Start with exposure, not with the price
The right window is the number of hours your property is genuinely unwatched or vulnerable. For most commercial sites that is the closed overnight block. For retail, dealerships, and multifamily, exposure runs straight through the business day.
Overnight monitoring is $24.99 per camera, per month. 24-hour continuous monitoring is quoted per site, because daytime traffic and business-hours escalation rules vary far too much for a flat rate to be honest.
12-hour overnight monitoring
- Covers the closed, unstaffed window where most commercial loss occurs
- Best fit: job sites, contractor yards, warehouses, industrial bays, offices
- Published rate: $24.99 per camera, per month
- Delivers overnight event clips you can review in the morning
24-hour continuous monitoring
- Covers every hour, including business hours
- Best fit: retail, dealerships, multifamily, sites with constant dock traffic
- Adds daytime theft, loitering, and safety response
- Quoted per site based on camera count, traffic, and escalation rules
Questions that usually settle it
If you answered yes to two or more, daytime coverage is likely worth quoting. If your property is genuinely staffed and observed during the day, overnight monitoring usually does the job.
- Is your valuable inventory outside while your staff are inside?
- Have incidents happened during business hours, or only after close?
- Does the public have daytime access to your lot or perimeter?
- Would a daytime incident create a serious liability problem?
- Is anyone actually watching cameras during the day today?
You can start narrow and expand
Most properties begin with the overnight window on the cameras that matter most, then adjust once they can see their own event log. Coverage hours and camera count are both easy to change; guessing high on day one is not required.