Hospitals & healthcare

Hospital security for a building that never closes

A hospital security system has to work in a building with no closing time, no fixed visitor list and several rooms that only a handful of people should ever enter. PGAK's analytics can be evaluated on existing healthcare CCTV for that job — alerts when someone enters a pharmacy, drug store or other restricted area outside agreed rules, and logging visitors at entrances. It is a security tool, not a clinical or patient-monitoring system.

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Treat this page as evaluation guidance. Product availability and site suitability require an approved configuration and technical test. Published scenarios are illustrative, not verified customer results.

Sound familiar?

Pharmacy and drug-store access is controlled by a key and a hope.
Visitor numbers are uncountable and unrestricted after visiting hours.
Aggression at reception and casualty escalates before anyone responds.
Records rooms and stores are entered and nobody can say who went in.

Restricted areas that are actually restricted

Pharmacies, drug stores, ICUs, neonatal units, records rooms and biomedical stores can each have their own entry rules, evaluated at your site. Entry outside those rules can raise an alert with a clip — a record that a key copied twice never gives you.

Pharmacy and controlled-substance stores

Entries can be logged with a snapshot and timestamp, and entry outside the agreed rules raised as an alert.

ICU and neonatal units

Alerts on entry to high-sensitivity areas outside agreed rules can be evaluated — as a security record, not patient monitoring.

Records and biomedical rooms

An entry log with snapshots; whether it meets your audit requirements is for your own governance to confirm.

Entrances and visitor flow

Visitors can be logged with a snapshot, and people entering ward corridors outside visiting hours can be flagged for security to check. Any staff recognition is evaluated at your site with consent. It can supplement a visitor register that, in practice, nobody ever reads.

What it is not

It is not a clinical or patient-monitoring system, and it should not be relied on to detect falls, wandering or a patient's condition — those remain clinical responsibilities. At reception and casualty, the security value is alerts on defined areas and times that the security desk can act on, evaluated at your site.

Patient privacy is the constraint, not an afterthought

Cameras belong in corridors, entrances, stores and common areas — not in treatment rooms, wards where patients are exposed, or anywhere with a reasonable expectation of privacy. Processing stays on hospital premises, access is role-restricted, and retention windows are set explicitly. We configure the deployment around your clinical governance policy.

What to check before deployment

Camera and recorder streams: Confirm RTSP access or ONVIF discovery, stream stability and the views that matter. Do not send camera passwords in the enquiry form.
On-site processing: Ask which processing device is needed, how it is sized, what runs locally and what information leaves the site.
Alert acceptance: Test agreed zones in daytime and at night. Record useful alerts, nuisance alerts, missed events and end-to-end alert delay.
Complete commercial quote: Confirm enabled cameras, sites, subscription, setup, hardware, taxes and support. Use the assessed scope to compare proposals.

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hospital security system — common questions

Where should cameras not be placed in a hospital?

Treatment rooms, patient bays, toilets and changing areas — anywhere with a reasonable expectation of privacy. The security value sits in corridors, entrances, pharmacies, stores and common areas, and that's where we deploy.

Can it control access to the pharmacy?

It monitors and alerts rather than physically locking. Entries can be logged with a snapshot, and entry outside the agreed rules can raise an alert with a clip — evaluated at your site before anything relies on it.

Does patient video go to a cloud service?

No. Processing runs on edge hardware inside the hospital and video stays on your premises by default, which is usually a requirement of the clinical governance policy rather than a preference.

Can it help with aggression at reception or casualty?

Not as a behavioural judgement — PGAK has no published evidence for detecting aggression. What can be evaluated at your site is an alert on people in a defined area at defined times, for the security desk to judge.

Start with a free audit of your own cameras.

Share your phone number, city and camera count. We will discuss your priority use case and agree the assessment scope, timing and next step with you.

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Who you are dealing with

A registered Ludhiana company that builds the software it sells.

PGAK Innovations Pvt. Ltd. is incorporated in Punjab, engineers its own AI layer, and runs the free camera audit itself — the people who answer the phone are the people who built the product. About the company →

Founded: 2023, Ludhiana
Registered office: BK Towers, 2480/2, Gill Rd, Ludhiana 141003
CIN: U62013PB2023PTC058631
Leadership: Puneet Garg · Ankur Kaplesh · Aditya Mittal; Why PGAK was built →
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What a project here involves

Compatible cameras and recorders you already own are reused wherever they are suitable. Detection runs on an on-site processing unit, and camera suitability, stream access, processing hardware and network are all confirmed at the assessment — with anything extra itemised in the quote before you commit.

What the quote is made of

Component	What decides it	Price
Cameras reused	Which existing cameras give a usable view for each use case — confirmed on a still image of each view.	Quoted per site
Cameras moved or added	Only where a use case needs a view no camera has (plates and faces usually do). Each one named in the quote.	Quoted per site
On-site processing unit	Detection runs here, next to the recorder. Model, quantity and warranty depend on camera count and analytics.	Quoted per site
Software / licences	Which analytics on which cameras, the term, and the basis for renewal.	Quoted per site
Installation and configuration	Stream setup, zones, schedules, alert routing and commissioning.	Quoted per site
Pilot	Agreed scenes, acceptance criteria and duration before rollout.	Quoted per site
Support	Hours, response versus fix time, and who replaces failed hardware.	Quoted per site
Taxes	Stated separately on the quote.	Quoted per site

How it is evaluated

1. Self-check — Two minutes, nothing sent — find likely blockers.
2. Scope on paper — Cameras, use cases and acceptance tests, written down.
3. Site assessment — PGAK checks streams, views and network on your cameras.
4. Pilot against criteria — Precision, recall, false alerts and delay, agreed in advance.
5. Written proposal — Itemised as above; you decide whether to roll out.

Evidence for this page

No PGAK recording is published for this page yet. The capability register shows what has been demonstrated and under what conditions.

Discuss your camera setup

Share your phone number, city and camera count. We will clarify the intended use case and agree assessment scope and timing with you. Do not submit camera credentials or footage.