Facial Recognition Camera Installers in Lincolnshire
Identify known individuals automatically at your entry points and secure areas. Designed and installed around your UK data protection obligations.
What Facial Recognition CCTV Does
A standard CCTV camera records what happens, and someone looks at the footage later if needed.
Facial recognition is different. The software measures the features of a face, turns them into a numerical template, and compares that template against others it holds. When two templates are close enough, it flags a match.
Facial recognition does two jobs.
1. Verification: One Face Against One Record
Someone approaches a door, and the system checks whether their face matches the record of a person who’s already been enrolled.
The group is small, everyone in it is aware, and the system is answering a narrow question: is this person on the approved list for this door?
2. Identification: One Face Against Many
Everyone who walks into view is scanned and compared against a list of people of interest.
This is a much bigger ask. It processes the biometric data of every person who passes, including everyone who has nothing to do with the reason the system exists. The bar for doing it lawfully is set high, and rightly so.
Most conversations we have start with someone describing the first and expecting the second, or the other way round. Getting that clear early saves a lot of time.
Where Facial Recognition Cameras Work Well
Facial recognition suits some businesses better than others. It works where there’s a specific job to do, like a door to control, an area to keep to a few named people, or a particular person you need to know about.
These are the situations we’re asked about most across Lincolnshire. If yours isn’t here, it’s still worth a conversation.
Offices & Workplaces
Managing who comes through your entrance without cards and PINs to issue, chase up and cancel. Useful where credentials are regularly shared or lent out, and matching the person is more reliable than matching the card.
Warehouses & Industrial Sites
A stock cage, a plant room, a server room, an area only a handful of named people should enter. A small enrolled group, all aware they’re on the system, all with a clear reason to be.
Retail & Loss Prevention
If someone has shoplifted from your store, or been flagged as a known offender by your centre or crime partnership, the system can tell a member of staff when they come in.
Investigating Specific Incidents
Looking back through footage you already hold for a particular person, after something has happened. A narrower and more contained use than scanning everyone in real time.
Facial Recognition and Your Data Protection Duties
Because facial recognition creates biometric data, it sits under stricter rules than ordinary CCTV. Those rules shape how we design your system, so they’re worth considering before we specify anything.
A Data Protection Impact Assessment
A written assessment completed before the system goes live. It sets out what you’re trying to achieve, why facial recognition is necessary, what less intrusive options you considered and how you’ll protect people.
Special Category Data Condition
Biometric data used to identify someone is special category data. An ordinary lawful basis isn’t enough on its own. You also need to satisfy a specific additional condition, and in many cases keep a policy document explaining how you’ll meet it.
Tell People They’re Being Recorded
Clear signage at the entrance and a privacy notice explaining what the system does, why it’s there, how long anything is kept and what rights people have. Anyone should be able to find that out easily, without having to ask.
Manage Who’s On Your Watchlist
If your business holds a list of people to be matched against, it needs a threshold for adding someone, evidence behind each decision, review dates, and a process for taking people off again. Access should be limited, and additions and removals recorded.
Check Alerts Before You Act
No system matches perfectly. Accuracy depends on lighting, camera position, image quality and the software itself. A flagged match is a prompt for a person to look properly. It’s never a conclusion, and never grounds to approach someone on its own.
Check the Current ICO Guidance
Guidance changes, so check the latest before committing. The ICO’s advice on using personal information to protect your business is written for smaller businesses, covers facial recognition, and includes checklists and template documents.
What Our Clients Say
SSAIB Certified Installation
SSAIB (Security Systems and Alarms Inspection Board) certification means our work is inspected against recognised standards, rather than simply signed off in-house.
That counts for more here than on most jobs, because facial recognition only performs as well as the cameras feeding it. We design and fit to the relevant British Standards.
You get commissioning records and test results at handover, which help when you come to document what your system covers. For commercial premises, it’s often what your insurer expects.
How it Works
From first contact to final handover, you’ll get practical advice, a facial recognition camera system built around the needs of your business, and a clear, fair price.
Free Site Survey
We come to the site, look at where faces can be captured clearly enough to work with, and talk through what you want the system to tell you.
Plan and Quote
Your written quote sets out the cameras and coverage, what the system captures, the price, and the time we’ll need on site for installation.
Installation Day
We fit the system when it suits you, get your signage in place, and stay on site until your team knows exactly how to handle an alert properly.
Frequently Asked Questions About Facial Recognition Cameras
You may have a few questions before installing facial recognition cameras, so we’ve answered the ones we’re asked most often below.
Do I actually need facial recognition CCTV?
Possibly not, and that’s a perfectly good outcome.
For a lot of the sites we look at, a well-designed CCTV system and sensible access control do everything that’s needed. We’ll give you our honest view when you book your free site survey.
Is facial recognition CCTV legal for a business in the UK?
Yes, in the right circumstances.
You need to show it’s necessary and proportionate for a specific purpose, that you’ve considered less intrusive options, that you have the correct legal grounds, and that you’ve completed a DPIA with proper safeguards around it. It isn’t a camera upgrade you can just switch on.
Do I have to tell people it’s in use?
Yes.
Clear signage, plus a privacy notice explaining what the system does, why, and what happens to the data.
Can I use it to record when staff arrive and leave?
This is one to avoid.
The ICO has told organisations to stop using facial recognition for attendance monitoring where simpler options achieve the same thing.
For clocking in, a card or fob system is the more straightforward route.
Can it alert my staff if someone who’s been barred comes in?
Yes, that’s technically straightforward.
The work is in everything around it: a documented reason for each person on your list, review dates, controlled access, a person checking any alert before anyone acts on it, clear signage, and a DPIA completed beforehand.
It also helps to have agreed in advance what your team should actually do when an alert comes through. We’ll talk it through with you at the survey.
How is it different from the CCTV I already have?
Ordinary CCTV records images. Facial recognition creates a biometric template from a face and compares it against others. That template is special category data, which is what brings the stricter requirements.
Will it work with my existing cameras?
Sometimes.
Facial recognition needs faces captured clearly, at a workable angle, in good light. Some existing cameras will manage that at particular points on a site; many won’t. We’ll tell you honestly during the survey.
What happens to the data?
That’s set by how the system is configured and by the retention approach you document.
We’ll build to what you’ve decided, and explain the practical effect of each option.
Still Have Questions?
Tell us about your site and what you’d like from your facial recognition camera system. We’ll talk you through the options with no pressure either way.
Installing Facial Recognition Cameras Across Lincolnshire
We install and support security systems throughout Lincolnshire, from Lincoln and Sleaford to Grantham, Boston, Spalding, Stamford, Bourne, Louth, Horncastle, Gainsborough, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Skegness and Mablethorpe.
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Tell us what you want from a facial recognition system, and we’ll do the rest.
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