Wireless for security solutions
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In recent months we've seen a growing
trend in wireless installations and
that's because even though it's not a
new technology there are some
times when customers have a problem have
a solution for us to solve whereby we
can offer wireless for them to get over
that issue those issues could be
say for instance you may have a physical
barrier it could well be that you have
applications going across from one
building to another building and in the
way there could be a river there could
be a road there could be even a building
that's in the way so from that purpose
if we were to say let's go wired it
would be geographically not
not suitable to be able to go down that
route so in that those cases yeah we do
find that wireless is probably the only
application that we can offer in order
to solve the customer's problem
and when it comes to wireless we
shouldn't just think about it being just
wireless as in the case of a transmitter
to a receiver we also should think about
wi-fi we should think about 3g 4g
applications because for some time the
security industry we have been using
those applications already so if it's
about dialing in remotely to a site
sometimes it might be that we haven't
got broadband and actually 3g 4g is a
way that we can access information
some common examples that we have seen
recently have been for
example industrial or retail parks
whereby they have electricity at the lamppost
and they've obviously gone and done what
they need to do but some for some reason
there could be an increase in crime an
increase in joyriding around the area
and then suddenly there becomes a need
to have cctv or some other form of
security in that case what we have seen
there is people deploy wireless so that
they can use a cctv system because they
didn't have the knowledge up front to be
able to go let's put data communication
cables in as well as the electrical
cables so actually the only solution
that we can offer then from that point
of view is a wireless system
likewise also if you imagine you've got
your nice new four-bedroom house built
in a nice part of somewhere in the south
or the north of england
and you've got a nice decorated house
and suddenly crime goes up in the area
and you want to have an intruder system
put into your house
from a point of view of all that lovely
decoration are you going to allow
someone to come in and put wires in or
could you use an intruder system that
uses wireless and that's what we have
seen in the last few months to two years
is a big growth especially in the
domestic residential areas and also
small business whereby wireless intruder
systems are being deployed
and in some circumstances say for
universities etc where you have
different buildings and different
faculties sometimes it's easier to
actually get information back from one
faculty to another faculty by using
wireless rather than have to put in
wired cables and all the costs of civils
i think some of the reasons why people
are going down the wireless route is
because there are some significant
benefits some of those benefits are
obviously a massive cost savings because
if you're not having to do civils i.e
i'm not having to put columns or towers
for cameras etc across away on a
perimeter for example and bringing that
back into a building we are not going to
have large civil civil sort of costs
okay wireless obviously cuts down that
price significantly the other good thing
about wireless is providing that you
have got the bandwidth is it's very
scalable you could start with one camera
two cameras three cameras or maybe three
four access control readers and you can
build that up then to be quite a
significant system providing of course
that you always remember the bandwidth
has to be significantly increased as you
increase the amount of cameras or
devices you are putting onto the network
it makes it very flexible from a point
of view of as things change say for
instance your barriers may change on
your site at some point where a new
building gets put off so from that point
of view that's okay as they say we can
still bend it like beckham it doesn't
have to be that you can only have to go
one way to another we can dog leg if we
have to providing of course that we have
got line of sight so as your system
changes as your building changes or as
your application changes we can
accommodate that through wireless quite
significantly and it could well be it's
a hybrid system it might well be that
you go wired on some part of the
application or the solution but it could
well be that for some parts you may need
to consider wireless
so when choosing wireless obviously
there are some things that you have to
think about and that is of course
the right manufacturer you've got to
make sure that the products that you are
choosing
are cyber secure make sure that if they
can be secure by default okay because
it's very very important that we don't
compromise a security system because we
leave a back door open as to speak for
someone to be able to gain access to
information that they shouldn't be
getting access to so from that point of
view we must be careful that we choose
products that are cyber secure we also
must be very aware that because it is
going over wireless networks we have to
make sure that that product can be
encrypted and a good level of encryption
as well is highly recommended and also
from a point of view of the basics line
of sight is very very important because
like i say although we can bend it like
beckham line of sight is critical
because all manufacturers will say it
has to be line of sight and that is
obviously imperative in any wireless
application
the other thing that we have to consider
when using wireless applications is that
what's already being used on wireless
frequencies in that area the last thing
you want to have here is go and put an
install in and then suddenly a bit later
british telecom come along and install a
massive cryptic transmitter that wipes
out your frequency so we have to make
sure that we do due diligence ensure
that the area is fairly clean and that
there is no crosstalk etc etc
so some key applications that i've been
asked for quite a few times over the
last few months have been as follows
obviously like i said before the
residential scenario there's still a big
increase with regards to intruder
systems being put in using wireless but
because to cctv we see a lot of retail
parks and industrial
parks being now used as an afterthought
mainly that they need a cctv system
because of an increase in crime so
typically i've had one just recently
where we've had 22 cameras on a system
on a retail park put in all using
wireless as a backbone and of course
there's other ones that you could
consider for access control with
intercoms whereby it could be that you
enter a an estate and whereby they
haven't got the ability to be able to
take data communications all the way
back through civils what they do is put
an intercom at the barrier yeah that
obviously controls people coming in and
out of the estate and they're able to
then relay that through wireless back to
a central point
so if you'd like to find out more about
wireless applications and how we can
help you either come to norbane.com or
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