How can a real-time video monitoring service prevent the destruction of power stations in America?

For some time now, power stations in America have been the target of unidentified perpetrators who purposefully attack critical infrastructures, leaving massive areas in total darkness. Perpetrators tend to break into the fenced-up power substations and intentionally destroy them by shooting or starting fires. Authorities have not yet been able to identify the vandals or uncover the reasonsbehind these acts. As news reports declare, authorities are now asking people and businesses nearby power stations to submit any footage relevant to discover more in the issue. Thus, a real-time video monitoring service is a necessity for ensuring the security of power stations in America. Below, we enlist several benefits to implementing a real-time video monitoring service to power stations.

Preventing massive power outages

Depending on their structure and build, power substations can provide electricity to areas starting from small neighborhoods to whole counties. Attacks on these substations would result in areas remaining in total darkness, becoming an easy target to further vandalism. If power substations are provided with a real-time video monitoring service, these situations would no longer occur. In Active Watch Security, our skilled agents will react to these incidents before the perpetrator approaches the substations, because they are trained to react to every suspicious activity, as minor as it might seem. The real-time video monitoring service will provide the necessary security to the power stations, as well as to communities living nearby.

Reducing the costs of rebuilding a power grid

Attacks on power grids result not only in destroyed equipment that has to be substituted, which in itself can be a massive expense, but also in additional labor costs to fix the issues. Meanwhile, a power substation with a strong security system, accompanied with a video monitoring service would be an unbreakable site. The perpetrators would not be able to come close to the power substations before agents dispatch the police. With our proactive security measures, we will provide you with the most strong security system in the market in order to protect most critical infrastructures of power stations.

Avoiding similar patterns of sabotage

As news reports suggest, great media coverage of attacks in power substations encourage further perpetrators to follow similar patterns of attack in other areas. Therefore, these acts of sabotage have to come to an end, so that there is no pattern to follow on such crimes. Surveillance cameras and guards on-site will not be able to prevent these incidents without a video monitoring station.However, a video monitoring station will prevent these attacks by activating sirens in real-time in cases when someone is trying to get close the substation or applying voice down messages to trespassers before dispatching the authorities.

Discovering perpetrators and reasons behind acts

Authorities in America have not been able yet to identify the people behind sabotage acts against power substations. Due to the lack of surveillance cameras in the substations, they do not have the footage needed to identify these perpetrators. In Active Watch Security, our agents employ analytics and AI tools, such as facial recognition, in order to identify perpetrators before they come close to the site. In addition, footage can be provided 24/7 and in real-time to the person in charge or to authorities,to identify the perpetrators and the reasons behind such acts. This would also help the authorities uncover any terrorist groups behind these sabotage acts.

In conclusion

Without a real-time video monitoring service, power substations will remain an easy target to perpetrators due to their visible location and low security system.A fence will not stop perpetrators from breaking into power substations and causing major damages, but a strong security system accompanied by a real-time video monitoring service will prevent them from even coming close. Active Watch Security offers dedicated security plans for every type of site. If you are interested to learn more about our services, please contact us at 1833-833-0136