Organisations spend intensive amounts of capital expenditure on CCTV and there is a significant cost to paying operator personnel on a long-term basis. Having spent that kind of money, there is a major expectation from organisational management that the system has to deliver.

November 2014 saw Hi-Tech Security Solutions hosting another Executive Breakfast, this time in Durban at the Durban Country Club. The focus on the event was on residential estate security and over 50 estate managers and security managers from the surrounding area were in attendance.

4C Technology was awarded the project to secure the 14 km perimeter of the Waterfall Estate as well as its eight gatehouses. Thermal and analogue cameras were used on the perimeter, along with access control solutions from Turnstar and Boomgate.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions asked three local security manufacturers about their expectations for 2015 and onwards.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions asked security distributors what they are expecting from the industry in 2015.

So are international companies still interested in business in South Africa? Is the country still a gateway to Africa? Hi-Tech Security Solutions asked the questions.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions asked three system integrators what they expected to be the leading trends in the security market in 2015.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions looks at the impossible task of securing South Africa’s premiere public transport icon, the Gautrain. This is the second article in the series and focuses on the importance of service-level agreements in security operations.