The security industry relies on trust and reliability, meaning facts matter. With recent marketing claims from LVT creating confusion about our products and mission, we’re here to set the record straight about our offering.
At WCCTV, we remain focused on delivering transparency and staying driven in our core purpose of protecting people, not just property.
This article will provide an honest comparison of LVT’s marketing and WCCTV’s mission, clarifying claims and emphasizing the key differences that allow us to stand out from the rest.
When Marketing Overlaps with Misinformation: Setting the Record Straight on WCCTV vs LVT
Security has advanced significantly over recent years, especially with the introduction of technologies such as AI. This has built a competitive landscape, making truth and transparency more important than ever.
Customers rely on companies providing accurate information to make the best decisions for them, so when marketing risks misinformation, there can be serious consequences.
In LVT’s recent article: LVT vs. WCCTV—Which Mobile Security Unit Delivers the Most Advanced Protection?, they merged features associated with our global product line with our US-specific product line, creating confusion about WCCTV’s true performance capabilities.
Doing so misrepresented the specific functionalities, configurations, and compliance standards of our WCCTV US-focused systems. The result? A distorted view that doesn’t accurately reflect our solutions or the standards we follow.
At WCCTV, we believe in building trust and transparency with customers, not only through our solutions but through our communication. In line with this, we have four clear goals in this article:
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To clarify misinformation and ensure an accurate, clear understanding of WCCTV’s US product offerings.
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To demonstrate our commitment to trust and transparency in how we market and support you through technology.
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To establish that our market-leading status is based on providing the highest quality technology backed by world-class support and services, not just marketing claims
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To affirm our mission: protecting people first, not just property
We hope that by setting the record straight, you can make informed, confident decisions as customers based on facts, not misleading information.
Normalizing the Data: What LVT’s Comparison Misses
Data without context or evidence to back it often misleads more than it informs, and for customers, this can lead to mistrust and misunderstanding of a company.
The recent comparison from LVT included various claims and products relating to us that were either misaligned with our global offering or did not consider key factors that impact customers’ decisions regarding their security.
Factors such as regional expertise, configuration differences, security demand, and operational realities.
To clarify the claims and data published, we’ve broken down the major claims throughout their article:
Regional Relevance: Understanding WCCTV’s US Products Offering
During LVT’s comparison, they draw on data from WCCTV’s global product offerings, referencing configurations specific to our UK product offering and systems that are not available in the US.
Doing so creates inaccuracies with readers around the performance and product specifications of our US range of surveillance solutions. This line is specifically catered to US compliance, network standards, and local deployment requirements.
Our main surveillance solution offerings in the US include:
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Solar Surveillance Trailers - A solar surveillance trailer is a fully mobile security unit that delivers rapid, flexible protection without the need for permanent power or fixed internet. They are designed for temporary security needs or remote deployments where traditional cameras aren’t practical.
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Pole Cameras - Pole cameras are mobile video surveillance systems designed for fast, flexible deployment. They mount to existing infrastructure like utility poles or buildings and provide temporary or semi-permanent coverage without the need for fixed cabling or complex installation.
We combine these systems with additional features and solutions, such as Time Lapse, LPR cameras, and AI detection, backed by live video monitoring, to enhance your security profile to your specific needs.
We believe buyers deserve a true, transparent picture of what’s available on the market, so that they can evaluate their options through accurate information, backed by context or evidence. Not data from a different market.
Solar Claims: Focus on Solar Demand, Not Solar Draw
Quoting solar panel wattage as a measure of performance is often misleading. Wattage indicates the solar panel capacity, not system demand or runtime.
There are several factors that play a key role in system runtime, including battery storage, load, environmental conditions, and sunlight hours. That’s why focusing on the solar draw and wattage isn’t an accurate representation of the expected runtime of a surveillance unit.
The numbers on the spec sheet shouldn’t be the focus; rather the focus should be on whether the system is configured in a way that it has the most effective management of power consumption to ensure continuous uptime.
At WCCTV, we’ve designed our Surveillance Trailers to balance these factors and utilize solely solar power to ensure complete power autonomy. With 25 years of development and power optimization, you can have confidence in our products.
