CCTVPLANNER.IO · FEATURES · v1.10.0
An engineering tool for camera coverage. Not a drawing tool.
The coverage you see is calculated, not sketched. Every cone comes from the chosen model's sensor, resolution and focal length, anchored to the angle the manufacturer publishes, clipped by buildings and fences in 3D and laid over the real elevation of the ground. The interface stays simple enough to plan a driveway in five minutes, and the engine underneath stays exact enough to plan an airport.
THE ENGINE · 1:1 WITH THE REAL CAMERA
Why the coverage on screen is the coverage on site
Most planning tools draw a triangle and call it a field of view. This one solves the optics of the camera you actually picked, and refuses to invent any number the manufacturer did not publish.
Optics anchored to the datasheet
Every lens starts from the manufacturer's own pair: focal length and horizontal angle exactly as printed on the spec sheet. The sensor width is derived from that pair instead of being assumed. Varifocal and zoom models anchor at both ends, wide and tele, so the cone matches the card across the entire range, not only at one setting.
DORI computed to EN 62676-4
Detect, observe, recognize and identify distances come from real pixel density at 25, 62, 125 and 250 px/m, using the model's true sensor resolution and horizontal angle. This is the same arithmetic an auditor applies on site, so the report survives review.
Real lens projection
Wide and fisheye optics use equisolid projection for the vertical angle. A 180 degree dome is not drawn as a flat triangle, and a 2.8 mm lens does not silently gain reach it does not have.
Occlusion instead of wishful thinking
Buildings, walls and fences cut the coverage volume in three dimensions. A camera aimed past a corner loses precisely what the corner takes, and you see the blind spot before the bracket goes up rather than after.
Terrain under the beam
Coverage lands on real elevation, not on an imaginary flat plane. A slope, a hill or a terraced plot moves the ground, and the footprint follows it. Mounting height is measured against that ground, not against sea level.
Over 5,600 automated tests on the math
Optics, DORI, projection, terrain, exports and plan limits are covered by an automated suite that runs before every release. When the physics changes, a test has to change with it, on purpose.
ONE ENGINE · EVERY SIZE OF SITE
From a mountain driveway to an airport
The same physics runs whether the project holds four cameras or four hundred. What changes is how much of the world you model around them.
Ground that is not flat
Elevation is loaded from national survey data where it exists and from European coverage everywhere else: 1 m in Poland, 0.5 m in the Netherlands, 5 m in Spain and Czechia, 3DEP in the United States, 25 m across the rest of Europe. A hillside property is planned on its real profile, including what the ridge hides.
A whole company, floor by floor
Multi-storey buildings each carry their own floor plan, cameras, cables and devices. Import a plan as an image or DXF, scale and rotate it onto the map, crop it to the part that matters, and keep every floor in one project with one report.
Hundreds of cameras without a ceiling
From the Installer plan up there is no cap on cameras or objects in a project. Group the site into zones and issue a separate drawing sheet per zone, import an existing installation from CSV, and work through a virtualized object tree that stays responsive when the list runs into the hundreds.
EVERYTHING IN THE PLATFORM
The complete list
Every item below is in the product today. Availability by plan is on the pricing page.
COVERAGE AND OPTICS
- Field of view on the map, computed per model from sensor, resolution and focal length
- DORI zones with the exact distance at which each task stops being possible
- Varifocal and zoom sliders bounded by the datasheet at both ends
- PTZ limits derived from the model's own range instead of a generic cone
- Infrared reach shown separately from optical reach, because they are not the same distance
- Thermal and dual-sensor models with their own resolution, pitch and NETD
- Mounting height, tilt and roll with the vertical angle recomputed for each
- Perimeter coverage optimizer that proposes positions for a fence line
SITE MODEL
- Buildings with real height, several floors and interior walls
- Floor plans from an image or DXF, positioned, scaled, rotated and cropped to the region you need
- Doors and windows as first-class objects, including opening direction
- Fences, gates and barriers with the direction each gate swings
- Hedges and walls drawn as solid volumes with their own height and thickness, blocking the view like the thing they represent
- Trees by species: the crown diameter and the height its foliage starts at come from the model that is drawn, so a spruce blocks a low camera and a palm does not
- Shrubs as ground-level blockers, solid from the soil up, which is what stops a plate read from a low mount
- Hedges, walls and street trees imported from map data, with the species read off the map tags rather than guessed
- Real terrain elevation with slope, plus a sun and shadow study by date and hour
- One-click import of surrounding buildings so the neighbourhood blocks the view like it really does
- Vehicles, furniture and site objects for scale and for realistic occlusion
- Zones and groups, with an object tree, search and a command palette
3D SITE VIEW
- The complete design rendered in 3D in the browser, with no plugin and no install
- A point-of-view walkthrough per camera that shows exactly what that camera will see
