Security Camera Installation for Commercial and Multi-Family Buildings
Camera systems designed from sightlines, lens geometry and the light that is actually on site. Serving Long Island, Nassau County, Queens and New York City.
Licensed New York State security alarm installer.
What we install
IP camera systems
Fixed, bullet, turret and panoramic cameras selected per position rather than bought as a kit.
Recording and retention
On-site recording sized to the retention you actually need, not the number on the box.
Remote viewing
Live and recorded footage from a phone or desktop, with per-user access rather than one shared login.
Existing system takeover
We document and adopt systems installed by someone else, and keep what still works.
How we decide where cameras go
Most camera systems are laid out on a floor plan by spacing them evenly. That is how you end up with expensive cameras pointed at nothing. Position is chosen from what the lens can resolve and how far it can see in the dark.
Lens geometry and IR reach chosen together
A camera is picked for a position by what it can resolve at that distance and what it can still see after dark. Those two things constrain each other, and a spec that only considers field of view produces a system that works in daylight and fails at night, which is when it is needed.
Panoramics go mid-span, never on a corner
A 180 degree camera mounted on a building corner throws roughly half its arc at wall, fence or sky. The sensor is not cheap and half of it is looking at nothing. Panoramics belong high on a flat face looking outward, where the full arc lands on something worth recording.
Corners get bullets aimed down the run
At a corner, the right camera is a bullet pointed straight along each fence or wall run. A camera looking along a run sees an approach or a climb end-on across its whole IR range. The same camera looking across the lot gets a handful of oblique pixels of the same event.
Night lighting is measured, not assumed
Open yards and long perimeters are the darkest, most distant part of any site, and infrared range falls off fast. We check what lighting exists before committing to a camera that depends on it. Where there is no light, the design changes rather than the expectations.
Every camera in a design should have a stated reason for being where it is. If nobody can tell you why a camera is on that wall facing that direction, it was placed on a map rather than on the building.
Where we install them
Cameras and cabling from one contractor
Cameras run on the same structured cabling as everything else in the building, and they share pathways with access control and intercom. Buying those as separate trades means separate site visits, separate pathways and an argument about whose fault it is when a camera drops off the network.
See the full low voltage scopeSecurity camera questions
What building owners and property managers ask before a camera install.
Do I need a licensed installer for commercial security cameras in New York?
Yes, in most cases. New York General Business Law Article 6-D requires a license to install, service or maintain security or fire alarm systems, and closed circuit television is covered when the system is used, full-time or part-time, to detect or monitor intrusion, break-in, theft, movement, sound or fire. There is a narrow exemption for a property owner installing a system on their own property using their own employees, but hiring an outside contractor does not fall under it. Ask to see the license before work begins. Sukh Tech Solutions holds that license.
How many cameras does my building need?
Fewer than most quotes suggest, if they are placed properly. Camera count is driven by how many distinct sightlines you need covered, not by square footage. Two well-positioned cameras covering the approaches to a building usually beat six spread evenly around it, because most of the evenly spread ones are watching the same empty ground from worse angles.
How long will footage be kept?
That is a storage decision made up front, and it depends on camera count, resolution, frame rate and how much of the day there is motion to record. Tell us the retention you need, thirty days is common and some insurers or leases require more, and the recorder gets sized for it. Retention that is discovered after an incident is the wrong time to find out.
Can I see the cameras from my phone?
Yes. Systems are set up for remote viewing of both live and recorded footage. We set up individual accounts per person rather than one shared login, so access can be given to a superintendent or a manager and removed again when they leave without changing everyone else.
Wired or wireless cameras?
Wired, in almost every commercial or multi-family case. A wired camera gets power and data over the same cable and does not drop off the network when the wireless gets busy or the weather changes. Wireless is a fallback for positions where pulling a cable genuinely is not possible, not a way to save on the install.
Can you take over a system another company installed?
Yes, and it is a common request when the original installer is gone or unresponsive. The first step is documentation: tracing what is actually wired where and what the equipment can still do. Often more of the existing system is worth keeping than the previous contractor implied.