Rapid Deployment for Temporary Site Security, Measured in Minutes

Under 15 minutes covers raising and stabilising the platform: position it, extend the four feet, level it on the integrated spirit level, wind the mast up on the double braked winch. It does not cover driving there, and it does not cover commissioning whatever equipment you have chosen to put on it. Configure the cameras and the router in your own yard and the site visit genuinely is a quarter of an hour. Managed towers on the UK rental market quote around 20 minutes for a basic set-up, so the honest claim is that this is in line with the fastest thing on the market, not several times faster than it. What removes the days is everything the platform does not need: no foundation, no grid connection, no crane and no third party lead time. That is what turns temporary site security into a same day decision rather than a project.

The difference is the foundation, not the build quality. Every platform is 100 per cent galvanised steel, stayed to the mast top with four stainless steel 316 cables, and heavy enough that pushing it over is not a realistic attack. All of it is CE certified by TUV Rheinland behind a 95 page test document, produced under an ISO 9001 quality system, and ANSI certified as well. For a tender file that is usually more documentation than a bespoke fixed installation arrives with.

Longer than most people plan for. Sites typically run a platform for anywhere between six months and three years, and because the galvanised enclosure outlasts the electronics on it by a factor of two to three, the same platform carries two or three generations of camera technology before it needs replacing. That is the quiet economics of temporary: the part that goes obsolete is the cheap part.

Hire it if you need it once. Own it if you deploy repeatedly, because the platform is the part that does not go obsolete and the electronics are the part that does. Managed hire providers position their service at up to 88 per cent below manned guarding on their own published figures, which tells you how much margin sits in that model. Buying the shell without pre-installed equipment also saves in the region of 15 to 20 per cent against a fully built tower from a third party, and leaves the choice of camera, analytics and alarm receiving centre with you.

It is the same problem as an event, with the notice period removed. Because the power and the connectivity travel inside the cabinet, there is nothing on site that has to exist first. A platform can be loaded, driven, positioned and reporting to a control room inside the same shift, which is why they end up on flood response, post incident cover, road closures and temporary traffic management. When existing infrastructure is the thing that failed, not depending on it is the point.