ELV Tools

ELV Tools

CCTV, UPS, rack power, and access control planning tools.

CCTV Storage Calculator icon

CCTV Storage Calculator

Calculate CCTV retention storage by camera count, bitrate, recording hours, RAID, and spare.

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Data Rack Power & UPS Calculator icon

Data Rack Power & UPS Calculator

Estimate rack load, UPS kVA, heat output, and battery energy requirement.

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Access Control Door Hardware Planner icon

Access Control Door Hardware Planner

Build controller, reader, lock, REX, contact, PSU, and battery quantities.

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About these ELV tools

Use these tools for practical planning, checking, and early-stage engineering support. Each tool includes sample data, calculation results, interpretation, warnings, assumptions, confidence notes, and branded print output.

How to use this page

ELV tools cover low-current systems such as CCTV storage, data rack UPS planning, and access control door hardware. These calculators help estimate capacity, quantities, power, and storage before detailed vendor coordination. Final values should still be checked against device datasheets, network architecture, retention policy, and client security requirements.

Use these outputs as early planning numbers for coordination, budgeting, and review meetings before final vendor design.

ELV planning checks

ELV work often fails when storage, power, battery backup, rack load, and device quantities are treated too late. Use the CCTV storage calculator to compare camera count, bitrate, retention days, recording hours, RAID allowance, and spare capacity. Use the rack UPS calculator to estimate IT load, UPS kVA, heat output, battery energy, and runtime assumptions before final equipment selection.

Before vendor finalization

Use the access control planner to convert door counts into controllers, readers, locks, REX devices, contacts, power supply current, and backup battery capacity. Then confirm the result with device datasheets, network topology, client retention policy, cybersecurity requirements, cable routes, voltage drop, enclosure space, and the approved security system brand.