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Alert Monitoring add CheckMyCCTV™ to their service offering

We are delighted to announce Alert Monitoring as our latest CheckMyCCTV™ Monitoring Partner.

Based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Alert Monitoring provide a range of remote monitoring services that can be applied to all business types. 

The Monitoring Station operates 24/7, 365 days a year, and has a team of SIA accredited operators delivering a highly responsive and proactive service.

As part of that responsive and proactive service, CheckMyCCTV™ is now available as an option to check and ensure CCTV systems are working and fit for purpose when they are needed most. 

Darren Rewston, Managing Director of CheckMySystems Ltd., commented “We’re delighted to welcome Alert Monitoring to our ever growing list of Monitoring Partners” adding “Monitoring stations often have hundreds or even thousands of systems, and having an automated and reliable method of ensuring they are all working and fit for purpose is essential in ensuring that customers are getting the service they expect.”

Paul Rolfe, Director of Alert Monitoring added “Our customers depend on their CCTV systems working when they’re called upon, by utilising CheckMyCCTV™ we can identify CCTV issues and report them to the service team before they become critical, reducing downtime and risk.”

For more information, visit Alert Monitoring at www.alertmonitoring.uk or call 
0333 999 9565.

Support for Axis cameras added to CheckMyCCTV™

Were delighted to announce that Axis cameras are now compatible with our award-wining CheckMyCCTV™ maintenance monitoring solution.

CheckMyCCTV™ has traditionally been used to monitor multi-site static CCTV systems, such as retailers, hotel chains, car dealerships, and bookmakers etc.

We’re now seeing an increase in demand to support rapid deployment and CCTV towers with recording directly to SD Cards on the camera, and connected via mobile networks.

In these high-risk environments, it’s more important than ever to ensure that the CCTV systems are operational and fit for purpose 24/7.

One constraint when monitoring the status of mobile connected systems is the the amount of data passing to and from the device.

By signing up to the Axis Application Development Partner programme, we have been able to optimise the data requirement for mobile connectivity. The checks are quick and require very little bandwidth, and no CheckMyCCTV™ functionality is lost.

Darren Rewston, Managing Director of CheckMySystems Ltd. comments “The Axis cameras is a great fit for our customers utilising mobile connectivity and rapid deployment of cameras. Integration of Axis cameras into CheckMyCCTV™ has been optimised for that environment.

Adding “The built-in SD Card makes it an economical and efficient way to record locally at the camera without requiring additional equipment. Our CheckMyCCTV™ solution integrates seamlessly, seeing it as a single channel NVR”.

CheckMyCCTV™ is compatible with Axis Cameras and Encoders using API version 2.0 and above. For more information about Axis products, visit www.axis.com

Contact us for more information about CheckMyCCTV™, or click HERE to activate your free trial.

Cathexis VMS integration added to CheckMyCCTV™

Extending our support for the supported CCTV brands, were delighted to announce that Cathexis VMS systems are now compatible with CheckMyCCTV™.

CheckMyCCTV™ is a brand-agnostic solution, allowing our customers to use whichever suppliers they see fit for their application.

Cathexis joins supported brands such as Hikvision, Dahua, Hanwha, as well as VMS solutions from Avigilon, Nework Optix, Milestone, and Digifort.

When an existing customer contacted us requesting support for CathexisVision for a supermarket chain they monitor, the wheels went into motion, and we had a new driver ready to test within a week.

Darren Rewston, Managing Director of CheckMySystems Ltd. comments “CheckMyCCTV™ customers often have a mix of brands that they monitor or maintain. The beauty of CheckMyCCTV™ is that when we add support for new devices, they can be seamlessly added to the software with the same look and feel”

CheckMyCCTV™ is compatible with Cathexis CathexisVision version 2018 and above. For more information about Cathexis products, visit www.cathexisvideo.com

To register for a CheckMyCCTV™ trial, click HERE

Hosted CheckMyCCTV™ to be demonstrated at the North West Fire & Security exhibition

We’re exhibiting at the North West Fire & Security Exhibition on Wednesday 11th September, at the DW Stadium in Wigan.

We’ll be running live demonstrations of our Hosted CheckMyCCTV™ solution throughout the day, showing how easy it is for CCTV Installers and Monitoring Stations to offer 24/7 checking as part of their service.

The North West Fire & Security Exhibition is an excellent opportunity to find out more about the latest products and services available to you and your customer’s. Other exhibitors include:

  • Ajax Systems
  • BT Redcare
  • COP Security
  • CSL Group
  • Hikvision
  • Orisec
  • Vicon, and more.

