ANPR & on-site presence
Know exactly who arrived, when they left, and which vehicles came through the gate — without standing at the entrance with a clipboard.
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AI Cameras · privacy-first
AI cameras that don't spy on you.
On-device AI for the things you actually want it for — number plates on a building site, peace of mind while you're away, smart alerts that mean something. Recorded on your kit, scheduled to be off when you don't want it watching, geofenced to follow your phone. No third-party cloud, no monthly AI subscription, no footage leaving the building.
The honest pitch
Everyone sells "AI cameras". We sell AI cameras you actually control.
The clever stuff — recognising people, number plates, packages, falls, animals — runs on a small neural processor inside the camera itself. It never has to phone home to a third-party AI to work. We deliberately design every system that way, then layer the privacy controls (schedules, geofences, on-site recording) on top so the cameras do exactly what you want, exactly when you want, and nothing else.
Peace-of-mind monitoring
Check in on the dog, the back gate, or the workshop while you're out. Smart alerts that buzz for things that matter, ignore things that don't.
How it works →Schedules & geofences
Cameras that record only when they should. Recording windows by time of day, automatic disarm when your phone is home, masked zones for sensitive areas.
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For construction & site managers
ANPR & on-site presence, without a clipboard.
Build sites have a real, expensive problem: nobody actually knows who was on site, when, and for how long. Sub-contractor billing disputes, RAMS compliance, H&S audits, insurance claims, late-night gate breaches — all of it gets argued from memory and a half-filled-in paper log. AI cameras with on-board number- plate recognition fix it cleanly.
What we install
- UniFi AI Pro & AI LPR cameras at the gate — 4K with on-device licence plate recognition. Every vehicle in, every vehicle out, logged with timestamp and an actual readable image of the plate.
- UniFi AI 360s for the yard — panoramic ceiling-mount coverage for compound and material storage.
- UniFi G5 Bullets on the perimeter — weatherproof, IK-rated, mounted high enough to survive site life.
- A Dream Machine Pro and PoE switching in a lockable site cabinet — recording stays on site, on your kit. Footage doesn't sit on someone else's server.
- 4G failover where there's no decent broadband — system keeps recording locally and syncs alerts over cellular until the WAN comes back.
What the site manager gets
- A daily presence report — "vehicles on site between 07:30 and 17:00 today" — auto-emailed at the end of the working day.
- Plate-watchlist alerts — flag specific subbie plates so you get a buzz when they arrive and a record of when they left.
- Searchable history — "show me every visit by plate
AB12 CDElast month" returns clips and timestamps in seconds. - Out-of-hours alerts only — the system stays quiet during normal working hours and only buzzes for movement on the gate after the site is closed.
- One dashboard, on a phone — iOS and Android, two-factor, no public ports opened on the router.
The legal bit, handled
Workplace CCTV with ANPR has real obligations — ICO registration, a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA), appropriate signage at every entrance, a lawful basis for processing, and a retention policy you can actually point at. We bake the paperwork into the install package so you don't have to figure it out: we draft the DPIA, supply the signs, and hand over a one-page "what we record, how long for, who can see it" sheet your H&S team can file. No legal advice beyond what we hand you in writing — if you want a solicitor to bless it, we'll happily co-operate.
For homes & families
Peace of mind, not surveillance.
Check the workshop. Watch the dog while you're at the office. Make sure the gardener turned up on the day they said. Get useful alerts when the kids are home from school. None of it needs to live on Ring's, Nest's or Hik's servers.
Pets & the back of the house
- Animal detection on AI-capable cameras — the system tells the difference between the dog moving and a person at the back gate, so the alerts you get on holiday are the ones that matter.
- Two-way audio on indoor units — tell the dog off when it's on the sofa, reassure it during fireworks, talk to the cat sitter through the kitchen camera.
- Clip-on-event recording — the system only keeps clips when something happened, so a fortnight away doesn't fill the recorder with empty hallway footage.
Family check-ins (the careful version)
A camera on a child's room or a relative's hallway is never a casual decision. We treat these installs like the considered job they are: an explicit conversation about what the camera is and isn't for, a fixed schedule (e.g. "off entirely during the day", "on only when the door is opened"), masked zones for private areas, and an audit trail of every login. For households where someone with special needs or reduced mobility lives, we'll happily build a system to give carers and family peace of mind — but we'll be straight with you up front: a camera is not a fall-alarm and not a medical device. Pair it with proper telecare (a Lifeline pendant or equivalent) for the medical-emergency side of things, and the camera does what it's good at: showing you, calmly, that everything is fine.
