Cameras for Benmore Gardens complexes, high-rises and shared boundaries
Benmore is right on Sandton's doorstep. In Benmore Gardens, many security systems cover large sectional title properties or business premises, not single homes. These buildings, from apartment blocks on West Street to complexes near George Lea Park, often share long boundary walls. The main challenge is monitoring extensive perimeters, multiple entrances, and shared spaces like parking areas, where residents, staff, and visitors are constantly moving.
Our approach in Benmore is to plan camera coverage around these shared areas. For a body corporate, this means placing cameras to view perimeter walls and access gates without intruding on private units. For businesses near hubs like Benmore Centre, we focus on entrances, delivery bays, and parking. In older buildings, we often find that existing cabling can be reused to upgrade to a modern high-definition system, saving on installation costs.
For trustees and managing agents in Benmore Gardens, the most important aspect is managing who can access the camera footage. All recordings from common areas belong to the body corporate. We set up systems with separate logins for guards, trustees, and managing agents to control who can view live feeds and who can export recordings. It's also important to have clear signs indicating that cameras are in use. The Information Regulator has proposed a code for community schemes that addresses how long footage can be kept.
Everything we install and repair, and how a job runs from first call to handover, is on our CCTV cameras page.
Questions from Benmore
Who is allowed to view the footage from our complex's perimeter cameras?
The footage belongs to the body corporate. Access should be limited to designated people like trustees, the managing agent, or security personnel. We create separate, password-protected logins for each user so that access can be granted or removed as needed.
We're upgrading our building's old camera system. Do we need to rewire everything?
Not always. Many older buildings in Benmore Gardens have sound analogue cabling that can be reused for modern HD cameras. Tyson will assess the existing cables during the site visit to see if they can be incorporated into the new system, which can save time and cost.
Tell us what you have in Benmore now and what is going wrong, and we will tell you plainly whether it needs a repair, an upgrade or a new CCTV camera system, then put the quote in writing.