SG Alarm Clock

An alarm clock sits where people actually are — a nightstand, a desk, a reception counter — and that is the entire reason to choose it. At roughly head height and a few feet from the subject, it records faces at the angle and distance that make them identifiable, which is precisely what a ceiling or wall unit cannot do. Battery and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, so it moves anywhere without a cable.

• Can wakeup device using your mobile phone within 1 second
• 2.4G Wi-Fi connection story Wi-Fi Connectivity
• Remote viewing and alerts from App
• Memory Card Recording
• Responsive motion detection
• Alarm information pushed to the mobile app immediately when someone is at the door
• Day and night mode can be switched automatically
• Memory card storage up to 64GB
• Cloud Storage for a fee (first 7 days free)
• Built-in recharegable battery
• Solar models Long life Battery operated 60days without sun
• Waterproof IP67 for SGBC, SGDB and SGFL only
• Free App for Android and iOS devices
• Easy and quick QR code set up
• High quality two-way talk with noise cancellation on non-covert models

SleuthGear Wi-Fi Setup

Narrow view, usable faces

The trade runs the opposite way from a high-mounted camera. An alarm clock covers a much narrower slice of the room, and anything set down in front of it blocks the view completely. Within that slice, though, it produces the most usable footage of any housing in the range: close, level with the face, pointed at where people sit or stand rather than down at the tops of their heads.

Use a wall or ceiling unit when the question is what happened in this room; use this when the question is who was it. When both matter, the honest answer is two cameras — they run on the same app, so it is one system either way, not two.

Things that go wrong with desk-height placements

A clock on a nightstand gets moved, turned, dusted and unplugged by other people far more often than a ceiling fixture does, so verify the aim periodically instead of assuming. Avoid pointing it straight at a window or a lamp — brightness behind a subject is what turns a face into a silhouette. And leave the front clear: the one object someone sets down in front of it is invariably the one that matters.

More hidden cameras — the category page covers 2.4 GHz setup, wake latency, storage and the legal position on placement. Ask us if you want the placement planned rather than guessed.