15 November 2017

Oprema is the UK’s fastest growing distributor of security products in the field of CCTV, access control, intrusion, fire and networking products. In a little over a year, the company doubled its turnover and rapidly outgrew its existing premises. Moving into a new home – four times the size of the previous one – gives Oprema a perfect opportunity to showcase its expertise as security systems designers and integrators. The project As the company’s mission says, Oprema is committed to ‘delivering tomorrow’s security today’. What better way to bring that commitment to life than to equip its own premises with the latest developments in security systems? Oprema’s Technical Director, Tim Duggan, set about designing a bespoke, fully-integrated functional security system with that in mind. Today, Oprema’s new 15,000 sq ft headquarters in south Cardiff boasts state-of-the-art security systems that not only protect the property but serve as an industry-leading, fully integrated, live demonstration of the latest CCTV, access control, fire and intruder technology. What is more, the advanced surveillance Tim specified also assists the premises’ day-to-day operational activity. Oprema runs its warehouse, distribution, demonstration suite and office-based activities from its new premises. This means that there are various dwellings throughout that need securing in many ways, including the large external perimeter, high security internal areas such as the server room, warehouse and system build areas and all other areas throughout the premises that lead onto the high security areas discussed. The challenge for Tim and the management team was to ensure the building’s security and duty of care for staff, whilst providing an industry leading demonstration suite that can be used not only locally but remotely by the external sales team. The solution All areas of the business premises are fully monitored. A necessary requirement when you consider that there is 15,000 square feet of premises to protect and the warehouse holds around £5million of stock at any one time. Surveillance outside the premises is taken care of by a mixture of Dahua 4K, thermal imaging and ANPR CCTV cameras. Open area detection is achieved by using a combination of Analytics and Optex Redscan Laser detectors. Internally, there is a range of Paxton access control, Advanced Fire with Apollo Soteria detection, Concept Smoke Screen and Honeywell intruder detection systems. All these solutions are integrated using Milestone Corporate video management system which gives a complete overview of all components status in real time. Tim has also developed an integration between our warehouse asset management system SAP B1 and Milestone which allows both customer Order numbers and product serial numbers to be overlaid onto video streams of the 4K Dahua cameras that overlook the six packing benches in the main warehouse. The system allows us to seamlessly track a product through the warehouse process, which allows us to quickly review footage should a product delivery discrepancy arise. All internal Office and warehouse areas are protected by Concept smoke screen we can fill the entire building with smoke in just under 40 seconds making it very difficult for intruders to navigate around the building and impossible for them to see any high value items. The system has a unique twist which allows us to also prevent any false fire alarms if the smoke system is deployed. A project of this size calls for careful planning, precise attention to detail and rigorous cooperation. Integration is truly the key to its success. With so many different security needs across a diverse range of business activities, it’s not surprising that Oprema’s security system is made up of multiple integrated components. These span Oprema’s wide range of partners and include, among other solutions; Fully integrated video management solution from Milestone as the system hub Intelligent access control integration from Paxton Access & CDVI IP video door entry system from Videx Intruder integration using Honeywell’s Galaxy intruder detection systems IP surveillance solutions from Dahua, including thermal imagery and auto-tracking PTZs Redwall SIP and Redscan to detect external perimeter breaches Apollo Fire detection integration with Advanced Electronics fire panel Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) in the car park and loading areas from Dahau Custom integration between SAP and Milestone video management to monitor packing benches, etc. Security smoke screen system from Concept Smoke Screen The result For Matthew Epps, Oprema’s Managing Director, “the system that we designed and delivered alongside our strategic partners is testament to our commitment to leading-edge security solutions. We know how important security is for our customers, our duty of care for our staff, additionally we have a major investment to protect. The resulting system serves as the perfect showcase and security solution, highlighting that we are true to our values and practice what we preach.” Gareth Williams, Sales Director, says, “You cannot overstate the impact seeing our impressive security solution has on customers and prospects. When people visit our new premises – and we encourage them to do so – we can confidently point out how adept we are at integrating multiple solutions to deliver precisely the right levels of security, and how to get that important mix of technology and intelligent services just right.”

