The sites are being covered as the result of a contract awarded to HW Martin Waste Ltd, to manage household waste recycling sites on behalf of Cheshire County Council.
Authorised staff at HW Martin Waste Ltd’s Sandbach regional centre are now able to view the connected sites during working hours, using their own version of NetVu ObserVer, via PC, for site management matters as well as for security. For example, CCTV can help them to tell, remotely, if a skip on a site is full and needs to be emptied rather than checking manually, time and resources.
Waste sites present a number of major challenges, according to Mark Faulconbridge a Director at HW Martin Waste.”There are the opportunists who – if left unchecked – will simply climb over the perimeter fence at night to rifle through our skips and take whatever they want; those who are intent on causing vandalism for the sake of it; and dangerous criminal gangs who are targeting metal-based materials and items of high value.”
The use of loudspeakers on each site also means that operators can announce that specific individuals are being monitored. If that is not incentive enough for them to stop their activities then the police can be alerted.”
