Safeguard was the installation partner to a security integrator. The integrator specified the system and kept the client relationship. We supplied the labour, the cabling, and the commissioning, then left them with a site they could hand to monitoring.
The brief
One warehouse. An alarm for the doors and the internal space, cameras on the entries and the aisle ends, and a recorder the integrator could reach without a visit. No request for a new control room. The existing rack stayed where it was.
The public version of this job stops there on purpose. The building is not named, and the photos are hardware only.
What went on the walls
The alarm used door contacts on the roller doors and detectors in the open floor. Cameras covered the pedestrian door, the dock, and the two aisle ends that the integrator had marked. The recorder went in the rack they already had, on the shelf they pointed at.
- Contacts and detectors for the alarm.
- Cameras only where the integrator had marked a view.
- A recorder in the existing rack, not a new cabinet.
Cabling and power
Runs were planned on the ground before anything was fixed. Longer paths were called out before the lift went up, so the quote and the cable on the drum matched. Power for the recorder came from the same rack circuit the integrator had nominated. We did not add a second supply.
At the end of the fit-out every camera had a picture, every door reported open and closed, and the communicator sent a test. That test is the point a job stops being a pile of hardware.
Handover
The integrator took the passwords, the zone list, and the camera names. Monitoring, if they turn it on, uses that list. What the room does with an event is covered in what happens after a monitored alarm goes off.
A similar install starts with a marked plan and a person who can walk the site. Contact the team or call 1300 225 276.