CCTV with intruder detection systems were installed at an iconic London building, after protesters climbed to the summit. Six Greenpeace women activists scaled the Shard and unfurled a flag with “Save the Arctic” on it to protest against plans to drill in the Arctic by the oil company Shell.
The Prime Minister of Qatar, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, inaugurated the 95-storey 310m building in July 2012. Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, officially opened the View from the Shard viewing platform in February 2013. After the Greenpeace stunt in July 2013, the management company for the owners Sellar Property Group and the State of Qatar decided to add to security with the latest CCTV.
They appointed installer Unique Security, and together evaluated products on the market. Zaun‘s EyeLynx SharpView was selected. Its rapid deployment system, Pharos, was installed with wireless PIRs (passive infra-red detectors) from Luminite to further secure the perimeter and the main escalators to London Bridge station, next door, pictured. EyeLynx provided a back up SharpView NVR for critical cameras in time for a visit from Her Majesty the Queen and HRH Prince Phillip in November 2013.
This unit worked with the installed Pharos cameras using SharpView VMS and recording in High Definition quality. All the building’s CCTV cameras have video retained for at least 30 days.
The site CCTV system was changed over to SharpView in January 2014, with over 200 cameras recording to ten SharpView Corporate NVRs incorporating over 200TB of storage, while four SharpView Manager Workstations allow security staff to manage and control the entire security system, on desktop monitors and a 16ft video wall in a control room.
