CCTV & Security Camera Data SIM Cards
Multi-network data SIMs for CCTV, ANPR and remote site cameras — because the footage you end up needing is always from the week the link was quietly down.
Cameras go where the risk is, not where the signal is
Compounds, yards, empty buildings, roadsides, car parks. The whole point of the camera is that nobody is there — which is also why nobody notices when it stops reporting.
Up to four networks, one SIM
In the UK, France and Spain a Wave SIM reaches four operators. In Germany, Italy and Ireland, three. On an unmanned site the modem takes whichever is strongest rather than whichever you guessed at install.
Profile changes without a cherry picker
On hardware that supports remote provisioning we load or switch the network profile for you from our side — no climbing to a column head. It depends on the device, so ask us whether yours qualifies.
Buy the data, not a contract
30-day and 12-month plans bought outright, which suits redeployable cameras that move between sites. Refills reach 100 GB and pooled data across an estate has no cap.
What a single network costs you
Surveillance fails in a particular way: silently, and in exactly the window that mattered.
You find out when you need the footage
A camera that stopped uploading three weeks ago still looks fine on the wall. The discovery happens when somebody asks for Tuesday night — and Tuesday night is not there.
No infrastructure, no survey
Cameras land on sites with no fixed line and often no recent coverage check. One operator's bars at the gate tell you nothing about the far corner where the camera actually goes.
Incidents happen at the worst time
Nights and weekends, when nobody is checking dashboards. If the single network serving that site is the one having a bad night, the event and the outage coincide.
What you'll be connecting
Everything from a still image on motion to a continuous stream — and the gap between those two is three orders of magnitude.
What a camera actually uses
This is the one sector where sizing goes badly wrong, so here is the arithmetic rather than a reassurance.
Stills on motion
Roughly 0.2–1 GB a month. A solar camera sending a handful of images per event is the lightest thing on this page.
Event-triggered clips
Roughly 2–5 GB a month at 1080p, for a site with ordinary levels of activity. This is what most installations should be doing.
Continuous streaming
Roughly 20–60 GB a month at a modest bitrate, and far more at full quality. Real, supported, and a pooled-data conversation rather than a shelf plan.
Work it out from the bitrate rather than guessing: 1 Mbps running constantly is about 10.8 GB a day, so roughly 325 GB a month. That single number tells you most of what you need. Drop to event-triggered recording and you are in shelf-plan territory; stream 24/7 at 2 Mbps and you are at 650 GB a month, which is a pool.
A typical event-triggered camera starts on a 25 GB / 12 month plan with refills if a site turns out busier than expected. We would rather size it with you than watch a plan expire in month four.
These are indicative figures, not measurements of your cameras. Send us the bitrate and recording mode from one live unit and we will size the estate against it before you buy anything.
Plans for cameras and estates
Prices shown in your own currency. Most cameras and routers take a standard SIM, so check the slot before choosing the eSIM — though the eSIM is worth it on a sealed housing or anything at the top of a column.
Europe 25 GB / 12 Months
Most boughtStandard SIM
Europe 12 GB / 12 Months
Standard SIM
Europe 6 GB / 12 Months
Standard SIM
Streaming continuously, or running cameras across many sites? Talk to us about pooled data — it has no cap and it is almost always the right answer at volume.
Common questions
How much data will my camera actually use?
Take the bitrate and multiply. 1 Mbps continuous is about 10.8 GB a day or 325 GB a month; 512 kbps halves that. Event-triggered recording changes the sum completely, because you are only paying for the minutes that something moved — usually 2–5 GB a month rather than hundreds. If you do not know your bitrate, the camera's web interface will tell you, and it is worth looking before you choose a plan.
Can we stream continuously over a SIM?
Yes, and plenty of customers do. It is a question of sizing rather than possibility: continuous streaming belongs on pooled data, which has no cap, rather than on a prepaid plan sized for clips. Tell us the camera count and bitrate and we will quote the pool. What we will not do is sell you a 25 GB plan for a job that needs 300.
What about solar cameras with limited power?
They are a good fit, because the power budget forces exactly the behaviour that keeps data low — stills or short clips on motion, then back to sleep. Expect well under 1 GB a month. The thing to watch is signal strength rather than data: a weak signal makes the modem work harder and drains the battery faster, which is one more reason to reach several networks rather than one.
Will it work with our NVR or cloud VMS?
If the recorder or camera pushes footage out to a cloud service, yes — that is ordinary outbound traffic. If you need to connect in to a recorder on site, that needs an inbound route, and a standard SIM does not give you a fixed address. Most modern systems avoid this by using a cloud relay. If yours does not, tell us before ordering, because it changes what you need.
What if a site uses more than its plan?
Nothing auto-bills at a surprise rate. Refills on a prepaid plan go up to 100 GB, so a busy site is a top-up rather than a migration, and the portal can notify you before a plan runs out rather than after. Across an estate, pooled data has no cap and is quoted — usually simpler than a plan per camera.
Tell us about the cameras
How many, what they record, whether they stream or trigger, and where they are. We'll size it and send a quote, usually the same day.