Estates - Case study
Residential estate - gate ANPR & visitor control
Ballito, KZN - completed September 2025 by our KwaZulu-Natal team · CCTV installation in Ballito
- Cameras
- 51 × 4MP + LPR
- Gate lanes
- 4
- Fence
- 2.1 km
Gate security for a North Coast residential estate, with ANPR, QR visitor passes, intercoms and a monitored perimeter.
Equipment supplied
- ▸Dahua 64-ch AI NVR
- ▸51 × Dahua 4MP IP cameras
- ▸4 × LPR cameras
- ▸Visitor management with QR passes
- ▸Video intercoms at gates
- ▸2.1 km zoned electric fence
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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