Rather than overload our surveillance trailers with power-inefficient cameras and bolt-ons, we carefully select the array to ensure the perfect balance between power demand and security performance.
Due to this careful design, our systems require less power, removing the requirement of fuel cell backup, which can increase costs and create several additional maintenance requirements, such as refueling.
Specifically, this means the power demand generated by our security setup is lower than systems like LVTs and therefore provides better longevity, lower risk of failure, and fewer challenges over time that may disrupt operations.
Our careful selection of the most effective add-ons to our Trailers means we can offer highly effective security with true year-round solar autonomy, without relying on backup generators that create additional costs and workloads for the customer.
Furthermore, our systems are configured to enable our units to remain operational during the day, not just overnight, keeping not just your property, but your people safe. With additional offerings of environmental monitoring and smart detection that ensures our service goes beyond security alone.
Battery Comparisons: Understanding Amp Hours and Kilowatt-Hours
Different security companies will vary in their presentation of battery power, with some quoting amp hours and others using kilowatt-hours. This creates disparity across suppliers, and without the correct conversion, numbers cannot be compared directly.
We aim to minimize this confusion, providing transparent specifications and explanations of our unit’s powering systems, so that you can make accurate evaluations and ensure realistic expectations as a customer.
Cost Comparisons: Why Temporary Surveillance is Best
We understand the difficulties businesses face, particularly construction jobsites and commercial properties ,with permanent surveillance systems and long-term fixed contracts. So, we simply removed this issue.
With competitors like LVT, customers will often be left facing long contracts, increasing costs to your firm, and leaving you with little flexibility.
At WCCTV, we center our contracts around you. Offering temporary surveillance solutions on a rental basis provides you with the flexibility to decide how long you require security for, without having to skimp on quality.
This is often assumed to drive up prices, but, in fact, by moving to our Surveillance Trailers, you can save up to 88% in security costs. Compared to LVT and our competitors, our solutions consider both customer needs and strict budgets which most businesses are faced with nowadays.
And all costs include our fully-managed service, bundling hardware, remote monitoring, AI-driven detection, installation, maintenance, and customer support.
‘Unlimited Grid Power’: Breaking Down the Myth
As mentioned, every mobile surveillance unit works via differing systems, however, unlimited off-grid is nearly impossible.
For systems utilizing external power sources (such as fuel cell generators) like LVT, these require regular replacements and often provide less longevity compared to systems that have no reliance on this. The cost of maintaining external backup power supplies is often passed onto the customer, hitting your pocket for minimal benefit.
They are also expensive to run, and cannot promise consistency, whereas with our solar-power surveillance systems, we ensure continuous power supply, providing remote monitoring tools alongside this to keep watch of your products’ performance. This minimizes the risk of operational disruption and helps flag issues early.
If any issues are discovered, our remote performance tools can reset your equipment without the need for an engineer, which often resolves the matter, or ensure you receive a service visit to reduce the chance of escalation.
We also have the local expertise to ensure solar panels are positioned correctly and systems are installed correctly to maximize power and longevity of your security.
Connectivity and Security Accuracy: Protecting Network Integrity
Many competitors promote ‘open connectivity’, however, this can come at a cost to cybersecurity. WCCTV systems are designed to remain private.
We do this by ensuring secure cellular connections, encrypted data pathways, and private VPNs that help to secure any data that flows throughout our systems.
This helps to prevent unauthorized access to your system and any data within it, emphasizing the priority we place on protecting people, not just property. This helps you maintain compliance with any data laws, preventing any costly fines or penalties as a business.
Deployment Speeds: Defining Real Deployment Times
LVT claimed ‘instant deployment’, overlooking the difference in timescale between installation and being fully operational. They also remained vague about our deployment speeds, without emphasizing the impact of external factors linked to this.
Our Surveillance Trailers offer rapid deployment, with basic setups taking between 6 to 20 minutes, depending on the complexity of installation. However, most importantly, this time includes ensuring it’s ready to detect, deter, and document crime, not just dropped on site.
