Commercial AV and Surveillance Installation

A different building, the same discipline

Commercial spaces ask for a different kind of system than a house, but the underlying discipline is the same: design the network and the wiring first, then build the presentation, audio, and surveillance systems on top of it. We work with offices, restaurants, retail spaces, and warehouses, and every one of those buildings starts with a walkthrough, not a product list pulled off a spec sheet.

A conference room, a dining room, and a warehouse floor each have their own requirements for audio coverage, display placement, and camera positioning, and each gets designed around how the space is actually used, not a one-size template.

What we install

The scope on a commercial project usually spans several of these at once: a restaurant might need background music, digital menu boards, and cameras on the register and the back door, all designed and installed together rather than as separate vendor calls.

• Presentation systems for conference rooms: displays, video conferencing hardware, wireless screen sharing
• Background music zoned by area, so a dining room and a bar can run different levels or sources
• Digital signage for menus, wayfinding, or promotional content, updated remotely
• 4K surveillance with remote monitoring across the property, from a single office to a multi-building site
• Structured cabling and Wi-Fi sized for the number of devices and users the space actually carries

Surveillance built for a business

Commercial surveillance has different priorities than a home system: coverage of registers, entries, loading docks, and parking areas, footage that holds up if it's ever needed for a claim or an incident, and remote monitoring for an owner who is not always on site. We design camera placement and recording capacity around those needs specifically, not by dropping a residential system into a commercial building.

One point of contact

A commercial project usually touches several trades: electrical, low-voltage, IT. We coordinate the AV, network, and surveillance scope directly with the ownership or the general contractor, so there's one team responsible for how those systems work together once the doors open.

Coordinated with your other trades

On a new build or a build-out, the AV and network scope has to line up with the electrical rough-in, the ceiling grid, and the schedule the general contractor is already running. We show up to the same walkthroughs as those other trades and plan our cable paths and equipment locations around theirs, so nothing gets discovered as a conflict after drywall is up.

Sized for the business, not just the building

A ten-table restaurant and a forty-thousand-square-foot warehouse need different amounts of network capacity, different camera counts, and different audio zoning, even if both are technically one building. We size the system around how many people move through the space, how many devices connect to the network, and what actually needs to be seen or heard where, rather than treating every commercial job as the same template.

Bring the rooms and the operating schedule

A conference room, a public display, and a camera system each need a clear owner and a practical way to operate them.

• List room uses, expected users, and the devices people need to connect.
• Identify meeting platforms, display sources, and existing network requirements.
• Discuss installation access and business hours before scheduling disruptive work.
• Specify who will manage content, user access, and day-to-day troubleshooting.

Discuss your commercial av and surveillance project, or read the consultation checklist first.