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The five ways a commercial CCTV system could help you protect your business

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Commercial CCTV installations in Leeds

If you’ve ever thought about installing CCTV but have been deterred by potential cost and disruption, we thought we’d outline the five main benefits offered by the latest systems. CCTV is cheaper than ever before and whether you opt for just one camera or several, installing a system can offer real benefits. Here are five ways CCTV could help you protect your business and improve security:

  1. Deter criminals: provided cameras are placed where they can be easily seen, CCTV offers a highly effective way of deterring thieves from entering your premises. Signs to warn criminals that they will be prosecuted are displayed alongside, providing a very visible deterrent and making them think twice before attempting to break in. It’s worth remembering that criminals are most likely to target businesses which appear to have little security protection and installing CCTV is a great way to give yours the protection it deserves.
  2. Aid prosecutions and prevent false claims: today’s CCTV systems are designed to provide crystal-clear images, helping to increase chances of prosecution whilst also assisting you with an insurance claim. In addition, CCTV footage can also help to provide you with protection from fraudulent insurance claims or claims for personal injury or misconduct.
  3. Safeguard your employees: installing CCTV can help your staff feel safer, particularly those who have to work alone or at night.
  4. Enhance work and safety: an often overlooked benefit of CCTV is the benefits it can offer in terms of creating a safer working environment. CCTV cameras encourage staff to stick to health and safety rules, helping to minimise the risk of them taking potentially hazardous shortcuts. CCTV can also prove useful in emergency situations, such a spotting a fire or accident.
  5. Safeguard your premises 24/7: The latest CCTV systems can be viewed on a smartphone, tablet or laptop, offering you the capability to monitor your business premises regardless of where you are. Not only does this provide peace of mind, it also gives you the chance to take immediate action in the event of a break in.

Contact FirstEye to find out more

At FirstEye we have many years of experience of working with commercial businesses throughout Leeds, designing and installing CCTV systems designed to meet their budget and requirements. If you would like to find out more, or to obtain a free, no-obligation quote, please don’t hesitate to get in touch for further information.

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CCTV isn’t just for business customers – protect your home and see what’s happening 24/7

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Domestic CCTV systems designed and installed in Leeds

Many of our customers don’t realise that CCTV offers the ideal way to protect their homes, assuming that this type of security system is just for business or commercial clients. This is not the case and over recent years CCTV has been an increasingly affordable way to deter thieves and help to protect your home from crime.

Here at FirstEye we install systems of all sizes and whether you need just one camera or several, we have the expertise to provide a system which provides just the right level of protection for you. The HD systems we install provide crystal clear images which can help to catch intruders whilst providing invaluable evidence if the worst happens and you’re broken into.

In addition, CCTV is proving an increasingly popular way to check on a property whilst it’s empty. Whether you’d simply like to keep an eye on your dog whilst you’re out, or to check everything’s OK when you’re away on holiday, CCTV will provide you with peace of mind no matter where you are.

The CCTV systems we install use the latest apps for iPhone or Android, enabling you to keep tabs on your home from your mobile phone, tablet or laptop. In addition, if you already have an analogue or first generation HD sytem, we may be able to re-use existing cabling to upgrade to one of the latest systems.

Contact FirstEye to find out more

If you would like to find out more about installing a domestic CCTV system could give your home the protection it deserves, why not get in touch to arrange for a free, no-obligation quote?

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Commercial security installations

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Leeds CCTV installation specialists

Here at FirstEye we are CCTV installers in Leeds and West Yorkshire. CCTV offers an unbeatable security solution for businesses of all shapes and sizes so if it’s something you haven’t considered before, or had assumed would be beyond your budget, we thought we’d outline some of the benefits.

Why commercial CCTV?

Whilst there’s no doubt that a security alarm system is an essential requirement for all businesses, CCTV offers a very visible deterrent which will put off even the most determined of thieves from attempting to enter your premises.

