If you design CCTV for retail 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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Capturing faces at the checkout requires Identify-DORI (250 px/m) at the queue distance — typically 2-4 m. A wrong focal length gives you a face but at Recognize, not Identify. Drag the DORI ring on your plan and verify before mounting.
Beauty, electronics, alcohol — high-shrink zones need full Observe-DORI (62.5 px/m) coverage. Standard dome at 3 m mount produces aisle dead zones every other shelf. Obstacle-aware FOV in CCTVplanner shows the gaps before they cost you stock.
Staff-only areas have different GDPR posture from the sales floor. CCTVplanner generates the per-zone DPIA worksheet (Art. 35) inline with the PDF — your customer leaves with a tender-grade deliverable, not a coverage diagram alone.
Customers see the dome. Choose a model whose form factor matches the brand, mount it cleanly, and verify FOV before specifying. CCTVplanner pairs 65,000 catalogued models (including 100+ datasheet-verified flagships) with FOV math you can trust.
Drop the camera, set lens, drag the Identify ring (250 px/m) to the queue zone. If it does not reach, the lens is wrong — change it and re-check in seconds.
Drop shelf rows as obstacles. The FOV cone clips against them, with shadow polygons showing the dead aisles. No more discovering them post-install.
Sales floor vs staff vs stockroom each get a per-zone Art. 35 worksheet auto-generated in the PDF. Hand it to the DPO; the tender accepts it as-is.
Business plan ships white-label PDF — your logo on every page, your brand colour, your contact block. The customer cannot tell you used a free tool.
A 6-camera plan covers a standalone retail unit on the Free tier. Test it without paying, then upgrade only if the chain rolls out.
Designing for a chain across EU + MENA + Asia? Each regional team works in their own language; the project file is universal.
Big-box retail has parking, garden centre, loading bay. Switch to satellite view, trace the lot, drop ANPR cameras at the entrance.
Walk the store with the manager, drop cameras as you go, validate the angles right there on the tablet. No back-to-office round trip.
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.
Identify-DORI (250 px/m) at the checkout queue and entrance, Recognize-DORI (125 px/m) on high-shrink aisles, Observe-DORI (62.5 px/m) across the sales floor. CCTVplanner overlays all four DORI rings on each camera so you can verify coverage by dragging rings against zones on your plan.
Sales floor is generally fine; staff areas, fitting rooms and toilets are not. CCTVplanner auto-generates a per-zone DPIA worksheet (Art. 35) inside every PDF — sales, staff, stockroom each get their own assessment. The DPO signs off without re-keying.
Typically 4-8 cameras: 1 at entrance for LPR/face-capture, 2 at checkout queues for Identify, 2-3 on high-shrink aisles, 1 covering the back-of-house door. CCTVplanner Free tier covers up to 6 cameras — enough for most independent stores.
Yes. Installer plan (€4.17/mo) gives unlimited projects, so each store gets its own design. Business plan adds white-label PDF if your franchise template requires branded deliverables.
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.
