Lock and Tech USA installs security cameras for houses, two- and three-family homes, shops and warehouses across northern and central New Jersey – and repairs systems of any make. The walkthrough is free, labor and materials come in writing, cable runs through the attic or basement, not across your siding, and the app is on your phone before we leave. We drive out from Keyport, on Route 35, weekdays 8 to 6.
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Or call us directly: (732) 455-1999 – open Mon–Fri, 8 AM–6 PM
Most homes in the counties we cover are houses, not apartment towers, so we plan around driveways, doors and yards first.
We cover the driveway and garage, the front and back doors and the backyard. Each door gets a fixed camera at face height, the yard gets a wide bullet or turret, and infrared night vision takes the back corners that go dark.
We aim at what's shared – the front entry and mailboxes, the side alley, the rear yard. You see those common areas from anywhere. No camera points into a tenant's unit, a window or an open apartment door.
The register, the front door, the stock room and the back door to the lot. Where someone can reach a camera, we mount a vandal-resistant dome – a housing built to take a hit – so one swing doesn't end the recording.
Truck bays, the yard and the front office. At a gate, a plate camera – a narrow lens set close to where cars pass – works alongside an overview camera that shows the whole vehicle. Several sites show up together in one app.
Coax that still carries a clean picture stays in the walls. We change the cameras and add a hybrid recorder that runs old and new side by side. Or we switch you to network cameras on PoE – one cable carrying power and video.
Black screens, days with nothing recorded, no night vision, an app that won't open. Any make, analog or network – we trace the fault to the part that failed and fix what we can right there.
In Monmouth County about two in three homes are single-family houses, and in Middlesex and Union it's about half. On a house, the cable path climbs into the attic, crosses the garage ceiling and drops into the basement – and that path is what moves the labor.
Outdoor cameras go under the eaves and over the garage door, where each one needs an outdoor rating like IP66 and a sealed spot where the cable comes through the wall. That's why an outdoor position costs more than an indoor one. At doors that see traffic every day, we put in wired PoE cameras instead of battery units that keep coming down for a recharge.
Hudson County works differently. Nearly a third of homes there are in two- to four-family houses, with a shared entry, a row of mailboxes and a side alley. Cameras cover those shared spaces and never look into a unit.
Every camera gets checked in daylight and again after dark. A driveway camera that reads a plate at noon can show nothing but headlight glare at 9 p.m., and we'd rather catch that on install day than the night you need the footage.
We look at every entry, the driveway and the yard, pick a dry spot for the recorder and work out how cable reaches each camera from the attic, garage or basement.
Your estimate prices labor on one line and materials on the next, and nothing starts until you've signed the contract.
The technician who walked your property comes back for the job, hides the cable, fixes the outdoor cameras along the eaves and aims each one while you watch the live feed.
We check each channel by day and once it's dark, set retention (how many days the drive keeps) and unique passwords, load the app onto your phone and leave the contract, equipment list and warranty terms with you.
A system proves itself the day you need a clip from it. These five things decide how that day goes for a New Jersey home or business.
We're rated 5.0 on Google in Keyport, and here are a few reviews, word for word. Read the reviews of our Keyport location
“…The team showed great care in providing me with the best service and knowledge so I can make sure my home and business were secure. The installation was very fast and precise and they were very good at showing me how to monitor everything without any confusion…”
“…proceeded to do a beautiful access control and cctv job for my family. Lovely people with amazing service, i highly recommend!!”
“Modern solutions with old school morals/manners. A company who has integrity which is very rare now. Lock and Tech did my alarm system, cctv, and intercom for my apartment. Best service in every aspect, will solely be working with them for every project!”
“…they have always provided professional and reliable installation. All my systems have been working seamlessly for many years…”
Nothing gets replaced before it's tested. We work from the outside in – power first, then the cable, the camera, the recorder and the network – so you pay for the part that actually failed.
| What you see | What we check |
|---|---|
| The driveway camera went black after a storm | The power supply, a tripped GFCI outlet in the garage and water inside a cable connector |
| Nothing has been recorded for several days | A full or failing hard drive, or a recording schedule that got switched off |
| The night picture looks washed-out white or foggy | Infrared bouncing off a soffit or a spider web, and condensation inside the camera housing |
| One camera dropped offline after a new router went in | An address conflict on the new router or a dead port on the network switch |
| The phone app stopped connecting to the recorder | Changed login credentials or a reset by your internet provider |
| The recorder in the basement keeps restarting | Its power supply, outdated firmware and a hard drive going bad |
When the fault is a loose connector, a setting or a power supply, we fix it during that visit where we can. If failures turn up across most of the system instead of in one part, we'll tell you and price both a repair and a replacement.
