Estates - Case study
Residential complex - perimeter CCTV upgrade
Gauteng - completed May 2025 by our Gauteng team · CCTV installation in Johannesburg
- Recorders
- 2 × 16-ch NVR
- Storage
- 16TB
Upgrade of a residential property's CCTV with additional perimeter cameras, to a drawing, using two 16-channel Dahua NVRs.
Equipment supplied
- ▸2 × Dahua 16-channel 8-PoE NVRs
- ▸2 × 8TB Seagate Skyhawk AI drives
- ▸Dahua perimeter cameras
Scope of work
✓Perimeter camera installation✓Recorder 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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