Agriculture - Case study
Fruit farm - packhouse & boundary security
Paarl, Western Cape - completed May 2026 by our Western Cape team · CCTV installation in Paarl
- Cameras
- 26 × 4MP IP
- Solar points
- 4
- Hectares
- 60
CCTV for a fruit farm, covering the packhouse, cold store and worker gates, with AI alerts on farm boundaries and remote monitoring.
Equipment supplied
- ▸Dahua 32-ch AI NVR
- ▸26 × Dahua 4MP IP cameras
- ▸4 × solar-powered camera points
- ▸Biometric reader at the worker gate
- ▸Offsite monitoring connection
Scope of work
What international research shows
Published findings on this kind of intervention elsewhere, not results measured on this site.
The same 40-year meta-analysis found CCTV was associated with about 16% lower odds of property crime and about 16% lower odds of vehicle crime, the offence types where cameras have the clearest effect.
Source: Piza, Welsh, Farrington & Thomas (2019), CCTV surveillance for crime prevention: a 40-year systematic review with meta-analysis, Criminology & Public Policy, as summarised by the US National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutionsActively monitored systems, where operators alert security or police while an incident is unfolding, were associated with significant crime reductions. Passive systems that only record showed no significant effect.
Source: Piza, Welsh, Farrington & Thomas (2019), CCTV surveillance for crime prevention: a 40-year systematic review with meta-analysis, Criminology & Public Policy, as summarised by the US National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions
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