Requiring no complex setup, permanent infrastructure, or external cabling, our highly-trained engineers have extensive knowledge in installation best practices. This means our deployment speeds represent when the protection begins, not when the equipment arrives on site.
‘Guaranteed Bandwidth’: Debunking This Statement
Cellular connectivity tends to differ in comparison to WiFi-based security, therefore it cannot be guaranteed as stated in LVT’s article. However, there are methods to make this more effective.
With our systems, we utilize intelligent bandwidth management, automatically adapting to available bandwidth, which helps to maintain network stability and reliability.
And this cellular connection comes at no additional cost as was claimed. Our mobile surveillance solutions need to remain exactly that: mobile, hence why we automatically upgrade our systems to the latest cellular connection when available to us.
This keeps transparency with our customers by avoiding setting unrealistic guarantees that cannot be provided.
AI Talk-Down Technology: Who is Held Accountable?
AI-driven audio deterrents may appear appealing due to the lack of need for human intervention, which often seems high-risk, but it does raise crucial questions:
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Who is monitoring your camera feed?
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Who is accountable for preventing crime, protecting people, and securing your property?
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How can accuracy be ensured with AI-driven audio deterrents?
We take a different approach here, combining human verification with intelligent automation to ensure that any intervention applied is appropriate, safe, and effective.
The risk of unsupervised AI is too great, creating risks of misidentified threats, escalated crime, and inappropriate responses that, through trained human intervention, is likely to be avoided.
Technology is vital to the development of security, however, we understand that as a business we must establish how best to utilize this in order to benefit our customers, helping protect their people, and property.
That’s why we follow a clear process using remote video monitoring, which is automatically included as part of our fully-managed service:
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AI-video analytics detect a potential threat through your cameras
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Detection can trigger a series of automated responses including voice down, alarms, and sirens
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A trained remote operator will instantly review the live video feed to verify the threat
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Throughout this, our cameras will continue recording to ensure any events are captured
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Following confirmation of a threat, remote operators will take appropriate actions to prevent any unauthorized access or crime.
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Actions include, triggering sirens, providing a live audio challenge, and contacting keyholders, managers, or even law enforcement if appropriate.
This process minimizes risks, increases accuracy, and improves safety through carefully managed remote crime prevention tools.
WCCTV’s mission is not to place doubt, but to reaffirm our values: accuracy, transparency, and accountability, all of which connect to our main aim which is to protect people, not just property. And to do this, we rely on truth.
Comparison Table: WCCTV vs LVT
To make the differences crystal clear, we’ve created a table of the above claims from LVT, our verified facts on our product offerings, and the buyer takeaway from each point.
This highlights where marketing’s messaging can mislead reality, ensuring that you as customers understand the truth behind each statement at a quick glance.
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LVT (stated/implied) |
WCCTV (verified facts) |
Buyer Takeaway |
| Regional Relevance | Mixed up US and UK configurations, showing non-US setups and specifications for WCCTV. | Display US-specific models on our websites and hold expertise on various climates, sunlight hours, and grid standards. | Always compare like-for-like regional systems as performance and design will vary across different countries. |
| Solar Power Claims | List both 800 and 880 W solar panel figures in the same piece, implying that higher power equals longer runtime. | Emphasize the importance of solar demand over solar draw, angle of panels, maintenance care, and quality. Use industry leading solar technology and remote monitoring tools to provide service reassurance also. | Look for energy longevity of a system rather than wattage to understand true performance for off-grid locations. |
| Battery Comparisons | Publishes amp-hour (AH) figures without conversions. | Provides conversions to kWh for customer transparency (400 AH @ 24 V = 9.6 kWh). | Compare batteries based on battery capacity, but also the type of power supply used for this, not amp-hours. |
| Cost Comparisons | Fixed long-term contacts. | Flexible rental agreements, with no fixed long-term contracts. | Consider your needs, including your schedule and requirements to decide your best option for you. |
