Cleveland Police Headquarters

Paul Pickering, Inspector - Custody Management Unit

“A custody suite places demands on systems which are very different from most security applications.  It is a challenging workplace with the staff at the charge desk handling calls, requests, alerts, alarms, controlling points of entry and exit with the distraction of a potentially volatile and hostile environment.

We therefore needed a security solution which could transparently integrate our access control, intruder alarm, intercom and CCTV, to ensure that we gain maximum benefit from all the individual systems.  The solution provided by Cortech and Vicon has proved to be highly effective.  It allows our operators with minimal training to efficiently control the systems employed within their custody suite, enabling them to react to incidents in an organised manner."

ITV

Stuart Wynne, Security and Transport Manager, Manchester

"We decided to invest in the Datalog software as this provided a user friendly solution that would enable us to bring together all of our essential security systems, thus simplifying numerous processes into one streamline system, offering consistency and simplicity to the end user. The security of the site has benefited from this coordinated approach and the management information generated by Datalog provides a useful tool and audit trail."

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Peter Foy

"The management system provided by Cortech is state of the art equipment, which helps our operators to view events and manage security events through the 3D graphical interface. The quality of the system is excellent, by clicking on a camera icon a CCTV image can be viewed from the other side of the City."

Manchester Airport PLC

Geoff Densham, Project Manager

"The Datalog software has enhanced our operational efficiency for handling alarms in key areas of the Airport. This integration initiative has also created a cost effective single point of operation for our lift emergency, service yard intercoms and panic alarms within specific passenger areas. Importantly as a modular platform the software is scalable, enabling the Airport to deploy the latest technology as part of its evolving requirements."

Museum of London

Steven Cox, Head of Facilities and Security

"The protection of the Museum collections and the safety of our staff and visitors are of paramount importance. We care for over two million objects in our collection, an outstanding resource that is both unique and extremely valuable. We have invested in a high security solution that is driven by Cortech’s software enabling us to simplify our operating processes. Using a combination of people and technology we are able to maximise response time for alarms and deploy resources within seconds."

Northumbrian Water Ltd

Colin Thomson, Security and Emergency Planning Manager

"We have been upgrading a full range of control hardware at our water treatment works recently so it was the perfect time to upgrade to Datalog 4. Furthermore our operators have used the software for many years now and they have found it to be both reliable and simple to operate.

Northumbrian Water Limited has a number of water treatment works and the Datalog software allows us to monitor activity locally and remotely from a main control room. This enables us to manage our operations in a cost effective manner. The upgrade itself will significantly enhance our operations by monitoring events in real time and allowing our operators to view instant video play back of incidents."

Rampton Hospital

Alan Owens, Engineering Services Manager

"We have used Datalog as our security management system now for approaching eight years going initially from version 3 and moving to version 4 four years ago and it is the hub of all actions within our 5 person control room.

We chose Datalog primarily for its ease of integration to all our systems and additionally the user friendly way in which it is laid out and functions. It has been completely reliable without failure since the day it was first installed."

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Gordon Chalmers, Security Manager

"We rely upon our Cortech Datalog system for all of our intruder alarms, door alarms and panic alarms. It has been an invaluable tool in delivering our security services across a large and complex healthcare site.

The ease with which it has linked to our other security systems such as CCTV, door access and third party alarm systems means that we can have a single reference point for multiple alarms and events. This makes for a more efficient security control room and helps us to provide a faster and more reliable response.

I have had hands on experience with Datalog at the Royal Infirmary for almost seven years now and in that time we have never known it to fail."

UK Border Agency

Steve Avery, Head of Physical Security

"The security of our sites is of great importance. We have invested in this cutting edge technology to ensure that we have appropriate physical security measures in place. We have benefitted from SSG's and Cortech's considerable experience of delivering the appropriate level of security into the public sector. The Datalog software has significantly reduced year on year costs by centralising many of our operations and improving the efficiency of the control room".

Datalog has been a key driver in maximising alarm call efficiency, enabling us to respond to events in a faster and more effective way. Datalog provides automatic video verification of intruder alarm activations for all of the UKBA's remote sites, allowing us to deploy the most appropriate resources in a matter of seconds. Furthermore we can call upon a full audit trail of alarms in Datalog's history. The old disparate systems have now been replaced by a single operating routine, which has simplified our security operations. Importantly, the software is also very easy to operate for our control room staff."

Veolia Water Central

Gerald Doocey, Operations Technical Support Group Manager

“We have benefitted considerably from centralising our operations and it has brought about a multitude of operational and cost efficiencies. The Datalog software is now at the heart of our security operations and links our sites together seamlessly. Datalog has significantly simplified our processes for responding to alarms and events. We are able to identify the precise location of alarms and incidents quickly through the 3D rendered graphical building and floor plans. The information the system generates now provides us with an important audit trail of alarms and events including a historical log of video verification.”