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Hudson Valley

Home CCTV for Colonials & Estates · Historic River Homes · Rural & Wooded Lots · Long Driveways · Barns & Outbuildings · Pools & Backyards — 4K IP/PoE · Solar & Wireless · Local NVR · No Monthly Fees · Licensed & Insured

Professional residential security camera installation, home CCTV surveillance systems, 4K IP cameras, and local NVR recording for Hudson Valley homeowners across all six counties — the Tudor estates and stone colonials of Westchester, the commuter towns of Rockland, the suburban and rural stretches of Orange and Putnam, and the historic river towns, farms, and mountain homes of Dutchess and Ulster. Full perimeter coverage for long driveways, wooded borders, barns, detached garages, pools, and outbuildings, with weatherproofing for hard upstate winters, person and vehicle AI that ignores the deer and wildlife, and solar or wireless where cable can’t reach — from a single doorbell camera to a whole-estate system. Abstract Enterprises is a licensed and insured residential security camera company — with no monthly fees on local NVR. For business and commercial CCTV, see our commercial security camera installation service; for our full residential and commercial camera service across the region, see security camera installation Hudson Valley.

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Why Home Cameras

Why Hudson Valley Homeowners Install Cameras

For most Hudson Valley families it starts with something concrete: packages taken off the porch, a car gone through in the driveway overnight, tools missing from a barn, or a weekend house that sits empty for stretches. A home camera system answers all of it — clear footage and an instant phone alert the moment something moves at the front door, down a long driveway, by the barn, or along a wooded property line. Up here the lots are big and the houses sit far apart, so a system that actually covers the driveway, the outbuildings, and the perimeter does far more than a single doorbell ever could. Many Hudson Valley insurers also trim the premium for a professionally installed system.

What makes a Hudson Valley home different is the range of property. Westchester’s Tudor estates and stone colonials in Scarsdale and Bedford, modern condos in White Plains, Victorians in the river towns. Rockland’s commuter neighborhoods. The suburban developments and rural stretches of Orange and Putnam. The historic river homes, working farms, and mountain houses of Dutchess and Ulster. Each one needs its own plan: full-perimeter coverage for long driveways, barns, and wooded borders; weatherproofing that survives hard upstate winters and snow load; person and vehicle AI tuned so the deer and wildlife don’t trigger it all night; and solar or wireless where running cable across acres isn’t practical. That is the difference between a few cameras and a system that actually covers the whole property.

Home Camera Systems

The Home Camera Systems We Install in the Hudson Valley

Every property is different, so we start with what you actually need rather than a boxed package. Most Hudson Valley homes end up with a mix — a doorbell at the entrance, wired cameras on the high-value zones, and solar or wireless for the far corners of a big or wooded lot.

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Doorbell & Package Cameras

A camera at the front door — battery or hardwired — that shows visitors and deliveries and captures where packages disappear, with two-way audio to speak to whoever’s at the door.

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Whole-Property Wired Systems

Hardwired PoE cameras run to a recorder in the basement or barn, covering every door, the driveway, the yard, and the outbuildings — recording 24/7 with no dropouts and no monthly fee.

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Solar & Wireless for Acreage

Solar-powered and battery cameras for the far end of a long driveway, a detached barn, or a tree-lined perimeter where trenching cable isn’t practical — meshed or 4G where rural Wi-Fi is weak.

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Full-Color Night Cameras

Color that holds through the night rather than a gray smear — so a face at the door or a truck in the drive at 2am is something you can actually use.

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Wildlife-Smart AI Alerts

Person and vehicle detection tuned to ignore the deer, raccoons, and swaying trees that trigger ordinary cameras all night on a wooded Hudson Valley lot.

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Weekend & Seasonal Monitoring

Remote viewing and alerts for the country and weekend homes that sit empty — check the property from anywhere and get pinged the moment something moves.

What We Cover

The Spots That Actually Matter on an HV Property

Coverage is about placement, not camera count. On a Hudson Valley lot, a well-aimed driveway camera and good perimeter coverage protect a home better than a dozen pointed at nothing. We walk the whole property — sometimes acres of it — and design around your real entry points and blind spots.

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Front Door & Porch

A clean read of faces at the door and the package drop — the anchor camera on nearly every HV home.

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Driveway & Road Frontage

Long driveways covered end to end, with plates readable at the road and anyone approaching after dark.

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Backyard, Pool & Wooded Borders

The rear of the house, the pool, and the tree-lined property edges where people slip in unseen on a big lot.

