Video surveillance Denver, Colorado
Cameras that see what matters and keep it as long as you need.
People and vehicle analytics, license plate capture at gates, and retention sized to insurance and lease requirements. Clips to your phone in seconds, beside the door event that triggered them.
What we install
Coverage designed from the floor plan, not the catalog
4K domes in lobbies, corridors and amenities
Camera placement worked out on the plan with sightlines, so entries, mail and package rooms, corridors and amenity spaces are covered without blind corners.
Bullet cameras, plate capture and low light
Exterior cameras rated for a Colorado winter, plate capture at the garage lane and gates, and garage domes that read faces and plates under sodium and LED light.
Retention, analytics and remote review
On-site recording with retention set to your requirements, people and vehicle analytics that cut false alerts, and clip export from a phone for the property manager or the police report.
Works with
Engineered alongside everything else in the building.
Cameras ride the network we designed, on their own lane. Door events and camera clips show up together. Plate reads open the gate. Surveillance is drawn with access, network and alarm on one set, so coverage follows the way people and vehicles actually move.
- PlatformsDigital Watchdog, Vivotek
- How it worksClips to your phone in seconds
- SupportManaged services plan
LV-5.0 Security plan with camera coverage
Sample sheet. Every project gets its own drawing set.
Which platform fits
Cameras and recording, matched to the property.
For buildings that record on site and review from anywhere
Digital Watchdog pairs its cameras with an on-site recorder and a cloud layer for remote viewing, so the property keeps footage locally and staff review clips from a phone.
We lean toward DW for multifamily and office properties that want a single vendor for cameras, recorder and software, with analytics that cut false alerts.
For demanding exteriors, garages and plate capture
Vivotek builds cameras for hard light, cold and distance: garage lanes, loading docks, gates and perimeters. The license plate models read at the lane speed a gate actually sees.
We mix Vivotek exterior and plate cameras into a DW system when the site has a garage entry, a yard or a gate that needs more than a standard dome.
The VMS and the retention period set the storage
Retention is set by the lease, the insurer or the owner. Days of retention, camera count, resolution and frame rate together size the storage in the recorder.
We list the retention on the camera schedule, size the recorder for it, and set the system to overwrite only when the retention period has passed.
What drives cost
What moves the number on a surveillance proposal.
Camera count and placement. Coverage comes from the floor plan. Every sightline on the security plan is a camera, a cable run and a switch port, so a plan that covers the lobby from two cameras instead of four costs less and misses less.
Exterior and garage cameras. Weather-rated housings, heaters, infrared range and plate-reading optics cost more than an interior dome. They are the cameras that earn the most in a police report.
Retention. Thirty days and ninety days are both common asks. The second needs three times the storage and a recorder sized to match.
Cabling and network. Each camera is a PoE device on a dedicated VLAN. New cable in a finished building, or long runs that need fiber, show up here.
Analytics and licensing. People and vehicle analytics, plate reading and cloud remote access each carry a license. They are listed per camera or per recorder so the owner sees what each adds.
Monitoring. Video verification for the alarm and live monitoring after hours are options priced monthly, through the managed services plan.
What the building department and insurer expect
Retention, leases and the insurance questionnaire.
Lenders and insurers ask about camera coverage at entries, the garage and amenity spaces, and about how long footage is kept. We draw the coverage on the security plan and state the retention on the camera schedule, so the questionnaire can be answered from the drawing set.
Multifamily leases and commercial tenant leases sometimes set their own retention and access rules for footage. We design to the longest requirement in the building and document who may export clips and how.
Cameras in amenity spaces and corridors are placed to cover common areas and never into units, offices or restrooms. The security plan shows every field of view so the owner can confirm that before installation.
Questions
Questions we get on every project
How long is footage kept?
As long as the lease, the insurer or the owner requires. The recorder is sized for that retention and the figure is written on the camera schedule.
Can staff watch the cameras from a phone?
Yes. Live view and clip export run from the platform app, with user permissions that limit who can see which cameras and who can export.
Do you install license plate cameras?
Yes, at garage lanes and vehicle gates. A plate read can open the gate for registered vehicles and is searchable in the recorder.
Can cameras reduce false alarm calls?
Yes. Video verification lets the central station or the property manager see the event before dispatching, and analytics filter out headlights, shadows and animals.
Will the cameras work with the access system?
Yes. Door events and camera clips appear together, so a propped door or a denied credential shows up beside the video of it.
Do you replace an older analog system?
Yes. Existing coax can often carry an IP camera through an adapter, and where it cannot, we propose new cable on the same drawing set.