From the office towers along Queen Street and Britomart through the apartment buildings of the city core to the hospitality strips of K Road and Federal Street, Comsys installs CCTV, access control, intruder alarms, and intercoms for Auckland CBD properties.
The Auckland CBD has a higher concentration of multi-tenant buildings than anywhere else in the country, which means most security work happens inside someone else’s tenancy or body corporate. Office tenancies in towers around Britomart, Queen Street, Wyndham Street, and Victoria Street typically need access control on tenancy entries, alarm zoning that matches lease boundaries, and CCTV that respects the building’s base-build cabling. Hospitality on K Road, Federal Street, and Wynyard Quarter has after-hours risk on shopfronts and back-of-house cash handling. Residential apartments around Hobson, Albert, and Parnell Rise need intercoms, lobby access, and basement-carpark CCTV co-ordinated with the body corporate.
Comsys is based at 4/26 Bancroft Crescent in Glendene; CBD jobs are around 25–35 minutes via SH16 outside peak. We coordinate site visits with building managers, work to tenant fit-out hours where required, and produce as-built drawings on handover. Most CBD office cabling work is done outside business hours; we factor that into the quote rather than padding the day rate.
CBD apartment owners typically want CCTV on the apartment’s entry door, an intercom integrated with the building system, and a small alarm panel with PIRs and door contacts that arms when the apartment is empty. Many city apartments have base-build intercom infrastructure (2N or Aiphone) that we can integrate with rather than replace; for older buildings with analog handsets, an IP intercom upgrade is often viable across the whole building if the body corporate co-ordinates.
For a single apartment owner, the standard scope is an entry-door turret with privacy mask over the corridor, an internal alarm panel sized for the apartment footprint, and app integration so the system can be armed and viewed remotely. Body-corporate-owned cameras (lobby, lift, basement) stay separate from owner cameras; we’ll work with the body corporate’s manager to confirm the boundary.
For a typical 200–500 m² CBD office tenancy, the scope is Paxton Net2 or HID Signo on the main door and any server / comms room, an alarm panel with PIRs in main areas plus dual-tech sensors near the server room, 4–8 IP cameras (entry ID, reception, kitchen, server-room door, lift lobby on multi-floor sites), and integration with the building’s base-build security where required. We document zone numbers, user accounts, and credentials in a written commissioning pack you can hand to your insurer or building manager.
CBD hospitality (K Road, Federal Street, Wynyard Quarter, Britomart food precinct) usually wants front-of-house identification cameras, a cash-handling camera with timestamp overlay, kitchen-pass and back-of-house cameras, an alarm panel with glassbreak detection on shopfronts, and after-hours intruder zoning that lets staff arrive early without disarming the front-of-shop sensors. Multi-tenant retail in centres like Britomart or 246 Queen Street uses Paxton or Salto on staff-only and tenancy doors with revocable mobile credentials.
Free on-site assessment. We walk the property, note risks, and discuss what the system needs to do.
Itemised quote with brand, model, camera count, cabling notes, and labour. No "from $X" placeholders.
Most residential jobs are a single day. Cabling is run discreetly through ceiling cavities and exterior conduit.
Walkthrough, app set-up on your phone, written commissioning record, and ongoing support on 09 243 0840.
Yes. We routinely work in CBD office towers (Britomart, Queen Street, Wyndham, Victoria) where building management restricts lift use, drilling, and core penetrations to outside business hours. We sign on to building safety inductions, work to the agreed hours, and quote the after-hours uplift transparently rather than burying it in a vague allowance.
In most cases yes. CBD apartment buildings typically have 2N or Aiphone IP intercom systems already in place, plus base-build access control on lobbies and basements. We add or modify only the apartment-side equipment under the body corporate’s rules, and we’ll get the right approvals before any work that touches common-property infrastructure.
Tenancy CCTV is your data; base-build CCTV (lobbies, lifts, carparks) is the body corporate’s. We size your tenancy NVR for ≥ 30 days of recording (the Privacy Act 2020 default for general workplace use) and set up role-based access so your facilities team can pull footage without exposing the full system. If the building requires footage hand-over for incidents, we document the process in your commissioning pack.
Yes. Modern alarm panels (Paradox, Inner Range, Bosch, Ajax) include a battery backup sized for at least 4–8 hours of standalone operation. The panel can be programmed to report a power-loss event to a third-party NZ monitoring station so you (or the building’s facilities team) get notified. For after-hours hospitality with refrigeration, we sometimes add a separate power-monitoring relay so the alarm reports power loss as a priority event.
Comsys also installs across the wider Auckland region. Ponsonby · Parnell · Newmarket · Mount Eden · or browse all areas we service.
Helpful reading: access control buyer's guide · office security · security audit checklist.
Indicative supplied-and-installed price for a Comsys CCTV system. Move the inputs to match your site — the calculator updates live.
This calculator is a guide only. Final pricing depends on the site visit — specific camera models, mounting access, cable routing, and any access control or alarm integration can move the number up or down. We always quote in writing after a free on-site assessment, with brand and model itemised so you can see exactly what you’re paying for.
