CCTV Installation in Sharjah for Villas and Estates
In an executive villa in Sharjah, we installed a complete Hikvision security system with video intercom alongside the KNX automation — ThinkKNX for the visualisation and logic, Gira System 55 keypads at the wall, and a UniFi network holding it all together. Hotel-grade coverage with residential warmth, on one dashboard: the gate camera, the front-door intercom, the recorder and the cameras, next to the lighting and climate. That is the Sharjah project we point people at, because a security system is only as good as the network and the integration behind it.
Haus Logic is based at Dubai Hills Business Park and installs integrated security across Sharjah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and London. Below: what a Sharjah villa system covers, how the emirate's approval process differs from Dubai's and Abu Dhabi's — Sharjah runs its own regime, including a police-monitoring connection the others do not require — and what we have actually installed.
What does CCTV installation in Sharjah include?
A complete villa system for a Sharjah property covers:
- AI cameras — high-resolution cameras with person and vehicle detection and licence-plate recognition, so events get flagged rather than merely recorded.
- Video intercom — camera and audio at the gate and front door on the same screen, exactly as we ran it on the Executive Villa in Sharjah; you see and speak to a visitor and release the gate from a wall tablet or your phone.
- Local recording — a network video recorder (NVR) on site, sized for weeks of retention, with redundancy where footage matters.
- The police-monitoring link— Sharjah's regime expects a connection to the Sharjah Police network (the Raqib / e-Guard system) for final sign-off; see below.
- Integration and network — cameras wired into the KNX bus over an enterprise UniFi backbone, so security shares one dashboard with the rest of the home and the logic runs locally.
The Dubai version of this service, under SIRA, is at CCTV installation in Dubai. Sharjah is not Dubai, and the difference is not cosmetic.
How is Sharjah's approval different from Dubai and Abu Dhabi?
Three emirates, three regulators — this is the detail a city-swapped template gets wrong. Dubai runs security systems through SIRA. Abu Dhabi runs them through the Abu Dhabi Monitoring and Control Centre. Sharjah runs its own process through Sharjah Police, whose Crime Investigation Department approves and certifies the companies allowed to install CCTV in the emirate. Installation is meant to be handled by a Sharjah Police-approved installer, not a SIRA-licensed one.
Sharjah also adds something the other two do not lean on the same way: a mandatory link to the police monitoring network, commonly branded Raqib(also sold as e-Guard or Video Guard). Raqib connects a property's surveillance system to the Sharjah Police network so authorities can view the feed and are alerted if the system is tampered with or goes offline. It is described as a requirement for final approval of security systems across many site types, residential and commercial. So a compliant Sharjah villa is not just cameras and a recorder; it is cameras, a recorder, an approved installer, and — where required — that police-network connection.
We would rather flag than fake the fine print: the exact scope of what a private Sharjah villa must submit, and the current Raqib connection requirement for a standalone home, should be confirmed directly with Sharjah Police before installation, because the rules are administered by the police rather than published as a single consumer tariff. What is settled is the shape of it — Sharjah Police approval and, where applicable, the Raqib link — and we design to that rather than transplanting Dubai's or Abu Dhabi's rulebook.
What technical standard does Sharjah Police expect?
Sharjah Police set a technical schedule for approved systems. Based on the current published guidance, it runs along these lines — treat the exact figures as ones to confirm with Sharjah Police at design stage, as the schedule is updated periodically:
- Resolution — cameras generally at least 2 megapixels (1080p), with main-entrance and outdoor cameras at a higher bar (in the region of 4 megapixels).
- Recording — continuous recording of every camera at a usable frame rate (the guidance references roughly 15 images per second per camera at 2MP, with live display faster), sized for the required retention period.
- Wireless — wireless cameras are not accepted; the schedule expects wired cameras.
- Maintenance and renewal — an annual maintenance contract with an approved company, and annual renewal of the compliance certificate to keep it valid.
We build to a wired, locally-recorded specification as standard, which is the direction Sharjah's rules push anyway, so meeting the schedule is the default rather than a retrofit.
Why local recording and one integrated dashboard
Cloud-subscription cameras rent you your own footage; we build the opposite. Recording lands on an NVR on your premises, cameras and AI keep running when the internet drops, and you own every byte — the internet only carries the remote view to your phone. Because the cameras are wired into the KNX bus, as on the Sharjah villa, a recognised plate can open the gate and dusk motion can light the driveway, and those triggers run locally through an outage. One screen for cameras, intercom, gate and automation, not a folder of apps.
Our process: site visit to approval and handover
We walk the plot on a free site visit and mark sightlines on the floor plan — perimeter, gate, entrances, garage, service yard — before quoting, so the count reflects your coverage, not a package. Design is a fixed-fee proposal with line-item cost per camera. Where the emirate requires it, we handle the Sharjah Police-facing approval and the Raqib connection as part of the project, and hand over the as-built documentation, the certificate, and dashboard training. Any KNX-certified integrator can maintain the system afterwards.
What has Haus Logic installed?
Real installs, not renders. The Executive Villa in Sharjah carries a complete Hikvision security system with video intercom, wired into KNX with ThinkKNX visualisation, Gira System 55 keypads and a UniFi network — hotel-grade automation with residential warmth. It is the Sharjah reference we point serious buyers at, and it is open, with the rest of our work, in the portfolio for exactly the check a serious buyer should make.
We design, install and commission integrated security, and we are happy to be a second opinion on a Sharjah quote you are already holding. Send it over and we will walk through it line by line — camera count, resolution against the schedule, the recorder, and the approval path. No obligation, no sales pitch.
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