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Access control
Card, mobile and biometric access across every door and gate, with a permission map you actually understand.
Card & mobile · ANPR gates · Named permissions
01 · CCTV & videoSee everything.
See everything.
Miss nothing.
High-performance surveillance systems designed around the architecture, risk profile and operational requirements of every project — then commissioned against the plan and recorded on a system you can audit.
Design · Supply · Install · Integrate · Maintain
Overview
We design coverage, not camera counts.
A surveillance system is only as good as the decisions made before the first camera is mounted. Where does a person need to be identified rather than merely detected? Which corridors, gates and car parks carry the real risk? How long must footage be kept, and who is allowed to see it?
Safe & Sound answers those questions on the drawings, then chooses camera types, lenses, positions and lighting to match. The result is a coverage plan you can read, a network that carries it without dropouts, and recording that holds up when an incident has to be reviewed.
Everything runs on IP. That makes it possible to bring cameras, recorders and analytics together in one video management platform, share the picture with the command room and, where the policy allows, reach it securely from a phone.
- Imaging
- Up to 4K UHD
- Recording
- NVR, redundant where required
- Reach
- On site, in the command room and remote
At a glance
What we deliver
Capabilities, not a catalogue.
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Live surveillance
Real-time monitoring of every zone, arranged into views that match how the operator actually works.
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Recording & retention
Continuous, scheduled or event-based recording, sized to the retention period the project needs.
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4K & multi-megapixel imaging
Resolution chosen per scene, so faces and plates are usable rather than merely visible.
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Low-light & WDR performance
Cameras specified for the actual lighting: underground car parks, backlit lobbies, night perimeters.
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Video analytics
Line crossing, intrusion zones, loitering and object left or removed, configured to the scene rather than switched on blindly.
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AI-assisted detection
Person and vehicle classification that cuts false alarms and makes searching footage fast.
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People counting & occupancy
Footfall and occupancy data for retail, hospitality and facilities teams.
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ANPR
Number-plate recognition at gates and car parks, tied into access and barrier control.
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Perimeter surveillance
Thermal and long-range optics for fences, compounds and industrial sites.
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Remote & mobile access
Secure viewing from authorised devices, with permissions that mirror the site policy.
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Multi-site management
Several buildings or branches managed from one platform, with local recording kept where it belongs.
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Video management (VMS)
One software layer for viewing, searching, exporting and integrating with other systems.
Typologies
The building blocks we design with.
Every project is composed from a small number of well-understood parts. These are the ones that matter for this discipline.
Cameras
Dome cameras
Discreet and vandal-resistant; lobbies, corridors and ceilings.
Bullet cameras
A visible deterrent for facades, perimeters and car parks.
PTZ cameras
Pan, tilt and zoom for operator-driven tracking over wide areas.
Fisheye & panoramic
360° situational coverage of open floors and halls.
Multi-sensor cameras
Several sensors in one housing for wide facades and junctions.
Thermal cameras
Heat-based detection for perimeters, darkness and dust.
ANPR cameras
Plate capture at gates and lanes, day and night.
Specialist housings
Explosion-protected and harsh-environment cameras for industrial and petroleum sites.
Recording & management
Network video recorders (NVR)
Local recording sized to channel count and retention.
Server-based recording
Enterprise VMS recording with redundancy and failover.
Video management software
Viewing, search, export, health monitoring and integration.
Video wall decoders
Feeding the command-room wall from the platform.
Storage arrays
RAID storage planned to the retention policy.
Infrastructure
PoE network switches
Power and data to every camera on one cable.
Fibre backbone
Long runs between buildings and across compounds.
Structured cabling
Certified copper cabling from camera to switch.
Uninterruptible power
Recording that stays alive through outages.
Illuminators & housings
IR lighting, heaters and sunshields where the scene needs them.
How it works
From the edge to the operator.
Every link in the chain is sized in the design — bandwidth, storage, power and redundancy — so the system performs the same in year five as it did on the day it was commissioned.
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Camera
Captures the scene and encodes video at the edge
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Network
PoE switches and fibre carry video and power
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Recording
NVR or server stores footage to the retention plan
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Video management
One platform to view, search and export
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Command room
Operators watch, verify and respond
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Remote access
Authorised users reach the picture securely
Works as one system
10+ solutions, designed as one system.
Safe & Sound carries every discipline, so this system is designed from day one to talk to the others on the project.
Access control
A door forced or held open pulls the nearest camera onto the operator's screen.
Intrusion detection
Alarm zones trigger recording, pre-alarm buffers and the right camera view for verification.
ANPR & barriers
Plates read at the gate open the barrier and log the vehicle with its image.
Fire alarm
A fire event calls up the cameras nearest the detector so operators can confirm before evacuation.
Command rooms
The video wall, the operator layout and the VMS are designed as one workstation.
A typical sequence
An intrusion alarm at 02:40
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A perimeter detector trips on the north fence.
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The VMS pulls the two nearest cameras onto the wall, with thirty seconds of pre-alarm footage.
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The operator verifies a person, not an animal, and raises the response.
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Access control locks the nearest doors; the event and the clips are logged together.
Applications
Where it earns its place.
CCTV is the discipline almost every project starts with. It is also the one where good design is most visible: a hotel lobby that feels calm rather than watched, a compound gate where the plate is read before the car stops, a factory floor where an incident can be reviewed in minutes.
- Hotels & resorts
- Residential compounds
- Corporate buildings
- Government
- Retail & malls
- Factories & industrial
- Healthcare
- Schools & universities
- Infrastructure
Technologies we work with
Selected manufacturers.
A deliberately narrow stack, supplied through authorised channels only. The final selection is made per project, against the specification and the budget.
For video we work primarily with Axis, Bosch, Hikvision and Dahua cameras and recorders, with Honeywell where the project specifies it, on Cisco network hardware and Elsewedy cabling.
Our approach
One partner. Every step.
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Design
Site survey and risk assessment, then a coverage plan: identification, recognition and detection zones; field-of-view and lens selection; positions and mounting heights; lighting; network load; storage and retention calculations; and control-room requirements.
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Supply
Cameras, recorders, switches and storage from authorised channels, serial-registered and warranty-tracked, with firmware baselined before they reach site.
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Install & integrate
Standardised mounting and cabling, photographed daily. Cameras aimed and focused to the plan, the VMS configured, analytics tuned to each scene, and integrations tested with access, intrusion and the command room.
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Document
As-built camera schedule, network drawings, IP and credential register, retention policy, operator training and a lifecycle plan for cameras and storage.
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Maintain
Scheduled visits to clean, re-aim and test every camera, storage health checks, firmware management and a report that tells you what was found.
Maintenance
Installed today.
Supported tomorrow.
Trusted for years.
We stay involved after handover. Every system leaves us with a maintenance path, a named point of contact and a report you can read.
Cameras drift, lenses fog, storage fills and firmware ages. A surveillance system that is never checked stops being evidence-grade long before anyone notices.
See the three maintenance tiers- Preventive visits: lens cleaning, re-aiming, focus and image checks
- Recording verification: every channel recording to the retention plan
- Storage health and capacity monitoring
- Firmware and VMS updates, tested before rollout
- Analytics re-tuning as scenes and seasons change
- Fault response under the contracted tier
- Replacement planning for cameras and drives before they fail
Works better together
Related solutions.
Systems that are designed alongside this one on most projects.
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Let’s design the right system.
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