Physical security
Protect all areas of your estate with innovative physical security solutions.
Physical security refers to the measures put in place to protect physical assets and areas from unauthorised access, damage, theft, or harm. It encompasses various strategies, technologies, and practices aimed at securing physical locations.
As we continue to digitise, the role of physical security is often overlooked. Without physical security solutions, your organisation could be exposed to unexpected threats. Physical security serves as the first line of defence against unauthorised access, theft, vandalism, and other physical threats to your people and assets.
Asset protection
Risk mitigation
Safety and well-being
Introducing Verkada physical security
Verkada is the largest cloud-based physical security platform company in the world, offering six product lines: CCTV cameras, environmental sensors, access control, intercoms, alarms, and workplace.
Verkada’s physical security solutions have been designed with simplicity, ease, and accessibility in mind, which is why all of their solutions are integrated within a single cloud-based software platform. This command platform enables you to manage devices, users, and sites, and is available as a webpage or mobile app to ensure access from anywhere, anytime.
CCTV cameras play a crucial role in improving safety in public spaces, workplaces, and residential areas, deterring crime and providing valuable evidence for investigations. CCTV cameras can also be utilised for monitoring critical infrastructure, managing traffic, and optimising business operations.
Verkada offer a range of video security solutions that are easy to set up, feature built-in storage, and enable easy, secure connectivity to the cloud. With Verkada’s command platform, you can access video feeds from almost anywhere, and view multiple feeds at once.
Verkada’s air quality sensors can be used in offices and buildings to protect against disease transmission, enhance productivity, and improve wellbeing. There are use cases in several sectors, including vape and smoke detectors in office buildings and schools, and monitoring temperature regulation in care homes.
Environment sensors alert you and takes action when it detects:
- High CO2 levels
- Toxic gasses, chemicals, and odours
- Toxic mold
- Indoor vaping and smoke
- Dust, particulates, and allergens
- Loud or dangerous noise levels
Access control solutions are designed to monitor who goes in and out of your buildings, enhancing physical security, keeping track of activity, and helping with data analytics. With remote management and cloud integration, you can control doors and permissions from almost anywhere.
Connect a series of intercoms to the remote-control platform, enabling access permissions and answering calls at any time. With clear visuals and audio, effortless deployment, and cloud integration, Verkada’s intercoms give your organisation’s physical locations the additional security you need.
Verkada offer several modern alarm systems with professional monitoring, passcode entries, and intruder detection to keep your people and property safe at all times. Verkada alarms give you access to:
- Professional monitoring from live agents that can respond to incidents on your behalf
- Intrusion detection with sensors and alarm panels that notify you instantly
- Deterrence with built-in speakers and sirens
- Customisable panic buttons that integrate with CCTV cameras
Workplace solutions are a set of software solutions that integrate with physical devices like sign-in hardware to manage everything that comes into your building. Keep track of people, packages, and guests with:
- Verkada Guest, a visitor management system that integrates with video security and access control to ensure a seamless check in-process for interviewees, customers, and other visitors
- Verkada Mailroom, an intuitive solution to simplify tracking of packages, and delivery management
Verkada and the cloud
Verkada utilise the cloud to enable seamless integration between existing software, hardware, and devices to ensure physical security applications, users, and sites are accessible at all times. The utilisation of hybrid technology leads to several benefits:
- Unlimited users and cloud archiving
- Remote access from any connected device
- Fully customisable access and controls
- Automatic updates and early access to new features
- Utilisation of the innovative, interconnected application
- Access to technical support 24/ 7
Physical security FAQs
Physical security refers to the protective measures taken to prevent unauthorised access to facilities, equipment, resources, and to protect personnel and property from damage or harm (such as espionage, theft, or terrorist attacks).
Physical security is often integrated with information security and operational security measures to provide a comprehensive security posture. This can include cyber security measures to protect against digital threats to physical systems (like hacking into access control systems) and policies that govern both physical and digital access to sensitive areas.
A hybrid, cloud-based system streams video data to the cloud, allowing users to access live feeds and recorded footage from anywhere, at any time, through a web-based platform or mobile app. This approach simplifies the management of physical security infrastructure by eliminating the need for traditional on-premises storage and allowing for easy scalability.
Unlike traditional security systems that often require local servers, storage, and manual updates, hybrid cloud solutions are managed entirely through the cloud, offering easier installation, automatic updates, advanced analytics, and scalability.
Get in touch with our specialists about physical security
Our dedicated physical security specialists are here to help you decide which physical security solutions are right for your organisation. Book your free one-to-one call now.
You can also email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 – whatever works best for you.