HIGH SECURITY

To thwart intrusion, a wide choice of physical barriers ranging from stone or brick walls down to barbed wire, chain mesh or palisades are conventionally employed. Further, in an attempt to augment the level of security offered by these physical barriers, the use of hostile wall capping and barbed/razor wire are quite common. Alas, these additional measures are ineffective in deterring determined intruders, vandals, terrorists and thieves.

Manned guards give rise to problems of recurring expenditure besides those caused due to chronic absenteeism, absence from the workplace and other human relations issues.

Increasingly, industrial and other establishments are actively seeking more sophisticated and reliable “Electronic Security and Surveillance” systems in order to solve perimeter security problems and contain losses.

The choice of specialist perimeter electronic security and surveillance equipment available is wide and diverse, with each system having its own features, benefits, shortfalls and the cost of ownership when measured in terms of:

• Systems and installation cost
• Probability to detect
• Probability to be defeated
• Reliability (mean time between false alarms)
• Response force required.
• Maintenance.

Not surprisingly, systems that depend on vibration or cutting a beam or optical path are highly efficient and unfailing in their detection ability but for that reason are also notoriously prone to generate a high rate of false alarms. Besides, none of these systems has any mechanism to deter intruders when the perimeter gets breached. In striking contrast, electric Power Fences unfailingly detect and also are uniquely free of false alarms and is the only reliable system that provides deterrence by way of imparting a sharp but safe shock to anyone trying to mess around with it.