By premises
CCTV for warehouses and godowns
A warehouse needs the loading bay on continuous recording, the goods-in and goods-out doors, one camera down each main aisle, the gate and the perimeter. Retention runs 30–60 days, the recorder sits on a UPS, and an 8-camera system starts around PKR 145,000 installed.
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The loading bay is where stock leaks
Goods move fastest and get counted least at the bay, which makes it the one position that stays on continuous recording while everything else runs on motion. A camera high over the dock showing the truck bed, the tally point and the shutter line turns a short-shipment argument into a lookup against the challan time.
Aisles beat racks
One camera looking down each main aisle records every movement through the run; covering individual racking bays multiplies cost for almost no extra information. Motion-triggered recording works well on aisles and stretches the same drive to two or three times the retention of continuous — sensible in a building that stands empty sixteen hours a day.
I-9, I-10 and the power question
Islamabad's godowns concentrate in I-9 and I-10, and they stand empty at precisely the hours outages and IESCO maintenance windows hit. A UPS carrying the recorder, the switch and the gate camera through a two-hour gap is a small line item against the stock inside; without it the system is blind at the only hours it was bought for.
What CCTV does a warehouse need?
Motion recording or continuous for a warehouse?
Both: continuous on the loading bay and the gate, motion on aisles and perimeter. That split keeps the critical seconds unbroken while multiplying how many weeks the drive holds.
Do we need an alarm as well as cameras?
For a building empty overnight, yes. Cameras record; a siren and a phone alert interrupt. Fitted together on one visit they share cabling, and the pairing costs far less than one recovered loss.
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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