Estate Living Magazine New Beginnings - Issue 37 January 2019 | Page 61

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Effective response teams rather than
scheduled patrols
Scheduled perimeter patrols are predictable in that they are done
hourly. The criminal element in South Africa is smart and precise.
It’s not too difficult to work out when the perimeter patrols are
being conducted, and to calculate the interval between patrols.
On-site response teams, on the other hand, only respond to verified
alarms in that specific sector and have a much higher success rate in
deterring or capturing unwanted intruders before any actual breach
or damage is done.
Access control at gated entrance
Visitor management, biometric access control and licence disc
scanners are necessary security measures at the main gates of
any retirement village or estate, but security personnel should be
alerted to any potential threats before the vehicle stops at the gate.
Our licence plate recognition solution captures number plates as
the vehicle approaches the main gate, instantly checking them
against a national database for hot-listed vehicles, our partners’
national suspicious vehicle database, and the SAPS database. This is
tied in with facial recognition, as each visitor’s face is scanned, and
captured along with the registration number.
All these technological advancements in IP CCTV mean that JNCS
Beyond Security can prevent crime in a proactive rather than a
reactive manner. And preventative security is the best kind there is.
Rental option
Homeowners associations (HOAs) that are not looking to
make a heavy investment into infrastructure can consider
rental-based solutions, which offer the option to make security
and surveillance an operational expenditure (OpEx) item.
To this end, JNCS Beyond Security, together with its partner
Merchant West, has designed tailor-made, tax-efficient and
cost-effective financial solutions for HOAs.
‘Our specialist asset finance, credit and legal teams
combine experience, expertise and a solid understanding
of operational, financial and transactional complexities to
offer HOAs a range of asset finance products and solutions to
enable them to upgrade from a reactive system to a proactive
system, and stay within their existing security budget,’ says
Van der Linde.
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‘We, as a specialist provider, will get to know your business,
assisting it to identify risk and address it, applying the most
suitable technologies that will add considerable value to your
retirement village or estate,’ says Van der Linde.
At a more advanced level, the security-as-a-service solution
gives the HOA access to solutions that may otherwise be
too expensive to deploy, for example, access to a platform
integrating Thermal Perimeter Defender with analytics,
upgrading the security control room, monitoring facility
performance and systems, and alerting the right people if
equipment fails or other anomalies occur.