| "Unlimited Off-Grid" Claims | Uses phrases like ‘unlimited off-grid power’. | Offers power autonomy through solar power, ensuring systems have enough energy demand to provide longevity. | Request realistic expectations of power, and a site survey from the company to establish your needs. |
| Connectivity & Security | Suggest cloud connectivity. | Utilizing private VPNs and encrypted data pathways to ensure privacy by design. | Verify the network used for the security infrastructure to establish the risk factor for your business. |
| Deployment Speed | Claim setup in minutes. | Explain that basic setups can take between 6 to 20-minutes. Emphasizes that installment times vary and every project is different. | Compare real operational readiness, and speak to providers about realistic setup times for your requirements. |
| Video Analytics | Claim WCCTV utilizes AI for intrusion filtering, Heartbeat diagnostics for system health. | Use AI to supply environmental monitoring, smart detection, and remote surveillance monitoring. With our in-house platform, Stellifii, which consolidates data and reporting into one location. | Speak with providers directly to understand their offering and how these can be catered to your needs. |
| Camera Stack | Exclude camera stack offerings we provide. | Provide IR PTZ, thermal, drop-down, LPR, and Time Lapse cameras. | Look into product specifications from providers directly. |
| AI Talk-Down & Practical Risks | Promotes ‘autonomous AI talk-down’ as a key differentiator. | Combine AI-driven technology for fast threat detection and human verification for fewer false alarms and fast incident response. | Consider your security requirements and the risk factors involved. |
What WCCTV Brings to the Field of Security
Our approach of combining AI-driven threat detection, environmental monitoring, and remote surveillance helps us maintain the people-first mission we have with customers.
From AI-assisted detection to real-time intervention, every system is engineered to provide complete situational awareness at a fraction of the cost of our competitors.
Below outlines the key features and benefits that help us stand out from the rest.
An Open, Compatible Platform for Real-World Security
One of our main aims is to be easy to work with, hence why we offer several customizations to cater our security solutions to your requirements. From Time Lapse Video to intrusion detection integrations, you can be confident that you’re covered against the main threats you’re faced with.
To streamline our offering further, the addition of our centralized platform, Stellifii can back any system to consolidate these features into one space, easing reporting and providing you with complete oversight of your security.
This API-driven approach streamlines integration, and means that when new technology is available, our systems are ready-to-go for any updates.
A Service That Goes Beyond Security
Most competitors offer standard surveillance solutions with remote monitoring services, suited best to overnight protection. But, what about the day?
LVT and others may offer security out-of-hours, but at WCCTV, our systems support numerous applications. From construction management and Time Lapse Video to environmental monitoring and traffic management.
Built for multi-purpose usage, our innovative approach truly does cover you from day to night, an offering many competitors cannot fulfil. This helps reduce multiple suppliers and fragmented systems which occur when using various companies for various needs.
Our solar-powered surveillance solutions comply with ESG and sustainability requirements, which are fast-becoming central to many businesses’ future growth plans.
And with several government departments and major contractors trusting in our systems, we remain a highly established market leader in the security industry.
We believe in unified working, and through Stellifii, we can provide exactly that: a single pane of glass that keeps sites Smarty By Day, Secure by Night.
Innovative Technology
Threats develop and new dangers can appear quickly nowadays, and to keep up, security companies must utilize technology or face falling behind in their service.
At WCCTV, we’re working continuously to better our products and provide customizable benefits that allow you to target threats with more precision and accuracy.
Our AI-driven technology includes intrusion detection, PPE detection, LPR, behavior analysis, air quality, weather, and noise monitoring, and smoke and fire detection.
And the biggest benefit is that it all feeds into one singular platform, integrating video, analytics, environmental data, compliance reporting, and remote access all together. This gives you complete insight that goes beyond security, all of which can be accessed through our app.
Whether it’s via a desktop or on your mobile phone, the Stellifii app offers all the features you require to monitor your site wherever you are. From having live view of your camera feed and downloading footage to accessing compliance reporting and adjusting settings, our app provides you with complete control.
Although many competitors like LVT use AI, at WCCTV we ensure that the technology we use holds purpose and power.
With Stellifii, our unified platform, our solutions are easily scalable. Streamlining surveillance trailers, and sensors under one ecosystem, that supports mixed-site environments.
