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CAM 01 – Job Site Perimeter
A construction site is at its most exposed exactly when it has no infrastructure — no power, no network, no perimeter, and a rotating cast of trades and deliveries. Copper, fuel, tools and equipment leave in the window between mobilization and the building being closed in.
North York mixes commercial office, institutional and remnant industrial along the 401 and Allen corridors, with Downsview in long transition. A high proportion of work here is retrofit into occupied buildings, where the practical constraints are working hours, tenant disruption and what can be run through an existing ceiling without opening it up.
Occupied-building retrofit is the norm. Install sequencing and after-hours access tend to drive the schedule more than the equipment does.
The same cameras that cover theft produce a dated visual record of the build. That record settles disputes about what was in the ground before the slab went down, when a trade actually arrived, and what condition the site was left in. It is regularly worth more than the deterrent value it was bought for.
Site geometry changes constantly. Fixed infrastructure installed at mobilization ends up watching the wrong ground by the time the structure is up. Relocatable units on a plan that anticipates each phase outperform a permanent install specified once against a drawing.
Continuous high-bitrate streaming over LTE is expensive and unreliable at the edge of coverage. The workable pattern is recording locally at full quality, streaming only on alarm or on demand, and keeping live view at a reduced rate. Size the data plan from that, not from continuous streaming.
Specified by pixel density, not by megapixels
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Retention you can actually prove, on hardware built for it
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Credentials that cannot be copied in a parking lot
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Alarms that mean something, so someone still answers them
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Someone watching, not just something recording
Read more →Solar and cellular units need no site services, so deployment is a matter of placement and commissioning rather than trenching and wiring. Actual timing depends on the site and current availability — we will give you a firm date rather than a marketing number.
Solar output drops sharply in December and January at this latitude, so units serving Ontario sites need battery capacity sized for short days and overcast weeks, often with a hybrid supply. A system specified on summer figures will fail in the first long cold snap.
That depends on what you have arranged — recorded only, a notification to your superintendent, or monitored with live talk-down. Talk-down while an intruder is still in the yard is the intervention that actually turns people around.
Occupied-building retrofit is the norm. Install sequencing and after-hours access tend to drive the schedule more than the equipment does. North York mixes commercial office, institutional and remnant industrial along the 401 and Allen corridors, with Downsview in long transition.