Large scale protection
RemGuard's remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV service is being applied at Rosehill Industrial Estate
In another Australian example, RemGuard's remotely monitored, detector-activated CCTV service is being applied to the large multi-tenanted $137 million Rosehill Industrial Estate, owned by ING Industrial Fund, situated in suburban western Sydney, where RemGuard provides overall 'perimeter estate monitoring'.
The original intent was to employ after hours security guards on site however due to the substantial cost and burden to IIF's tenants; they chose to investigate alternative integrated technology solutions.
"ING Industrial Fund's main security concerns centred around how to maintain controlled after-hours access for authorised tenants with hundreds of employees and contractors", commented ING Real Estate's Asset Manager Robert Ewing, "and how to provide adequate ‘general site surveillance' recognising that each tenant would also have their own internal security systems and procedures".
ING Industrial Fund ultimately chose to implement a RemGuard security solution throughout the estate. This provides tenants with strategically located outdoor sensors and cameras viewing building perimeters and key access roads, all linked to RemGuard's Remote Video Response Centre (RVRC).
A key benefit of this solution for Rosehill is the ‘event activated' video monitoring after-hours by specially trained RVRC personnel, who are quickly alerted whenever movement is detected in a protected area. There are approximately 80 outdoor CCTV cameras plus long range and curtain PIR detectors installed across the site which are linked to nine RemVu Aquilas and RemVu Communicators.
The solution at Rosehill also includes talking CCTV in key areas; enabling RVRC operators to verbally ‘warn off' identified trespassers before any actual forced entry is attempted. In addition there is card controlled main gate access after hours, plus emergency gate control available through RemGuard's RVRC.
"Since RemGuard's implementation began, we haven't experienced any major thefts or criminal events at Rosehill Industrial Estate", said ING's Ewing, "and we think it's reasonable to assume that the [RemGuard] video system has had a fair bit to do with that."
To date, ING Industrial Fund has not found it necessary to employ permanent security guards at the Rosehill Industrial Estate, which represents a major savings for them.
