With new, more advanced criminal tactics developing, increased metal prices and changing economic environment, traditional security systems that simply record events aren't enough to protect your site’s assets.
Investing in the product is just part of asset protection, it’s the service following this that often matters most.
Our fully-managed service developed for asset protection offers high-quality security solutions backed by an expert service that helps to maintain your site’s security. But, how?
In this article, we break down our fully-managed service, how it works and the benefits available to you.
What Is WCCTV’s Fully-Managed Asset Protection Service?
Our full range of asset protection services are backed by a fully-managed service that ensures comprehensive, end-to-end security.
Designed to safeguard your site, its assets and your employees, our fully-managed asset protection service combines expert-led security technology with rapid response services and remote monitoring.
Unlike traditional CCTV systems, following installation, our support continues.
Our team of dedicated experts, from NSI Gold Accredited Monitoring Centres and engineers to customer care experts and technical support, WCCTV will be your dedicated security partner throughout your project.
As part of this partnership, we manage the installation, system health checks, remote monitoring, incident alerts, and ongoing maintenance.
The Importance of Asset Protection for Construction Projects
Construction sites are commonly vulnerable to asset theft and vandalism, especially due to rising copper prices, economic strain and growth in development projects.
Asset loss such as equipment and material theft can lead to fines, severe delays and even work stoppages, all of which are costly to your business.
Rising prices have created a further target towards construction sites with copper and cable theft becoming a growing concern for many industries across the country.
£800 million is lost to construction theft every year in the UK, and this is just the direct damage, indirect costs such as replacement of stolen assets, project delays, increased insurance premiums and low recovery rates pushes this figure to over £1 billion annually.
Nowadays, asset protection isn’t an option, it’s a necessity for the protection of projects and the future of your business. This includes maintaining your reputation, in order to secure future bids.
But, simply investing in surveillance and hoping that this will provide your construction site with the protection it requires isn’t going to stop crime in its tracks.
How Does Our Fully-Managed Service Work?
With WCCTV, ‘fully-managed ‘ means supporting you from start to finish with your projects, from the initial site survey and installation to remote monitoring and ongoing maintenance.
This helps to remove the burden and stress of security from you and place it in our expert hands, so that you can continue focusing on your projects and other key responsibilities.
Below, we walk you through how our fully-managed service works for asset protection, explaining why we take each step that we do:
Expert Installation, Maintenance and Decommissioning
Initially, we offer a detailed site survey from one of our experts. Through this, we identify potential vulnerabilities, blind spots, specific risks and access points of your site.
Once completed, we will create a tailored security plan for your site to prevent and manage the risks presented to it.
Following the plan agreement, a skilled engineer will install our systems onto your site, ensuring optimal positioning with the products and camera angles.
Basic setups can take as little as 20-minutes, providing your site with near-immediate coverage if required.
Although construction sites tend to have temporary CCTV requirements, this doesn’t mean that maintenance isn’t required.
We understand that technology can face errors, therefore, all our products are fitted with Heartbeat, a performance monitoring software that carries our daily checks on core features to ensure uptime and identify any issues early.
90% of technical issues can be resolved by rebooting the equipment, so included within our software is a smart switch that remotely resets your system. This avoids the need for you to attend a site for an engineer visit.
For multi-site managers, this reduces time wasting and ensures you can provide more focus on completing your projects.
Also, as your project is close to completion, we will work alongside you to arrange a time to decommission or relocate our products for you depending on your needs.
24/7 Remote Monitoring
Construction sites can be expansive and this leads to increased safety and security dangers, especially when managing multiple sites.
Every year, 53,000 construction workers suffer non-fatal injuries and for site managers, it’s your responsibility to care for workers and assess any incidents thoroughly.
You cannot have eyes on your site(s) at all times and we have factored this into our fully-managed service by backing our systems with remote video monitoring.
Our cameras link to an NSI Gold Accredited monitoring centre of trained professionals who watch your live video feed day-to-night, proactively assessing threats and responding in real-time.
These responses include issuing a live audio challenge, blue sirens and calling the Police to the scene. This rapid escalation process helps to prevent incidents and creating costly losses to your business.
Real-Time, Rapid Response to Incidents
If unusual or suspicious behaviour is detected, our AI-video analytics will detect this near-instantly, verifying the threat and the monitoring centre will initiate a fast, yet appropriate response to it.
This response will be catered to the threat level detected, alerting those responsible or the mobile keyholders of the incident and dispatch them to your construction site.
Our mobile keyholding service is a specialised add-on we offer to our fully-managed service that removes the 2am wakeup calls to attend an incident on-site. Providing an expertly trained security professional instead who will respond to the incidents on your behalf.
Ongoing Technical and Customer Support
Alongside the built-in performance monitoring, we provide ongoing technical support and customer care to support you throughout our partnership with us.
We have a dedicated team that will respond to any queries or support needs you have, from updates and footage retrieval to advice on scaling or adjusting your security.
The people part of our process provides that much-needed human element to our service to manage questions or requests that cannot be supported digitally. They can help guide you through troubleshooting, reducing time and frustration.
Incident Reporting
Passing your security onto a third-party supplier can create uncertainty, especially if a near-incident or incident occurs, and you have no information of this.
