Surveillance cameras play a critical role in securing power stations by detecting and deterring intruders, enhancing response times, and protecting assets, personnel, and the power grid.
It’s an industry on which we constantly rely, though we may sometimes forget the work that goes on behind the scenes. With every flip of a switch, we are consumers of power produced by the expansive energy industry, composed of power plants and facilities across the nation.
A key component of our critical infrastructure, power stations are highly sensitive areas that require a robust physical security plan. Surveillance cameras are one powerful measure that can help protect both these critical sites and the valuable power they produce and conduct.
Critical infrastructure—or the network of utilities, roads, and other systems that facilitate our society and daily lives—is aptly named. Assets such as our power grid are critical to the continued functioning of every town and city, which makes their security so incredibly crucial.
Unauthorized access and physical security breaches present danger to these key systems, making it essential for those in charge to maintain the highest standard of security.
Both human threats and environmental hazards threaten our nation’s power facilities. While environmental dangers can be difficult to plan for, we can detect and deter intruders more easily.
Some individuals may trespass with more benign purposes, such as homeless people seeking to get warm. Those with nefarious intentions, however, may enter a power station for one of many reasons—-including theft, vandalism, sabotage, and terrorism. The plant’s equipment can turn an attractive profit on the resell market, and damaging the power supply is a catastrophically effective way to cause harm to a large portion of the population.
A solid fence and hired guards are old standbys, but one particular security measure—the surveillance camera—has only evolved in its capabilities and capacity to prevent crime over the decades.
The purpose of a security camera is twofold; each unit serves not only to record suspicious goings-on within its radius, but also to prevent crime by simply existing. Would-be criminals see a prominently placed surveillance camera and decide to move on to easier targets.
While your mind may be drawn to a grainy, clunky CCTV camera that only moves an inch or two to each side and films in black and white, this is a far cry from the intelligent, highly advanced surveillance cameras produced by industry leaders like LiveView Technologies. Modern security cameras possess a slew of intuitive features for preventing and capturing crime, such as remote monitoring, thermal imaging, AI integration, and more.
While you’re planning your power station’s physical security measures, be sure to look for some key, high-end features that will revolutionize your surveillance and protect your facilities in real time.
An essential feature of modern security cameras is thermal imaging. This cutting-edge technology detects heat signatures, enabling it to detect suspicious characters in poor light and at night.
You can only be in one place at once, but that shouldn’t stop you from being able to keep tabs on every area of your facility. With remote monitoring and control, you check on any part of your property, at any time, and from anywhere—so no criminal activity goes undetected.
We’re in a new age of the internet, and artificial intelligence has a variety of uses. AI-powered surveillance systems do the real-time analysis for you, so you don’t have to devote precious man-hours to scouring every second of your footage. AI integration is the future of smart security.
What good is security camera footage if you can’t find it when it counts? Cloud-based storage allows you to find what you need in the moment you need it—-anytime, anywhere.
Reduce false alarms, and get notified of suspicious happenings in real time, with motion detection software. This feature improves the precision and efficiency of your security response.
Leave no gaps in your security. Elite security cameras, such as the ones innovated by LVT, monitor your property 24/7.
Cameras are not the only security equipment you’re employing. That’s why today’s top-of-the-line cameras can be seamlessly integrated with alarm systems, access control, and other tools in your arsenal.
Increasing the physical security of your power station can lead to a plethora of beneficial outcomes, including a quicker response to threats, safer assets and employees, reduced costs, and precious evidence to aid in potential investigations.
Your power facility will be far more secure when you can detect, identify, and respond to threats in a timely manner. With round-the-clock monitoring, AI-assisted threat detection, and real-time alerts, today’s advanced surveillance cameras can help you mitigate damage and address crime quickly and effectively.
Theft, vandalism, and other crimes can lead to the destruction of your facility and its assets. Modern surveillance cameras can help you protect your assets without expensive private security staff.
Avoid harm to your employees and security staff, as well as costly workplace safety lawsuits and fines, by monitoring danger from a safe distance and preserving the people that keep your plant running.
When you invest in your power facility’s security, you’re not only boosting its physical protection—-you’re also preserving your organization’s bottom line. Surveillance systems like LVT’s are sustainable, requiring little maintenance to keep their hardware and software at peak performance. Our clients also see a robust ROI via lowered insurance premiums, minimal disruption to day-to-day service and operation, and the protection of their assets from theft and damage. Overall, it’s much more cost-effective to invest in your security now, than to repair an intruder’s damage in the future.
Once suspicious activity is recorded, there are several potential situations in which you may need it again. Internal investigations into criminal activity, as well as those conducted with law enforcement partners, will run more smoothly and be resolved more quickly with a camera system that records and stores valuable evidence with care and accuracy.
If allowed access to power plants and stations, an intruder can cause expensive and catastrophic damage to both the facility and the power grid at large. A comprehensive physical security plan, complete with state-of-the-art surveillance cameras from LVT, can protect power stations from intrusion and preserve the security of our critical infrastructure.
Invest in the safety of your assets—as well as the wellbeing of the people who depend on them—with high-quality surveillance technology from LVT. Discover what’s possible for your plant, and schedule a free demo today.