The high quality CCTV cameras we install can be used as a stand-alone security solution but when used alongside burglar alarms provide a robust and reliable security system. Our professional installation team will begin by carrying out a free site survey to determine the best system for your businesses premises before providing you with a range of cost effective options. Here are some of the benefits CCTV could offer your business:

  • Keep tabs on the security of your business 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world using remote monitoring available on your smartphone or tablet.
  • CCTV systems can be combined with access control to provide robust security, offering you the capability to monitor who has access to your business premises.
  • The HD CCTV systems we install are designed to provide crystal clear images which can prove invaluable in the event of crime, whilst potentially helping to reduce your insurance premiums.
  • CCTV can be used to protect the interior and exterior of your business; enabling you to monitor staff, protect valuable stock etc.

Contact FirstEye to find out more

Here at FirstEye we have many years of experience in the installation of CCTV surveillance systems in homes and businesses throughout Leeds and West Yorkshire. To find out more about how we can help you provide your business with the protection it deserves, why not get in touch to arrange a free, no-obligation security survey?

 

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National Home Security Month: wireless video doorbells help to increase security and provide peace of mind

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Answer your door anywhere with a wireless video doorbell

This week’s blog post is the last in our month-long series on home security, focusing upon the importance of security for homeowners. Designed to enable audio and video communication between you and visitors to your front door, wireless video doorbells offer a great way to enhance security and provide peace of mind. Wireless doorbells are ideal for all homes, regardless of size, providing particularly useful for the elderly, vulnerable and properties in remote areas.

What is a wireless video doorbell?

Wireless video doorbells are designed to let you answer the door, regardless of where you are. Using a Wi-Fi signal to stream live video direct to a mobile phone or tablet. This offers a range of significant advantages including

  • Give callers the appearance that someone is at home when they’re not.
  • Screen callers and decide whether you want to answer the door.
  • Communicate directly with delivery drivers or the postman, providing them with instructions on what to do with a delivery if you are out.
  • Some wireless video doorbell systems include motion sensors, designed to detect movement around your front door.
  • Provide additional peace of mind for the elderly or vulnerable by allowing a trusted friend or relative to screen callers from another location.
  • Receive caller alerts directly to your phone or tablet – regardless of the time of day or where you might be.
  • Connect your video doorbell to other wireless systems such as a garage door, door opening system or existing doorbell.
  • Connect up to 8 smart phone or tablet devices.

In addition to these benefits, many wireless video doorbells are designed to be integrated into a smart home security system. When combined with a wireless security system and/or CCTV, a wireless video doorbell will provide your home and family with comprehensive protection, whilst offering you the capability to monitor your property 24/7, no matter where you are.

DoorBird wireless video doorbells installed by FirstEye

We are specialist installers of the DoorBird wireless video doorbell system. DoorBird systems are designed and made in Germany and provide user-friendly, reliable protection for your home. Offering a range of useful add-on features and compatible with both Android and Apple phones and devices, a wide range of DoorBird products are available with options to suit all requirements and budgets.

Wireless video doorbell and home security installation specialists

Here at FirstEye we provide specialist home security installations for customers throughout Leeds. No job is too large or small for us and whether you’re looking for a complete home security system or a wireless video doorbell, we’d be delighted to help.

Our team are all fully qualified and because we are members of the Which? Trusted Traders scheme you’ll have the reassurance of knowing that your home is in safe and secure hands.

To find out more or to arrange for a free, no obligation security survey of your home, please don’t hesitate to get in touch for further information.

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National Home Security Month: CCTV designed to protect your home 24/7

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CCTV systems installed in homes in Leeds

October is National Home Security Month and for week three we’ll be focusing upon the benefits installing a CCTV system can offer. Whereas once CCTV was only used to protect public spaces such as shopping centres and car parks, it is now proving increasingly popular with homeowners who are keen to enhance the security of their homes.

Why install a CCTV system?

Whilst a security alarm provides a highly effective way to protect your home, a CCTV system offers the potential to take home security to a whole new level. The CCTV systems we install in Leeds are designed to be monitored at any time and from anywhere via a convenient, user-friendly mobile phone or tablet app. Providing you with the option to check on your home regardless of where you are, CCTV offers enhanced protection and peace of mind.

CCTV is suitable for use in the majority of homes and can prove especially useful in larger properties, rural areas and houses with large gardens. Cameras are positioned to provide maximum protection, covering exterior door ways, patio doors, garages, driveways and side passages, for example. In addition, some homeowners choose to install cameras inside their homes and a range of discreet options are available. Offering a superb way to give your family, home and possessions the protection they deserve, CCTV will give you reassurance that your property is safeguarded from theft and crime.