We understand the need for honesty and transparency within a security partnership, and ensure we have the correct measures in place with our fully-managed service to offer this.
Following any near-incident or incident, we provide a full report on the event, the response and outcome. This gives you complete oversight of your site across all phases of security.
These reports can be assessed and any actions applied near-enough immediately.
The Benefits of a Fully-Managed Asset Protection Service
Our fully-managed service goes beyond the installation of equipment, it focuses on removing those security stresses from you as a manager and helping eliminate those burdens from your day-to-day.
By combining our advanced security solutions, whether it’s CCTV Towers or Redeployable CCTV Cameras, with professional monitoring and response management, we deliver vital benefits to construction businesses compared to perimeter fencing and manned guarding.
Cost-Effective in Comparison to Security Guards
Employing security guards to patrol your construction site is expensive, even if they only cover out-of-hours’ times.
Additionally, they face limitations with coverage on large sites and are prone to risks of inaccurate threat detection due to tiredness or loss of concentration.
Our fully-managed, mobile CCTV solutions can save up to 88% on security costs, helping you to reduce overheads without compromising on safety.
Specialised Security Suited to Your Site
Every project is unique, and even when you manage multiple at once, those projects will vary which means so will their security requirements.
Whether it’s a construction site, critical infrastructure project or remote demolition location, our fully-managed asset protection service is customisable to your needs.
Following the site survey, our team continuously works to ensure our solutions help effectively prevent and manage your site’s specific risks.
With the support of our cloud-based platform, Stellifii, we offer various integrations with our systems like ANPR cameras, environmental monitoring sensors, intrusion detection and PPE detection.
This reduces the need for multiple suppliers, placing them onto one platform where you can access all their reporting.
Peace of Mind
With constant monitoring and rapid incident response capabilities, you can be assured that your site is protected day-to-night.
As a site manager, the stress of managing a site or collection of sites can be overwhelming, especially at night when you know assets are most vulnerable.
Our expert monitoring operators are always on hand to accurately identify threats and take action, so you don’t need to.
Increased Accuracy, Fewer False Alarms
Traditional asset protection often triggers false alarms like moving vegetation and animals moving on-site. This can cause severe disruption to your role as a manager and slow down projects.
Our fully-managed service helps to reduce false alarms by combining smart analytics with human verification, so that only genuine threats are identified and responded to.
This means increased accuracy, and faster incident response when your site and its assets need it most.
Prevents and Reduces Construction Theft
Construction theft is a common crime due to the high-value assets held there, and long periods of time they are left vulnerable for.
During this time, criminals tend to assume a lack of security present, making it easier for them to plan their attack and complete it without facing capture.
Our overt CCTV systems alongside remote monitoring services act as both a strong visual deterrent to potential intruders and proactively prevent crime before it even reaches your site.
What Sets WCCTV Apart From Our Competitors
When it comes to protecting your assets and site, not all security system suppliers offer the same standard of service, or even a service at all.
At WCCTV, we offer a truly end-to-end security solution that utilises expert knowledge, advanced technology and high-quality ongoing support.
But, what sets our asset protection service apart from our competitors?
Cutting-Edge Surveillance Technology
Our mobile CCTV solutions feature cutting-edge surveillance technology, including wireless connectivity, AI-driven security and in-depth reporting tools.
Compared to outdated, static systems, our units can be rapidly deployed and easily relocated, providing complete scalability for your project’s security.
For example, for projects developing overtime, our systems can be moved to match the changing site and emerging threats presented to it.
And for multiple sites, our fully-managed service means if a project completes and you require the products to be moved to another site, we can support in doing this, saving you time and money.
Our team will also continue to develop our solution offerings, and when new features or technology becomes available, we will provide you with access or availability to utilise this on your site.
Proven Track Record in Construction Site Security
With over 20-years of experience across critical infrastructure, construction sites and demolition sites, we understand the unique risks presented to assets like equipment and machinery at these locations.
Our depth of knowledge and hands-on expertise has allowed us and continues to allow us to cost-effective security solutions that provide a consistent, reliable surveillance service.
This includes developing our fully-managed service to ensure your site has the correct plan in place to protect assets from theft, vandalism and other crime.
The world of security is becoming overwhelmed by new businesses promising high success rates, however, utilising a reputable, established supplier helps to provide reassurance to you, workers and clients.
Continuous Performance Checks and Support
Our fully-managed service offers complete oversight wherever you are, and on any device, however, we understand that having that helping hand is important to ensuring you receive the most out of your security.
Whether it’s support on your camera angles, moving our solutions onto their next location, requesting incident reports and footage or simply asking for advice, our dedicated team goes above and beyond to support your needs.
There are many suppliers offering security products, but without the right support and performance checks, your site remains vulnerable to crime.
Working with WCCTV is a partnership and our support service replicates that.
Take Action on Asset Protection With WCCTV
Asset protection shouldn’t be complicated, and our fully-managed security service delivers a simple, yet effective response to crime, all within one platform.
It delivers complete peace of mind, removing the everyday stress of security from site managers, such as the late night callouts, general frustrations and safety risks.
From expert installation to real-time crime prevention and incident recording, we take care of all your needs throughout all project phases, so that you don’t have to.
Managing a complex project or multiple sites, and feeling burdened by your security? Speak to one of our experts today to organise a site survey.