The doors will be open to visitors from 10am with tea/coffee and breakfast rolls, and a light lunch will be served from 1pm with tea/coffee available. Doors close at 4pm.

A business card raffle will take place on the day so don’t forget your business cards. The prizes are 3 pairs of tickets to a football match at the DW with a meal in Rigalettos before the game

CLICK HERE to register to attend the event. See you there.

AxxonSoft support added to CheckMyCCTV™

AxxonSoft support added to CheckMyCCTV™

AxxonSoft’s state-of-the-art open-platform Axxon Next solution has been added to CheckMyCCTV™

As part of our commitment to expand the list of supported CCTV systems, AxxonSoft’s Axxon Next solution joins the growing list of systems compatible with CheckMyCCTV™.

CheckMyCCTV™ is traditionally used to monitor DVR and NVR systems, but as Installers and Monitoring Stations extend their product mix, VMS systems are seen as cost effective and flexible solutions for end-users.

CheckMyCCTV™ automatically runs a comprehensive list of checks on the Axxon Next platform, including:

Network Status – Ensures connectivity to the system.
Camera Status – Checks the status of the cameras connected to the system.
Image Check – Analyses if images have lost alignment, are too bright or dark, or out of focus.
Record Duration – Ensures the system is recording for the correct user-defined time period.
Recording Check  – Checks if the system is recording correctly.
Time Accuracy – Ensures the time and date on the device is accurate. …and more

These checks ensure that your customers’ systems are working and operating as expected in a fraction of the time it takes to manually check them.

For more information about AxxonSoft or Axxon Next, visit www.axxonsoft.com

To try CheckMyCCTV™ for yourself, and see how you can offer 24/7 CCTV checking for your customers, click HERE to register for a trial.

Volant Security Systems add CheckMyCCTV™ to their service

Kilmarnock based Volant Security Systems, are now offering their customers 24/7 CCTV system checks as part of their service using CheckMyCCTV™.

Volant provides protect & prevent security systems using CCTV, access control, and intruder alarms to businesses in the Kilmarnock and Glasgow area, and now provide their customers with optional 24/7 system checks using CheckMyCCTV™.

CheckMyCCTV™ checks and reports CCTV faults, tampering, vandalism, and operation issues automatically, ensuring they are working when they are needed most.

The core checks include:

  • Network Connectivity
  • Camera Status
  • Recording Status
  • Record Duration
  • Time Accuracy
  • Image Integrity

CheckMyCCTV™ checks and reports these and more, every hour of every day, so issues can be resolved in a timely manner.

Richard Gibbs, Managing Director, Volant Security Systems Ltd. comments “We aim to provide the best possible service to our customers, and using CheckMyCCTV™ to monitor for on-site CCTV issues, helps us to achieve this in a cost effective and simple way”

Darren Rewston, Managing Director, CheckMySystems Ltd. adds “It’s great to work with forward thinking CCTV installers like Volant Security Systems, who are using technology to create their own value added solution, which increases their service levels and revenue streams.”

Continuing, “Volant are utilising our Hosted CheckMyCCTV™ service, which requires no hardware setup or up-front costs, and the pay-as-you-go subscription billing means you only pay for the connections you use”.

For more information about Volant Security Systems and the services they offer, visit their website at www.volant.one, email richard@nullvolant.one, or call 01563 370711

If you want to try CheckMyCCTV™ in your business, click HERE to register for a FREE Trial.

Envision-IS choose CheckMyCCTV™ for 24/7 CCTV checking and reporting

Across the UK, premises are regularly affected by various forms of crime and intrusion. With Envision-IS’s close protection, no security threats will go unseen.

Envision-IS strives to detect and prevent crime to the highest standards for you. Protecting sites when needed most.

In addition to this, Envision understand that when customers’ CCTV equipment fails, productivity and risk levels suffer. By utilising CheckMyCCTV™, defective equipment is identified quickly and restored as efficiently as possible.

Darren Rewston, Managing Director of CheckMySystems Ltd., commented: “By adding CheckMyCCTV™ to their service, Envision-IS can automatically detect sites which are not protected due to faults, tampering, or vandalism, and report them to the maintenance team for remedial work to be carried out.”

Graeme McCandless, Operations Director of Envision-IS Ltd., adds “Our customers rely on their CCTV systems to be working 24/7, our automated CCTV checking using CheckMyCCTV™ gives them, and us, the reassurance that it is working and fit for purpose.”

