Warehouse & industrial security in Melbourne

A standard 1,000 to 2,000 square metre unit with perimeter cameras, zoned alarm and access control on two personnel doors typically runs $12,000 to $25,000 installed. Larger distribution sites with yard poles, plate recognition on the gate and multiple docks move well past that. The quote itemises every camera, pole, sensor and cable run so you can see exactly where the money goes.

Both, for different jobs. Building-mounted cameras cover the docks, personnel doors and immediate apron. Pole or mast-mounted multi-head cameras out in the yard are what give you the approach, the fence line and vehicle movement — the footage that tells you how they got in, not just that they did. Poles also let you cover a yard that has no building edge near it.

Roller door contacts on the alarm so a door lifting after hours is an instant activation, cameras framed on the door from inside and out, and where the risk warrants it, a beam or radar across the apron. Roller doors are the single most common entry point on industrial sites because a bare door with no contact simply is not monitored by anything.

Yes. The panel partitions the site so the warehouse floor can be live for a shift while the office, parts store and server room stay armed. Cleaners get a code that opens only their area. Every arm and disarm is logged against a person, so if a zone was disarmed at 3am you know who did it without asking anyone.

Yes. Plate recognition on an entry gate or boom lets known vehicles through automatically and logs everything else, which is worth doing on any site with regular transport movements. Read accuracy depends heavily on camera angle, mounting height and lighting at the gate, so it is specified as its own camera rather than expecting a general-purpose one to cope.

Rapid-deploy CCTV masts with their own power and 4G connection cover compounds, container yards and staged construction sites. They can be relocated as the site develops and removed at practical completion. Add active deterrence — a light and a spoken warning triggered by analytics — and most intruders leave before they reach anything.

High bay is a lens and mounting problem more than a camera problem. Mounted too high and you record the tops of heads; mounted at racking height you get identification but a narrow field. We generally combine overview cameras at height for movement with identification cameras at door and aisle-end level, which is far more useful than a ceiling full of expensive units.

Regularly. Getting security and structured cabling designed in at the right construction stage saves real money and keeps every cable concealed. We coordinate with the electrical trade, work to the program, and hand over as-built documentation at completion.