In 2020, Watcher Surveillance Solutions was approached by Plantation Farms, a third-generation family farming operation in the south of Boksburg, to provide a farm security solution to assist in reducing crop losses due to theft.

Estate upgrades and enhances its security through a partnership between surveillance specialist Watcher and the incumbent guarding company.

Looking beyond the hype and all the marketing optimism about AI and cloud services in the security market, there are significant benefits to incorporating the two into an estate’s security operation.

Watcher Surveillance Solutions provides an off-site Surveillance Operating Centre (SOC), offering a cloud-based video management system that manages customers’ video feeds using the latest in-video analytics and artificial intelligence.

Organisations need security systems that are reliable, intelligent, efficient and aimed at optimising the guarding component in order to adapt to their environments.

Local enterprise-class drone consultants can now supply SA organisations that need remote aerial operations with in-house drone and dock solutions that enable 25-second automated battery swapping.

As residential estates invest heavily in perimeter surveillance, automated access control, and smart management apps, the industry faces an uncomfortable paradox: security breaches keep happening, and they rarely stem from a lack of technology.

DeepAlert will host its Off-site Monitoring Conference on Thursday, 5 November 2026 in association with media partner Smart Security Solutions, and is aimed at businesses that provide, or are considering providing, off-site CCTV monitoring as a service.

The world economy is expected to slow to 2,5% growth in 2026 before recovering to 2,9% in 2027, creating a "three-speed economy" shaped by AI investment, geopolitical tensions and supply-chain fragmentation