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Surveillance Maintenance and AMC — Keeping Systems Reliable Print

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The Day You Need Footage Is the Wrong Day to Find a Fault

CCTV and access control systems fail quietly. A hard disk stops recording, a camera drifts out of focus, a connector corrodes in the monsoon — and nobody notices until an incident happens and the footage is not there. Regular maintenance is what turns a security installation into actual security.

What Goes Wrong Over Time

  • Dust and spider webs on lenses and infrared LEDs, common across Delhi NCR, degrading night images to fog
  • Hard disks wearing out after two to four years of continuous writing
  • Water ingress in outdoor junction boxes after heavy rain
  • Cameras knocked out of alignment by cleaning staff, birds or vehicles
  • Recorder clocks drifting, making timestamps useless as evidence
  • Firmware vulnerabilities left unpatched on internet connected devices
  • Access control batteries failing, so doors misbehave during power cuts

What Our AMC Covers

  1. Scheduled preventive visits — typically quarterly — covering lens cleaning, camera realignment, recording verification for every channel, disk health checks, time sync, firmware updates and UPS battery testing.
  2. Breakdown support with committed response times, remote diagnostics first and an engineer on site when needed.
  3. A signed health report after every visit listing camera status, storage days available and items needing attention, which many clients file for insurance and audit purposes.
  4. Repair and replacement coordination, including standby options for critical failures, with warranty claims handled by us.

Comprehensive or Non-Comprehensive

We offer both models. Non-comprehensive AMC covers service and labour with parts billed as used; comprehensive AMC includes parts for a predictable annual cost. For systems past their third year, comprehensive cover usually proves the better value in INR terms.

Already Own a System Installed by Someone Else

No problem. We take over maintenance of existing installations after a one time audit visit. Request an AMC proposal through app.techguru.co.in or call +91-8800567676.


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