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Many companies in the security industry will claim they can provide integrated security solutions. Often, this will simply mean they can connect the supplied hardware according to the manufacturers wiring instruction – for example ‘integrating’ a camera with a DVR by joining the two with cable.
IES Digital Systems considers a truly integrated solution to be one combining products, technologies and services to deliver a coherent system managed by a single user-interface, and capable of providing operational advantages over and above the basic security requirements of an organisation.
One or more systems could be proposed to satisfy an operational requirement such as: ‘to detect entry to rooms by doors, and view and record images of personnel entering them’
One possible solution to this requirement might be simply to provide a stand-alone CCTV system allowing the monitoring & recording of all doorways together with a stand-alone access control system that alerts guards to doors being opened. This solution would satisfy the operation requirement stated above, but the lack of integration between the systems would come with significant drawbacks.
In an integrated solution, the access control system would automatically notify the CCTV system that a door had been opened, identifying monitoring of that camera’s footage as a high priority. The system would automatically alert security personnel, display the relevant camera footage at the primary station, record images of the person entering and archive a time-stamped copy of these.
Such a system might also display a site plan showing the physical location of the event within the building and nearby security systems, making it easier to deploy personnel in response, or to track activity across from camera to camera.
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