Security camera installation that actually identifies people.

What identification actually requires

There is a measurable difference between a camera that records an event and a camera that identifies a person. It comes down to pixels on target. A face needs roughly 80 pixels across the width of the head to be recognizable to a person who already knows them, and closer to 120 for an investigator working from the footage alone. A license plate needs similar density across the plate itself.

That number is a function of sensor resolution, lens focal length, and distance. A high megapixel camera pointed across a wide parking area delivers fewer pixels on a face than a modest camera placed correctly at a doorway. This is why coverage comes from placement, not from buying the biggest number on the box.

On the walkthrough we work out the identification points on your property first: the doors people actually use, the driveway entrance, the approach to the shop. Those get cameras sized for identification. Everything else gets cameras sized for context.

Night, backlight, and the Central Coast marine layer

Coastal fog is the local problem nobody quotes for. Infrared illumination reflects off suspended moisture and returns a white wash, so a camera that looked fine in a showroom produces unusable footage on the mornings when the marine layer sits on the property. Color night vision with a low light sensor and a small amount of ambient white light outperforms raw infrared in those conditions.

Backlit entries are the other recurring failure. A camera facing a glass door with afternoon sun behind it will silhouette every person walking through unless the sensor has genuine wide dynamic range. We check the worst hour of the day for each position rather than the hour we happen to be standing there.

Recording you own outright

Footage records to a device at your property. You own it, and there is no subscription required to watch your own video. Retention is a function of the drive we size for you, typically several weeks of continuous recording, and it is searchable by time, by zone, and by what triggered it.

Remote viewing is encrypted and runs to your phone without handing the video stream to a third party for storage or analysis. If the internet at the property goes down, the recorder keeps recording.

The part most installers skip

Cameras are network devices. Installed the common way, they sit on the same flat network as your laptop, your phone, and anything that holds your business records, frequently still on the manufacturer default credentials.

Every install we do puts cameras and recorders on a segmented network behind a firewall, so a device with weak firmware cannot become the route into everything else. This is ordinary practice in the defense and aerospace work that shaped how we do this, and it is almost entirely absent from residential and small commercial installs.