Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Cameras for your construction site?

Heres a good solution that has been put in place to a hard issue. For smaller projects, and for project home builders, getting a handle on the security issue can be difficult. Materials such a copper piping and tools and installed goods such as whitegoods can go missing as quickly as they are deposited to site.

SecureIt in the UK have installed camera's on a project home site. Cameras are motion sensitive and infrared enabled and alert off site monitoring when activated. Monitoring staff can then look at vision from the site and make a decision about whether to alert a roving patrol responder to attend.

This system has been so successful they are now going to install on five other sites. Obviously this is a highly cost effective way to secure a project. It also has the potential to introduce economies of scale. For example, where a construciton company is currently using individual security officers at a number of construction sites in close proximity, these could be replaced with one roving officer who responds to threats as identified by the cameras.

There is real potential for cost and efficiency savings within this setup. There is also the opportunity for construction companies who currently are unable to use security because of the cost to add this solution to their opperations.

Regards
Steve
www.misedio.com

Links
Article: SourceSecurity.com
http://www.sourcesecurity.com/news/articles/co-3572-ga-co-227-ga.1900.html