We offer CCTV installation in Worcester and surrounding areas and can offer competitive pricing with cutting edge smart deterrent technology. Using the latest IP cameras, CAT6 outdoor rated data cable, our skilled and friendly engineers will install to the highest standards.
If you’re not sure what you need to effectively protect your property, get in touch to arrange an appointment for a quote and an explanation on what your options are.
The NuCCTV is a next generation Networked Video Recorder (NVR) for security cameras and smart home hub with Home Assistant, in one. It can record 24/7 with customisable object detection for persons, cars and creates events which are easy to find and review on your smartphone, tablet or PC. Imagine being able to control and view all your tech in one app, which you can use anywhere in the world, that’s what we do!
Our stylish range of outdoor security cameras offer the latest Colour Night Vision with outstanding low light performance. Couple that with crystal clear images and a price that won’t break the bank, they are the perfect security camera solution. Add them to our NuCCTV system for the most reliable and private home security solution available and get the best CCTV installation in Worcester.
We believe home security is extremely important for your safety, wellbeing and peace of mind, which makes it the most important feature of a smart home. Unfortunately, a lot systems on the market have inherent pitfalls and compromises. We believe in better and offer a system which bridges those pitfalls and gives you invaluable features for a great price. Get in touch today for CCTV installation in Worcester and surrounding areas.
Traditional security cameras aren’t that useful as a security option. What’s the point in just recording someone breaking in to your property? The damage is already done. It’s also difficult for overstretched Police forces to identify suspects, let alone apprehend them.
With our system, they won’t get that far. You will be able to give an intruder the ultimate deterrent as soon as they set foot on your property: someone being home and the threat of police presence. Get instant smart intruder alerts to your phone or smart speaker to help you identify intruders immediately.
Even if you’re not home or asleep, we can trigger internal or external lights to come on, even TV’s or radios if you want to go for the full “Home Alone” effect! This is achieved with inexpensive smart plugs or smart switches and some simple magic from our Smart Home hub and NVR, the NuCCTV.
Click or tap to read more
Fed up of your cameras sending you phone alerts whenever the wind blows or the cat is wondering past at all hours? If your cameras only have motion detection then you’re either going to ignore any alerts or switch them off. With smart person / car detection instead of just motion detection, false alerts are practically eliminated. Even some big name camera systems’ object detection can be hit and miss due to a lack of advanced fine tuning, reliability for this feature is very important.
Unlike most other systems, we can fine tune each camera so they are as accurate as possible to pick up every event and ignore the events you don’t want. We can also set zones so you will only get alerts in specific areas, like your drive or path for example, but still record people or cars going past in the street.
And don’t worry, you’ll never miss an alert as these can be set to override silent mode on your phone and on Android devices, even speak the alert type and area out loud. We can even customise the alert notification tones on certain Android devices and iPhones so you instantly know what the alert is and more importantly, you don’t ignore it.
Don’t carry your phone with you everywhere or have a smart watch? Don’t worry we’ve got that covered too, read on below.
There’s one thing that puts most thieves off from breaking into a home more than anything, that’s someone being home and awake. Couple that with the threat of police presence, alarms and even guard dogs, it’s all you can do to deter someone. With NuCCTV we can simulate all those things and the intruder won’t be able to tell if it’s real or not. Trigger internal or external lights to come on, even TV’s or smart speakers if you want to go for the full “Home Alone” effect! This is achieved with inexpensive smart plugs or modules for lights and any smart speakers like Alexa, Google or Sonos or Smart TV’s and some simple magic from Home Assistant, the home automation software that runs on the NuCCTV.
With NuCCTV we can easily set the alerts to be on and off when it suits you. We can automatically turn them on by a time schedule, if it’s after sunset, by your presence in the home or even when you’re asleep or not. We can also do a combination of those factors so you won’t be triggering those alerts yourself. If you happen to have a situation where you’re doing something outside when they would normally be on, it’s easy to snooze the alerts with one tap from the alert notification on your phone itself or the Home Assistant interface.
