The need to maintain electronic surveillance over enclosed or open spaces is a growing focus of governments, institutions, organisations and businesses, large and small. As this need grows, the proper planning, design, documentation, and maintenance of security infrastructure is becoming increasingly complex. But security is only as effective as its weakest link. Risk rises in direct proportion to, badly planned or poorly executed installation, inadequate or inferior equipment, or irregular ‘crisis’ driven maintenance repairs.

Even where these issues have been recognised, security can also fail where the ‘human’ element is inadequately addressed. The best electronic surveillance system is useless without sensitive and timely human interpretation of constant ‘real time’ image and data flows.

This compendium of issues – this matrix – is at the very core of reliable security surveillance, and it follows that the successful integration of all the elements of this matrix is critical if security is to be effective. The matrix must converge and formulate the right solutions, the first time.

Why? Because security has no ‘down-time’. Security surveillance must function reliably, without failure, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, often in difficult, hostile or threatening environments - or there is no security at all. Simply, security based on electronic surveillance and control cannot be left to chance.