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.

Smart AI platforms enable retail and hospitality organisations to turn their existing CCTV investments into proactive security systems and smart retail ecosystems that boost customer service and ROI.

Hotspots are areas of localised heat that can ignite everything from bird nests to dry grass blown onto the panels. They have been flagged by the insurance industry as being an existential threat to solar arrays.

A June 2026 High Court judgment has clarified one of the most contested issues in modern estate governance: when an HOA's digital access restrictions amount to unlawful self-help or spoliation, and when they do not.

Steven Freudiger, Securiton’s South Africa-based marketing manager, explains how Early Warning Fire Detection with the new SecuriSmoke ASD 2000 can protect even the biggest modern warehouses.