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Barns & Outbuildings

Detached barns, garages, sheds, and equipment that sit away from the house on Dutchess and Ulster acreage.

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Windows & Ground Floor

Ground-floor windows, basement entries, and any low, reachable access point on a sprawling home or estate.

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Property Perimeter

Fence lines, gates, and the wooded edges of multi-acre lots, covered with the right mix of fixed, wide-angle, and PTZ cameras.

Plain English

Home Camera Terms, Decoded

You don’t have to learn the vocabulary to get a solid system, but a handful of terms show up on every quote — here they are in plain language.

PoE

One thin Cat6 cable carries both power and video to a camera — the cleanest, most reliable wiring, even on long runs across a property.

NVR

The recorder that stores your footage on a drive inside the home or barn. No cloud invoice, and the footage stays put on your land.

4K / Resolution

The amount of detail captured. We run 4MP on general zones and step up to 4K at the front door and driveway mouth, where a readable face or plate actually matters.

Full-Color Night Vision

Cameras that hold real color through the night rather than flipping to gray infrared — the gap between knowing someone was there and knowing who.

Person / Vehicle AI

On-camera smarts that tell a human or a car from deer, wind, and swaying trees, so your phone only buzzes when it matters — essential on a wooded lot.

Solar / Mesh / 4G

Power and connectivity options for cameras far from an outlet or weak rural Wi-Fi — how we cover the end of a 500-foot driveway or a back barn.

Hardware

The Camera Brands We Install in HV Homes

We install professional-grade cameras chosen for a house and a big lot, not a corporation — brands that deliver 4K, full-color night vision, and reliable AI at a price that makes covering a whole Hudson Valley property affordable. Depending on the property and what you want on your phone, that usually means Hikvision, Dahua, Lorex, Reolink, Amcrest, or Uniview, with premium options like Eufy or Axis when a client asks. We’re not tied to one manufacturer and make nothing extra steering you to a brand — we pick what fits your home and your acreage. We’ll also mount cameras you already bought, do doorbell-only jobs, and modernize or adopt the older systems some other outfit walked away from.

Honest Pricing

What a Home System Costs in the Hudson Valley

Every quote is fixed-price after a free in-home walk-through — here are honest ranges so you can budget first. That figure includes everything — cameras, cabling, recorder, labor, setup — with nothing monthly on a local NVR. Out here it’s the lot size, the driveway length, and the spread of the buildings that swing the total as much as the camera count.

Condo / Townhouse
1–3 cameras
$850 – $2,000

A doorbell and a camera or two on the entry and patio, tidily installed, nothing billed monthly.

Ranch / Split-Level
4–8 cameras
$2,000 – $4,500

The front, the drive, the backyard, and a doorbell — full-color at night, recorded locally.

Colonial / Larger Home
6–12 cameras
$3,500 – $7,500

The whole place covered — doors, drive, pool, garage, and side yards — all weather-rated.

Estate / Rural Acreage
12–20+ cameras
Custom

Full perimeter, long driveway, barns and outbuildings, solar where needed, seasonal monitoring, long retention.

How It Works

From First Call to Cameras on the Property

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Free On-Property Walk-Through

We come to your property — sometimes acres of it — look at every door, the driveway, the barns, and the perimeter, find the blind spots, and map exactly where each camera goes, then hand you a written fixed-price quote.

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Weatherproof, Long-Run Installation

Licensed technicians run cable across long distances, mount weather-rated cameras for snow and hard winters, and use solar or mesh where trenching cable isn’t practical — nothing exposed.

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Setup, Phone Access & Walkthrough

We configure the recorder, tune the AI so wildlife doesn’t trigger it, set up live viewing and alerts on your phone for free, test every camera, and walk you through the app before we leave.

Real Questions

What Hudson Valley Homeowners Actually Ask

Cost & Budget

What should I budget for cameras on a Hudson Valley home?

A 4 to 8 camera home setup realistically lands at $850 to $2,500 all-in — hardware, wiring, recorder, labor, nothing monthly. A bigger colonial, an estate, or a rural parcel with a long approach and outbuildings runs above that simply because there’s more ground in play. The land sets the price, not the camera count alone.

Why does a rural property cost more to cover?

More acreage means more cable, more cameras for the perimeter, weather-rated runs out to barns and detached garages, and sometimes solar or mesh for spots cable can’t reach. A tidy suburban lot is a quick job; a wooded multi-acre property is a bigger one.