Contact FirstEye to find out more about CCTV installations Leeds

To find out more about our CCTV installation, repair and maintenance services in Leeds, why not get in touch by calling 0113 228 8599.

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National Home Security Month: protect your property with a security alarm

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National Home Security Month: protect your property with a security alarm

Security alarm systems designed and installed in Leeds by FirstEye

It’s week two of National Home Security Month 2018 and this week we’re going to focus on security alarms. Designed to provide round-the-clock protection and peace of mind, installing a security alarm is one of the best ways to deter intruders and safeguard your property.

Over the years we’ve worked with countless homeowners in Leeds installing security alarms. Sadly many of those we’ve met were having an alarm installed for the first time because they’d recently been burgled. With this in mind, our advice to homeowners is always the same: don’t put off installing a security alarm until it’s too late.

Here are just a few examples of how installing a security alarm could give your home the protection it deserves:

  • The sight of an alarm bell box alone is often enough to deter thieves. By ensuring your alarm bell box is visible from the street, you’ll be sending out a very visible signal that you take the security of your home seriously.
  • Alarms are available to suit all types of property and budget. Whether you live in a small bungalow or flat, or your home is a spacious detached house, we we have the expertise to install an alarm to suit your pocket.
  • The latest wireless alarm systems are quick and simple to install and because very little wiring is required, messy drilling and unsightly cables are kept to a minimum.
  • Smart alarm systems offer an unbeatable way to protect your home 24/7. Designed to let you control your alarm and monitor your home through an app for your smartphone or tablet, you’ll have peace of mind that your property is protected when you can’t be there.

Alarm installation and maintenance services

Alongside our alarm installation services we also work with homeowners to repair and maintain existing alarm systems. If you already have an alarm but don’t use it because you’re worried it’s unreliable, we have the expertise to repair it or update it to a newer version. Once you have your new alarm system, our team are available to carry out any servicing which may be required, regardless of whether we installed the system or not.

Don’t wait until it’s too late – protect your home and possessions with a home security alarm installed by FirstEye

To find out more about protecting your home with a security alarm, or for further advice on any aspect of general home security, please get in touch with us by calling 0113 228 8599 or email quote@firsteye.co.uk

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National Home Security Month 2018

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Security systems installed in Leeds by FirstEye

October is National Home Security Month and we thought we’d help you make the most of it by focusing on a different aspect of home security over the next four weeks. National Home Security Month aims to increase awareness of the importance of home security and when you consider a burglary happens in the UK approximately every 40 seconds, it’s vital that awareness is increased.

Over 200,000 burglaries were carried out during the summer of 2017 alone and as more of us go on holiday and leave our homes unoccupied, the chances of being burgled increase. There’s also been an increase in thefts from outbuildings and garages as these are often used to store valuable items such as bikes and power tools. So what can you do to protect your home and possessions?

Home security advice from FirstEye

This week we’re going to focus on general home security, followed by security alarms, CCTV and wireless doorbells over each of the following three weeks.

Home security is incredibly important and whilst it’s vital that you have a range of security systems in place, such as an alarm, for example, there are lots of simple things you can do to improve the general security of your home:

  • Keep doors and windows locked: although this sounds like simple advice, you’d be surprised how many opportune thieves are able to enter a property through an unlocked door. Keep doors locked even when you’re in and make sure car keys etc. are stored out of sight.
  • Fitting timer switches to lamps, TVs and radios is a great way to help your home look occupied whilst you’re out, whilst asking a neighbour to remove post from by the front door is another effective way to deter thieves.
  • An overgrown garden or large trees and shrubs offer places to hide so take a good look at the outside of your home and make sure you’re not providing cover for thieves.
  • If you have an alarm, make sure the bell box is clearly visible from the street.
  • Installing security lighting over the front and back door is a cost effective way to improve security and will help you make you and your family feel safer when you return home at night.
  • Never, ever leave a door key hidden under a plant pot by the front door! This is the first place thieves will look and a key safe provides a secure alternative.

