How re-deployable CCTV can improve site safety and security across multiple locations
From busy town centres and traffic junctions to sporting events and festivals, these environments are often temporary, dispersed or high-risk, yet they still need consistent, high-quality CCTV coverage.
At the same time, budgets are under pressure and teams are lean, so you need security systems that are quick to deploy, easy to move between locations, straightforward to manage and resilient if the network or power fails.
This is where the CCTV Hub from Redvision, a UK-based CCTV camera manufacturer, comes into its own, providing a practical foundation for multi-location, re-deployable CCTV strategies.
The challenge of multi-location CCTV
Most legacy CCTV architectures were designed around fixed buildings and permanent network infrastructure. When you try to stretch those systems across multiple locations, a few familiar problems emerge:
- Control rooms struggle to bring together feeds from different, often incompatible systems.
- Local managers have limited or no access to their own cameras, which slows down investigations and incident response.
- Temporary or higher-risk areas cannot be covered quickly without new work or complex networking.
- Recording is centralised, so outages or WAN failures create gaps in evidence.
For CCTV installers and security consultants, this makes it difficult to deliver a standardised design across an estate. For security managers, it means inconsistent performance and higher operational overheads. A hub-based architecture solves many of these challenges.
What is the Redvision CCTV Hub?
The CCTV Hub is a rugged, compact camera station from CCTV camera manufacturer Redvision. It acts as a complete CCTV platform in a single enclosure. It provides power, network and recording for up to four CCTV cameras at each location, with secure connectivity back to your central monitoring environment.
Because it is ONVIF compliant, the CCTV Hub supports a wide range of devices and manufacturers. That gives you the freedom to choose the right device mix for each scene, whether that’s a high-specification PTZ CCTV camera for long-range coverage or a static IP camera for evidential detail at a gate or entrance.
At a technical level, the CCTV Hub typically offers:
- Support for multiple IP cameras, powered and managed from the same unit.
- 4G or 5G connectivity and fixed public IP options, so each hub appears to your VMS or control room like any other remote site.
- Local, high-capacity recording for each location, with options for edge and NVR-style storage.
- Integration with Redvision’s RedVu CMS or other compatible VMS platforms for multi-site management.
Four core benefits for multi-location businesses
The original brief for the Redvision CCTV Hub was simple: make it easier to deploy and manage CCTV across many sites without duplicating hardware and effort. That translates into four core benefits.
1. Central remote monitoring
The CCTV Hub lets you treat each deployment as another node on your wider CCTV network. From a central control room, operators can:
- View live and recorded footage from multiple hubs across all your locations, such as town centres, event sites, traffic hot spots, rail crossings and construction compounds.
- Take control of a PTZ security camera during live incidents, following suspects or zooming in for evidential detail.
- Apply common operating procedures, analytics rules and recording policies across different locations.
In practical terms, this means you can extend town centre coverage, support temporary monitoring at events and planned marches, or add cameras around football ground perimeters and at high-risk junctions without building a separate system every time. For many organisations, the CCTV Hub is key to a more agile, re-deployable CCTV strategy, where units are moved between hot spots as risk changes.
2. Local remote access for managers and partners
Distributed CCTV deployments don’t rely only on a central control room. Local teams and partner organisations need the ability to review footage, export clips and check live status without raising tickets every time.
The Redvision CCTV Hub supports secure, role-based remote access, so authorised users can:
- Log in from a workstation, laptop or mobile device.
- Retrieve recordings for investigations, incident reviews or health and safety enquiries following an event, protest, collision or trespass.
- Check that a static IP camera watching a junction, crossing, turnstile line, compound gate or temporary site entrance is working correctly after an incident.
This local access improves response times and makes better use of staff on the ground, while still keeping overall control and audit at the centre.
3. Local recording for resilience and evidence
Every site connected via the CCTV Hub records locally as well as streaming back to the central system. If the WAN link or 4G/5G connection is interrupted, cameras continue to record on site. Once the connection is restored, missing footage can be synchronised back to your main recorder or VMS.
