Scunthorpe-based Ready Rent-a-Car is a hire company that was blighted by thefts of vehicle parts, and was having problems with false alarms caused by animals.
Depot manager Dan Lings told info4security: “We had a spate of thefts of parts from the 7.5 tonne trucks parked in the depot, and needed to prevent this from happening again. One of the problems, however, lay in distinguishing between genuine break-ins and false alarms triggered by wildlife that approach from a field at the back of our site.”
Independent consultant’s opinion
Lings approached security consultant Dean Bolton from Eyewatch Security to help solve the problem. Bolton decided to upgrade the legacy system on site to include four BoundaryGard HX and two VX402 detectors. There haven’t been any problems since.
Lings continued: “Since we had the new detectors installed we have been problem-free. I’m no longer receiving phone calls in the middle of the night. We can now be completely confident that we’re secure against the threat of theft, and that when we do receive a call it’s genuine and something to which we must respond.”
Since the new detectors were installed there has not been a single false alarm, testament to the reliability of the equipment according. “It was costing us a considerable amount to send out drivers to check if the site was secure when an alarm went off,” explained Bolton. “From our point of view it has drastically reduced the operating costs.”
Safe site protection
Paul Nicholas – sales manager for BoundaryGard – added: “With a combination of the HX series, which has evolved as a result of the development of the benchmark for reliable external detection, and the VX402 range, the Ready Rent-a-Car depot staff can be safe in the knowledge that their site is protected.”
These detectors combine intelligent target recognition, OEAND Logic, vegetation sway analysis, small animal immunity and summer night compensation logic for optimum detection performance even in the most challenging security environments.
