If you design CCTV for warehouses 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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Tall pallet racks create deep, dim canyons. Many design tools render a flat 2D cone and ignore the obstacle that the racking actually is. CCTVplanner draws obstacle shadows in real time so you see the dead zones between rows before you mount the camera.
Truck plates at 8-15 m need Identify-DORI (250 px/m) at the right angle. Pulling the DORI ring against the dock door distance and checking it survives the tilt is non-trivial in tools where DORI is a label rather than a draggable overlay.
Modern distribution centres stack mezzanine offices, pick-tower levels and rooftop perimeters. CCTVplanner stacks unlimited floors, routes cabling between them and rolls them up into one BOM. Most tools handle one plan at a time.
A 200-metre yard wall is not the same problem as a corridor. You need wide-area Detect-DORI (25 px/m) on long shots. CCTVplanner renders the yard fence on real satellite map view; you trace the perimeter and place cameras against actual property boundaries.
Drop racking, walls, columns and stacked pallets onto the canvas. The FOV cone clips against them in real time, with shadow polygons showing exactly where the camera cannot see. No more discovering the blind spot after install.
Stack ground floor, mezzanine, pick-tower and rooftop. Drop one NVR in the IT closet, daisy-chain switches across floors, and the topology graph computes cabling, PoE budget and BOM for the entire building.
Per EN 62676-4: 25 / 62.5 / 125 / 250 px/m. Drop the camera, set focal length, and the four DORI rings render on the floor. Pull the Identify ring (250 px/m) to the dock door — that is the camera that captures plates and faces.
Multi-page PDF: floor plan per zone, full BOM (camera, mount, PoE, cable run length), elevation views, cost estimate. Export the BOM as CSV to import into your WMS or quote tool. Every line item linked to the camera on the plan.
Modern keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, auto-save, undo/redo. Place 50 cameras on a 30-bay warehouse without fighting the UI.
Switch the floor plan layer to OpenStreetMap aerial. Trace the actual property line, drop perimeter cameras, watch the Detect cone reach across the real yard.
Walk the warehouse with the customer, drop a camera on the tablet canvas, agree on the tilt right there. Try that with a desktop-only tool.
Open the project on the laptop in the office, the tablet on site, the phone in the van. Same project, same canvas, same BOM.
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.
Eight to sixteen cameras typically cover entry/exit, loading docks, racking aisles and high-value storage. The exact number depends on rack height and aisle spacing. CCTVplanner lets you place cameras on your actual floor plan and verify coverage before installation — the obstacle-aware FOV cone clips against racking so dead zones surface immediately.
Identify (250 px/m) to capture truck plates and driver faces. Use a 4-6 MP bullet or turret with motorised zoom mounted 4-6 m up. CCTVplanner overlays the DORI rings on your plan so you can drag the Identify ring against the dock door distance — if it does not reach, change the lens.
Yes. CCTVplanner is browser-based and the canvas works on iPad/Android tablets — touch pan/zoom, multi-touch rotate, on-screen mounting controls. PWA install means the app caches for offline use after first load, which matters when you are on a remote DC with patchy Wi-Fi.
Yes. Stack mezzanine offices, pick-tower levels and rooftop perimeter as separate floors. The topology graph routes cabling across floors via switches, computes PoE budget across the whole building, and rolls everything into a single BOM. Most competing tools handle one plan at a time.
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.
