Estates - Case study
Gated community - resident access & ANPR
Durbanville, Cape Town - completed September 2025 by our Western Cape team · CCTV installation in Durbanville
- Homes
- 120
- LPR lanes
- 2
- Pedestrian gates
- 2
Resident access control for a gated community, with ANPR, biometric pedestrian gates and video intercoms for visitors.
Equipment supplied
- ▸Dahua 32-ch NVR
- ▸24 × Dahua 4MP IP cameras
- ▸2 × LPR cameras
- ▸2 × biometric pedestrian gates
- ▸Video intercoms
- ▸Inverter backup
Scope of work
What international research shows
Published findings on this kind of intervention elsewhere, not results measured on this site.
In residential areas, CCTV schemes were associated with a statistically significant 12% reduction in crime compared with control areas.
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 CrimeSolutionsA meta-analysis of alley gating, which restricts access to the routes offenders use to reach properties, found modest but significant reductions in burglary, with little evidence of crime simply moving to nearby streets.
Source: Sidebottom, Tompson, Thornton, Bullock, Tilley, Bowers & Johnson (2018), Gating Alleys to Reduce Crime: A Meta-Analysis and Realist Synthesis, Justice Quarterly 35(1)
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