We can also make alert control even smarter with our Zigbee smart alarm upgrade and an inexpensive door sensor. Setting alerts to switch off when a door is opened, as long as the security status is off of course, then switch back on when you leave or a certain amount of time.
With most wired CCTV systems, the phone app is a generic one for 100’s of different NVR models and camera configurations. There’s no ability to easily control settings and they’re not always optimised for the device you’re using it on.
With NuCCTV and the Home Assistant companion app, we present everything in an easy to use, fast loading way. View live streams, control notifications, control lights all from one screen. With a quick tap you can control anything else you may have integrated into Home Assistant, like lights or smart plugs for example. With a tap of a button, we can cast cameras and recordings straight to your TV. Imagine being able to control and view all your tech in one app, which you can use anywhere in the world! We can customise the interface for your products and preferences making it the perfect match for your needs.
If you really want to examine footage in detail, we can open the Frigate (NVR) web interface on any tablet or PC and view 24/7 recordings and skip through them with the help of up to 16x playback and a motion timeline. View events categorised by importance and with easy to identify animated previews. Locate footage easily with filters for zones, objects, time and dates. Easily download clips you’d like to keep or share with the export function.
Unfortunately most camera systems have been involved in data breaches and privacy issues (see below). Also, lesser known manufacturers have a habit of not keeping their devices safe from security vulnerabilities, making them an easy target for hackers wanting to gain access to your entire network. With any NuCCTV installation, we make sure the cameras can’t access the internet from your network. Only the NuCCTV system can access them, which is all we need, as this does all the clever stuff.
The NuCCTV itself has to be allowed to access the internet if you want access to your system from outside of your WiFi network. But this isn’t a problem, it runs the private and secure Home Assistant software which has these values at it’s core. It also records directly to it’s own storage, it doesn’t use a cloud server to record or process anything. In fact, even cameras or clips streamed to your phone when you’re on the go are sent through the Home Assistant Cloud, the privacy-focused cloud from Nabu Casa, ran by the founders of Home Assistant. Your data travels across their servers encrypted and Nabu Casa will never be able to view this data.
Not only are our products secure, during our installation we will advise on any network security issues encountered and will advise on how to fix them or even them fix them for you. We also offer support packages to keep your system up to date and we proactively keep you up to date on any security alerts that might be issued by any of our partners and suppliers, regardless of support packages or warranty.
Sabotage can be a problem with security cameras. If an intruder can take out a camera without being detected, it can leave your perimeter exposed. When we design your system, our skilled team will advise on the best cameras locations to deal with that. Unlike other systems, the NuCCTV can actively monitor any sabotage to cameras or cables, getting alerts within seconds of them going offline. Not only that, we can apply this monitoring to other things like your internet connection, your router, WiFi smart plugs, WiFi cameras and just about anything that’s connected to your network.
The other point of failure to any system is internet connectivity. If your internet goes off, you’ll still get alerts and everything will still record and remain accessible within your home WiFi network. If you want to double down on resiliency we can offer router upgrades which can failover to 4G/5G data or even just an inexpensive dongle, to send text messages when the internet goes down.
Not only can we monitor your network devices and internet but with the addition of a Backup UPS, we can let you know when the power goes off and keep your system running for as long as you need.
When you have an emergency situation arising from an alert on the NuCCTV, we make it easy to find the right choices. Panic can take over quickly and finding the right options can be difficult in these situations. In every alert there is an option to open the “emergency dashboard” which we can customise with easy to select buttons which can activate sirens, lights and with compatible cameras, speak out pre-set voice alerts. We also have buttons to call emergency contacts or services from your phone. We can even set up voice assistants to do the same. We make dealing with these situations quick and effective to get help as soon as possible.
Complete your home security and get complete peace of mind your home is fully protected by adding sensors that can alert you no matter what the threat. With Home Assistant which runs the NuCCTV system there are 1000’s of devices that we can integrate if you have something already, in all likelihood it will have an integration. If not, we can supply tried and tested devices which work great to protect your home. With alerts sent the same way as camera alerts, you won’t miss any issues that may arise which may cost thousands to repair or worse, cost lives.
