Located across the UK, the company's sites manufacture and distribute quality concrete products to building projects; ranging from housing estates and office blocks, to large engineering projects, such as bridges, stadiums and airports.

Supplying an effective security, health & safety and site management solution, The CCTV Company has installed a mix of Vista VVRD2V6CM colour/mono dome security cameras connected to a Vista Smartdisk VLS-10DR and VLS-DR500 500Gb hard disc drive at each site. All security cameras at the sites are recorded in real-time, 24/7, and both live and recorded footage can be viewed remotely via a dedicated Wide Area Network. Alongside specifying, installing and maintaining the massive Bardon Concrete security surveillance solution, The CCTV Company is also responsible for out-of-hours monitoring, via their own central control room.

John Whelan, Technical Director at The CCTV Company explains: "Tackling the large number of similar sites to secure, we developed a blueprint format of security products to achieve our goals. Environments for concrete and asphalt processing and distribution can be harsh for cameras and CCTV infrastructure, so we needed a high-performance product with a proven reliability record, and the reassurance of a quality aftersales service."

The powerful CCTV images are used to monitor all site activity and have proved vital across a number of areas, as John Whelan continues. "From a security point of view, the high-quality images have proved their worth on many occasions. We have alerted the police directly from our central control room to a number of incidents at plants around the country. These have included minor break-ins that saw Bardon Concrete's diesel tanks, used to fuel on-site machinery, targeted by thieves. Review of the detailed CCTV footage meant we were able to identify the culprits."