Commercial Video Surveillance Systems

Outside the four walls of a distribution building the problem changes shape. A campus is a set of buildings with different construction eras, different pathways and — almost always — a mix of surveillance equipment installed by whoever held the contract at the time. The useful question is rarely "what replaces all of this" but "what has to be replaced first, and what can keep serving until it fails". We survey what is there, identify the positions where coverage is genuinely absent rather than merely old, and phase the rest against a refresh cycle you can actually fund.

• ▪Cameras specified per position — what has to be seen, at what distance, and in the lighting the site actually has at three in the morning
• ▪PoE switching and the power to each position, including the outdoor positions where power is the constraint that cannot be worked around cheaply
• ▪Recording servers and surveillance-class storage sized from channel count, bitrate and retention days, with headroom for the phase-two positions
• ▪VMS channel licensing quoted against the channel count you are planning for rather than the one you have today, with the renewal named
• ▪Platform support, the firmware maintenance window and the refresh line — each quoted as its own line rather than buried in a system price
• ▪The integration work that puts equipment and licensing into service, handed over with documentation
• ▪Hardware, software licensing and the services that put both into service, sourced through our distribution network on one document

• ▪Send the site — a floor plan, a door and aisle list, a camera schedule or the retention policy you have to meet
• ▪A Uniqcli specialist scopes the coverage with you: what has to be seen, at what distance, and for how long it is kept
• ▪Camera, switching, storage and licensing lines are sourced through our distribution network and priced against that scope
• ▪One consolidated quote comes back — equipment, licensing and the integration work costed as separate, readable lines
• ▪TAA and NDAA §889 screening is performed on every line before the quote goes out; anything that fails is flagged with alternates
• ▪GPC / P-Card accepted up to your cardholder threshold; purchase orders otherwise, with stock and final total confirmed before you commit

Of every category a public-sector or federally-funded buyer purchases, video surveillance is the one where the NDAA §889 covered-equipment prohibition is most likely to be triggered — and most likely to be triggered invisibly. Section 889(a)(1)(A) names Hytera, Hangzhou Hikvision and Dahua for public-safety and security video surveillance, together with their subsidiaries and affiliates, and the test reaches the technology doing the work inside a system rather than the badge on the outside. A rebadged module from a covered maker is in scope even when the label is not, and the prohibition has no low-dollar exemption — it reaches at or below the micro-purchase level.

No equipment package produces security, detection reliability or an incident outcome, and we do not write it as though it does. Coverage is a design property — it depends on positions, sightlines, lighting and what the site is actually trying to see — and it is verified by testing on the ground rather than asserted on a quote.