New tech helps trim security manpower at condos

Glendale Park in Hillview uses an automated system (left) - developed by security firm Focus Security and its sister company Asiatact - that allows the condominium to log visitors remotely. Its residents also use a mobile app (above) that lets them r
Glendale Park in Hillview uses an automated system (above) - developed by security firm Focus Security and its sister company Asiatact - that allows the condominium to log visitors remotely. Its residents also use a mobile app that lets them register their visitors beforehand. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH
Glendale Park in Hillview uses an automated system (left) - developed by security firm Focus Security and its sister company Asiatact - that allows the condominium to log visitors remotely. Its residents also use a mobile app (above) that lets them r
Glendale Park in Hillview uses an automated system - developed by security firm Focus Security and its sister company Asiatact - that allows the condominium to log visitors remotely. Its residents also use a mobile app (above) that lets them register their visitors beforehand. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH
Charmaine Ng
Updated
Dec 18, 2019, 05:00 AM
Published
Dec 18, 2019, 05:00 AM
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When a visitor's car rolls up to Glendale Park condominium in Hillview, what greets the driver is a speaker carrying the voice of a security guard located in a remote command centre in Ubi, nearly 20km away.

Meanwhile, the vehicle's licence plate number is recorded and the driver's face is captured on a surveillance camera.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on December 18, 2019, with the headline New tech helps trim security manpower at condos. Subscribe

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