One price for the plan, not per seat
System Surveyor Essentials is $50 per user per month billed annually ($65 month to month). A three-person team pays $1,800 a year before Scale. CCTVplanner starts at $5.99 a month.
System Surveyor alternative
Security system design on the real site, from $5.99 a month
CCTVplanner designs cameras, access control and intrusion on the actual site, shows what every camera will see in 3D, and turns the design into a report, a bill of materials and a quote. One plan price instead of $50 per seat.
Free plan · No credit card · Runs in the browser
Why integrators switch from System Surveyor
Clean, branded reports from the first paid plan
Watermark-free PDF reports come with Installer at $5.99, full white-label with Studio. At System Surveyor, logo removal sits in Scale at $70 per user per month.
Cable routing on the entry plan
Cable routes and the cable schedule come with Installer. At System Surveyor, cable length calculation is a Scale feature.
No device cap per project
From Installer up, place as many cameras and devices as the site needs. System Surveyor caps element icons per survey at 25, 250 or 1,000 depending on the plan.
CCTVplanner and System Surveyor side by side
| Feature | CCTVplanner | System Surveyor |
|---|---|---|
| Price, one user, billed monthly | $5.99 Installer · $11.99 Business · $22.99 Studio | $65 Essentials · $85 Scale |
| Price, one user, billed yearly | $59.99 · $119 · $229 a year | $600 · $840 a year |
| Bill of materials | Every plan, free included | Every plan |
| Report without the vendor's logo | Installer and up ($5.99) | Scale ($70 per user) |
| Cable lengths | Cable routing and schedule from Installer | Scale |
| Devices per project | No cap from Installer up | 25 / 250 / 1,000 per survey |
| Single sign-on | Enterprise, $179 a month, price published | Enterprise, contact sales, 15-seat minimum |
System Surveyor prices and limits from its System Integrators plan page, checked October 2026. CCTVplanner prices in US dollars as charged at checkout; see pricing.
What you design with CCTVplanner
Design on the real site
Satellite map, terrain and buildings of the actual site, and a 3D view of exactly what each camera sees before anything is mounted.
Coverage from real lens data
66,489 camera models from 113 manufacturers, DORI zones to EN 62676-4 and the pixel density each camera delivers.
One design for the whole system
CCTV, access control, intrusion and the network that feeds them, with PoE, bandwidth and storage calculated per device.
Deliverables clients sign
PDF reports, DXF for CAD, quotes and a priced bill of materials, a client portal where the client comments and signs.
Shipping today
The engineering behind the drawing
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 System Surveyor on a job you already know.
A full 3D site, in the browser
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.
Coverage solved in 3D, not drawn on a flat plan
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.
22 site objects that genuinely block the view
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.
Interiors: stacked floors, walls, rooms
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.
Wi-Fi and radio links designed with the cameras
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.
Cabling engineered, not estimated
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.
67 automatic design checks
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.
Deliverables a contractor can hand over
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.
66,489
camera models
113
manufacturers
33
interface languages
5,600+
automated tests
100% EU
hosted and operated
Questions
How much does CCTVplanner cost compared with System Surveyor?
One user for a year: CCTVplanner Installer $59.99, Business $119, Studio $229. System Surveyor Essentials is $600 per user per year and Scale $840 per user per year, both billed annually.
Does CCTVplanner create a bill of materials?
Yes, on every plan, the free one included, together with a quote. Business adds the priced bill of materials, the client portal and e-signature.
Which standards does the camera coverage follow?
EN 62676-4 DORI zones and the IEC 62676-4:2025 OODPCVS levels, computed from the lens and sensor data of 66,489 camera models from 113 manufacturers.
Do I need to install anything?
No. CCTVplanner runs in the browser on a laptop or a tablet, in 33 languages, so the same project is open in the office and on site.
Design your next site in CCTVplanner
Start on the free plan. Upgrade when the project needs reports, CAD export or the 3D view.