Security for new business premises
Move in. Keep trading. We'll handle the security.
Security for new business premises, planned around your move date. We work out the order: cameras first, a Temporary Recorder while the site has no internet, then full scOS Intelligence once it's connected. For sites in England and Wales.
Moving premises
A new site arrives in the wrong order
You get the keys. The cameras aren't up yet, and the internet provider has given you an installation date after your move.
The old lease has an end date too. Extending it costs money. Moving in before any cameras run means stock and equipment sit in an empty building overnight.
So the work is mostly sequencing: what goes in first, what covers the gap, and who does each job. That is the part we plan with you.
How it works
Four steps, in the order a move happens
Cameras go in
Bring the wired IP cameras you already have, or have new ones fitted at the new site.
A Temporary Recorder covers the gap
If your internet isn't ready by move day, a custom scOS Temporary Recorder can cover the site until it is.
scOS Intelligence comes online
A Hub links your existing cameras to our own models, which run in the cloud. That needs a connection, so it starts once the site is online and takes over from the Temporary Recorder.
Switch to your permanent line
If your first connection is a stopgap, the Hub moves onto your permanent line when it's installed.
Business Intelligence Service
What you pay for
Business plans from £79 a month
Standard business prices, set by the number of cameras. A new site costs the same as any other. See business pricing.
Hub on loan
The Hub is on loan within your subscription, with first-party setup included.
Every feature
Every AI feature on every plan. No premium tiers.
Rolling monthly
No minimum term. Rolling monthly. Cancel anytime. No cancellation fee.
New cameras, quoted separately
Need cameras? Contact us. With an scOS subscription, we arrange supply and fitting through our third-party installer and stay your point of contact. The installer contracts with and bills you directly for the cameras and fitting. Our installer currently covers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. How camera installation works.
For new sites
The bonus for a site that isn't connected yet
Temporary Recorder cover until your internet arrives
A custom scOS recorder for the time between move day and your line going live. How it is provided is set out in your Order.
One move, start to finish
What happened for one dealership
One real move, told in order. For dealer groups, see scOS for car dealerships.
What happened once, for one car dealership in England.
Day 0
The dealership was moving to much larger premises. The new site had no CCTV and no internet.
Before internet
A custom scOS Temporary Recorder covered the site while it had no internet.
Connectivity
A 4G dongle proved unreliable, so we sourced a Starlink dish. That brought full scOS Intelligence online and replaced the Temporary Recorder.
Two weeks
Two weeks from first contact, 18 cameras were installed and running. A third-party installer fitted the cameras.
Three weeks later
Fibre arrived. Staff had already moved in and kept selling, without extending the old lease.
Starlink was arranged for that project, not a standard part of the service. Your timeline depends on your site.
Pre-move checklist
What to have ready before you move
Have these to hand when we talk. None of them need to be final.
- Your move date, and the date the old lease ends. The plan works back from those two dates.
- A camera plan. List the areas that matter: entrances, parking, stock, deliveries. A rough count is enough to price it. Pricing rounds up to the next tier.
- Where the router will go. The Hub sits beside it and connects to your cameras over ethernet, so each camera cable needs to reach that spot or a network switch next to it.
- Your internet order. Ask the provider for an installation date and write it down. If it falls after your move date, that gap is what the Temporary Recorder is for.
- Upload speed. The service needs at least 0.5 Mbit/s of upload per camera, and no less than 2 Mbit/s in total. Watching live view from outside the site needs more on top.
- Stream details for any cameras you already have. Note the make and model and keep each camera's admin login to hand, so we can connect its stream. Wi-Fi cameras won't work: everything runs over ethernet.
- Who gets the alerts. They come to your team, so decide who receives them, including outside opening hours.
FAQ
Questions about new premises
A custom scOS Temporary Recorder can cover the site until a connection is in place. Alerts start once the site is connected. Later on, outages work the same way. If your internet drops, detection, alerts and response pause until it's back, because our models run in the cloud. If your Hub has an external hard disk, its 24/7 recording carries on locally. More on internet outages.
Need cameras? Contact us. With an scOS subscription, we arrange supply and fitting through our third-party installer and stay your point of contact. The installer contracts with and bills you directly for the cameras and fitting. Our installer currently covers Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Elsewhere, your own installer can fit wired IP cameras (ethernet, at least 1080p) and we connect them. See which cameras work.
Yes, if they are wired IP cameras: ethernet, at least 1080p. Brands such as Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Uniview and Reolink work. Wi-Fi cameras don't.
It's a custom scOS recorder used to cover the gap before your internet is ready. Once full scOS Intelligence is online, it replaces the recorder. What happens to the recorder after that is set out in your Order.
It depends on your site: when the cameras are fitted, when the line is connected and how many cameras there are. We plan it from your move date. Read what happened for one dealership.
Standard Business Intelligence Service prices, from £79 a month by number of cameras. Pricing rounds up to the next tier. The Hub is on loan within your subscription, with first-party setup included. New cameras are separate: we arrange them through our installer. See business pricing. scOS is not VAT registered, so no VAT is charged and there is none to reclaim.
If your insurer requires a monitored (NSI or SSAIB) alarm, keep it. scOS can run alongside it. scOS isn't a monitoring centre. It doesn't call the police or a keyholder. Alerts come to you.
Get in touch
Tell us your move date
There's no date box here on purpose. Leave your details and we'll talk through the date, the site and the cameras when we reply. You can also use our contact page.
Prefer to talk? Call 0333 038 9937 or email hello@scos.co.uk.