Clear answers before you choose a system.

There is no reliable camera count without a coverage plan. The right number depends on entrances, parking, transaction areas, loading zones, lighting, identification distance, blind spots, risk, and the views your team needs during an investigation. See our video surveillance approach.

Storage is calculated from camera count, resolution, frame rate, compression, scene activity, recording schedule, redundancy, and retention days. Start with the business or compliance retention objective, then size the storage—rather than choosing a recorder first and accepting whatever retention it produces.

Cloud video can simplify remote access and multi-site administration; on-premises systems can offer greater local control and specific integration options. A hybrid design can combine local recording with cloud management or backup. The best fit depends on bandwidth, cybersecurity policy, retention, integrations, ownership, and operating model.

Often, but only after compatibility and condition are verified. We evaluate image quality, supported protocols, firmware, cybersecurity, licensing, power, network capacity, mounting, and compatibility with the proposed video platform before recommending reuse, migration, or replacement.

A complete system can include readers, credentials, controllers, power supplies, locks, request-to-exit devices, door-position switches, cabling, software, permissions, reporting, testing, training, and documentation. Door hardware and life-safety conditions must be reviewed as part of the design. Explore access control.

Yes. When supported by the selected platforms, door events can be associated with video, and an intercom call can support visual verification before a door is released. Integration requirements should be defined before products are selected. See intercom and video entry.

Many commercial controllers can continue making local access decisions from synchronized credentials and schedules, while remote management and cloud reporting may be temporarily unavailable. Exact offline behavior varies by platform, controller, configuration, and lock, so it must be verified during design and commissioning.

The opening, door and frame, traffic, code requirements, egress method, fire rating, power condition, monitoring needs, and desired fail-safe or fail-secure behavior determine the hardware. A qualified door survey should happen before the system is quoted.

Cat6 is appropriate for many standard office applications. Cat6A is often chosen for 10-gigabit performance to 100 meters, higher-power PoE planning, or a longer infrastructure lifecycle, but it requires more pathway and termination space. The choice should follow distance, application, environment, bundle size, and budget—not a blanket rule.

Fiber is typically used for building backbones, long distances, high bandwidth, electrical isolation, campus links, and environments with electromagnetic interference. Copper remains practical for many endpoint connections and PoE devices. Explore fiber-optic cabling.

Usually, yes. Work can be phased by area, scheduled around operating hours, and coordinated with furniture, ceiling access, pathways, network cutovers, and occupant safety. The plan should identify any short service interruptions before installation begins.

Closeout should match the contracted scope and may include permanent labels, port records, certification test results, rack elevations, pathway notes, photographs, warranty information, and as-built drawings. Clear records make troubleshooting, moves, and future expansion faster.

A sound Wi-Fi project can include requirements discovery, predictive design, onsite validation, spectrum review, access-point placement, capacity planning, cabling, switching and PoE review, configuration, security, roaming tests, and post-installation verification. Coverage alone is not the same as usable capacity.

Appropriate segmentation can limit unnecessary communication, reduce exposure, improve policy control, and keep device traffic from interfering with business-critical applications. VLANs are one part of the design; firewall policy, identity, monitoring, patching, and administration also matter.

Common causes include inadequate PoE, oversubscribed links, packet loss, poor cabling, incorrect multicast or quality-of-service settings, storage bottlenecks, firmware issues, time synchronization problems, and insufficient server resources. Diagnosis should examine the complete path from camera to client.

Possibly. We review lifecycle status, licensing, supportability, port and PoE capacity, uplinks, security features, configuration access, coverage, performance, and documentation. Reuse is recommended only when the equipment can meet the new design and remain supportable.

Managed IT assigns broad day-to-day responsibility to a provider under an agreed service model. Co-managed IT supplements an internal team with defined capabilities such as help desk, monitoring, cybersecurity, projects, onsite coverage, or specialized expertise. Explore managed IT services.

The scope depends on the project, but an assessment can document current systems, coverage, doors, cabling, racks, network capacity, wireless conditions, servers, storage, software, licensing, users, workflows, risks, support gaps, and operational constraints.

Yes. A multi-site program can define approved platforms, naming, network architecture, permissions, documentation, installation standards, commissioning tests, remote administration, spares, and support procedures while accounting for site-specific conditions.

Terapixels serves commercial organizations throughout Orange County, Los Angeles County, San Diego County, Riverside County, and San Bernardino County. Other areas can be evaluated based on project scope.