IP camera systems for warehouses, docks, lots, entries, and retail floors, installed by a cabling contractor. Proper runs, clean terminations, every run labeled and tested. No monitoring contract and no monthly subscription.
A lot of camera installs in this market are sold by monitoring dealers, and the hardware is not really the product. The recurring bill is. The install gets done fast because it is a cost of acquiring a subscriber, and the contract is what keeps you from leaving when the system underperforms.
We work the other way. Elite Wiring installs the infrastructure and it is yours: the cable, the cameras, the recorder, the footage. Nothing to cancel, nothing that stops working if you stop paying, no term to sign. If you decide in two years to change platforms or bring management in house, the cabling in your ceiling does not care.
The cable is the part that fails, and we run cable for a living. Cameras and recorders are mature products. Service calls come from untested runs, rushed terminations, unprotected exterior cable, and switches that cannot carry the load. That is the exact work we do every day on structured cabling jobs.
Almost every dead camera we get called out to look at comes back to one of these three, and all three are invisible on the day the installer leaves.
Every PoE camera draws power from the switch, and the switch has a limit. Load it to the edge and the system works in daylight, then cameras start dropping offline at night when infrared illuminators pull more current.
Exterior cameras on long runs are lightning antennas. One storm takes out cameras, the switch port, and sometimes the recorder. Protection is cheap compared to the second install.
A run that was never tested is a run somebody hopes is fine. Marginal terminations pass on day one and fail in month eight, usually right before you need footage of something.
Placement gets decided in your building, not from a plan. That conversation is the difference between coverage and footage of a ceiling.
What you need to be able to prove later, where the cameras have to see, mounting locations, sight lines, night lighting, and where cable can actually go.
Camera count and placement in writing, plus switch capacity, PoE budget, recorder and storage, and protection on exterior runs.
Clean runs with proper support and bend radius, careful terminations, cameras mounted level and aimed with you present for the ones that matter.
Every run labeled at both ends, tested to verify performance, camera views confirmed, and the documentation goes to you along with the system.
What went on the truck and what came off it, plus aisle and floor coverage in high-bay space where mounting height and lighting drive every placement decision.
Vehicles, after-hours activity, and every door into the building. Long exterior runs with surge protection, and fiber to detached structures when copper cannot reach.
Registers, sales floor, back of house, and receiving. Coverage laid out to answer specific questions rather than to fill a camera count.
No. We are a cabling contractor, not an alarm dealer. We install the system, you own it, and there is no subscription attached to it and no contract that follows you for the next several years. That is the core difference between hiring us and hiring a monitoring company that installs hardware in order to sell you a recurring bill.
Because the cable is the part that fails. Cameras and recorders are mature products and they mostly work. What fails is a run that was never tested, a connector crimped in a hurry on a ladder, an exterior run with no surge protection, or a switch that cannot power everything hanging off it. We run cable for a living, so the part of a camera system that actually causes service calls is the part we do every day.
During the walkthrough, in the building, with you. We look at what you need to be able to prove later: who came through which door, what happened at the dock, what a vehicle did in the lot, who was on the retail floor. Then we look at mounting locations, sight lines, lighting at night, and where the cable can realistically be run. Camera placement decided from a floor plan tends to produce beautiful views of empty ceiling.
Most commercial IP cameras take power and data over the same cable, which is called PoE. That means the network switch is also the power supply for every camera on it, and switches have a total power budget. An undersized switch is the classic cheap-install failure: everything works on install day, then cameras start dropping offline at night when infrared illuminators kick in and draw more power. We size the switch and plan the power before anything gets mounted.
We are a Verkada partner for access control and cloud-managed cameras, installed and documented alongside your cabling.
The same crew, the same standard. Cat6 and Cat6a drops, backbone, racks, and patch panels, labeled and tested.
Structured cabling →Cameras on a detached building or the far side of a yard. Direct burial and aerial infrastructure experience.
Fiber optics →Dead zones in warehouses, basements, and parking structures, designed from an on-site survey instead of a square footage guess.
Cell signal & DAS →The approach changes with the building. Pick the one closest to yours to see how we handle it.
Tell us what you need to see and we will schedule a walkthrough. You get our read on placement and coverage, and a scope you can hold us to.