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Home CCTV Solutions

Home CCTV Solutions

Residential surveillance planned around entries, yards and the rooms you actually care about — with recording and phone viewing set up properly.

Residential house with multiple CCTV cameras covering the driveway, entry and perimeter

Residential security

Coverage designed for how a home is lived in.

A house is not a warehouse. Driveways, side gates, backyards and front entries each need a different camera position and lighting approach. Home CCTV work starts with a walk of those spaces, then a camera count and recorder size that match the brief — not a kit chosen first.

Coverage planning

Where home cameras usually earn their keep

  1. 01

    Front entry and driveway

    Faces, vehicles and approach paths — typically the first cameras on a residential brief.

  2. 02

    Side and rear access

    Gates, side paths and back doors that are easy to miss from the street.

  3. 03

    Shared and storage spaces

    Garages, carports and common areas in townhomes or small complexes.

  4. 04

    Interior where it helps

    Selected indoor positions when the brief calls for them — not cameras in every room by default.

Camera placement

Height, angle and the job each camera has

Each camera should answer a question: who came to the door, what happened at the gate, who used the side path. Placement is decided against those questions for a house — not a symmetrical grid copied from a commercial layout.

Indoor and outdoor cameras

Different spaces, different mounting and hardware

Exterior home CCTV cameras on the driveway gate and front facade

Outdoor coverage

Weather-rated cameras for driveways, entries, side paths and rear yards, placed for lighting and mounting surfaces that already exist.

Indoor dome CCTV camera mounted in a residential living area

Indoor coverage

Interior cameras where they are useful — garages, living areas or shared entries — without treating every room as a surveillance zone.

Recording and retention

Storage sized for how long you need to look back

Recorder capacity
Home recorders are sized for the camera count and the retention you want — continuous or motion recording.
Playback that is usable
The aim is footage you can actually find, not a drive that fills overnight or a default setting nobody revisits.
Night and low light
Night vision or low-light options chosen for the actual lighting on site, so after-dark footage stays usable.
Expansion room
Spare channels and storage headroom where the property is likely to grow — a camera at the side gate later, for example.

Remote viewing

Live view and playback on the devices you already use

Once the recorder and network are commissioned, live view and playback are set up on phone or computer for the people who should have access. Accounts and notifications are part of handover, not an afterthought.

Home CCTV examples

Reference residential camera imagery

Reference imagery until additional A2Z project photography is supplied.

  • Exterior home CCTV cameras on the driveway gate and front facade

    Exterior coverage

    Driveway, entry and perimeter cameras on a residential property.

  • Homeowner viewing live CCTV camera feeds on a tablet in a living room

    Remote viewing

    Live camera feeds on a tablet — set up during commissioning handover.

See how camera installation is handled →

Home CCTV questions

Common questions about residential cameras

  • The same principles apply — coverage, recording and remote access — but the camera count, mounting surfaces and privacy expectations are different. A home walk usually clarifies that faster than a generic kit.

Request a home CCTV quote

Tell us about the property, entries and how you want to view footage — we will put together a residential camera plan.