If you design CCTV for hospitals and weigh whether the IPVM Design Calculator still earns its place, this page is for you. CCTVplanner is the free, EU-hosted alternative integrators are switching to in 2026. Same DORI math, bigger camera catalog, modern UI, vertical-specific workflows built in.
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ER and triage rooms need Recognize-DORI (125 px/m) for incident review without crossing patient privacy lines. CCTVplanner per-zone DPIA worksheet (Art. 35) makes this assessment part of the design, not a separate exercise.
Pharmacy CCTV is regulated separately from general hospital coverage. Identify-DORI (250 px/m) on the dispensing window, plus separate retention requirements. Per-zone metadata in the PDF flags this for compliance.
Patient rooms, examination rooms, restrooms — none of these can have CCTV under most EU jurisdictions. The DPIA worksheet flags the exclusion zones explicitly so the audit trail is clean.
After-hours, a hospital is a quieter target. Entrance, corridor, A&E, car park need full-night Detect coverage. IR range matters; lux rating matters. The 100+ flagships expose both as filter parameters.
ER, pharmacy, ward, corridor, public area each get their own Art. 35 assessment. Signed off in the PDF, no separate document.
Drop the camera, set lens, drag the Identify ring to the dispensing window. If it does not reach, the lens is wrong.
Mark patient rooms, exam rooms, restrooms as exclusion zones. The PDF carries the annotation as part of the compliance trail.
Filter by 0.01 lux + IR ≥ 30 m. The bullets that survive overnight A&E coverage surface; marketing-claim cameras get filtered out.
GDPR, EN 62676 series, BS 8418, ONVIF — cited inline. Hospital procurement reads the standards reference and moves on.
Patient data does not leave the EU in our default stack. The Art. 30 record-of-processing fields land inside the PDF.
NHS, EU teaching hospitals, MENA hospitals — every team works in their own language while the project file stays universal.
US federally-funded hospitals mandate non-Hikvision / non-Dahua. The compliance flag surfaces on every spec card.
Everything below is in the product today, on the free tier, and none of it needs an install. Open it in a browser and check it against IPVM Design Calculator on a job you already know.
No install and no workstation. Walk the site from any camera point of view, with DORI silhouettes standing at the Detect, Observe, Recognize and Identify distances so the customer sees what the camera sees. Sun and shadow study for the time of day that matters, and one-click 3D PDF export for the people who will never open a design tool.
Every cone is computed from the sensor, resolution and focal length at the mounting height (1 to 20 m) and tilt you set, then clipped by buildings, fences and real ground elevation on satellite imagery. On a flat indoor floor a 2D tool agrees with us. On a sloped yard or a sunken loading dock it does not, and that gap is exactly where the blind spots are.
Racking, containers, concrete blocks, scaffolding, solar panels, trees, and the machinery a live construction site actually parks in the shot: excavators, cranes, concrete mixers, bulldozers, vans and pickups. Each one carries real dimensions and a vertical range, and the field of view clips against it with the shadow drawn on the plan.
Stack ground floor, mezzanine, plant room and roof as separate levels. Draw walls, close rooms and read the floor area back in square metres. Cabling routes between levels, the topology graph carries across them, and each floor exports as its own DXF sheet and PDF page.
Predictive coverage for access points using ITU-R P.2040 wall transmission and a P.1238 margin, drawn as a heatmap over the same plan the cameras sit on. Point-to-point links are checked for line of sight against the buildings and terrain, so the wireless leg of the design fails on screen rather than on site.
51 specified cable types with PoE budget from loop resistance, DC voltage drop, fibre loss budget with splice and connector allowances, coax attenuation per format, speaker line loading and conduit fill. Route length is measured on the drawn route and carries straight into the bill of materials, the cable schedule and the customer offer.
The plan is validated while you draw it: DORI shortfall, blind spots, perimeter gaps, PoE budget and class escalation, cable length and category headroom, conduit bundling, fibre loss, thermal lens and pairing, EMC and environmental class, lightning protection zones, ONVIF profile mixing, NDAA compliance, bandwidth headroom and switch port capacity.
CAD-grade DXF (AutoCAD R2018 / AC1021) on named layers with BLOCK, INSERT, SPLINE, ELLIPSE, HATCH and DIMENSION preserved, inside an ISO 5457 sheet frame with an ISO 7200 title block. Multi-page PDF with bill of materials, cable schedule, equipment list, elevation views, coverage analysis, acceptance test protocol, maintenance schedule and the GDPR Article 35 DPIA worksheet.
Patient rooms, examination rooms, treatment areas, restrooms, changing rooms — these cross EU privacy lines in most jurisdictions. CCTVplanner per-zone DPIA worksheet (Art. 35) flags each exclusion zone and carries the assessment into the PDF.
Identify-DORI (250 px/m) at the dispensing window — controlled-substance regulations require face capture survives masks. CCTVplanner snaps the Identify ring to the counter so you verify before mounting.
Varies by jurisdiction — typically 30 days for general, longer for pharmacy and incident-relevant footage. Per-zone retention metadata in the PDF surfaces the horizon per zone so compliance signs off without re-keying.
EU-hosted with full GDPR posture (Art. 30 + Art. 35) handles NHS and HSE. NDAA §889 flags per camera handle US VA hospitals and federally-funded medical centres. Mixed-compliance validator catches mistakes.
The free tier covers a real small site — no card, no install. Put a plan in, place a camera, and check the first DORI ring against the numbers you already trust.
