Equipment Hire
A surveyed, installed and commissioned system with customer access where suitable. Your team retains the agreed response responsibility.
CCTV towers, mobile CCTV and site security cameras
CCTV towers and mobile CCTV for hire.
Hire a CCTV tower or site-specific camera system with optional professional monitoring, live customer access, incident reporting and Clear Watch response within our agreed dispatch area. Rapid deployment for construction sites, vacant premises and yards, powered by V-360 technology and managed through one accountable security provider.
Hire only or monitoredCustomer camera accessOptional response
Powered by V-360Survey-led specificationThe unit and coverage are selected around the actual site.
Selectable monitoringAgree the monitoring hours that fit your risk and operation.
Live customer accessAuthorised users can be configured for suitable camera access.
Clear reportingActivation, incident and periodic records agreed at proposal.
The buyer's problem
You do not need another camera. You need the right coverage and a clear plan for what happens next.
Construction sites, vacant premises, yards and temporary work areas change quickly. Fixed CCTV may be unavailable, badly positioned or disproportionate, and temporary site security cameras left unattended create evidence without a managed response.
Clear Watch starts with the risk, coverage area, operating pattern and escalation requirement. We then specify a V-360 CCTV tower or camera system and the service layer around it — rapid deployment where a site needs cover quickly, or a planned installation for a longer programme.
One provider from survey to escalation.
Clear Watch is the contracting security provider. The equipment is powered by V-360; installation and technical support are coordinated between Clear Watch and V-360, while monitoring and response are configured around the customer's chosen package.
One survey, one specification, one point of contact. The equipment, the monitoring arrangement and the escalation plan are specified together and answered for in one place.
Choose the service layer
From CCTV tower hire to a managed security response.
Professional Monitoring
Selected monitoring hours, alarm review and notification through an agreed site escalation plan.
Monitoring + Response
Monitoring supported by Clear Watch dispatch within the agreed Greater Manchester and surrounding-area remit.
Hybrid Protection
Combine mobile CCTV with guarding, mobile patrols, keyholding or another proportionate on-site service.
CCTV towers and the V-360 product suite
The right CCTV tower or camera platform for the site and risk.
Principal perimeter unit
V-Tower
A relocatable tower with a six-metre mast, 360-degree coverage, solar-backed operation, analytics, audio deterrent and remote viewing. Suitable for broad outdoor perimeter protection.
Best for
- Construction and infrastructure sites with no mains power — live from the first day of groundworks
- Open ground and perimeters where deterrence, recording and evidence all matter
- Void property and long programmes where the layout moves between phases
- Winter working, where a lower power draw means a higher likelihood of staying online through the dark months
Key specifications
- Power
- Solar, with batteries inside the unit. No generator, no fuel deliveries and no mains connection needed
- Recording
- Continuous, up to 30 days
- Detection
- AI virtual tripwires drawn on the camera image at commissioning, not physical motion sensors — which is what keeps false activations down
- Coverage
- Planned and quoted at 40 m each way
- Cameras
- High-definition cameras giving 360-degree coverage, with speakers and lights built in
- Imaging
- HDR and low-light imaging for clear pictures in poor conditions
- Connectivity
- 5G router and antenna
- Live view
- Secure app, for your team as well as ours
- Delivery
- Van deliverable — no trailer and no tow vehicle
- Emissions
- V-360 reports over 99% lower CO2 than a generator-powered CCTV tower
Compact and flexible
Sentinel Pod
A compact 360-degree solution for outdoor or indoor use, with optional integrations considered during specification.
Best for
- Void and vacant property where the risk is water and fire as much as intruders
- Interiors and refurbishments where the mains has been stripped out and solar is not possible
- Retail and high-value stock
- Compounds, show homes and tight plots with no room for a tower
Key specifications
- Power
- Batteries — up to six months from one charge. No solar
- Cameras
- Four NDAA-approved HD cameras giving 360-degree coverage, AI detection up to 15 m per camera
- On activation
- A 15-second high-definition clip to the monitoring centre
- Deterrent
- A speaker on each camera and illuminated strobes that turn red on activation
- Also detects
- Water, with automatic stopcock shut-off within seconds; plus smoke, heat and CO in one unit
- Options
- Fogging that fills up to 900 m³ in seconds, non-toxic and residue-free; extra cameras and sirens; integration with existing fire and intruder alarm systems
- Environment
- CO2, temperature and humidity monitoring with real-time reporting
- Deployment
- Fully wireless, fast to install and fast to remove. Adjustable legs for uneven ground and watertight for outdoor positions
- Live view
- Remote app, for your team as well as ours
Scaffold and access routes
ScaffSecure
Wireless detection and verification for scaffold lines and changing access points, with audio and visual deterrence.
