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Galaxy IT & Marketing is an authorized Lorex dealer serving Natick, MA. Every system we install records to a recorder in your building — no monthly subscription, and it keeps recording with the internet down.
Natick has one of the densest retail corridors in MetroWest, and retail is the hardest environment to cover well — high foot traffic, glass everywhere, and a parking lot that is unusable on camera after 4pm in December.
Shops along Route 9 and near the Golden Triangle tend to buy cameras by count. Eight cameras spread evenly across a sales floor produces eight views of the backs of people's heads. What actually resolves a loss is a small number of correctly positioned cameras: one at the entrance at face height, one over each register angled to see hands and the drawer, one on the stockroom door, and one on the rear exit.
Glass storefronts are their own problem. A camera aimed at or through glass fights reflection all day and headlights all night. We position to avoid shooting through glazing wherever possible, and where it is unavoidable we mount tight to the glass to kill the reflection rather than back in the room.
The most common complaint we hear after a retail install someone else did is that the parking lot footage is worthless. It usually looked fine when the installer tested it at 2pm in June. Natick's commercial lots are lit by pole lights that create bright pools and deep shadow, and a camera exposing for the bright pool renders everything else black.
We choose cameras for wide dynamic range and low-light behavior rather than headline resolution, and we set the exposure for the conditions the footage will actually be needed in — which is almost always at night.
Food service here has the same priority list as everywhere: back door, walk-in, register, dumpster. The Natick difference is that many of these spaces sit inside larger developments with shared service corridors, so coverage of your own rear door often means agreeing with a property manager about where a camera can point.
Fewer than most quotes suggest, placed better. Entrance at face height, one over each register angled to see hands and the drawer, stockroom door, rear exit. That set resolves most incidents. Cameras spread evenly across a sales floor mostly produce views of the backs of heads.
Almost always exposure. Pole lighting creates bright pools and deep shadow in the same frame, and a camera metering for the bright area renders the rest black. It needs a camera with genuine wide dynamic range, positioned so the light source is behind it, with exposure set for night rather than for the afternoon it was installed on.
We would rather not shoot through glass at all, because reflection during the day and headlights at night both destroy the image. Where it is unavoidable we mount the camera tight against the glazing rather than back in the room, which eliminates most of the reflection.
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