Ludhiana · Punjab
AI CCTV and intruder detection in Ludhiana
This is home. PGAK is built in Ludhiana, our office is on Gill Road, and the first sites we ever ran are still running here. That means something practical for a Ludhiana buyer: the survey, the installation and the fortnight of tuning afterwards are done by our own team, not passed to a partner. The city gives us two problems more than any other — attendance at gates too busy for a machine, and stock walking out of warehouses nobody can watch.
Focus in this market: Hosiery, cycle parts, machine tools and distribution warehousing
Worked example for Ludhiana: How AI CCTV cuts shrinkage in a Ludhiana warehouse
What we typically see in Ludhiana
- Hosiery and cycle-parts units where several hundred workers cross one gate in ten minutes and the biometric reader is the bottleneck.
- Distribution godowns with forty cameras already installed and nobody who can watch even one of them.
- Compound walls a kilometre long with a single guard, where the useful alert is a line crossed after the last shift.
Where the risk sits in Ludhiana
We drive these belts every week. Each one produces a different first configuration, and knowing which is which is most of what a survey is for.
Focal Point, phases one to eight
Large compounds, two and three shifts, and yards where raw material, scrap and finished goods are all stacked outdoors. The loss that hurts is rarely a break-in; it is material leaving on an authorised vehicle at an authorised hour. Number-plate logging at the gate turns that into a list somebody can reconcile against the dispatch register the next morning.
Gill Road and the cycle-parts belt
Our own doorstep. Dense workshops, mixed-age camera estates, and owners who want one thing to work before they will consider a second. The usual starting point here is the gate — attendance and a record of who entered — because it pays for itself in payroll accuracy before anyone argues about security.
The Chandigarh Road hosiery belt
Seasonal headcount that doubles for the winter order book, with the dyeing and finishing hands that defeat contact readers. Enrolment speed matters more than anything else here: twenty new faces added from a phone on the morning they start, and removed when the season ends.
Dhandari Kalan and the GT Road godowns
Freight, transhipment and long stretches of boundary wall next to open ground. Loading-bay activity outside booked dispatch hours and a boundary line along the rear wall are the two rules that earn their keep; interior aisle cameras come much later.
Staff attendance in Ludhiana
Ludhiana's attendance problem is a shift-change problem. A hosiery unit off Chandigarh Road or a cycle-parts works in the Focal Point puts several hundred people through one gate inside ten minutes, and the hands on those lines are exactly the ones fingerprint readers reject: dye, oil and ridges worn flat by years of press work. Add contractor gangs that turn over weekly and migrant labour that arrives with the season, and the register in the supervisor's drawer quietly becomes the real record of who worked. Reading faces off the gate camera removes the queue and the failed scan together, and because it is the camera doing the work, the same gate that logs attendance is still watching the gate.
Guides for Ludhiana buyers
- Security Basics
The day after a theft: a practical checklist
Footage overwrites on a schedule, and most people notice a theft after that schedule has already run. What to do in the first hours, in order, before the recording you need is gone.
- Compliance
CCTV in the workplace: what you may and may not record
Workplace CCTV is legal in India, but not everywhere and not without conditions. What you can point a camera at, what's off-limits, and the notice you owe employees before you switch it on.
- Security Basics
People counting from cameras you already own
You don't need new hardware to know how many people walked through your gate or store today. What CCTV-based people counting gets right, where it drifts, and what the number is actually useful for.
- Camera Setup
Does AI work with my Tapo, Imou, Qubo or Prama camera?
We have tested Tapo, Prama and Qubo directly. But the honest answer is that the brand is not really the question — what matters is whether the camera will hand over an RTSP stream.
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AI CCTV in Ludhiana — common questions
You are based in Ludhiana. Does that actually change anything for me?
It changes who turns up. In Ludhiana the survey, the installation and the two weeks of tuning are done by our own team from the Gill Road office, and if something needs a person on site the person is in the same city. Everywhere else in India that work runs through a verified partner with us behind them. It also means we can look at your cameras before you commit to anything.
Our gate has three hundred workers arriving in ten minutes. Will it keep up?
That is the case it is built for, because there is no queue at all — nobody stops, nobody touches anything, people simply walk in and the camera reads faces as they pass. The limit is not throughput, it is camera placement: one camera at head height covering the walking line, rather than one mounted high on a pole looking at the tops of heads. The audit tells you which of yours qualify.
We already have forty cameras in the godown. Do we replace them?
No. If the DVR or NVR gives an RTSP stream, which nearly every recorder installed in the last decade does, the software runs on what is already there. In a forty-camera godown the honest answer is usually that six to eight of those cameras are worth making intelligent — the bays, the restricted aisles, the gate — and the rest stay as ordinary recording.
Can it separate our own trucks from everyone else's?
Yes, by number plate. You add your regular vehicles and contract carriers once, and after that a plate that is not on the list arriving at eleven at night is an alert, while your own tempo on its usual run is not. That distinction is what makes gate logging useful rather than noisy.
Winter doubles our headcount. Is enrolment going to eat our supervisor's week?
It should take a minute a person, done at the gate from a phone, which is why the hosiery units here care about it. There is no enrolment machine to queue at and no fingerprint to re-take when it fails. When the season ends you remove them just as quickly, and the payroll record for the period stays intact.
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