote access, so every incident means attending site

What Guardian Edge provides

Our cctv installation scope

What we provide

  • IP and HD-over-coax systems, and hybrid upgrades of existing analogue infrastructure
  • Camera specification to the DORI classification appropriate to each view
  • Network video recorders, storage sizing and RAID configuration
  • Remote access, mobile viewing and integration with monitoring centres
  • ANPR for access, parking and site management
  • Thermal and detection-based cameras for perimeters and open sites
  • Correct signage and a documented retention position

Typical scope

  • Offices, retail, industrial units, warehouses and logistics yards
  • Residential developments, communal areas and car parks
  • Construction sites, vacant property and temporary deployments
  • Multi-site estates on a single management platform

Before we price anything

Inspection & survey process

  1. 01

    Define what each camera must achieve

    Identification of a face, recognition of a known person, observation of activity, or simple detection of movement. Each requires a different pixel density on target.

  2. 02

    Survey positions, light and infrastructure

    Mounting points, cable routes, power, network capacity, night-time lighting and where the sun sits at 8am in January.

  3. 03

    Size the storage

    Retention period, resolution, frame rate and compression, calculated rather than guessed.

On site

How the work is delivered

  1. 01

    Install and cable

    Cameras, containment, network infrastructure and power installed to the design.

  2. 02

    Commission views

    Each camera set to its designed field of view and recorded, so drift can be identified later.

  3. 03

    Configure and secure

    Default credentials changed, user accounts created, remote access secured, retention set to the agreed period.

  4. 04

    Train and hand over

    Your team shown how to review and export footage before they need to do it under pressure.

Compliance

What the rules actually require

  • CCTV capturing identifiable individuals is personal data processing under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018.
  • Signage must be visible, tell people they are being recorded, identify the operator and provide contact details.
  • You must be able to respond to a subject access request — which in practice means being able to find, review, redact and export footage.
  • Cameras overlooking neighbouring property or public space require particular care, and the ICO expects the field of view to be limited to what is necessary.
  • Audio recording is far more intrusive than video and is rarely justifiable. We configure it off unless there is a specific, documented reason.

Standards & legislation

These are not all the same kind of obligation, and we do not present them as if they were. A statutory duty is law. A British Standard is the recognised way of demonstrating you have met one. Guidance and our own recommendations are neither.

  • British StandardBS EN 62676-4

    Video surveillance systems — application guidelines

    Contains the DORI classification used to specify pixel density on target for each camera view.

  • Official guidanceICO video surveillance guidance

    Data protection expectations for CCTV operators

    Sets out lawful basis, transparency, retention and subject access expectations.

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Ongoing support

Planned, reactive and multi-site.

Most providers do one of these well. The value of a single provider is that the schedule, the emergency and the portfolio all sit in the same place.

Planned maintenance

  • Scheduled maintenance including lens cleaning, view verification and recorder health checks
  • Storage and retention verified rather than assumed
  • Firmware and security patching on network devices

Reactive support

  • Attendance for recorder failure, camera loss or damage
  • Urgent footage retrieval and export support after an incident

Multi-site & national portfolios

  • One platform across the estate with central viewing
  • Consistent camera specification and naming so footage is findable
  • Portfolio health reporting on recording status across all sites

Procurement, simplified

What happens next?

  1. 01

    Tell us what you need

    One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough to start.

  2. 02

    We assess the requirement

    We confirm scope, access, and whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.

  3. 03

    You receive a clear quotation

    Itemised, with what is included and what is not. No provisional sums that move later.

  4. 04

    We arrange attendance

    A confirmed date and window, with the engineer or trade named in advance.

  5. 05

    Works are completed

    Carried out by directly managed engineers or vetted specialist subcontractors.

  6. 06

    Evidence is supplied

    Certification, test records and photographic evidence where the work calls for it.

Answers

CCTV Installationquestions.

What CCTV resolution do we actually need?
Resolution alone tells you very little — what matters is pixel density on the target at the distance the camera is watching. BS EN 62676-4 sets out four levels: detection, observation, recognition and identification, each requiring progressively more pixels per metre. A 4K camera watching a wide yard can easily deliver less usable evidence than a well-placed 2MP camera on a doorway. We specify against the outcome for each view.
Can you upgrade our existing analogue system?
Often yes. HD-over-coax equipment can reuse existing cabling and give a substantial resolution improvement without a full rewire. Whether that is the right answer depends on the cable condition and where the system needs to go next — we survey before recommending it.

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One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough for us to start — and we will tell you plainly whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.

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