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Daewoo savings with Sony PMS

In the face of rising manned guarding costs, Daewoo Cars has installed a new remote surveillance alternative – a monitoring codec from Sony.

Daewoo was spending over £1 million a year on manned guarding services for its 25 forecourt and showroom sites until a remote video monitoring service introduced a complete design, commissioning and monitoring package based

around remote CCTV surveillance. Daewoo's brief was to protect

vehicles and premises while allowing customers free access to the forecourt even after showroom hours. At the same time there had to be an obvious deterrent and the means to identify criminal activity and summon assistance.

Key to the effective running of the system has been a pilot of the Sony PMS 400/500 at Daewoo’s Slough showroom.

The Sony Codec is designed to control CCTV equipment and transmit information from any number of remote sites, in the form of high quality pictures and audio, to a central point using a dial-up ISDN telephone line. The use of the ISDN line eliminates the considerable costs associated with the laying of cables for transmission, such as fibre optics.

Any suspicious activity on a Daewoo forecourt or in the

showroom, such as attempts to steal car radios, trim or wheels, can now be quickly identified, confirmed and acted upon from the central monitoring station.

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