5 Blind Spots Most Kenyan Compounds Miss (Even With Cameras Already Installed)

A camera on the main gate and one on the driveway feels like a complete system. It rarely is. After enough site surveys, a short list of recurring gaps starts to stand out, the same handful of spots that get missed on property after property, regardless of how many cameras are already installed. Here are the five we flag most often.

1. The pedestrian side gate

Vehicle gates get the camera. The smaller side gate used by staff, delivery riders, or family members on foot often doesn't, even though it's frequently the point of entry actually used day to day, and the one most likely to be left unlatched.

2. The boundary between the main house and the servant's quarters or SQ

Many Nairobi properties have a secondary structure at the back, staff quarters, a boys' quarter, a store room, added or converted after the original camera layout was designed. The access route to that structure, and the boundary wall behind it, is a common gap because it simply didn't exist when the system was first planned.

3. Ground-floor windows on the side of the house, not the front

Front-facing windows get attention because they're visible from the street and from the main gate camera. Side windows, especially ones facing a neighbouring plot or a narrow access path, are frequently left out of the coverage plan entirely, despite being a realistic entry point.

4. The seam between two cameras' fields of view

Two cameras covering adjacent sections of wall sound like full coverage, but if their fields of view don't slightly overlap, there's a narrow strip between them that neither camera actually sees clearly. This is a subtle gap that only shows up when you review the exact angles on a coverage plan, not something you'd notice just looking at where the cameras are mounted.

5. Anywhere the property has physically changed since installation

A new boundary wall, a converted garage, an extended driveway, a newly built gate on a previously blank stretch of wall. Camera systems are usually designed once, at the point of installation, and rarely revisited when the property itself changes. Every one of these changes can quietly create a blind spot that wasn't there when the system was first installed and configured.

If it's been a while since your cameras were last reviewed against the actual current layout of your property, it's worth checking. Our CCTV service

includes coverage audits for existing systems, not just fresh installs.