CCTV Installation in Frankston
Hard-wired cameras, cable run properly through the roof, and footage you can actually find when you need it. Homes and businesses across the south-east.
- 4.9 Google Rating
- Licensed & insured
- Time on site Usually one day
- Subscription None, footage is yours
- Phone access Set up on the day
Why we usually recommend hard-wired CCTV
Wireless cameras can work well in some situations, but they rely on a strong Wi-Fi connection and, depending on the system, batteries that need charging. For permanent home or business security, a hard-wired system is generally more reliable.
Power and data run over one cable to each camera, with footage recorded locally rather than relying on a subscription. Images stay usable at night, which is when most of what you’ll want to review actually happens.
We install CCTV across Frankston and the south-east for homes and businesses, run the cable neatly through the roof, and set access up on your phone before we leave.
What's in a CCTV installation
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Positioning walk
We walk the property with you and work out what you're actually trying to see.
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Hard-wired cable
Cat6 to each camera, run through roof and wall cavities, terminated and tested.
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Recorder & storage
Sized for weeks of footage, installed out of sight rather than on the hall table.
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Night performance
Cameras chosen for low light and positioned so your security lighting doesn't blow out the image.
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Remote access
Connected to your network, app set up on your phone, and you're shown how to scrub back.
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Handover
Logins written down and given to you, not kept by us. It's your system.
Systems we install most
Six setups cover nearly everything we’re asked for, from a four camera house to a yard.
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Home, four to six cameras
The standard residential setup: front door, driveway, rear yard and side access.
- Front door camera at face height for identification
- Driveway angle chosen to catch plates, not roofs
- Rear and side coverage for the obvious approaches
- Recorder hidden and the app set up before we go
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Replacing a wireless kit
Very common. The cameras get swapped for hard-wired units and the cable run properly.
- Existing positions reused where they actually work
- Cat6 run through the roof, no surface cable
- Old kit removed and taken away
- Usually completed in a single day
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Shops & small business
Point of sale, back-of-house doors and the stockroom, often alongside a fit-out.
- Counter and till coverage at identification quality
- Rear and delivery door monitoring
- Stockroom and cash handling areas
- Signage and staff notification advice included
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Warehouse & yard
Long cable runs, gate and dock coverage, and lighting that works with the cameras.
- Gate, dock and perimeter coverage planned together
- Long runs engineered rather than extended on the fly
- Yard lighting positioned to help rather than blind
- Weatherproof housings and IP-rated terminations
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Adding to an existing system
Extra cameras onto a recorder with spare channels, usually the cheapest way to improve coverage.
- Recorder checked for spare channels first
- New cameras matched to the existing system
- Cable run to the same standard as the original
- Recording schedule and retention reviewed
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CCTV with alarms & lighting
Cameras, alarms and sensor lighting installed together while the ceiling is open.
- All cabling run in one visit while access is easy
- Sensor lights aimed to illuminate, not blind the lens
- Alarm and camera coverage planned as one system
- Single point of contact for the whole install
What we install to
If you’re comparing quotes, it’s worth checking what each installer is allowing for. Here’s our standard.
- Cabling
- Hard-wired Cat6 to every camera, no wireless unless you ask
- Cable route
- Through roof and wall cavities, never surface mounted
- Recorder
- Sized for weeks of footage, kept out of sight
- Camera position
- Identification at entry points, not general views
- Camera choice
- Low-light performance ahead of headline resolution
- Network
- Configured without opening your router up more than it needs
- Handover
- App set up on your phone, every login given to you in writing
Signs your current setup isn't doing its job
What we find when we’re called out to replace a system.
- Night footage where you can see someone was there but not who
- Cameras that dropped off the wi-fi and nobody noticed for weeks
- A recorder that only holds three or four days of footage
- Cameras mounted too high, giving you the top of a head and no face
- The recorder sitting in plain sight, first thing a burglar takes
- A subscription that quietly went up and now costs more than the cameras did
What's in scope
Included
- Site walk and camera positioning with you
- All cameras, recorder, cable and mounting hardware
- Cable runs through roof and wall cavities
- Network configuration and remote access setup
- Phone app set up and demonstrated on your device
- Handover walk-through with logins in writing
Not included
- Internet or router upgrades where your connection won't support remote viewing
- Monitoring subscriptions, which we don't sell
- Patching and painting where cable enters a finished wall
- Monitored alarm connection, which is a separate service
How the job runs
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Step 1: Site walk
We walk the property with you, because positions are the whole job.
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Step 2: Fixed quote
System and install priced together, before anything is ordered.
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Step 3: Cable & mount
Cat6 run through the roof, cameras mounted and terminated.
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Step 4: Set up
Recorder configured, network connected, retention set properly.
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Step 5: Show you
App on your phone, how to find footage, logins handed over.
Compliance and privacy
Cameras pointing at your own property are your business. Cameras that capture a neighbour’s yard or a public footpath bring privacy considerations into it, so we talk through angles at the walk-through and position them to cover what’s yours. For businesses, signage and staff notification are worth sorting before install rather than after.
- Camera angles reviewed with you at the site walk
- Coverage kept to your own property where practical
- Neighbouring windows and yards avoided by design
- Business signage requirements flagged before install
- Certificate of Electrical Safety on any prescribed work
- All logins and admin access handed over to you
Recent work
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Six camera home system · Frankston South
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Shop CCTV · Mornington
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Warehouse and yard · Carrum Downs
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Wireless kit replaced · Seaford
Why choose Streamline
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Electricians, not retailers
Running cable neatly through a roof is what we do all day.
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No subscription
Footage records locally to your recorder and it belongs to you.
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Positioned to identify
Four cameras in the right places beat eight in the wrong ones.
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Logins are yours
Handed over in writing, so you're never locked out of your own system.
CCTV installation for Frankston homes and businesses
Streamline Electrical & Data is a Frankston-based team working across the Mornington Peninsula and south-east Melbourne. Cameras are one of the few jobs where the install matters more than the product, which is why we’d rather spend twenty minutes on positioning than sell you a bigger box.
Why hard-wired beats wireless every time
Wireless cameras depend on two things that both fail: a wi-fi signal reaching the far corner of the property, and a battery someone remembers to charge. Hard-wired cameras get power and data down one cable, so they’re online permanently and they don’t degrade over a winter. The cable is the reason to use an electrician rather than a security retailer, because running it neatly through a roof is exactly what we do all day.
Positioning beats resolution
A 4K camera mounted three metres up gives you a beautiful image of the top of someone’s head. A well-positioned camera at face height by the front door gives you something the police can use. We’d rather sell you four cameras in the right places than eight in the wrong ones, and the walk-through is where that gets decided.
Lighting and cameras together
Cameras and security lighting have to be planned together, because a floodlight pointing back at a lens ruins the footage it was meant to help. Where we’re doing both, sensor lights get positioned to illuminate the scene rather than blind the camera, and that costs nothing extra if it’s decided before anything goes up.
Doing it while other work is happening
Cable is cheap when the ceiling is already open and expensive when it isn’t. If you’re having a renovation, solar or a commercial fit-out done, that’s the moment to run camera cable too, even if the cameras themselves come later.
Frequently asked questions
How many cameras do I need?
Can I view the cameras on my phone?
How long is footage kept?
Is there a monthly subscription?
Can you add cameras to my existing system?
Will cameras work at night?
Do I need internet for the cameras to work?
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