Multi-layered protection from IDIS strengthens fault tolerance and protects key video surveillance operations in the face of adverse conditions and events BRENTFORD, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, 13 NOVEMBER 2017 – IDIS has debuted a powerful suite of features to bring critical failover capabilities and peace-of-mind to users of the company’s innovative technology offerings. Bringing together existing, improved, and new failover features, IDIS addresses multiple threats to crucial video surveillance operations with IDIS Critical Failover, a collection of five capabilities that strengthen the fault tolerance of your CCTV infrastructure. “If any part of video surveillance infrastructure fails, it’s critical to first recognise the failure and then initiate appropriate alternative or redundant technologies to minimise loss of data. Full redundancy of every component in your infrastructure is prohibitively expensive and adds unnecessary complication in most cases, and manual recognition and resolution costs precious time and risks gaps in footage,” notes James Min, Managing Director, IDIS Europe, “IDIS Critical Failover reduces both issues, through a multi-layered collection of capabilities spread across the devices in your infrastructure.” IDIS Critical Failover consists of five parts: Temporary Smart Failover, Smart Failover, Storage Redundancy, NVR Failover, and Dual Power Supply. If you experience a problem with network instability, Temporary Smart Failover starts recording to an internal recording session buffer (of at least 60MB), ensuring there is no break in the data being sent to the NVR. For longer network issues, such as a complete failure of the link between the camera and the NVR, Smart Failover takes over. When the IP camera and NVR become disconnected, the camera instantly begins recording to an internal SD card. It records at the original quality until half of the SD card is filled up and then adjusts the quality to ensure a full 24 hours of footage is captured on just a 32GB card. H.265 cameras add support for SDXC cards, with a theoretical limit of 2TB. Once the network link is restored, all the data is automatically transferred to the NVR, leaving no incident unrecorded. Storage Redundancy exists inside the NVR (DR-8364D) in the form of native RAID 1 or RAID 5 support. With RAID 1 support, the NVR stores two identical copies of the data, so if one disk fails, the data is retrieved from the second one. RAID 5 stores the data and additional parity data in separate locations, providing the same redundancy, but more efficiently than RAID 1. NVR Failover protects against the failure of the entire NVR, which a standby NVR. Both the primary and standby NVR continuously monitor one another to quickly switch to the functioning NVR during a failure, reducing the risk of data loss and decreasing failover response times. Finally, Native Dual Power Supplies (DR-8364D) provides a redundant power supply in case the first one fails, increasing uptime and reducing the risk of data loss. See Critical Failover in action: https://youtu.be/FvAgyOSuhTM IDIS Critical Failover helps you to mitigate risk with our unique multi-layered protection for key components of the IDIS total solution. The IDIS total solution offers an end-to-end, single sourced offering that delivers unrivalled plug-and-play simplicity, combined with highest-quality performance, compatibility, and a low total cost of ownership. For more information on IDIS Critical Failover and the IDIS Total Solution, email info@idisglobal.com, +44 (0)203 657 5678 or visit www.idisglobal.com.

Security expert Abloy UK is inviting visitors to Stand L19 at the UK Security Expo 2017 to discuss the latest innovations in access control technology and how compliant escape solutions can contribute to dynamic lockdown. Taking place on 29-30th November 2017 at London’s Olympia Centre, UK Security Expo is the premier global security showcase. The risk of terrorism has increased significantly in recent years, posing a security challenge for many organisations. Procedures must be developed to provide a quick response to any fast-moving incident, to make sure sites can be dynamically locked down. Access control alone really works if all elements of the solution work together including the basic door function, otherwise security and safety can be compromised especially if a non-compliant locking device is used. Steve Wintle, Head of CNI at Abloy UK, will be leading a seminar on ‘Mitigating Risk using Innovation and Technology’, and visitors are invited to the Technology Workshop Theatre at 12.45pm on 29th November to learn more about solutions to the challenges faced in achieving dynamic lockdown, and innovative new products available. These include Abloy’s range of high quality compliant locking solutions, including low energy electric locks, LPCB-rated padlocks, and its revolutionary PROTEC2 CLIQ Connect system. PROTEC2 CLIQ is a cloud-hosted security management solution that allows for the remote management of diverse or large electronic master-keyed sites at any time, from anywhere in the world. The system provides comprehensive audit trails on cylinders and padlocks, recording who used each key, where and when, with the ability to remove permissions quickly and easily for lost or stolen keys from the system, thereby providing secure key management at all times. The latest innovation of the system – CLIQ Connect – utilises a revolutionary highly encrypted online management system that uses advanced Bluetooth 4.0 technology, enabling users to update keys wirelessly from their smartphone. Steve Wintle commented: “The risk of terrorism is higher than ever before, with threats ranging from unsophisticated and random individuals to pre-meditated terrorist groups. “The danger may be located directly at a premises and/or in the surrounding vicinity, so its vital areas can be zoned off to prevent the attackers from accessing them, and also stop people moving into zones that may be dangerous. “Abloy has a range of different systems available that not only aid with dynamic lockdown, but also allow for easy egress in the event of a terror attack.” For further information on products and services available from Abloy UK, visit www.abloy.co.uk, call 01902 364 500, or email marketing@abloy.co.uk.