Erith, South East London · DA8
Specifying burglar alarms for a boarding kennels
Animals in care, medicines storage for prescribed treatments, and a site that must remain secure without disturbing dogs or cats with unnecessary alarm activations. This page sets out what a Erith boarding kennels should be asking for, and where wireless CCTV systems fit into it.
- Sector: boarding kennels
- Lead service: burglar alarms
- Exposure: Overnight when no staff are on site but animals remain in kennel runs.
Primary risk
Animals in care, medicines storage for prescribed treatments, and a site that must remain secure without disturbing dogs or cats with unnecessary alarm activations.
First priority
Alarm zoning that excludes kennel runs from movement detection
Common pitfall
A generic alarm system fitted without kennel zoning, which is disabled within weeks because animal movement keeps triggering it.
The loss pattern on this type of site
Animals in care, medicines storage for prescribed treatments, and a site that must remain secure without disturbing dogs or cats with unnecessary alarm activations.
Exposure window: Overnight when no staff are on site but animals remain in kennel runs.
The role of wireless CCTV systems
Cameras that transmit video to the recorder over Wi-Fi rather than a network cable, avoiding the need to run cabling to each camera position.
- Positions too far from the recorder for a cabled network run
- Properties where running network cable to every camera is impractical
Where the budget goes first
- Alarm zoning that excludes kennel runs from movement detection
- Animals moving overnight will otherwise trigger false alarms until the system is abandoned or disabled.
- Door contacts on kennel block entrances and medicine store
- Perimeter and store protection continues even where internal movement detection is excluded.
What that approach will not do
Being straight about the boundary costs less than discovering it after an incident.
- Cameras still need a power source at each position unless battery-powered, so it is not entirely cable-free.
The obligation behind the specification
This is an obligation that changes the specification for boarding kennels, not an optional extra.
- Any medicines administered to boarded animals should be stored securely per licensing inspection expectations
The other route
- Wired IP CCTV
- Cable routes are available and consistent, uninterrupted quality is the priority.
What usually goes wrong first time
A generic alarm system fitted without kennel zoning, which is disabled within weeks because animal movement keeps triggering it.
The support call this sector makes most: security system down after a power cut
Once a system has been in a while, restore alarm, CCTV or access after an outage is a common reason for a boarding kennels to ring.
Usually it comes down to settings lost on older controllers, devices relying on a coin cell for memory lose their configuration.
Before booking anyone, check fuses and spurs before assuming equipment failure.
Local notes for Erith
Property around Lesnes Abbey woods is largely Victorian terraces and 1930s semis, which is worth saying on the phone so we arrive with the right access equipment.
Erith questions we get asked
Specifying burglar alarms for a boarding kennels
Local detail for Erith
- Remote assistance available for setting and app problems
- Independent installer based in Chatham, Kent
- Covers Erith and the surrounding South East London area
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