Rental option
Homeowners associations (HOAs) that are not looking
to make a heavy investment into infrastructure
can consider rental-based solutions, which offer
the option to make security and surveillance an
operational expenditure (OpEx) item.
To this end, JNCS Beyond Security, together with its
partner Merchant West, has designed tailor-made,
tax-efficient and cost-effective financial solutions for
HOAs.
‘Our specialist asset finance, credit and legal
Renishaw Hills
teams combine experience, expertise and a
solid understanding of operational, financial and
transactional complexities to offer HOAs a range of
are done hourly. The criminal element in South Africa is asset finance products and solutions to enable them
smart and precise. It’s not too difficult to work out when the to upgrade from a reactive system to a proactive
perimeter patrols are being conducted, and to calculate the system, and stay within their existing security budget,’
interval between patrols. On-site response teams, on the says Van der Linde.
other hand, only respond to verified alarms in that specific
sector and have a much higher success rate in deterring or At a more advanced level, the security-as-a-service
capturing unwanted intruders before any actual breach or solution gives the HOA access to solutions that may
damage is done. otherwise be too expensive to deploy, for example,
access to a platform integrating Thermal Perimeter
• • Access control at gated entrance: Visitor management,
Defender with analytics, upgrading the security
biometric access control and licence disc scanners are control room, monitoring facility performance and
necessary security measures at the main gates of any systems, and alerting the right people if equipment
retirement village or estate, but security personnel should fails or other anomalies occur.
be alerted to any potential threats before the vehicle stops
at the gate. Our licence plate recognition solution captures ‘We, as a specialist provider, will get to know your
number plates as the vehicle approaches the main gate, business, assisting it to identify risk and address it,
instantly checking them against a national database for applying the most suitable technologies that will
hot-listed vehicles, our partners’ national suspicious vehicle add considerable value to your retirement village or
database, and the SAPS database. This is tied in with facial estate,’ says Van der Linde.
recognition, as each visitor’s face is scanned, and captured
along with the registration number.
All these technological advancements in IP CCTV mean that
JNCS Beyond Security can prevent crime in a proactive rather
than a reactive manner. And preventative security is the best
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kind there is.
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