CCTV installation in Kifisia, from the fence line to the shop window

CCTV installation in Kifisia, Ekali, Politeia and Nea Erythraia usually starts at the fence. A plot with a garden, a pool and two entrances is not covered by four cameras on the corners of the house. We need to see where someone could get in: the garden gate, the garage entrance, the back of the garden bordering a stream or a wood.

We split the perimeter into sections and choose a camera with the right lens for each. At entrances we want a clear face and a number plate; along long stretches of fence we want to see that a person crossed, and when. Cable to the garden runs in buried conduit, so it stays out of sight and safe from the strimmer.

Cameras must cover your property, not the street or the neighbour's garden. Privacy masks hide whatever falls outside the plot, which matters a lot in neighbourhoods where houses sit side by side.

In a home, cameras work best alongside an alarm. A wireless Ajax alarm with perimeter detectors raises the alert, and the cameras show what is happening. At the gate an IP video intercom shows on your phone who is ringing, even when you are away.

Many owners in Ekali and Nea Erythraia spend time away from Athens. For them we set up phone viewing with secure access, alerts that also reach a second person and a UPS so recording continues during a power cut. If staff work in the house they must know where the cameras are, and no camera goes in rest areas or bathrooms.

Kifisia has many practices and small clinics in maisonettes and low-rise buildings. Cameras cover the entrance, reception, the dispensary or supply store, and not consulting rooms, treatment rooms or corridors where patients walk in gowns. Health data is sensitive, so recordings stay on a local NVR with access limited to named people.

In converted houses with several floors we run cable through stairwells or suspended ceilings and put a small PoE switch on each floor, so there is no wall chasing in a working practice.