Quality & Trust

How do I avoid a bad installer up here?

Walk away from anyone who prices the job without setting foot on the land, fits no-name cameras, or tacks cable to the siding. Get a NYS license number, a written fixed scope, and county references in hand — the rock-bottom quote nearly always swells once the work starts.

Do I need a licensed contractor for a house?

New York law requires a state license to install and maintain these systems. A licensed low-voltage contractor also runs the code-compliant, weatherproof, hidden cabling and the long rural pulls a handyman simply won’t touch — and stands behind it. We’re NYS #12000287431 and insured.

DIY vs Pro

Can I just buy a kit and do it myself?

For one doorbell, sure. For a whole Hudson Valley property it usually disappoints once you hit long driveways, wooded perimeters, weak rural Wi-Fi, snow load, and weatherproofing. A wired or hybrid system with a local recorder and solar where needed is what holds up.

Why do my Wi-Fi cameras drop at the end of the driveway?

Rural Wi-Fi is weak and fades fast across acreage and through trees. The road end, the barn, and the back perimeter are exactly where consumer Wi-Fi cameras fail. We hardwire the core, and mesh, solar, or 4G the far reaches.

Technical

How many cameras does an HV home need?

It depends on the property. Rough starts: 1 to 3 for a condo, 4 to 8 for a suburban ranch or split, 6 to 12 for a colonial with a driveway and garage, more for an estate or rural acreage with outbuildings. We pin the exact camera spots during a free on-property visit.

How do you stop the deer and wildlife from triggering alerts?

We use person and vehicle AI and tune the detection zones so the cameras ignore deer, raccoons, and swaying trees and only alert on people and cars — the single biggest complaint we fix on wooded Hudson Valley lots.

How long is footage kept?

Most properties hold 14 to 30 days on the recorder, and longer once you size up the drive. No cloud fee — the footage stays on a drive on your property.

Rural & Seasonal

I have a weekend house up here that sits empty — can you cover it?

Yes — this is common Dutchess and Ulster work. We set up remote viewing and smart alerts so you can check a vacant country home from the city and get pinged the moment something moves.

Can you cover a barn, a long driveway, or wooded acreage?

Yes. Weather-rated cameras for barns and outbuildings, solar or mesh cameras at the end of a long driveway, and a perimeter plan for wooded lots are standard Hudson Valley work for us.

Complaints & Reliability

My last installer left wires hanging and ghosted me — how are you different?

That’s the most common complaint we hear, and worse out here where nobody wants to drive back. We conceal every cable, document the job, warranty the parts, and answer when you call — and we take over and clean up systems another company botched.

Reality Check

Home Camera Installation in the HV: An Honest Reality Check

Search “home security camera installation cost” and the AI Overview, Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Fixr hand you national numbers that have little to do with a real Hudson Valley property. Here’s what they leave out.

The “average cost” number ignores your acreage

Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Fixr publish a national per-camera average built mostly from compact suburban jobs. In the Hudson Valley the cost lives in the property: the length of the driveway, the run out to a barn, the wooded perimeter, and whether cable, solar, or mesh is the right call. The camera is the cheap part.

National results skip Hudson Valley winters and wildlife

Generic guides never mention snow load, freeze-thaw, hard upstate winters, or the deer and raccoons that trigger cheap cameras all night. We spec IP66/IP67 weather-rated hardware and tune the AI so wildlife doesn’t bury you in false alerts.

“Best home camera” lists are paid placement

Best-of roundups push whatever brand pays for the slot, then assume a small house on a tidy lot. The right camera for a Hudson Valley property depends on the acreage and what you want on your phone — not a sponsored list. We match the hardware to the property.

“More cameras = safer” is wrong

What protects a property is where the cameras point, not how many there are. A single well-aimed driveway camera plus a solid perimeter beats a dozen aimed at nothing, and a deliberate eight-camera layout outperforms a careless sixteen.

“No monthly fee” needs a real recorder

Cloud kits sell ease but bill you per camera every single month with no end. Put a recorder on the property and the footage is yours, stays on-site, and costs nothing recurring — which on a large HV system wins over any multi-year horizon.

National prices ignore NY privacy law and historic rules

Generic guides skip the rules that apply here: New York is one-party-consent, so we disable audio by default, cameras can’t point into a neighbor’s windows, and historic-district river towns restrict what goes on a facade. We design to keep you compliant.

