By premises
CCTV for jewellers
A jeweller needs a close camera over each counter showing hands and trays, the entrance at face height, the safe or strongroom door and the street frontage, all recording continuously with 60–90 days of retention and an alarm fitted alongside. A 4-channel 4MP IP system from around PKR 110,000 is the floor here.
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Hands and trays, not the room
Sleight-of-hand at the counter is the jeweller's real exposure, and a wide room camera cannot catch a palmed ring. Counter cameras mount close and high, 4MP or better, framing the tray and both pairs of hands. This is the one trade where resolution genuinely is the specification that matters most.
Continuous recording, longer retention
Motion recording has no place over a jewellery counter — a missed half-second is the event. Everything records continuously through business hours, and retention runs 60–90 days because substitution and short-weight allegations can surface when an item comes back for polishing weeks later. The drive to hold that is a known cost at quotation.
Sarafa density and the street camera
In the Sarafa rows of Saddar and the markaz jewellery clusters, the camera covering your own frontage doubles as the record of who loitered before an incident — footage neighbouring shops will ask of you, and you of them. Pair the system with an alarm, and keep the recorder in the strongroom or out of sight entirely.
What CCTV does a jeweller need?
Is CCTV or an alarm more important for a jeweller?
Both, doing different jobs: the alarm interrupts, the cameras evidence. A jeweller running cameras without an alarm holds a record of the loss and nothing that stopped it.
Where should a jeweller keep the recorder?
Inside the strongroom, or hidden and locked, with critical exports copied off-site. The recorder is the first target in any planned theft against this trade.
Rather have it done?
Business CCTV is built around the counter, the entrance, the stock area and the back door, with storage long enough to catch problems you only notice at stocktake. Systems for Islamabad marts, pharmacies, schools and offices start at PKR 85,000, and can tie into access control and your point of sale.
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