A new way to protect PEOPLE, PROPERTY & PROFITS.

Basically, a customer who may not wish to commit to manned (on-site) guards can opt to use Shield's CCTV Remote Monitoring service. the customer's site can be protected against intruder, fire or similar upset by the installation of CCTV cameras in strategic viewpoints around the site. Live images may be viewed at any time on a routine remote tour by a Shield Security RMS controller, or the controller can automatically be alerted to an occurrence on the site by connection of alarm devices to each camera, e.g. movement detectors, door contacts or heat sensors.

Immediately that any such device is triggered it will automatically switch the Video transmission Unit to initiate a call to the Remote Monitoring Station, whereupon camera images from the appropriate camera are transmitted.

The Shield Security RMS controller will then have complete control of the site CCTV system and will take the required action to respond to the alarm, e.g. call the relevant emergency service or despatch a Shield Security mobile patrol. Obviously a Shield "keyholding" agreement is needed for mobile patrol response.

By the installation of loudspeakers at the customer site the controller can even announce to an intruder that they are being observed.

Other hardware can also be integrated with the CCTV system, e.g. an intercom could be installed with electronic locking to a door, so that a visitor requiring entry would need to press a call-button on the intercom unit. This would initiate connection to the Remote Monitoring Station and a controller would then be able to hold a two-way conversation with the visitor. If required, the controller could then grant entry.

CCTV cameras vary from the traditional fixed units on wall brackets, or enclosed in weatherproof housings, to miniature board cameras which can be mounted in just about anything imaginable, resulting in CCTV becoming more and more popular for covert operations.

Controllable dome cameras are increasing in popularity as they become more cost effective and are packed with the latest features that manufacturers are not building into the conventional models. these units can be set to carry out pre-programmed tours of their 360-degree coverage area, and specified pre-set views will over-ride a tour or static view if an alarm condition is received from a detection device, e.g. movement detector or input from an access control system. Connection to a Remote Monitoring Station could then be initiated.

Extending way beyond traditional security, This highly cost effective system of security may be utilised in a variety of remote or unmanned areas that hitherto would have involved ten times the cost. these surveillance areas include.

•  OFFICES
•  UTILITIES & HEAVY INDUSTRIAL PREMISES
•  SERVICE STATIONS & RETAIL OUTPUTS
•  FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
•  WAREHOUSES
•  AIRPORTS
•  SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES
•  MARINE PORTS

Powerful software at the Remote Monitoring Station enables the controllers to monitor practically limitless numbers of remote customer sites. A high capacity hard-disk drive in the central computer will record all events from remote sites when alarms are received, or if the RMS controller "dials in" to a remote site to carry out a tour of the premises. Any footage that needs to be kept can be transferred onto CD via an inbuilt CD-RW unit.