As an industry sector, security is not one naturally aligned with sustainable practices. However, here at Check Your Security, it is important that we continue to evolve and adopt ways of working that demonstrate our green credentials. We actively seek to embrace new equipment, technological advances and business practices as innovation moves forward.

In the medical sector, seconds can be decisive in terms of life and death, especially in emergency rooms and operating theatres. Commend's security and communication solution for medical environments meets the strictest directives and regulations within this sector. It provides direct multi-site communication across facility complexes, e.g. to laboratories, blood banks, hospital pharmacies, wards and quarantine areas.

New security technology in the form of a digital key from Abloy has revolutionised one of the most common daily tasks on hospital wards, accessing the drugs cupboard. The Protec2 Cliq Remote digital key has helped hospitals nationally to streamline their workflow with amazing results.

Since its inception in 2002, 360 Vision Technology has built a solid reputation for designing and manufacturing a British-made range of innovative and robust CCTV surveillance camera and control solutions. They have also developed unique, patent-pending static and PTZ LED illumination solutions in infra-red and white light options.

Before you can start to consider improving your security and planning for the future, it is important to evaluate your current security situation to identify potential shortfalls and areas for investment. This will then allow you to see if your security needs have been fully addressed and commit to an investment allowing a system upgrade that can be managed and reviewed as part of an overall improvement strategy.

With the availability and adoption of 4K and even higher resolution correctly calculating camera storage and network bandwidth requirements can make significant differences to the cost and performance of your video surveillance system.