For more information about Envision-IS and the services they offer, visit their website, www.envision-is.co.uk, email info@nullenvision-is.co.uk, or call +44 28 3834 7055

CheckMySystems partner with TeleData UK to offer Hosted CheckMyCCTV™ platform

As our award-winning CheckMyCCTV™ platform continues to grow, we are looking for new ways to offer it to our customers, making it easier to generate additional revenue streams and offer a better service.

Our partnership with Teledata UK, allows us to offer a Hosted CheckMyCCTV™ service, for small to medium-sized installers, who may not have the infrastructure or resource to run and maintain their own service.

The Hosted CheckMyCCTV™ platform can be set up in a matter of minutes, and pre-configured to start offering the service out of the box.

Teledata UK operate some of the most secure data centre facilities in Europe. By offering a range of Cloud, IaaS, colocation and resilient network services, were able to offer CheckMySystems a cloud-based data centre product offering which is scalable for Small to Medium sized Installers.

Darren Rewston, Founder and Managing Director of CheckMySystems, commented: “Our Cloud Hosted service allows our customers to provide 24/7 CCTV system checks without needing to purchase additional infrastructure, with built in resilience and availability, and is scalable as their service grows.”

Matthew Edgley, Commercial Director of TeleData UK, commented: “Our partnership with CheckMySystems provides a stable and reach more customers and provide a new route to market – with a real focus application performance and service stability in order to uphold the value of our brands. The relationship is geared towards growth on a commercial and technical level”

For more information about Hosted CheckMyCCTV™, contact us on +44 161 8706137, or info@nullcheckmysystems.com 

For more information about Teledata UK, visit www.teledata.co.uk

Britannia Monitoring become latest CheckMyCCTV™ monitoring partner

We are delighted to announce Britannia Monitoring as our latest CheckMyCCTV™ Monitoring Partner.

Based in Goole, East Yorkshire,Britannia Monitoring is an NSI Gold approved monitoring station, providing a host of monitoring solutions.

Britannia Monitoring utilise the latest technologies to continually benefit our customers, our staff and our business alike, and a standard part of their service is to offer 24/7 CCTV maintenance checks utilising CheckMyCCTV™

Darren Rewston, Managing Director of CheckMySystems Ltd., commented “A large number of CCTV monitoring stations now use CheckMyCCTV™ as a means to ensure their connections are operating and fit for purpose when they’re needed most”

Steve Davies, Director of Britannia Monitoring added “Our customers depend on our services to keep their businesses protected, CheckMyCCTV™ has become an invaluable tool to ensure that we can detect and report CCTV issues before they become critical.”

For more information, visit Britannia Monitoring at www.britanniamonitoring.co.uk or call 
01405 721 347

There’s life in analogue CCTV systems yet

If you have an analogue CCTV system which is not performing, don’t feel you need to rip everything out and start again, a new technology is breathing life into old CCTV systems without having to undertake costly infrastructure work.

In the UK there are many hundreds of thousands of existing CCTV installations, many of which are frankly unfit for purpose. Every week the police release footage of a pixilated blob or blobs attacking another pixilated blob, asking if you can identify any of the pixilated blobs in the image.

The reason why this footage is often so poor is that older Standard Definition (SD) analogue cameras are recording to a small hard disk meaning the images are compressed, reducing quality even further, and over time the cameras degrade or are not serviced correctly – it’s surprising there’s a recorded image at all!

Technology has moved on significantly in the past few years, and CCTV cameras are now High Definition (HD), Hard Disks are getting substantially larger to accommodate these HD images with little degradation, and even IR lighting has improved.

If you have an existing CCTV system in place, you may be looking to upgrade to High Definition but are put off by the cost. This is usually because there is a misconception that the only way to upgrade to HD is to rip out the whole system and replace it with an IP solution, meaning the cameras, recorders, and cabling all need to be replaced, which is a costly exercise.

This is no longer the case, and there is a technology now available which allows you to upgrade your existing analogue CCTV system to HD, but keep the cost down by reusing the existing cabling and only replacing the cameras that require a HD image (remember that not every camera needs to be HD).

Many CCTV installers are now offering HD upgrades to existing system by replacing the recorder with a Hikvision Turbo HD DVR, giving you the option to simply replace your analogue SD cameras with HD versions which record at 1080p (the same resolution as your LCD TV), with the benefit of not needing to upgrade your whole system in one go. Existing cameras can be left in place and upgraded at later date if required, so you can migrate to HD quality in your own time and within budget.

Ask your CCTV installer about upgrading your CCTV system to HD using your existing cabling, and see the benefits of HD without the cost.