State-of-the-Art Security

A decisive factor for stress-free living

Safety and security is frequently top of mind of South Africans. StatsSA released The Governance, Public Safety, and Justice Survey revealing that during the period 2019/20 an estimated 1,200,000 burglaries took place in the country representing 5,3% of households. During the same period, 169,000 home robberies took place representing an additional 0,8% of all households. Hijacking represents further threat with 265,000 taking place in the same period. Of these, Richard Brussow, Director of the National Hijacking Prevention Academy (NHPA) says the majority occur in residential driveways.

Thankfully, Faircape Life has invested heavily into state-of-the-art security equipment, and highly trained surveillance personnel to provide a totally stress-free environment at all 6 villages. Every aspect of security has been carefully accounted for.

All Faircape Life villages feature boomed access control points replete with biometric scanning, surveillance cameras, and friendly security guards. Camera Surveillance Services Manager, Marius Bezuidenhoutthe leading provider of advanced surveillance and off-site monitoring solutions in Cape Town - explains that these surveillance cameras are not the out-dated CCTV cameras from yesteryear.

At their state-of-the-art off-site monitoring control room, Mr Bezuidenhout, reveals their surveillance solutions integrate sophisticated video analytics technologies which tirelessly monitor camera feeds to support the camera monitoring personnel. This ensures that nothing suspicious goes unnoticed. Their systems can automatically detect any number of events - from loitering to attempts to scale perimeter barriersbefore verifying with trained personnel.

Mr Bezuidenhout also describes how the entire security system of each estate is completely incorporated to create a whole that is more efficacious than the sum of its parts. For example, the electrified perimeter fencing is connected to the video surveillance software. This means that every time the fencing is triggered, the camera monitoring that point of the perimeter is activated ensuring that staff can verify a potential threat before it becomes crime-in-progress.

Where the safety of village residents is concerned, Faircape Life believes that prevention is better than cure. That’s why only the best security features, the most effective technologies, and the most highlytrained personnel are employed.