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.

DeepAlert’s customers, partners and industry professionals invited to see COMMAND, SceneIQ, AlertIQ and SiteIQ demonstrated live at the Nitida Wine Estate on 29 October 2026.

Following the launch of Solo, Paxton’s new phone-based, cloud-hosted access control system, the company is significantly increasing its investment in South Africa by expanding its local team to support installers and customers nationwide.

A particularly nasty truth sits at the centre of cybersecurity in 2026. You can do everything right and still lose if the organisation holding your identity number, banking information, medical history, or biometric data gets breached.

Bringing patrol, incident, and H&S reporting onto a single platform: a security operation should be able to show what happened, when it happened, and how personnel responded.