A worked example, not a specific customer project — illustrative reference design showing how the pieces fit.
Ten example builds, from a four-camera house to a full commercial clinic. Each one shows the whole thing: what gets installed, what it costs, why each choice was made, what breaks if you go smaller, and where it goes next.
Hardware prices verified 16 July 2026. Ubiquiti pricing changes — we confirm current pricing on every quote. Prices are indicative CAD, all-in. Contact AVNFi for a current quote.
What these are, and what they aren’t
These are worked examples. They are illustrative reference designs written to show how UniFi hardware fits together at different scales.
They are not case studies. No page here describes a real customer, a real address, or a job AVNFi has completed. Nothing on these pages is a claim about work performed for anyone. They are teaching documents built from Ubiquiti’s published catalogue and AVNFi’s design practice.
Your building is not one of these. But it’s probably close to one of them, and that’s the point — start from the closest example and we’ll adjust from there.
The ten
| # | Design | Scale | Indicative all-in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four-camera home | Small home, 4 cameras | ~$2,112 |
| 2 | Small home, network only | No cameras. WiFi + gateway | ~$708 |
| 3 | Large home, multi-storey | 3 storeys, 6 APs, 13 cameras | ~$9,658 |
| 4 | Small office | ~10 staff, WiFi + cameras, rack | ~$4,032 |
| 5 | Dental clinic — full build | The flagship. 8 cameras, 2 controlled doors | ~$6,598 + |
| 6 | Retail storefront | Cameras + door access + guest WiFi | ~$4,856 |
| 7 | Warehouse / shop | Big span, outdoor, PTZ, long runs | ~$5,596 |
| 8 | Add cameras to an existing network | Keep your Meraki/Cisco. Add Protect | ~$3,297 + |
| 9 | Garage / gate integration | Gate hub + third-party opener | ~$701 + |
| 10 | Upgrading from legacy gear | Old USG + AC APs + G3 cameras | ~$431 + |
Totals are hardware only, all-in, indicative CAD. See pricing note below. A + means the design has lines we won’t price without confirming them.
How to read the pricing
Every price on every page is all-in.
Ubiquiti applies a per-unit memory surcharge that doesn’t appear on its product pages — it only shows up in the shopping cart. A UNVR that lists at $399 is actually $430. Where it applies it runs 7.43–7.89%, consistently, across all 29 SKUs we’ve cart-verified. But some products carry none at all, and you can’t predict which from the category — a USW-Flex-Mini switch and a $1,005 UVC-AI-MS-2 camera both come up $0. It is not a formula and it is not a category rule: every line has to be read from the cart.
So AVNFi quotes the real number, always, and verifies every line in the cart before a quote goes out. You will never get a quote from us that grows between the quote and the invoice because of this.
Also true of every total here:
- Indicative CAD. Ubiquiti reprices without notice. Treat these as the right order of magnitude, not a promise.
- Hardware is passed through at cost. AVNFi doesn’t mark up Ubiquiti gear.
- Labour is quoted separately and is not in any number on these pages.
- Not included anywhere: hard drives, racks, cable, and any third-party hardware. Those get priced at source.
- Ubiquiti lead time is about 7–10 days.
- Where a page says a price is “not yet verified”, that’s because we haven’t confirmed it in the cart yet, and we won’t print a number we haven’t checked.
The four ideas that show up on every page
1. The gateway is the brain. The switch is the muscle. Your gateway runs the network and — on most models — records your cameras. But the big rack gateways have no PoE at all. A UDM-Pro records sixteen cameras and powers exactly zero of them. Gateway-as-NVR never means “no switch needed.”
2. The 4K number is the one that matters. Every current UniFi camera is 4K. Gateways advertise capacity in HD, 2K and 4K — and the 4K number is much smaller. A UniFi Dream Router 7 handles “5 cameras”, which means one 4K camera. That’s how builds quietly run out of room.
3. Undersizing is a dead end, not a saving. Most of the money in an install is labour and cable, not the box. Saving $150 on a gateway that caps out in a year means paying for the bigger one anyway — on top of the small one you already bought. Every page here has a section on exactly what breaks.
4. You don’t have to replace what works. Design 8 adds cameras to somebody else’s network without touching it. Design 10 is about old gear, and the honest answer there is that most of it is fine. Ripping out a working network is a sale, not an upgrade.
A note on doors
Designs 5, 6 and 9 include controlled doors.
AVNFi’s design practice is fail-secure locks paired with mechanical egress — a push bar or push pad that opens the door with no power, no network, and no electronics involved.
Local building and fire code, and your Authority Having Jurisdiction, govern egress and must be confirmed for your specific door and occupancy. That’s a conversation with the AHJ, not something these pages decide. Nothing here is code, legal or compliance advice.
Built from Ubiquiti’s published catalogue (ca.store.ui.com and techspecs.ui.com), verified 2026-07-16. Prices and stock change without notice.