We price camera work by how many cameras go up. These are our usual installed ranges:
| Job | What it usually runs |
|---|---|
| 1 camera, installed | $200–$800 |
| 2–4 cameras, installed | $800–$2,200 |
| 5–8 cameras, installed | $1,500–$4,800 |
| 9–16 cameras, installed | $3,000–$10,000 |
| Adding 1 camera to a recorder with a free channel | $200–$500 |
| Optional cloud backup | $3–$30 per camera a month |
A house with cameras on the doors, driveway and backyard usually lands in the two-to-four or five-to-eight range. Where a job falls inside its range depends on a few things. Outdoor positions cost more than indoor ones, since they need weatherproof cameras and longer cable runs. An open attic or unfinished basement keeps labor down; finished ceilings and brick push it up. Higher resolution and more days of storage mean a sharper camera and a bigger drive.
Most jobs with two to six cameras are finished in one day. A recorder in the house costs nothing per month, and cloud backup is your choice. The estimate shows labor separately from materials, and the exact price comes in writing after the walkthrough, before any work starts.
If one part failed – a power supply, a camera, a drive – we repair that part and leave the rest alone. Replacement makes sense when failures keep turning up across the system, when the DVR and the cameras have both reached the end of their life, or when the old cameras still record but can't pick out a face.
There's a middle path, too. Keep the coax, swap the cameras, install a hybrid recorder, and you get a sharper picture without opening walls. Parts get ordered only with your OK, after we've told you which part, the lead time and the price.
One difference worth knowing: new installations carry a warranty on parts and labor; repair work doesn't.
Call (732) 455-1999 on weekdays, 8 AM–6 PM, and tell us what the screens show. A few things matter before we get there.
Something just happened. If someone's hurt or a crime is in progress, call 911 first. The cameras can wait.
Save the clip. Export it to your phone or a USB drive before the recorder writes over it. Don't power-cycle the recorder or format the drive.
Stay off the ladder. Don't climb up to re-aim cameras at the eaves or roofline yourself. Leave them where they are and let us handle it.
Call Now – (732) 455-1999Our technicians leave from Route 35 in Keyport and work from Hudson County to the Monmouth shore. Up north that means Hoboken, Jersey City, Bayonne, Elizabeth and Rahway. Closer to our location, it's Old Bridge, Matawan, Hazlet, Middletown and Red Bank. If you run several locations, all of them sit under a single app login. We also work across New York City.
Straight answers to questions we hear on the phone.
Two to four cameras usually run $800–$2,200 installed, and five to eight usually run $1,500–$4,800. A single camera is typically $200–$800. Outdoor positions, finished ceilings, brick and longer storage push a job toward the top of its range. We put the final figure on paper after walking the property, before anything is installed.
Most houses need one camera for each entrance plus one each for the driveway and the yard. A camera on a corner of the house can watch two approaches, so the count often drops by one once we see the place in person. A front door, a back door, a driveway and a backyard usually add up to three or four cameras.
Wired is the better choice for most houses. A camera on PoE gets its power and its picture over a single cable, so it doesn't depend on Wi-Fi or a battery. Battery cameras skip the cable but need charging every few months, which makes them a poor fit for a front door or driveway that sees traffic all day. Either way, an outdoor camera should carry a weatherproof rating such as IP66 or IP67.
Point it at your own property – your entries, driveway and yard – not into a neighbor's windows or yard. New Jersey law makes it a crime to record people where they'd reasonably expect privacy, such as through a bedroom or bathroom window. So we set every angle to stay on your side of the property line. That's how we place cameras; for the legal side, ask an attorney.
They can, but a microphone is a decision for the walkthrough, not a default. New Jersey law doesn't allow recording other people's conversations without the consent of at least one of them, so a mic on a porch camera or inside a store needs thought first. We'll go through where audio is worth having and where we'd leave it off. That's practical advice from installers, not legal advice.
Call (732) 455-1999 or send the form with the property type and how many doors and driveways you want covered. We'll walk it, mark every camera and cable path, and price the labor and the parts separately, in writing.
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