As a self storage owner, protecting your facility is your highest priority. It is common knowledge that fencing can protect sites from vandalism, damage, and theft - but when it comes to preserving business continuity and protecting your customers’ prized possessions, is your fence really doing enough?
An effective perimeter security solution has three key factors – prevention, detection, and management. If your site has these three things, you are empowered to deter, detect, and delay.
- Deter – effective perimeter fencing should discourage people from attempting to gain unauthorized access to the storage facility. This could be through the use of signage, physical barriers, or technologies such as monitored pulse (energized) fences.
- Detect – this is the most critical element of the three Ds. Disturbance sensors, tension sensors, and integrated CCTV can promptly detect unauthorized access attempts.
- Delay – an effective fence structure or monitored pulse fence can delay an unauthorized access attempt, buying time for the storage facility to carry out a security response.
The combination of these three elements combined will ensure the effectiveness of a perimeter security solution. For self-storage facilities, it is crucial that perimeter technology provides reliable detection while delaying a potential attack long enough for an effective security response.
Gallagher delivers robust perimeter security systems, founded on these three core principles. Our range of perimeter fencing solutions are suited to the most rigorous requirements of high security sites such as prisons and military sites. You can have the highest confidence that your self-storage facility will be secured with Gallagher.
Gallagher’s Monitored Pulse Fence offers powerful deterrence, with attempts to breach the perimeter met by an energized pulse sent around the fence line. Monitored pulse fencing meets stringent safety criteria, while delivering a short but safe shock. Gallagher’s integrated Monitored Pulse Fence System streamlines all aspects of security through integrating perimeter, access control, intruder alarms, and video management systems via one intelligent platform - Gallagher Command Centre. This award-winning platform allows operators to view live footage in response to an alarm – providing visual verification of any trespass attempts.
Gallagher’s perimeter protection solutions ensure self-storage sites are secure and give your customers the peace of mind they need knowing their belongings are safe in your care.
If you would like to discuss security for your self storage facility, contact Baden Foster - Technical Business Development Manager, via email baden.foster@gallagher.com.
*This piece of editorial was written for Self Storage Association of Australasia Insider magazine