A live camera for restaurants and wineries

What a live view does for a restaurant

• Open kitchen — trust. Cleanliness and handmade food that the guest sees with their own eyes say more than words. It matters even more when people order for delivery.
• Terrace and view. A terrace in Old Tbilisi, a seaside café in Batumi or a mountain restaurant overlooking a gorge — the camera shows the atmosphere and the weather, and whether the terrace is open.
• Wine cellar and vineyard. In Kakheti — Telavi, Kvareli, Sighnaghi — wine tourists get to know a marani on its website first. The vineyard, the qvevri and the harvest days on a live stream bring both distant buyers and future visitors closer to you.
• Bread, khinkali, mtsvadi. A tone oven, the khinkali table or the grill, live — the kind of shot people share on social media.

What to point the camera at — and what not

• The kitchen work surface, from above: hands, dough, pots, plates. Faces do not need to be in the frame.
• A wide view of the terrace or the scenery, where people at tables are not shown close up.
• The qvevri in the cellar, the vineyard rows and the valley.
• Not close-ups of tables, the till (cards and receipts), changing rooms, toilets, the staff room or the office.

Staff, guests and the law

Two groups end up in a restaurant's frame: staff, who work in front of the camera all day, and guests, who are relaxing. Georgia's Law on Personal Data Protection protects both:

• Staff. Employees must be informed in writing about video monitoring at work. A public stream goes further than a security camera — it is wise to get their consent to appear on it too, and to frame the shot so faces are not shown.
• Guests. Put a warning sign at the entrance saying the camera is live. Do not show tables close up — who dines with whom is a private matter.
• Turn audio off in the camera. If the camera has a microphone, disable audio in its settings — then no sound reaches the stream and guests' conversations are never broadcast.

More detail: CCTV law in Georgia.

Cameras in the kitchen and the cellar

• Steam and grease: do not mount the camera directly above the stove — grease settles on the lens. Mount it to the side, a little away, in an enclosed dome housing, and clean the lens regularly.
• Light: kitchens are well lit; cellars and evening terraces are not. For low light, choose a camera that gives a colour picture in dim conditions — infrared night mode kills the atmosphere.
• Humidity in the cellar: a marani is cool and damp, so an IP66/IP67 camera pays off there too.
• Resolution: 2–4 MP is enough; 4 MP for a wide terrace view. See camera settings.

Internet

• Our server connects to the camera over the internet: you need a public IP and a forwarded RTSP port. See port forwarding.
• 1080p needs 3–4 Mbit/s of upload per camera. The number of viewers does not load your internet — our server serves them all.
• Keep guest Wi-Fi separate: put cameras and the guest network on different segments.
• Security: a separate view-only user, a changed default password, updated firmware; only the RTSP port open to the internet, never the camera's web interface.
• Vineyards often have no internet. If the recorder is in the cellar, bring the vineyard camera to it by cable or a wireless bridge — or call us.

Features that fit

• Schedules: the camera is live only during opening hours — the closed dining room and the clean-up are not on your site.
• Live switch: pause the stream with one click during a private event, a wedding or a supra.
• Logo editor: the restaurant or wine brand logo and a caption such as "Our tone oven, live".
• Ad link: clicking the camera name opens your menu, table booking, delivery page or wine shop.
• Allowed domains: embedding only on your own site. See protecting a stream.
• WordPress plugin: WordPress plugin. H.265 cameras are converted automatically: H.265 in the browser.

How to start

1. Create an account.
2. Add the camera or recorder channel: see Hikvision, Dahua, Uniview or NVR/DVR recorders.
3. Run the connection test and check the frame — no close-up faces or tables.
4. Embed the player on your site, next to the menu: embedding on a website.

NEWTECH will help you choose the right spot, install the camera and start the stream. Phone: +995 577 79 53 77.