Retail - Case study
Hardware store group - yard & till control
Centurion, Gauteng - completed April 2026 by our Gauteng team · CCTV installation in Centurion
- Stores
- 3
- Cameras
- 51 × 4MP IP
- POS tills
- 14 integrated
CCTV for a hardware store group, linking till transactions to video and covering trade yards and loading areas.
Equipment supplied
- ▸Dahua AI NVRs at each store
- ▸51 × Dahua 4MP IP cameras
- ▸POS integration across 14 tills
- ▸LPR camera at each trade yard
- ▸Central remote viewing
Scope of work
What international research shows
Published findings on this kind of intervention elsewhere, not results measured on this site.
A study of 392 restaurants found that after they adopted software that monitors point-of-sale transactions for theft, theft fell by 22% and average weekly revenue rose by about 7%, driven mainly by changed staff behaviour rather than staff turnover.
Source: Pierce, Snow & McAfee (2015), Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology Monitoring on Employee Theft and Productivity, Management Science 61(10)A randomised controlled trial across 47 retail stores tested in-aisle CCTV domes and public-view monitors and found positive evidence that visible cameras reduce opportunities for theft in real store conditions.
Source: Hayes & Downs (2011), Controlling retail theft with CCTV domes, CCTV public view monitors, and protective containers: a randomized controlled trial, Security Journal 24(3)Car parks showed the largest and most consistent effect of any setting studied: CCTV schemes there were associated with a 37% reduction in crime compared with control areas.
Source: Piza, Welsh, Farrington & Thomas (2019), CCTV surveillance for crime prevention: a 40-year systematic review with meta-analysis, Criminology & Public Policy, as summarised by the US National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions
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