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.

South African organisations continue to invest heavily in digital transformation initiatives, but for many, the challenge is no longer adopting new technologies. Instead, the challenge is ensuring existing systems, applications, and data sources work together effectively.

How can access be controlled more efficiently without disrupting the estate or creating endless queues in the visitor lane(s), while also adhering to the draft Code of Conduct?

The next generation of museum security needs to detect threats sooner without getting between visitors and the works they came to see. The strongest perimeter may be the one nobody notices.

If the project team has already determined where services will run, how people will move through the building, and where access points will sit, the security specialist is working within decisions that have already been made.