Cameras & Access Control · Avigilon and Axis

Cameras and Doors,
Designed and Installedby One Team.

Authorized Avigilon and Axis dealer. Site assessment, camera design, recording, door hardware and credentials, installed and supported by our own crew.

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A camera system is only worth what you can get out of it on the day something happens. Plenty of businesses have cameras that record and cannot be searched, or footage that rolled over before anybody went looking, or a system nobody has logged into since the day it was installed.

We design for retrieval, not for camera count. Where the cameras go, how long the footage is kept, who can pull a clip and how fast they can find it are the questions that matter, and they get answered before anything is mounted.

Security camera and access control systems for metro Atlanta businesses

What This Covers

Security Cameras and Access Control

Camera Design and Placement

We walk the building and design against actual sight lines, lighting and what you need to be able to identify. Identifying a face at a doorway and seeing that a vehicle was in a lot are different jobs needing different cameras.

Recording, Retention and Storage

NVR and storage sized for the retention you actually need, not the default. Thirty days at full frame rate across twenty cameras is a real storage number and it should be calculated before you buy, not discovered afterwards.

Access Control and Credentials

Readers, controllers, locks, power supplies and request-to-exit devices, programmed so you can revoke somebody’s access the afternoon they leave rather than next time the vendor visits.

Camera and Door Integration

A door event and the video of that door event should live in the same place. When both systems come from one team, that works. When they come from two vendors, it usually does not.

Cameras Kept Off Your Business Network

Cameras belong on their own segment, not sharing a flat network with your accounting workstations. This is a security question and a performance one, and it is the most common problem we find in existing installs.

Cabling Done by the Same Company

The cable that feeds the cameras is ours too, so it stops exactly where the hardware needs it. See structured cabling.

What Makes These Systems Work

The Parts That Decide Whether It Helps You Later.

Camera count is the number people ask about. These are the ones that matter.
Point 1

Licensed
to Design, Not Just to Hang

Next Level Computers is a licensed low voltage contractor in the State of Georgia, licensed in the unlimited class. That covers cameras, access control, cabling and network under one license and one company. More on our installation service.

Point 2

Training
Is Part of the Install

We show your people how to find a specific two minutes from last Tuesday, export it, and hand it to somebody who needs it. A system nobody can operate is a system that will not help you on the day you need it.

Point 3

Commercial
Grade, Not Consumer Gear

Avigilon and Axis are what we install because they are supported for years, their software is built for searching footage, and the hardware survives a warehouse. Big-box cameras stop receiving updates and the app stops working after a phone update.

Security Cameras and Access Control Questions

What businesses ask us before they commit.
How many cameras do we need?
Fewer than most quotes suggest, placed better. The right question is what you need to be able to see and prove: who came through the door, what happened at the register, whether a vehicle was in the lot. We answer that on a site walk and the camera count falls out of it.
How long should we keep footage?
Thirty days covers most businesses, and some industries or insurers expect more. Retention drives storage cost more than anything else, so it is worth deciding deliberately rather than accepting whatever the recorder defaults to.
Can you work with cameras we already own?
Often, yes. Send us what you have and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping, what is missing and what it costs to finish. If it is not worth installing we will say so before you spend more on it.
Can access control integrate with the cameras?
Yes, and it should. A door opening and the footage of that door opening belong together. We design both sides so a badge event and the video are one lookup instead of two systems and a stopwatch.

Related Services

Low Voltage Installation · Structured Cabling · Equipment Sales · All IT Services

Every Camera Quote Starts With a Site Walk.

Pricing a camera system from a phone call produces a number that changes once somebody looks at the building. We walk it, design against what you need to see, and give you a firm itemised quote. No charge for the walk.

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