Define what gets monitored
Agree sites, operating hours, priority areas and event types rather than treating every motion event as equally important.
Connect the signal, the operator and the person who can act. A monitoring service needs a response process, not just a wall of video.
STARK helps define how surveillance events reach a monitoring team, how those events are reviewed and who is notified. Discuss continuous or scheduled monitoring, site connectivity, escalation contacts and the actions permitted under your agreement. A 24x7 service is a contracted scope, not a promise that every camera is watched continuously by a dedicated operator.
Agree sites, operating hours, priority areas and event types rather than treating every motion event as equally important.
Set a review process for available video context, while recording when a view or connection is unavailable.
Identify the people to contact, the order of contact and what happens when nobody answers.
Include suitable camera, recorder or network availability checks in the agreed monitoring scope.
Specify what time, classification, review notes and actions should be recorded for an event.
Discuss backup connectivity, local recording and the limits of remote observation during a site outage.
Share the information available to your team. Do not send passwords, private footage or access codes in the enquiry form.
The recorder, streams, network and integration options need assessment. Secure remote access and the required event signals must be available; public exposure of recorder ports is not the default approach.
Not automatically. Remote observation and on-site intervention are different functions. The design should retain whatever local response capability your site needs.
Any service hours, acknowledgement targets and escalation commitments must be written into the service agreement. Website demonstration timings are not service-level guarantees.
Remote visibility may be interrupted. The proposal should explain connectivity monitoring, local recording, backup options and the customer actions expected during an outage.
Cameras are only the beginning. Build a surveillance system around what your team needs to see, retrieve and act on.
Explore the solution 02 / SOLUTIONChoose a specific operational question. Test it against your real scene. Connect useful detections to a human workflow.
Explore the solution 03 / SOLUTIONA system that displays an image today still needs recording, retrieval and fault-reporting checks.
Explore the solutionTell us about the site and the problem you need to solve. We will review the request before proposing a scope.