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.

Following his presentation at the Estate Security Conference in October, Craig Donald delves into the challenge of balancing human operator ‘IQ’ and AI system detection within CCTV control rooms.

While Centurion Systems may be known as a leader in gate and door motors in 72 countries, the company has developed more than hardware and now offers an automation ecosystem for access control security.

In the second part of this series of articles from BlueVision, we explore the human element: social engineering and insider threats and how red teaming can expose and remedy them.

ONVIF has announced that it will end support for ONVIF Profile S and recommends using its successor, Profile T. Profile S is the first-ever profile introduced by ONVIF in 2011.