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CEO Conan Cole
the surrounding area. Vizual Security will, for example, look at specific topographical features of the property’ s location, such as water around the perimeter, whether the estate is set on a slope, and the type of landscape in which it is situated. The aim is to analyse what potential risks these physical aspects may present.
After a comprehensive risk assessment, the perimeter security is installed, along with the key access points and surveillance equipment. It is important to note that all Vizual Security installations are completed 100 % by their own in-house team. Once the security infrastructure has been established and the necessary hardware installed, it is all supported by state-of-the art electronics. The analytics software used for the perimeter security, access control points and security surveillance is a key feature. Vizual Security invests a great deal of time in“ training” the CCTV analytics software to recognise potential breaches in the system. Once the equipment has been“ trained”, the analytics software won’ t set off an alarm if the CCTV cameras pick up the image of, say, a bird. It will, however, activate an alarm if it detects a human intruder breaching the perimeter. That is why the learning period is so significant. This system works particulary well in conjunction with the latest state-ofthe-art thermal technology and CCTV cameras.
All estates secured by Vizual Security are monitored from the company’ s state-of-the art Intelligence Centre which is backed by a fully functional standby Intelligence Centre, and serves as a form of redundancy to the main Intelligence centre. The human element plays a key role in security and during the implementation phase of the system, a mini control room is established inside the security guardhouse. The estate manager has viewing rights as well, but the heart of the security system essentially lies at Vizual Security’ s off-site Intelligence Centre. Here highly trained personnel who are qualified to recognise threats and act on them immediately, are able to notify the estate’ s security supervisor along with a standby reaction team to respond to these threats. Vizual Security’ s use of the most advanced technology allows for potential threats or breaches in the perimeter to
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