VPS Site Security Ltd. - Experts & Thought Leaders

The prop­er­ty secu­ri­ty spe­cial­ists, VPS announce a for­mi­da­ble addi­tion to their range of secu­ri­ty solu­tions. The VPS SmartEyes detec­tor is a pow­er­ful, wire­less, video ver­i­fi­ca­tion sen­sor with in-built arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence that dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduces false alarms. Simple to install detectors “This rugged detec­tor enables loca­tions, no mat­ter how remote they are, nor how harsh the con­di­tions, to be mon­i­tored day and night with­out the need for pow­er, cables or wired com­mu­ni­ca­tions,” explains Paul Corten, VPS Sales Direc­tor. ​“Each detec­tor has a 35-meter detec­tion range – one of the longest ranges of its kind on the mar­ket – so fewer detec­tors are required to pro­tect a site. Com­bined with a mesh net­work to con­nect to our VPS mon­i­tor­ing cen­tre, sites large and small can be cov­ered with ease, and is very quick and sim­ple to install.” cloud man­age­ment Com­bined with cloud man­age­ment, thou­sands of images can be stored and analyzed, and used if required Cap­tured high def­i­n­i­tion images are sent imme­di­ate­ly to a cloud serv­er for AI analy­sis, and for­ward­ed to VPS’ mon­i­tor­ing cen­tre for a response team to be deployed.  Encased in a light but tough IPX67 hous­ing, test­ed to extreme heat and cold, it cap­tures full high def­i­n­i­tion day images, and high qual­i­ty night shots, with pow­er­ful near-invis­i­ble infra-red flash that can iden­ti­fy peo­ple at 30 meters in com­plete dark­ness. Com­bined with cloud man­age­ment, thou­sands of images can be stored and analyzed, and used if required for police evidence. Intel­li­gent Triple Pro­tec­tion ser­vice “The VPS SmartEyes addi­tion to our fam­i­ly of smart secu­ri­ty options fits per­fect­ly into our Intel­li­gent Triple Pro­tec­tion ser­vice, secur­ing sites with the widest range of solu­tions from Mon­i­tored Tech­nol­o­gy, as well as tra­di­tion­al Phys­i­cal Pro­tec­tion, such as steel pan­els and doors, and Human Inter­ven­tion, like patrols or surge guard­ing." "No mat­ter how chal­leng­ing it is to secure a spe­cif­ic site, VPS can com­bine the widest range of options to find the best-fit solu­tion for every cus­tomer,” con­cludes Paul Corten.

Low Bridge Advance Warn­ing Detec­tion sys­tems has been brought into sharp focus, as a lor­ry strike to a rail­way bridge halt­ed all trains in and out of Corn­wall on Bank Hol­i­day Monday. A large refrig­er­a­tion lor­ry struck a bridge at Man­namead, in Ply­mouth, dam­ag­ing the stonework and rais­ing the lev­el of the bridge. The HGV became wedged under the arch and took more than 24 hours to remove. The bridge car­ries the main (and only) line between Ply­mouth and Pen­zance, and the rail­way was closed for a day. Consequences of bridge collisions Bridge col­li­sions lead to road and rail delays, heavy con­ges­tion and the con­se­quen­tial envi­ron­men­tal haz­ard Dis­rup­tion is expect­ed through to at least Saturday. This once again high­lights the huge prob­lems that can be caused by bridge strikes, with around five per day (close to 2000 annu­al­ly) being hit by over­sized vehi­cles in the UK, cost­ing Nation­al Rail and High­ways Eng­land around £20 mil­lion per year with­out con­sid­er­ing the addi­tion­al high costs to com­muters, trades peo­ple and holidaymakers. Bridge col­li­sions lead to road and rail delays, heavy con­ges­tion and the con­se­quen­tial envi­ron­men­tal haz­ard from fumes and emis­sions, and some­times derail­ment and bridge col­lapse. In the worst cas­es, they can cause injuries and fatalities.  Over-Height Vehi­cle Detec­tion Sys­tem An Over-Height Vehi­cle Detec­tion Sys­tem (OVDS) offers a proac­tive solu­tion that active­ly mon­i­tors traf­fic on routes where over­head obstruc­tions pose a strike risk, and pro­vide strike warn­ings to dri­vers of vehi­cles that are too large. It com­pris­es elec­tron­ic ​‘goal­posts’ that com­bines sen­sors, vari­able mes­sage signs, alarms sys­tems, and mon­i­tor­ing, to warn over-height vehi­cles in time before they reach a low bridge. It was designed by traf­fic safe­ty and secu­ri­ty com­pa­ny VPS, who believe that no bridge strikes have ever occurred where the sys­tem is in operation. 

Three judges pan­els have each short­list­ed VPS for sep­a­rate cat­e­gories in the pres­ti­gious Con­struc­tions News Spe­cial­ists Awards: Equip­ment Spe­cial­ist of the Year, for their safe­ty zone team’s work help­ing to keep road­work­ers safe and traf­fic flow­ing with wire­less CCTV Tow­ers and Vari­able Mes­sage Signs. Tack­ling Cli­mate Change – for intro­duc­ing the game-chang­ing ECO Tow­er that allows wire­less CCTV Tow­er sys­tems to oper­ate on solar power. Health, Safe­ty and Well­be­ing Excel­lence — for demon­strat­ing an extra­or­di­nary com­mit­ment to com­pa­ny-wide health and safe­ty train­ing, imple­ment­ing a raft of new ini­tia­tives that have reached and impact­ed on every mem­ber of staff. Third-party validation Short­list­ed for three awards by the judg­ing pan­els makes me very proud to be join­ing this team" “For our staff to be recognized for their com­mit­ment and ded­i­ca­tion by inde­pen­dent asses­sors is very reward­ing” says Luke Sta­ton, new­ly appoint­ed Man­ag­ing Direc­tor UK and Ire­land, for the VPS Group.  “Short­list­ed for three awards by the judg­ing pan­els makes me very proud to be join­ing this team, and rein­forces the company’s ethos that VPS real­ly does make a dif­fer­ence for all our clients. Any prospec­tive cus­tomer out there select­ing their trust­ed secu­ri­ty part­ner will also use this third-par­ty val­i­da­tion to help their choice.” Pro­vid­ing secu­ri­ty ser­vices VPS believes that key to their con­tin­u­ing suc­cess in pro­vid­ing secu­ri­ty ser­vices is their unique Intel­li­gent Triple Pro­tec­tion for their clients, that ensures each receives a tai­lor-made best-fit solu­tion for their secu­ri­ty needs: PHYS­I­CAL PRO­TEC­TION: utilizing tra­di­tion­al phys­i­cal pro­tec­tion solu­tions such as steel pan­els and doors MON­I­TORED TECH­NOL­O­GY: wire­less alarms, cam­eras, sen­sors, CCTV tow­er tech­nol­o­gy, with 24⁄7 remote monitoring HUMAN INTER­VEN­TION: manned guard­ing, inspec­tions, and pro­tec­tion through use (“Prop­er­ty Guardians”) The Awards win­ners will be decid­ed on 19th Octo­ber, at the his­toric 18th Cen­tu­ry Brew­ery in Chiswell Street, London.