CCTV planning tools
The sums we do every day before quoting a job — storage, power, PoE, cable, bandwidth and lens coverage. Free, no sign-up, and they work on a phone while you are standing on site. Every answer has a button that sends the figures to us for a quotation.
Storage & recording days
How many days your hard disk holds, and what size disk the job needs. Resolution, hours a day, motion or continuous.
Open the calculator →Power supply & UPS backup
SMPS amps, UPS VA and battery Ah for the backup hours you want — cameras, recorder, switch and monitor.
Open the calculator →Channels & PoE switch
NVR channels, PoE ports with spares, and the switch power budget in watts. Tells you if the switch you picked copes.
Open the calculator →Cable & material
Cat6 metres and boxes, RJ45 connectors, conduit, clips and junction boxes — the material list before you price a job.
Open the calculator →Remote viewing bandwidth
The upload speed the site needs so cameras can be watched from a phone, and how much mobile data an hour costs you.
Open the calculator →Lens, coverage & DORI
What a lens covers at a distance, and how far away you can still detect, recognise or identify a person.
Open the calculator →Why these are free
We size systems like this every week. Putting the same sums on the site saves a phone call for you and a site visit for us, and it means the quotation we send starts from figures you have already checked yourself.
They are estimates for planning. Walls, trees, lighting at night, the route the cable really has to take — none of that is in a calculator. When the numbers look right, send them to us and we will confirm them against the site, free of charge.