Alarms

Alarms to smartphone

by Mark Rowe

Selous Security, a new customer of the Webeye product, caught thieves days after connecting a Videofied system to Webeye.

On the night of September 1 Selous were alerted via the Webeye phone app of an intrusion on a building site in Loughborough. They had connected the site to Webeye three days earlier and were new to the software. Shortly before midnight, two intruders went into a fenced compound where the system detected an intrusion. The first images Selous saw was of the pair walking across the compound; the next ones were of them shining a torch at one of the cameras followed by them trying doors of a cabin. Selous were too far away to respond so alerted the police who attended the site promptly. Selous were able to provide a description of the intruders and their direction of travel. Police soon found the two close by and they were arrested. Police found that the intruders had broken into a further site nearby, and located their vehicle and found stolen tools from a third location. Selous Security, based in Sutton-in Ashfield, in Nottinghamshire, operate in the East Midlands providing protection services mainly to the commercial sector.

About Webeye

The product sends an alarm to your smart phone. It’s described as an interactive cloud based security system that allows alarms and video to be received and handled from any internet connected tablet or smart phone.

To receive the alarm all you need is a browser or mobile phone. The alarm process is tracked and audited and webeye can deliver to an unlimited amount of mobile phones.

Webeye was created by Nottingham-based software developer and security distributor VDT Direct Ltd. VDT says that it saw a gap in the market for something like webeye; cloud-based monitoring that could reach anyone, anywhere and was robust enough. VDT Direct’s development team worked with the University of Leicester. They have servers in various World Wide Web data centres across the country and have put an infrastructure in place to ensure that if those servers should ever fail, their engineers know about it and can promptly repair it. Webeye has applied for patency on their ‘send and confirm’ technology.

Barry Caunt, Managing Director of Selous, said: “We had used Videofied before but this was the first time we had used Webeye. It was a great first result, they have been charged with three offences.” And Clive Mason, VDT’s Managing Director and the developers of Webeye, said: “Barry’s company responded in an exemplary fashion, due to their quick thinking, controlled approach and site knowledge, they were able to direct the police which lead to the arrest. Selous should be commended for their actions as Webeye only works when someone responds instantly and with the skill demonstrated by them.”

Trevor Lee, Webeye Marketing Manager, said: “In Webeye’s increasing arsenal to defeat the criminal it’s good to see all the hard work done by programmers and developers is paying off. We believe by that using technology we can stay one step ahead of the criminal and help create a safer world.”

For more information

Call: 0115 714 9990 / 01623 541411
Email: [email protected]
Visit www.webeyecms.com and www.vdomain.co.uk.

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