Estates - Case study
Lifestyle estate - layered perimeter & monitoring
Stellenbosch, Western Cape - completed April 2026 by our Western Cape team · CCTV installation in Stellenbosch
- Cameras
- 83 × 4MP + thermal
- Fence
- 3.4 km
- Monitoring
- 24/7
Layered perimeter security for a Winelands lifestyle estate, combining electric fencing, thermal cameras, AI alerts and 24/7 offsite monitoring.
Equipment supplied
- ▸Dahua 128-ch AI NVR
- ▸83 × Dahua 4MP IP cameras
- ▸8 × thermal perimeter cameras
- ▸3.4 km zoned electric fence
- ▸ANPR at the gates
- ▸24/7 offsite monitoring connection
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)Actively 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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