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Galaxy IT & Marketing is an authorized Lorex dealer serving Chelmsford, MA. Every system we install records to a recorder in your building — no monthly subscription, and it keeps recording with the internet down.
A lot of Chelmsford properties are both a home and a business — a contractor with vans in the driveway, a trade operating out of the garage, an office in a converted room. That mix has consequences for how the cameras should be set up.
Running a business from a residential property means the camera system serves two purposes with different rules. The business side wants coverage of vehicles, tools, materials and the work area, and that footage may end up in an insurance claim or a dispute. The residential side is your family's private space.
Keeping them logically separate matters. We set up the system so business-relevant coverage — driveway, vehicles, garage, work area, materials — is distinct from anything covering private living space, and we do not point cameras into the latter at all. It keeps the footage clean if it is ever needed formally, and it avoids the situation where an insurer or an opposing party requests recordings and the scope is broader than you intended.
Tools out of vehicles overnight is the single most common trade loss, and a van in a residential driveway is an easier target than one in a fenced yard. The high-value position is a camera at the driveway entrance at windshield height for identification, plus a wider one over the vehicles themselves for context.
Worth knowing: insurers increasingly ask what security measures were in place after a tools claim. Being able to say the driveway was covered, and to produce footage, changes those conversations. Check your own policy language — some have specific requirements about how tools are secured overnight.
On the commercial side the corridor runs the standard mix of retail, service and office. Nothing unusual in the design; the recurring failure is the same one everywhere, which is a parking area camera specified for daylight and useless when it is actually needed.
Yes. We keep business coverage — driveway, vehicles, garage, work area, materials — logically separate from anything near private living space, and we do not point cameras into living areas at all. It keeps footage clean if it is ever needed for an insurance claim or a dispute, and it stops the scope of a records request being wider than you intended.
The driveway entrance at windshield height for identification, plus a wider camera over the vehicles for context. Tools taken from vehicles overnight is the most common trade loss there is, and a van in a residential driveway is an easier target than one behind a fence.
They generally help, and insurers increasingly ask what measures were in place after a tools claim. Being able to say the driveway was covered and produce the footage changes that conversation. Read your own policy language though — some have specific overnight securing requirements that a camera alone does not satisfy.
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