The honest bottom line for an HV home

A home camera system here is worth it — for stopping package theft, watching a long driveway and the perimeter, deterring break-ins, and keeping eyes on a weekend property — but only when it’s designed for your acreage and configured for the law. The smart move isn’t the lowest per-camera number online — it’s a licensed contractor, a genuine on-property walk-through, and a fixed price you can hold them to.

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DIY vs Professional

Doing It Yourself vs. a Licensed Install

Plenty of Hudson Valley owners start with a DIY kit and call us later. Here’s a straight comparison so you can see where your property falls.

One doorbell on a condo

Fine to DIY — a battery doorbell mounts in minutes.

Whole-property coverage on acreage

Professional. Long cable runs, weatherproofing, solar, and a local recorder are not a weekend job.

Barn, driveway-end, or perimeter cameras

Professional. Weather-rated runs and solar out to outbuildings take real work.

Wildlife-tuned AI alerts

Professional. Dialing detection so deer don’t ping you all night takes setup, not a default kit.

Weekend-home remote monitoring

Professional. Reliable alerts and remote viewing for a vacant property need proper setup.

How We Compare

Local Licensed Install vs. ADT, Ring & SimpliSafe

vs. ADT / Vivint

They lock you into a multi-year monitoring contract on hardware that stays theirs. We hand you a system that’s yours from day one — no contract, nothing owed monthly on a local recorder.

vs. Ring / Nest DIY

Consumer Wi-Fi cameras that fade across acreage, cloud subscriptions to unlock features, exposed mounting. We do licensed, weatherproof, concealed cabling with solar where needed and zero fees.

vs. SimpliSafe

Boxed self-install kit with monthly monitoring — thin for a big or rural property. We design real coverage for your driveway, barns, perimeter, and yard.

vs. a Handyman

No license, no code-compliant cabling, no long-run or solar experience, no warranty. We’re a licensed outfit that papers every job and warranties it.

Our Model

Free on-property walk, fixed price, professional-grade cameras, a local recorder you own, weatherproof and solar cabling, no monthly fee — ever.

Coverage

Home Cameras Across All Six HV Counties

This is our Hudson Valley residential hub. We install home security cameras across every county — pick yours, or see our full camera service for the whole region.

Westchester County

Tudor estates, stone colonials, Victorians, and condos — full-property coverage.

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Rockland County

Commuter-town homes and suburban developments across Rockland.

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Orange County

Suburban and rural homes from Newburgh to Warwick.

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Putnam County

Wooded lots, long driveways, and homes around Carmel and Mahopac.

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Dutchess County

River-town homes, farms, and estates from Poughkeepsie to Rhinebeck.

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Ulster County

Mountain homes, historic stone houses, and rural lots around Kingston and New Paltz.

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Our full residential and commercial camera service across all six counties.

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Problems We Solve

Hudson Valley Home Camera Problems We Fix Every Week

“Packages keep disappearing off my porch.”

A doorbell camera aimed at the drop point with face capture and two-way audio — the highest-value home camera, even out in the country.

“My Wi-Fi cameras drop at the end of the driveway.”

Rural Wi-Fi fades across acreage. We hardwire the core and use solar, mesh, or 4G at the road end and the barn.

“The deer set off my cameras all night.”

Ordinary motion detection. We use person and vehicle AI tuned so deer, raccoons, and trees are ignored and only people and cars alert.

“My outside cameras quit on me over the winter.”

Wrong rating. We install IP66/IP67 weather-rated cameras built for snow load, freeze-thaw, and hard upstate winters.

“My weekend house sits empty and I worry.”

We set up remote viewing and alerts so you can watch a vacant country home from anywhere and get pinged on motion.

“Somebody ran wires all over my siding.”

We re-run everything concealed and weatherproof, and clean up the previous job — even out in the northern counties.

Customer Reviews

What Hudson Valley Homeowners Say

“Place in Bedford with a 500-foot driveway — a solar 4K camera at the road end, two more at the garage and front entry, all on one app. No monthly fee. Exactly what we needed.”

— Mark R., Bedford, NY

“Colonial in Nyack — front, driveway, backyard, and the detached garage, full-color night vision, clean weatherproof install. Survived the winter without a hiccup.”

— Donna L., Nyack, NY

“Farm property in Rhinebeck — barn, field, the long driveway, and the house, with the AI tuned so the deer don’t ping me all night. Watch the whole place from my phone.”