Multi-Industry Suited System
In line with our protecting people, not just property approach, our systems are designed to support various industries in ensuring this whilst catering to their needs.
Every industry faces different threats, and our systems are designed to support these various needs, slotting seamlessly into any business. Key industries we support, include:
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Construction
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Parking lots
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Events
However, we also support the likes of healthcare, the military, and housing etc.
At WCCTV, our offerings go beyond security, prioritizing safety just as much as security. This makes us a desirable choice for many industries looking to minimize suppliers, bringing PPE detection, air quality monitoring, and smoke and fire detection into one space.
As well as other key monitoring tools required to maintain compliance standards within each industry.
And this is only the beginning for Stellifii. The design of our platform means that as we develop our technology even further and offer additional enhancements to your security service, we can simply slot this in without the fear of causing operational disruption.
Global Reach, Local Expertise
We may have a global reach, but our expertise remains local. From field service teams who complete site surveys and trained engineers to customer care who support you with any questions along the way.
Our team has extensive knowledge in security, but most importantly in regional expertise that allows them to understand specific requirements across different States, cities, and industries.
This means at every stage of your time with us, there'll always be someone there to support with any questions, queries, or requests, who truly understands.
Your Data, Your Control
Data privacy is essential in security nowadays due to strict compliance laws, and as a business, you are responsible for maintaining this.
Our systems allow you to retain complete oversight of your security and any data flowing through it, helping to hold accountability across your business and to prevent any data breaches.
This is reaffirmed through our all-in-one platform, Stellifii, which can power any of our surveillance solutions. Built on highly secure, cloud infrastructure with AES256 encryption and industry-standard compliance, it scales effortlessly for projects of any size while keeping your data protected.
We also ensure all our products are NDAA-compliant, making them suitable for any company who must follow these requirements.
WCCTV Case Studies and Supporting Information
With any decision, it’s important to see real-world examples of solutions in action. Supporting several industries, including construction jobsites, over 200 police departments, GSAs, and air forces. So, don’t just take our word for it, take it from our clients:
Casa Grande Police Department - Surveillance Trailers for Events
The City of Casa Grande has a long and proud tradition of hosting events in the city throughout the year.
Each year there is an increase in the number of visitors that attend these events, which in turn provides Law Enforcement with increased security challenges - ranging from bomb threats, terrorist alerts, crowd control, theft, disorder, and general emergencies.
The department identified Surveillance Trailers as a solution that matched their ideal requirements, choosing WCCTV as the provider for this.
Following their deployment, Lt. Frank Alanis said: "The Casa Grande Police Department is committed to using innovative equipment/technology that helps in its mission to better serve their community while meeting the shifting demands of police work.
“The Casa Grande Police Department found a solution to this problem through technology such as WCCTV, which gave the police department the ability to monitor in real-time an area(s) without having to be physically present.
In the event of an emergency, this allows personnel overseeing an event at a command post or other designated area to identify and deploy the appropriate amount of resources (Police, Fire, and City) to a scene/incident."
Waxahachie Police Department - Surveillance Camera Grant Funding
Waxahachie Police Department identified a requirement for mobile surveillance trailers after borrowing equipment from neighboring agencies, typically during the holiday season when crimes peaked.
The agency invested a portion of its grant award in securing two Mini Dome Solar Trailers, autonomously-powered rapid deployment mobile video surveillance systems that can be installed at practically any location.
Speaking directly about the benefits of the Mobile Surveillance Trailers, Waxahachie PD Chief Wade Goolsby stated:
“Anytime we have a specific problem in the area we can put those out. They are great for parking lots where you have a high density of people to kind of make your presence known,”
“The average person won’t notice it but the person who is looking to commit crimes will. So it is a good deterrent for them and a good tool for us to see what is going on.”
Protecting People, Not Just Property Through Smart Surveillance Systems
In an overwhelming market, we continue to lead our business with a message of transparency, innovation, and integrity.
WCCTV’s mission goes beyond simply providing security, and transforms our solutions into safeguarding tools, protecting people and property.
Ready to experience security built on truth and performance? Contact WCCTV today to learn how our smart surveillance solutions can help protect your people, property, and peace of mind.
