Commercial - Case study
Office block - access, fire & evacuation
Century City, Cape Town - completed September 2025 by our Western Cape team · CCTV installation in Century City
- Floors
- 6
- Doors
- 18
- Cameras
- 25 × 4MP IP
Access control linked to addressable fire detection and public address for an office block, so doors and announcements respond during an evacuation.
Equipment supplied
- ▸Dahua 32-ch NVR
- ▸25 × Dahua 4MP IP cameras
- ▸Card access control on 18 doors
- ▸Addressable fire detection system
- ▸Evacuation public address system
Scope of work
What international research shows
Published findings on this kind of intervention elsewhere, not results measured on this site.
A 40-year meta-analysis of 76 CCTV evaluations found about 14% lower odds of crime in areas with CCTV than in comparable areas without it. The effect was modest overall, and the review found no significant effect on violent crime, which is why cameras work best as one layer alongside access control and response.
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 CrimeSolutionsCCTV schemes combined with other measures (such as access control, lighting, signage or guarding) produced larger effects than CCTV alone, and the authors advise against using cameras as a stand-alone crime prevention measure.
Source: Piza, Welsh, Farrington & Thomas (2019), Criminology & Public Policy 18(1), abstract via the US National Criminal Justice Reference Service
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