Low Current Systems

A building's low-current scope — data cabling, CCTV, access control, intercom, SMATV/IPTV, audio, and sometimes alarm and fire-detection — is traditionally split across five or six vendors. Each one shows up, runs its own cable, drills its own holes, points fingers when something doesn't work, and leaves you with multiple incompatible warranties. That model is broken on any project beyond a small office.

Araneae Networks delivers the full low-current package under one contract. One design team produces a coordinated layout where pathways are shared, racks are sized for the combined load, and systems are integrated at the design stage — not bolted together at commissioning. One project manager owns delivery from BOQ through handover. One warranty covers the entire scope.

The model is purpose-built for new construction, major fit-outs and large-scale refurbishments. We typically engage at the consultant or BOQ stage so we can influence pathway design and avoid the structural problems that emerge when low-current systems are squeezed into space planned for MEP. We speak the same standards as your MEP contractor and main contractor — DEWA, Dubai Civil Defence, Dubai Municipality, SIRA — and we attend coordination meetings.

Integration at the design stage is where the value compounds. CCTV cameras correlate with access-control events. Gate barriers trigger ANPR snapshots. Visitor intercom calls verify against the resident directory and trigger lift-floor access. SMATV head-end pushes emergency announcements over the PA system. All of this is mapped at design, not retrofitted after commissioning when it would cost three times as much.

Delivery is faster because work streams run in parallel. While our cabling team is pulling Cat6 in the riser, our security team is mounting cameras and access controllers, our AV team is roughing-in intercom and SMATV cables, and our network team is staging the head-end equipment in our workshop. A coordinated delivery typically cuts 30-40% off the timeline versus sequential vendor engagements.

Handover is one document set: BOQ-aligned as-built drawings for every system, Fluke certifications for cabling, SIRA documentation for CCTV, commissioning reports for access and intercom, training materials for operations, and a single AMC proposal covering everything. From the day we hand over, you have one number to call when anything in the low-current stack needs attention.