Best for
- Any site with scaffold — the scaffold is the route to the upper floors and the one approach a ground-level tower cannot properly see
- Tight-footprint sites where the building rises close to the fence, with no room for a tower or pod between
- Refurbishments and street frontages
- Sites already covered by towers or pods, where the scaffold is the remaining gap
Key specifications
- Configuration
- Three brackets, two cameras each — six cameras per system. Each bracket clamps straight onto the scaffold tube, with the hub inside the bracketry
- Detection
- 15 m per camera, with infrared at night
- On activation
- A 15-second clip to the monitoring centre
- Battery
- Twelve weeks
- Connectivity
- Wireless to the hub, then 5G out. Up to 100 m between the base unit and its devices
- Expansion
- Up to ten devices per hub — cameras, flood and fire sensors — so it scales as the scaffold grows
- Coverage rule
- A device every 30 m along an elevation covers the whole first lift
- Build
- Ruggedised for live sites, water- and wind-resistant, and housed to withstand tampering
- App
- Images on demand at any time, for your team as well as ours
Lighting plus surveillance
Hybrid Lighting Tower
High-output site lighting with a battery-first, solar-backed system and generator support, combined with CCTV options.
Best for
- Night working — highways, rail possessions, winter programmes and compounds working past four
- Residential and built-up areas, and events, where diesel noise brings complaints or breaks a noise limit
- Rural utilities and remote compounds where refuelling is a long drive
- Customers with sustainability targets they have to report on
Key specifications
- Light output
- 54,000 lumens of high-output LED — enough to light about half a football pitch from one tower
- Power
- Battery first, three 300 W solar panels second, built-in diesel generator third. The switch is automatic, so nobody on site has to do anything
- Winter runtime
- Up to 32 days on a single tank
- Summer
- Solar can carry it without the generator starting at all
- Fuel
- V-360 reports up to 90% less than a diesel-only tower
- Emissions
- V-360 reports around 338 kg less CO2 per tower per year than diesel-only, with a carbon saving report for each deployment
- Control
- Automatic dusk-till-dawn sensor. No user intervention
- Mast
- 7 m, adjustable
- Delivery
- Road-towable trailer
Project visibility
Solar V-Lapse
Remote time-lapse and project-viewing camera with cloud access. It is a project-visibility product, not a substitute for monitored intrusion detection.
Best for
- Long builds where progress evidence, stakeholder reporting or marketing content has value
- Developers reporting to investors, and landmark builds with a communicative client
- Public sector and infrastructure projects that need a visual audit trail
- Multi-site operators who want to check progress without driving to every site
Key specifications
- Image
- Two 12-megapixel sensors stitched into one 220-degree panorama at 7360 × 2650 pixels, so one camera sees the whole site
- Video
- Time-lapse films in Full HD, 4K or 6K, built on demand
- Interval
- From every 30 seconds, with five-second bursts for a pour or a lift. Adjusts to daylight automatically
- Power
- Built-in 4.1 W solar panel and 25,800 mAh battery, with a USB-C mains option
- Autonomy
- About 12 days with no sun while uploading, or 36 days storing locally at one frame every 15 minutes
- Connectivity
- 4G uploads, with GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for setup. Memory card up to 1 TB
- Build
- IP66, −10°C to +50°C, 200 × 200 × 70 mm, 1.6 kg, with a tripod thread and a padlock point
- Portal
- Latest frames, unlimited time-lapse builds, private sharing, 60-second live video on demand, and automatic blurring of faces and people for GDPR
How the service works
Specified, installed and managed around your site.
Book a Survey
Share the location, risks, timescale and operating pattern.
Review the Site
We assess coverage, access, power, connectivity and escalation.
Specify the Package
Equipment, monitoring hours, access, response and reporting are agreed.
Install & Commission
The system is positioned, tested and handed over to authorised users.
Monitor & Review
Activations follow the agreed plan, with records and service review.
Monitoring and customer access
Visibility for your team. A defined route for real incidents.
Monitoring is not one-size-fits-all. The active hours, authorised users, alert rules, escalation contacts and responder are set for the customer and site.
- ✓Selectable monitoring windows
- ✓Authorised customer camera access where configured
- ✓Site-specific escalation and contact tree
- ✓Activation, incident and periodic reporting
Illustrative service profile
MonitoringCustomer-selected hours
Customer accessAuthorised users
Alert handlingProfessional review
EscalationSite-specific plan
RecordsAgreed reports
Each of these is set for the customer and the site during setup, and confirmed in the proposal.
When an issue is found
Verification first. Then the agreed action.
A monitoring operator reviews the available information and follows the agreed escalation route. The action may include an audio warning, contacting a nominated person, dispatching Clear Watch or requesting emergency support when justified.