— Tom S., Rhinebeck, NY

“Weekend house up in Woodstock that sits empty — they set up remote viewing and alerts. I check it from the city anytime. Great price, no monthly fee.”

— Priya M., Woodstock, NY

From the Field

Field Notes from a Hudson Valley Home Install

The Dutchess farm job that explains why the walk-through matters: a historic river-town property with the main house, a barn a couple hundred feet back, a 600-foot driveway off a rural road, wooded borders, and owners who spend weekdays in the city. On paper, hang some cameras. In reality the driveway needed a solar camera at the road end to read plates without trenching cable the length of it, the barn needed its own weather-rated run, the wooded perimeter needed AI tuned so the deer and turkeys didn’t trigger alerts every few minutes, and the whole thing needed remote viewing dialed in so they could watch a vacant property from the city. We ran weather-rated cable to the house and garage, solar-powered the far cameras, set 30-day retention, disabled audio, and tuned the detection zones. The part that actually protected the property was never the cameras off a website — it was the solar at the driveway end, the weatherproofing, the wildlife-tuned AI, and a perimeter plan that only comes from walking the land first.

Need Repair?

Cameras Down at Home in the HV? Fast Repair

Camera offline, recorder not recording, can’t view on your phone, footage blurry at night, deer triggering alerts all night, or a system another company installed and abandoned? We diagnose and fix residential camera systems across all six Hudson Valley counties — same-day in the southern counties, next-day up north. We fix, harden, and upgrade what’s already there — winter-damaged rigs and other companies’ installs included.

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Questions

Hudson Valley Home Camera Questions Answered

How much does home security camera installation cost in the Hudson Valley?

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Plan on roughly $850 to $2,500 for a 4 to 8 camera home system — that covers the cameras, the cabling, the recorder, and the install, with nothing billed monthly on a local NVR. Estates, river-town properties, and rural parcels with a long approach and barns climb past that, because the driveway length and the spread of the outbuildings decide the number far more than the camera count does. You get a firm, fixed figure once we’ve walked the land.

Do you cover long driveways, barns, and wooded acreage?

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Yes — this is core Hudson Valley work. We cover long driveways end to end, run weather-rated cable to barns and detached garages, and use solar, mesh, or 4G where cable can’t practically reach.

Can you stop the deer and wildlife from triggering my cameras?

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Yes. We use person and vehicle AI and tune the detection zones so deer, raccoons, and swaying trees are ignored and only people and cars alert — the biggest complaint we fix on wooded lots.

Can you monitor a weekend or seasonal home that sits empty?

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Yes. We set up remote viewing and smart alerts so you can check a vacant Dutchess, Ulster, or Putnam home from anywhere and get notified the moment something moves.

Are there monthly fees for a home camera system?

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No — a local-NVR build is yours outright, recorder and footage both, with nothing charged month to month, and phone viewing comes set up at no cost. If you want an off-site copy for a remote property, cloud backup is there as an add-on, not a requirement.

Will the cameras hold up to upstate winters?

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Yes — we install IP66/IP67 weather-rated cameras and sealed enclosures built for snow load, freeze-thaw, and hard Hudson Valley winters.

How many cameras does my home need?

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The land decides it. A condo might need 1 to 3, a suburban ranch 4 to 8, a colonial with a drive and garage 6 to 12, and an estate or wooded parcel a good deal more. We pin down the exact spots when we walk the property.

Wired or wireless for a rural property?

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Wired PoE for the zones near the house because it records around the clock and never drops, and solar, mesh, or 4G for the far reaches — the driveway end, the barn, the back perimeter. Most HV properties are a hybrid.

Do the cameras record in color at night?

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Yes — full-color night vision is standard on our HV builds, so a long driveway, a barn approach, or a back field reads in real color after midnight rather than washing out to gray.

Can I watch my home cameras from my phone?

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Yes — you get live views, saved clips, and motion alerts on any phone, configured at no charge, and nobody leaves your property until you’ve been walked through the app yourself.

Do I need a licensed contractor for a home install?

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New York requires a state license to install and service security systems, and we hold it — NYS #12000287431, fully insured — with the weatherproof, concealed, long-distance cabling a Hudson Valley property actually needs.

Do you fix or take over a system another company installed?

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Absolutely — we add on, modernize, repair, and adopt orphaned systems, including the winter-wrecked and the ones left with wires dangling. Whatever still performs we keep; the rest we swap out.

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Security Systems · Licensed & Insured
1282 Troy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203 📞 (845) 640-3835
NYS License #12000287431
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