Industry News

CheckmySystem Software Doctor Provides Visual's Clients With Health Check - Thu 8 Sep 2011

CheckMySystems Ltd. - the CCTV diagnostics software specialist - announces that it has signed an agreement to enable Visual Verification, the Cheshire-based monitoring station, to become a CheckMyCCTV service provider. This means that Visual Verification can offer its customers advanced CCTV health, status, and operation monitoring using CheckMyCCTV as part of its comprehensive portfolio.

For Visual Verification's customers who opt for this service there is the reassurance that remedial action can be taken immediately when an issue arises in the field whether it be a failure of a camera, hard disk, detector or network connection. Crucially, this intelligent, proactive, approach is not reliant on time-consuming manual checks, or problems being noticed by the end user, where delays may leave sites unnecessarily vulnerable.

In operation, the sophisticated CheckMyCCTV software, has been devised to be as intuitive as possible for the operator, through its on-screen 'traffic light' warning system. The warning system can be customised to offer pop-up boxes, audible alerts and email messages as required, and can send a daily status report to customers. For the Visual Verification solution a dual-screen operation has been set-up in the control room, with one screen displaying the global status of sites and the other featuring an interactive map to give the status and location of each installation covered by the CheckMyCCTV software.

Said Chris Connors, Sales and Marketing Manager at Visual Verification: "With the roll-out of the CheckMyCCTV service we are able to give our customers, who subscribe, an industry-leading system for enhanced integrity and security above and beyond anything that was previously possible. Ensuring a CCTV installation is fully operational is, not surprisingly, a critical concern for us at Visual Verification given the record level of criminal activity we have seen on our monitored sites this year. To date the number of arrests since the start of 2011 stands at 73.

"Thankfully, once CheckMyCCTV was implemented, labour intensive site checks, that were previously undertaken manually, are now automatic and conducted around-the-clock. This checking process is also much more extensive, so rather than being confined to simply checking that a site is connected it can drill-down to look at hardware and configuration issues on the CCTV system. Encouragingly the response from customers who have signed-up has been extremely positive once they see the practical benefits and we expect the number of CheckMyCCTV subscribers to increase significantly in the coming months."

Darren Rewston, Managing Director of CheckMySystems, which has developed the CheckMyCCTV solution, believes that this revolutionary software is proving its worth by providing an important safety net for monitoring station's like Visual Verification and their connected sites: "A key driver for the take-up of CheckMyCCTV is the fact that it ties-in with the widespread recognition by monitoring station's, and their customers, of the need to have an effective, economical, and simple method of constantly monitoring the status of security-critical CCTV equipment. By flagging up any issues automatically, CheckMyCCTV provides the peace-of-mind that there are no critical gaps in surveillance left by undetected failures."  

The CheckMyCCTV solution is currently compatible with CCTV systems from the following manufacturers: Dedicated Micros, Heitel, Vista, Adata, Dahua Technology, QNAP, and Videoswitch, and new brands are being added all the time by the development team at CheckMySystems Ltd.

For the latest information on CheckMyCCTV please visit: www.checkmysystems.com or tel: +44(0)161 870 6137.

Arrest records continue to be broken at Visual Verification - Wed 7 Sep 2011

As we reported earlier in the year arrest levels have been breaking all previous records. 2011 has seen 73 individual arrests which is the highest reported level (over the same period) since our inception back in 1994.

With the prevailing economic conditions, and in light of recent events across the UK, these arrest rates show no sign of abating. In fact in areas such as fuel depots and precious metals, the rates if anything are on the increase.

This demonstrates how Visual Verification are actively protecting clients’ premises up and down the UK 24 hours a day, across a broad spectrum of industries. If you are interested in hearing about our services and would like to find out how Visual Verification achieve these results, please contact the Sales Team.

Visual launches Central Monitoring Services (CMS) - Thu 1 Jul 2010

Having built its solid reputation on CCTV monitoring Visual Verification has further developed its alarm monitoring offering by launching Central Monitoring Services (CMS)…

Having been at the forefront of the CCTV monitoring industry for nearly 16 years Visual Verification have now recognised the opportunity to develop their alarm monitoring services. The company has offered BT Redcare monitoring for many years (mainly for its existing client base), but a dramatic increase in connections over the past 12 months has seen this side of the business become more and more prevalent.

Hosting the Bold Gemini alarm handling software and meeting all the relevant  British Standards, the control room now has over 3000 connections and, with the recent successful addition of Dualcom, the Company sees fit to launch CMS as a separate entity.

Operations Director Steve Nelson is excited by the opportunity: “Although we have a high profile in the CCTV market, historically our alarm business just complimented our existing offering. However, the number of new connections we have experienced over the past year has justified the launch of this separate stream to our business. Our clients’ will still experience the professional, British Standard control room environment we have built our reputation on, but the move allows us to focus on and improve growth in this area of our portfolio”.

Today CMS offers monitoring of Dualcom, BT Redcare, Webway, Digicom’s, 2-way audio panels, medical alarms and lots more. For further information about the new Company and its services please contact Marianne Jones of CMS on the details below.

Issued by Visual Verification, Marketing Department

Visual Verification holds SIA approved contractor status for the provision of Public Space CCTV services.