Articles by Norbain

The Norbain Festival 2023: The After-film! Our second annual Norfest went down a treat with suppliers, customers, and our staff! Keep your eyes peeled for Norbain Festival 2024 tickets!

Picture this, you’re in your local supermarket, you’ve just spotted yourself on a little monitor, you're thinking "what on earth is that?" Well, it’s a public viewing monitor, or PVM for short. PVMs are used in a variety of applications but are most commonly used in supermarkets to monitor self-service areas and sometimes even above shop aisles.

This is our Market Opportunities video specifically about security systems in the transport industry. 

Deciding whether to use IP or analogue? Watch this short video as our security expert, Buzz Coates, breaks down the advantages and disadvantages of using either an IP or analogue CCTV system.

In June of 2022, we decided to host the industry's first security festival where our suppliers, customers, and employees from up and down the UK could come to meet, chat and chill. 

Watch our YouTube video to find out how two of our customers felt about the event and see what the day entailed. 

As the UK’s town centres re-invent themselves in order to provide a positive experience for today’s visitors, security solutions need to modernise to support this changing dynamic too.

Our man Buzz Coates takes you through a very handy overview of how a PIR works and how to correctly install one, either internally or externally. 

As we speed through Q2 of 2022, the UK Security Industry continues to face both uncertainty and opportunity and perhaps nowhere is this better displayed than in the security distribution market.

As the UK’s most successful distributor of IP Video, CCTV, Access Control and Intruder Detection solutions, Norbain SD has successfully weathered the storm of the Coronavirus Pandemic. However, the company looks a little different than it did at the start of 2020.

Watch Gordon Visgandis from Hanwha Techwin talk about 5 installer-friendly innovations for security installers. Find out about clever inventions like modular magnetic designs, PoE extenders, lighter PTZ's and more solutions, all designed to make your life easier.

In this week's episode of Norbain Basics, Buzz is talking about camera placement and things to consider when installing a CCTV solution.