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New to the category? What is on the device, how it differs from an action camera, CCTV or a dash camera, and who wears one.
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Four guides covering what the law requires, whether cameras are mandatory for your role, how to choose between them, and how footage gets off the device. Written against UAE regulation and the range we supply.
Each guide answers one question properly and links on to the next. Nothing here needs reading in order.

New to the category? What is on the device, how it differs from an action camera, CCTV or a dash camera, and who wears one.
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Yes, with conditions that attach to the recording and not to the device. The federal instruments, the emirate rules, and what makes footage hold up.
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For most guarding, no. For one narrow category of enforcement role it is compulsory, and that category now reaches private contractors.
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Nine decisions in the order that narrows the field, with a storage estimator that sizes the deployment against your own fleet.
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Both put the same footage on the same server. Live costs a SIM and a data plan per camera, and only pays when somebody is watching.
Read the guide →Every question buyers put to us, grouped by legal and compliance, cameras and footage, and buying and support. The quickest route to a specific answer.
Browse the FAQs →The questions buyers ask most, each linked to the part of a guide that deals with it.
Tell us the shift pattern, the environment and who has to accept the footage. We will come back with a configuration that meets it, and say plainly where a requirement has not actually been published.
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