Estates - Case study
Residential complex - IP CCTV upgrade
Gauteng - completed June 2025 by our Gauteng team · CCTV installation in Johannesburg
- Switch
- 16-port managed PoE
IP CCTV upgrade for a residential property, covering the entrance, visitor areas and common areas with Dahua cameras.
Equipment supplied
- ▸Dahua 4MP smart dome cameras
- ▸Dahua managed 16-port PoE switch
- ▸4TB Seagate Skyhawk drive
Scope of work
✓CCTV system upgrade✓Entrance and visitor camera installation
What international research shows
Published findings on this kind of intervention elsewhere, not results measured on this site.
In residential areas, CCTV schemes were associated with a statistically significant 12% 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 CrimeSolutionsA meta-analysis of alley gating, which restricts access to the routes offenders use to reach properties, found modest but significant reductions in burglary, with little evidence of crime simply moving to nearby streets.
Source: Sidebottom, Tompson, Thornton, Bullock, Tilley, Bowers & Johnson (2018), Gating Alleys to Reduce Crime: A Meta-Analysis and Realist Synthesis, Justice Quarterly 35(1)
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