- Human silhouettes at each DORI distance, so identification is judged by eye, not by trust
- Sun position and shadows for a chosen date and time
- Coverage volumes clipped by buildings, fences and terrain in three dimensions
- A 3D PDF with site aerials and one point-of-view page per camera
LIGHTING AND NIGHT PERFORMANCE
- Luminaires on their own pole, a camera's pole, a facade, a canopy or the ground
- IES and EULUMDAT photometric files, with a physical gate that refuses a file whose table contradicts its own header
- An illuminance map solved from inverse-square and cosine law, shadowed by the same buildings and fences the coverage uses
- Average, minimum and both uniformity ratios, checked against EN 12464-2 with the source named
- What each camera actually gets: colour, monochrome, infrared or nothing, per square metre
- Motion blur folded into the DORI density, because a colour picture of a smeared face contains no face
- Camera colour and monochrome thresholds taken from manufacturer datasheets with their measurement conditions
- Cells whose error bars straddle a threshold are hatched, not coloured, because the data does not decide them
- The solved field draped on the ground in 3D and inside each camera's own preview
- A printed list of the physics the calculation leaves out, with the direction and size of each omission
NETWORK, POWER AND RACKS
- Cable routes with type, length and slack, plus trenches
- PoE budget per switch and per port class
- UPS sizing from the real load of the designed system
- VLAN subnets and IP allocation for the whole installation
- Rack builder with port capacity and unit-by-unit placement
- Network topology generated from what is actually in the project
- Storage and bandwidth from codec, frame rate, retention and camera count
DOCUMENTATION AND EXPORT
- Multi-sheet PDF documentation, including one sheet per zone for large sites
- Elevation views and mounting details
- Cable schedule and device schedules
- Commissioning checklist with QR codes for the installed devices
- DXF and DWG export for CAD, and DXF import of an existing drawing
- Bill of materials and CSV export of every camera and device
- Smart Quote that turns the design into a priced offer
- Regional standards and compliance notes, EN 62676 and BS 8418 among them
CLIENT AND TEAM
- Client portal where the customer views the design, comments and signs off electronically
- Your logo, colours and footer on every document and on the portal
- White-label portal on your own subdomain or your own domain
- Teams with seats and shared projects
- Single sign-on with SAML and account provisioning from your directory, on Enterprise
- A catalog of over 65,000 camera models, plus your own models by CSV import
- 16 standalone calculators: FOV, DORI, pixel density, lens, storage, bandwidth, PoE, UPS and more
- 33 interface languages, with documents produced in the client's language
The camera catalog currently holds 65,530 models and grows with every manufacturer that verifies its own specifications. Browse the catalog
ENTERPRISE · FOR TEAMS THAT BID AND DELIVER AT SCALE
Your whole team, under your own brand and your own domain
Enterprise is built for integrators who run several designers at once, present to public and corporate clients under their own name, and need an audit trail behind every change. It carries everything in Studio, and it is the only plan with the tender module included at no extra cost.
Ten seats included, each with the full Studio feature set, and per-seat scaling beyond that
Your own domain for the planner and the client portal, not a subdomain of ours
Team audit log, so every change to a design has a name and a timestamp against it
Single sign-on with SAML, so your people arrive through your own identity provider and leave when it says so
Directory provisioning, so a joiner has an account before their first day and a leaver loses it the same hour
A sign-in policy you set: make single sign-on the only way in, and end every session on the team at once
Unlimited CSV import and export, for taking over an existing installation of any size
Priority support with a 24 hour response commitment
The public procurement module included, 300 euro a year (beta price) on any other plan
EU PUBLIC TENDERS · ADD-ON
Find the job before you design it
Every other feature here starts once you already have the job. This one starts earlier: 22 official registers across 29 countries, swept for CCTV and security work in the language each buyer actually writes in.
Registers, not portals
TED plus 21 national registers, above and below EU thresholds. Cameras bought inside a school refurbishment keep the building-works code, so the sweep reads the wording too, not only the CPV list.
The specification, as a checklist
Upload or fetch the tender documents and get every technical requirement as a line with the sentence it came from. Nothing is summarised away, and the answer names which documents it did not read.
Models that evidence the spec
IP66, IK10 and ONVIF profiles are matched against 2,500 models whose ratings were read from a labelled datasheet field, with the line quoted. A camera nobody has verified says so instead of passing quietly.
WHY INSTALLERS CHOOSE IT
Why installers choose CCTVplanner
Time Savings
Design complete CCTV systems in minutes instead of hours. Automated calculations eliminate manual work.
Coverage Accuracy
Verify coverage before installation. Eliminate blind spots. Meet compliance requirements with precision.
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