With the latest codec support we can record in ultra high quality video and audio whilst not using too much space. With instant alerts, keeping footage for days isn’t necessary and the cost saving of storage devices is huge. We can even just record events if you want to just keep the important stuff.
Sharing video is easy too. Simply download the clip or select the times and dates you need and save to your device for sharing with any app.
Our camera ranges offer various options for picture quality but even the basic camera has a stunning 3K resolution which is more than enough for most distances. For cameras which need to see a bit further in more detail, we can specify higher quality versions but often going for the highest spec isn’t always a good idea:
Our cameras also offer high quality nigh vision with high aperture lenses. This means that they can record in colour at night making it appear like daylight! They also have LED spotlights to illuminate close up objects and deter intruders.
As we mentioned above, there are many ways to get alerts for intruders and how to act on those alerts with advanced automation and Home Assistant. The only real limit is your imagination! Here are some examples:
In addition we’re working on adding these amazing features soon:
Our installations use only the best materials and installed by skilled engineers to the highest standards:
Get in touch below for the best CCTV installation in Worcester
WiFi video doorbells and cameras (Ring, Blink, Eufy, Simplisafe, etc) are cheap and easy to install and are a great option if you’re on a tight budget and just want something to keep an eye on deliveries or casual delinquents. Unfortunately, more professional thieves are becoming savvy and are taking advantage of a fundamental flaw in WiFi technology: de-authentication attacks.
A cheap “jamming” device, sometimes disguised as a watch, can block WiFi devices in it’s area from connecting, thus stopping the cameras from alerting about an intruder and worse, if they don’t have onboard storage like Ring, recording them.
The flaw is in the 802.11 standard which is used by the majority of WiFi devices. Until 802.11w (Protected Management Frames) becomes more adopted by manufacturers, this will problem will only get worse.
Battery powered cameras have to save power and to do this, they go to sleep. When movement is detected, they will wake up but often this is just down a bit of wind or an animal, not an intruder. This can lead to the battery draining quickly. Also, if you live on a busy street, be prepared for the battery to go flat a lot sooner than the quoted battery life.
The other big issue with battery cameras is when the camera is “asleep” it will always take a few seconds for it to wake up. If the object or intruder is fast moving across the view of the camera, you will miss the intruder entirely. Not great for security!
Low cost WiFi cameras are notoriously bad for quality and suffer from privacy issues which have been well documented in news outlets. Even well established, more expensive brands have been implicated in such problems.
Many of the products available today use cloud servers to perform the “AI person detection”. This involves sending images or even clips to servers outside of your network. Whilst this is usually secure, there have been occasions where even big names like Eufy, have been caught out. So sometimes, encrypted cameras aren’t always encrypted!
It’s not only “unplanned” data breaches which let a lot of cloud services down, it’s intentional sharing of personal data by big corporations and even 3rd parties. It’s not only video and images that are being exposed as this article and many other news reports suggest.
It’s not only WiFi cameras that this problem, expensive wired cameras such as Hikvision and Dahua have some concerns when allowed to connect to the internet.
Many people squirm at the thought of having a camera placed inside your home. We hear you! That’s why we recommend pan/tilt cameras with local control like this inexpensive TP-Link camera. With Home Assistant, it can be automatically made to face the wall and put in privacy mode when it suits you. As they have local control, we can block them from accessing the internet as well. It’s an extra bit of peace of mind for your guests and your family, to know for certain, they’re not being watched.
The advantages of having cameras inside can be huge. The obvious one is intruder detection, rather than fitting many sensors, usually one camera per room can accurately detect the presence of a person to alert you when you’re away from home. You could also check to see if you left something on the table or even make sure the place isn’t on fire! Although we’d hope you’d be using other more reliable devices for that! It could also be to monitor small children or pets if you’re in another room. As our systems aren’t using the cloud, you can rest assured their privacy is secure.
But how can we achieve all this whilst maintaining your privacy when you’re home? With our smart hubs and pan/tilt cameras we can automate when you’re home to get them to face away from the room and switch onto privacy mode. Additionally, blocking the cameras access to the internet will allow us to be sure the images aren’t going anywhere they shouldn’t.