For critical incidents at accident hot spots, rail crossings or event perimeters, this reduces the risk of gaps in evidence and supports more robust investigations. For public sector organisations, it also makes your CCTV policies easier to defend, because you can demonstrate that loss of network doesn’t automatically mean loss of video.
4. Scalability and cost-effectiveness across your locations
Deploying CCTV across town centres, transport networks and temporary sites means you need to be able to start small, prove value, then expand coverage over time as risks and priorities change.
The Redvision CCTV Hub is designed to be scaled in a modular way. You can:
- Begin with a small number of hubs for higher-risk or pilot locations, such as accident hot spots or festival sites.
- Add more hubs as requirements grow, without redesigning the core architecture.
- Move hubs between locations as risk profiles change, maximising utilisation of each unit and supporting a re-deployable CCTV model.
This modular, re-deployable CCTV approach avoids the sunk cost of large, fixed infrastructure projects and gives you a standard building block that can be reused across town centres, transport hubs, stadium perimeters, construction sites and remote locations with no fixed network connectivity.
Practical applications across diverse sites
Although every project is different, the CCTV Hub lends itself to a range of common use cases:
- Town centres and public sector CCTV: deploy hubs to high-risk areas, transport interchanges or known anti-social behaviour hot spots, combining a PTZ CCTV camera for patrols with fixed views capturing entrances, approaches and vehicle movements. Move units as patterns of behaviour change.
- Events, festivals and planned marches: provide temporary coverage for crowds, approaches and back-of-house areas, using a mix of static IP camera views on key access points and PTZ security camera coverage across larger public spaces.
- Traffic junctions, crossings and rail environments: support monitoring at accident hot spots, level crossings and approaches where civils work is challenging. Local teams can access recordings for incident reviews, while central control retains oversight.
- Construction sites and void properties: protect compounds, materials and unused buildings where there may be no fixed network connectivity, using a standard hub configuration that is easy to redeploy as projects move or properties change status.
In each case, the CCTV Hub acts as a repeatable building block that simplifies design, installation and long-term management across many different locations, supporting a flexible re-deployable CCTV approach.
Designing the right mix of PTZ CCTV camera and static IP camera coverage
From a system design perspective, the CCTV Hub gives you the freedom to build the right combination of cameras around each unit. A common pattern is:
- A rugged PTZ security camera for wide area coverage, allowing operators to tour, patrol or respond interactively to alarms in public squares, around stadiums, along protest routes or across large construction compounds.
- One or more static camera views focused on key points, such as junction stop lines, crossing approaches, ticket barriers, turnstiles, vehicle gates, site entrances or building access points.
The static views provide consistent, continuous coverage of key evidence points, while the PTZ CCTV camera delivers flexible, operator-driven coverage that can follow an incident beyond the initial trigger area.
Because all devices are powered and managed through the same hub, installers can simplify cabling, power distribution and fault finding, even on temporary or hard-to-reach locations. For consultants, this provides a repeatable design that balances coverage, evidential quality and budget across a wide range of public space and infrastructure applications.
Working with the right CCTV camera manufacturer
Hardware choices matter. When you are deploying across town centres, transport corridors, stadium environments and temporary sites, you need confidence in the build quality, environmental performance and long-term support of the products you specify.
Redvision’s 25 years of experience as a specialist CCTV camera manufacturer is directly reflected in the design of the CCTV Hub and its associated camera ranges. Housings are engineered for harsh outdoor environments with rugged marine-grade finishes where required. All Redvision cameras are ONVIF and NDAA compliant, so you can specify your CCTV system with confidence.
If you are not sure which cameras or hub configuration is best for your project, our team can talk you through your options and help you design the right mix of PTZ security camera and static IP camera coverage for your application. Contact our team today for more information and pricing.