Contact FirstEye for home security advice in Leeds

Here at FristEye we are specialists in providing cost effective security solutions for homeowners in Leeds. If you would like to find out more, or to obtain a free security survey, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Don’t forget to come back next week for advice on choosing the best security alarm for your home!

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The home security of the future is already here

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Smart home security systems installed by FirstEye

These days it’s difficult to remember a time before technology touched most aspects of our lives. From shopping and talking to friends and family, through to health and fitness, there isn’t much that hasn’t been influenced or improved by advances in computer-based technology.

However, despite some pretty significant changes over the last couple of decades, the majority of us still use a key to unlock our front door in exactly the same way our grandparents did. The smart home has now moved from the realms of fantasy into reality though and increasing numbers of homeowners are turning to smart locks to help improve security.

Solutions for a smarter, securer home

As regular readers of our blog will know, here at FirstEye we have the expertise to install smart home systems, designed to control central heating, lighting, appliances, security alarms and more. Smart locks – a form of keyless door lock – are now forming a significant part of smart home security, offering a great way to further enhance the security of your home.

Smart locks are exactly like other smart home devices, designed to connect with other devices using wifi or Bluetooth connectivity. This can be done in a number of ways, such as through a special key fob or via a mobile phone app. When the phone or key fob is placed near the lock, the door will automatically unlock, eliminating the need to rummage around in your pockets or bag looking for your keys in the dark!

One of the most useful features of smart locks is the ability to allow temporary access to friends and family whilst you’re away – if you need someone to let themselves in and feed the cat, for example. All you have to do is send them a temporary access code, designed to be active for a set period which will become invalid when you return home.

Contact FirstEye to find out more

Installing a smart home system can offer a range of cost-effective benefits, from reduced fuel bills through to improved home security. If you’d like to find out more, why not get in touch today?

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Welcome to our new look website!

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FirstEye electrical installations in Leeds

Welcome to our new look website! We hope you like it as much as we do; we thought it was time to refresh our existing site and the new version includes more information on our full range of electrical installation services for commercial and residential customers. We’ve also updated our support page which now includes additional information such as user guides to our intruder alarms and CCTV systems, along with software downloads.

We hope you find the additional information useful but as always, if you need help with a question we haven’t answered, or need to report a fault with your security system, please don’t hesitate to get in touch – details can be found on the Contact Us page.

Our installation services

Here at FirstEye we’re proud to offer our commercial and residential customers a full range of industrial, commercial, domestic security and CCTV installation services. Our team have a wealth of experience and up-to-date qualifications, providing you with the reassurance that your home or business is in safe hands.

No job is too large or too small for us so if you would like to find out more about how we can provide you with cost effective security solutions, designed to meet your individual requirements, please don’t hesitate to get in touch to arrange for a free, no-obligation security survey.

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You know you’re in safe hands with a Which? Trusted Trader

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We’re proud to be Which? Trusted Traders in Leeds

We’re absolutely delighted to see that we’ve received yet another five star review on the Which? Trusted Traders website – thank you so much to all our customers – your feedback is always very much appreciated!

We know that choosing the right trades person to carry out work on your home or business premises can seem daunting. It’s understandable that you want to find a reputable company with the skills, expertise and a proven track record to ensure the work is completed on time and to a high standard. This is why we joined the Which? Trusted Traders scheme as it offers an excellent way to provide our customers with peace of mind and reassurance that our skills are up to scratch, whilst also recognising the high standards we set ourselves.

If you haven’t heard of it before, the Which? Trusted Traders scheme is run by Which? – the legendary consumer champions – and is designed to assess and endorse local tradespeople. The Which? Trusted Trader logo is a sign that a company is an excellent reputation and offers a trustworthy service, helping you choose the best person for the job.

Which? Take an in-depth look at everything from our financial health and customer satisfaction, through to our admin procedures. Members of the scheme are visited in person by a trading standards professional from the Which? Scheme, undergoing a face-to-face interview to give an overview of how a business is run. Once all the Scheme’s checks have been passed, we agree to Which?’s terms and conditions and code of conduct and because not all businesses make the grade, you’ll have the reassurance of knowing that our standards are extremely high!

Contact FirstEye to find out more

If you would like to find out more about any aspect of our services or to arrange for a free, no-obligation quote, why not get in touch with FirstEye – Which? Trusted Traders in Leeds.