Electronic security systems have come a long way in recent years. Gone are the days when a camera system was regarded as reactive (showing recordings of a masked man breaking into the client's premises at two o'clock in the morning). The modern CCTV surveillance system now provides proactive security with the capability to detect intruders coming onto a client's site.
These CCTV systems are remotely connected to specialist surveillance centres where the security of each client's site or business is securely managed. A whole array of tasks can be controlled from the centre:
- Public address on site (issuing challenges, addressing intruders by where they are and what they are doing);
- Remote control of cameras: obtaining more precise recordings;
- Controlling access;
- Monitoring staff on or off site;
- Monitoring on site plant;
- Turning lights on or off;
- Opening and closing secured doors;
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The list goes on and on.
Systems are now used to increase security levels and in many cases have reduced or removed the need for manned guarding on site. The advent of private security companies providing highly trained response vehicles with home office approved dog handlers, has further improved the level of security available to the client.
Modern CCTV systems are now being used as a management tool and with most modern digital recording systems being Internet ready (allowing viewing and control across the web), this has further added to the benefits of installing a modern system.
In a similar manner electronic access control systems have developed over the past few years. Particularly in the area of staff management, Construction companies in particular have awakened to the benefits of systems that counter the high levels of attendance fraud normally associated with on site clock cards. The modern access control system (similar to CCTV) offers much higher levels of security and reporting ability to the client.
Modern access control systems can combine multiple technologies from simple swipe card entry up to state of the art Biometrics (facial recognition, finger print or palm reading and retinal scans to name a few). Systems can be tailored to hold various items of information from next of kin to health and safety talks or can be tailored to suit the client's individual need.
A system whose main purpose was once simply to record events can now be used to control and manage those events; originally deployed to support the cure (i.e. to help trace and convict perpetrators of crimes after the event) CCTV and its derivative technologies can now be used to help prevent the problem. That, in turn, means that it contributes positively to the sense of security around a place and, as a deterrent to crime, reduces the costs of losses; making it not only a techno guard but also a fully fledged part of the business process.
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