- 1Review the activation and available imagery
- 2Use configured deterrence or notification where appropriate
- 3Escalate to the agreed customer, responder or emergency route
- 4Record the event, actions and available evidence
The escalation route is agreed before the system goes live: who is contacted, in what order, and what each type of activation should trigger. It is reviewed again as the site changes.
Coverage
CCTV tower hire across Greater Manchester and surrounding areas.
Clear Watch surveys, supplies and manages CCTV towers and mobile CCTV from Oldham across Greater Manchester and surrounding areas. Planned requirements farther afield can still be considered for equipment and professional monitoring.
Where Clear Watch dispatch is not available, the escalation plan can use the customer's own team or another nominated responder. Coverage is confirmed in the proposal—not assumed from a postcode alone.
OldhamManchesterRochdaleTamesideStockportSalfordTraffordBoltonBurySurrounding areas
Typical applicationsTemporary, changing and exposed sites
01
Construction & refurbishment
Perimeters, compounds, materials, access routes and project visibility.
02
Vacant property & open land
Visible deterrence and monitored protection where fixed systems are limited.
03
Logistics, utilities & infrastructure
Yards, equipment, deliveries and changing operational areas.
04
Events, education & public sites
Temporary coverage designed around lawful use and site management.
Questions answered
What to establish before deployment.
A useful proposal needs the site, duration, coverage, monitoring and escalation details—not just a request for “one tower”.
A CCTV tower is a relocatable, self-powered camera platform on a mast, giving 360-degree coverage of an open area without mains power or fixed infrastructure. It suits sites where fixed CCTV is unavailable, badly positioned or disproportionate, such as construction sites, compounds, yards and vacant land. Clear Watch supplies towers from the V-360 range and sets the mast height, camera configuration and coverage from the site survey.
It is a temporary or relocatable camera solution specified for a site and hired for an agreed period. Clear Watch can supply equipment only or combine it with professional monitoring, agreed escalation, reporting and response.
That depends on the site layout, risk areas, power, access, expected duration and required coverage. A survey is used to recommend the most proportionate product or combination rather than defaulting every site to a tower.
Yes. Construction sites are one of the most common applications. The specification is set around the phase of work, the perimeter and access points, the plant and materials on site, the hours the site is unoccupied and how alerts should be handled out of hours. As the site changes, units can be relocated or added, and scaffold lines and changing access points can be covered with ScaffSecure alongside a tower.
Yes. The V-Tower runs on solar power with batteries inside the unit, so it needs no mains connection, no generator and no fuel deliveries. Solar performance varies with the time of year and with anything that shades the unit, such as buildings, cabins or trees, so shading is assessed at the site survey and the tower is positioned around it. Where a position is unavoidably shaded, the unit can be set up to run from mains power by exception, agreed at survey.
Yes. Monitoring periods are agreed for each site and can be aligned with working hours, nights, weekends or another agreed schedule.
Authorised customer access can be configured where suitable. Access permissions, users, available features and data-handling arrangements are confirmed during setup.
The monitoring station reviews the activation and follows the site-specific escalation plan. Depending on the agreed service this may include an audio warning, contacting nominated people, requesting Clear Watch attendance within its dispatch area or contacting emergency services when justified.
No. You can select equipment only, monitored CCTV, monitored CCTV with response, or a hybrid package involving guarding or mobile patrols. Response arrangements and authority are agreed before go-live.
Clear Watch dispatch is offered across Greater Manchester and surrounding areas subject to survey, safe access, availability and the agreed contract. Equipment and monitoring may still be available farther away using a customer or nominated local responder.
Many planned installations can be arranged in around one week, depending on survey findings, equipment availability, access, permissions, connectivity and configuration.
Reporting can include commissioning or activation records, incident records with available evidence, notification and escalation actions, and periodic service summaries. The exact format and frequency are agreed in the proposal.
Mobile CCTV is normally one part of a wider security plan. Clear Watch provides the commissioning record, incident records with the available evidence, and the signage, access and retention arrangements agreed in the proposal, so you have the documentation to put in front of an insurer, a planning officer or your own data-protection lead.
Security Guarding
Continuous on-site presence for access, patrols and incident management.
View service →Mobile Patrols
Scheduled or risk-led visits alongside remotely monitored CCTV.
View service →Keyholding & Response
A controlled response route for agreed alarms and activations.
View service →Vacant Property Inspections
Documented inspections for unoccupied commercial property.
View service →A bespoke quotation starts with the site
Book a site security survey.
Tell us what you need to protect, how the site operates and when cover should start. We will recommend the equipment and service level that fit the requirement.
Equipment-only or monitored packages
Selectable monitoring and customer access
Optional Clear Watch response or hybrid guarding
Bespoke proposal with agreed reports