City Centres
Cities and towns are more and more confronted with providing the consumers, visitors and citizens, security in common areas like parks and downtowns. To keep local businesses up and running, video surveillance is a great security tool to keep consumers safe and towns thriving.
City centre authorities are faced with public accountability, they need to ensure the safety of the general public and their belongings, monitor traffic intersections, protect administrative and commercial buildings and property and provide effective response to major incidents. Therefore surveillance in a city centre environment can improve:
- Road traffic system effectiveness
- Improve the flow and continuity of traffic
- Provide traffic information to drivers
- Redirect traffic according to local conditions
- City centre public safety
- Deter theft and assaults
- Enable response to disorderly behaviour
- Identify vehicles in prohibited zone
- Operational effectiveness
- Monitor contractor work
- Monitor safety of works and maintenance zones
- Multi-agency response
- Optimise the coordination of fire, police ambulance and transport authorities
- Integrate with other systems
- Building and property protection
- Deter vandalism theft and graffiti
- Project expenditure
- Lower cabling cost
- Lower switching costs through virtual matrices
- Maximise network availability