The bit nobody else mentions
We don't install camera systems we wouldn't put in our own house. That rules out anything cloud-only (your footage is a hostage), anything where the AI runs in someone else's data centre (your footage is the training data), and anything that demands a monthly subscription to keep working. UniFi Protect and Home Assistant do not.
Privacy by design
Schedules, geofences and footage that stays where it belongs.
Most CCTV is "on, all the time, watching everything". That's rarely what you actually want, and increasingly it's not what's legal either. Every Luma install ships with the controls below configured from day one — not as a paid add-on, not as a thing you discover six months in.
What we configure as standard
- Recording schedules — cameras can be off during occupied hours and on overnight, off during business hours and on at the weekend, or any other pattern you actually want. Schedules can vary by camera; the office camera doesn't have to follow the same rules as the back-garden one.
- Geofenced arming — when the last household phone leaves a configured radius around the property, the internal cameras switch on; when the first phone is back, they switch off. No "did I arm the alarm?".
- Masked / privacy zones — the camera that watches the drive doesn't need to also be looking through the neighbour's bedroom window. We mask sensitive zones at the camera, so they aren't recorded in the first place.
- On-site recording — footage lives on a small NVR or Cloud Key in your house or office. Encrypted off-site backup is available if you want it, but it's a deliberate choice, not the default.
- No public ports — remote viewing goes through an encrypted relay or your own VPN. Nothing on your router is opened to the internet for the cameras to work.
- Per-user access — each viewer has their own login, two-factor on every account, an audit trail of who watched what.
What we'll never do
- Pipe your footage to a third-party cloud service "for analysis".
- Install a system that stops working when its subscription lapses.
- Open a port on your firewall so you can watch the cameras from your phone.
- Hand you a system you can't audit, change or take with you if you ever stop working with us.
The full write-up of how we approach this on every install lives on its own page — useful reading before you commission, and a handy artefact if a workplace, neighbour or insurer ever asks "how is this set up?".
Areas we cover
Local engineer, on the doorstep.
Based in Marlow — we work across Marlow, Maidenhead, Henley-on-Thames, Beaconsfield, Bourne End, Cookham and High Wycombe, and the rest of the Thames Valley by arrangement. See where we work.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Does the AI run in the cloud?
No. The cameras we install carry their own neural-processing hardware — person, vehicle, package, animal and number-plate detection all run on the camera itself. Your video stream is never shipped to a third party for analysis, and the system works fully even when your broadband is down.
How accurate is the number plate recognition (ANPR)?
On UniFi AI Pro and AI LPR cameras, plate capture is reliable for typical UK gate speeds (under ~30 mph) with the camera positioned and aimed correctly during the site survey. We design the install around the angle and distance the model needs, not the convenience of an existing mounting point — which is the difference between 95%+ readable captures and the cheap kit that misses half the plates.
Can the cameras be set to only record at certain times?
Yes — every install ships with recording schedules and geofence arming configured before handover, per camera. Site cameras can be off during the working day and on out-of-hours; internal cameras can be off when family or staff phones are inside the geofence and on automatically when everyone has left. We agree the pattern with you up front and document it in the handover pack.
Do I need an ICO registration for ANPR on a building site?
If you're processing personal data via CCTV in a workplace or commercial setting — which ANPR is — yes, you should be registered with the ICO, have a Data Protection Impact Assessment, and display compliant signage. We draft the DPIA, supply the signage and hand over a one-page summary of what's recorded, for how long, and who can see it as part of the install package.
Can family members watch the cameras from their phones?
Yes — we set up the UniFi Protect app on each authorised phone with two-factor authentication mandatory, and each viewer gets their own named login (not a shared password). Remote viewing goes through the vendor's encrypted relay or your own VPN — we never open ports on your firewall.
Will the cameras work if the internet goes down?
Yes. Recording happens locally on a Network Video Recorder at your property, not in the cloud, so footage keeps being captured even when the WAN is offline. On sites with poor broadband we add a 4G failover so remote alerts still get through; the recording itself never stops.
Can you do fall detection or medical alerts?
Honestly — no, not as a medical-grade product. AI cameras can flag unusual events like a person remaining motionless, but a camera is not a medical alarm and shouldn't be sold as one. For households where someone needs reliable fall or medical-emergency response, we'll happily build a monitoring system for peace of mind — and we'll insist you pair it with a proper telecare device (a Lifeline pendant or equivalent) for the medical side.