Security cameras in Oshawa, old shop floors and new docks
A stamping shop that has run three shifts since the 1980s and a 500,000-square-foot distribution building that opened last year are both in Oshawa, and neither one's camera problem looks anything like the other's.
At a glance
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- Quoted per site. We will tell you what you do not need.
What Oshawa is, in the parts that affect this work
Oshawa carries a population of roughly 175,000 to 185,000 and remains one of the top five mid-sized advanced manufacturing clusters in North America, but the single-employer town it used to be is gone. GM's Oshawa Assembly has taken $1.5 billion of investment since 2020 and built its 500,000th truck in 2026, and it now sits alongside a healthcare and education economy anchored by Ontario Tech University and Durham College's combined 30,000-plus students. The 202-hectare Northwood Business Park at Taunton Road and Highway 407 has pulled in Lactalis Canada, Panattoni and Martin Brower onto land that was farmland within the last decade, while the Wentworth-Farewell-Stevenson Road corridor still carries decades-old machine shops and stamping suppliers that grew up around the assembly plant. Four Corners, the King and Simcoe intersection that has been the commercial core since before 1900, still has Victorian-era commercial blocks dating to the 1860s standing a few minutes' drive from a distribution centre built last year.
This page is about what that means for security cameras specifically. For how the work itself runs, what is included and what it costs to scope, the Security Camera Installation (NVR) page is the one to read.
Older Wentworth and Farewell shops were never wired for a modern system
A lot of the machine and parts shops along Wentworth, Farewell and Stevenson Road run around the clock or close to it, with shift changes at odd hours and a yard that sees delivery and pickup trucks well before daylight. These buildings usually have whatever lighting was adequate for the machinery inside and almost nothing outside beyond a single wall pack over the shipping door, which is exactly the kind of harsh, single-point light that blinds a camera rather than helping it.
Getting a usable image here is usually a lighting fix before it's a camera fix: a second fixture to fill the shadow the wall pack creates, or moving the camera off the same wall as the light so it isn't staring straight at the brightest point in frame. We check this before recommending hardware, because a better camera pointed at bad lighting is still a bad picture.
Northwood's brand-new buildings need the cable run before the racking arrives
On a new distribution building at Northwood Business Park, camera positions are decided by where a cable can reach, and that list is much longer during construction than after. Corners of the yard, the underside of a canopy over the dock doors, the far fence line: easy while the building is still a shell, a lift and a shutdown afterward.
We run cable for clients here even before they've chosen cameras, because the cost of running it now is a fraction of running it later, and the decision about what goes on the end of it can wait.
We already know what a landlord downtown will and won't approve
Anything mounted on a Four Corners facade needs the landlord's sign-off, and in some cases the city's, because the appearance of these blocks is part of why the area gets attention at all under the Simcoe Street South revitalisation work. We know which landlords on that stretch want a description of the work in advance and which ones want to see it in person, because we've done the paperwork with most of them before.
Getting to you in Oshawa
Oshawa doesn't get a travel note in the way the other towns do, because there is nothing to disclose. This is the address on our vehicle registration, not a town we drive into. Mobilisation on an install still applies, because a van gets loaded whether the job is across town or across the region, but there is no regional travel charge here and there never will be.
We are a service-area business based in Oshawa with no storefront, so every job happens at your premises. If your site sits at the edge of what we cover, we would rather say so on the phone than find out on the day.
Want this scoped for your site in Oshawa?
Tell us the building and what you are trying to achieve. We will tell you what it takes, and whether you actually need it.
Before you call
Can you cover our shipping yard on Farewell Street without new construction?
Usually, with a light fixed to solve the lighting problem before we touch the camera. We'll show you the difference a light makes before spending money on a camera upgrade that wouldn't fix it.
Our building at Northwood isn't finished. Should we wait to talk to you?
No. Call while it's still a shell. Running cable to the corners and the fence line now costs a fraction of doing it once the building is occupied, even if you're not buying cameras for another year.
Do we need the landlord's approval for a downtown Oshawa storefront?
For anything visible from the street, almost certainly. We provide the description and drawings landlords ask for, and for several buildings on the Four Corners stretch we already know what that landlord wants to see.