Home automation in Haripad

Sixteen HD cameras covering the outer premises, with every cable run underground rather than clipped along walls. On a temple site that keeps conduit out of sight, out of the monsoon and out of reach — surface cable is the first thing anyone cuts, and the first thing the rain gets into. Three of the positions are multi-purpose 360° units with two-way audio. One of those covers an open area that would otherwise need three fixed cameras, and the audio means staff can speak through it rather than having to walk out to whatever they have seen on the screen. Cabling a live site with people coming and going all day is the slow part. We worked around the temple's hours rather than the other way round.

Motion-sensor cameras and an alert system for a co-operative bank branch, where the requirement is different from a shop or a home. A bank does not just need footage after the event — it needs to know something is happening while it is happening, outside banking hours, when nobody is on the premises. Detection is set so that it triggers on people and vehicles rather than on rain, moths and moving branches. Badly configured motion detection produces so many false alerts that within a fortnight everybody turns notifications off, and then the alerting may as well not exist. Karuvatta is roughly 3 km from our Haripad office, which matters for a branch that needs somebody on site quickly when an alert is genuine.

A 5kW Adani on-grid rooftop system, with the PM Surya Ghar subsidy of ₹78,000 claimed and received. Worth knowing if you are pricing solar: the subsidy is capped at 3kW. A 5kW system receives the same ₹78,000 as a 3kW one, so the extra two kilowatts are paid for in full. That was the right call here because the consumption justified it — but it is a calculation anyone should see before they commit, and it is the one most often left out of a sales conversation. We handled the portal application, the KSEB feasibility approval and the net meter, in that order. Panels do not go on a roof here until the approval is in hand — installing first is the most common way a subsidy claim fails.

Sixteen IP cameras across the auditorium premises, including a 30x PTZ used for live streaming of programmes as well as for security. That dual use is why the system is IP rather than analog. A 30x optical zoom on a PTZ can follow a stage from the back of a hall and hold a usable image, which no fixed analog camera will do — and the same camera earns its place on event days rather than only when something goes wrong. A Luminous inverter and battery back the system, because an auditorium cannot have a recorder drop out mid-event. Losing power mid-write can corrupt a recording disk, which is why we put backup on the recorder as standard, not as an upsell.