Energy and Resources

Power, utilities and natural resources operations encompass critical infrastrucure, as well as the extraction and processing of materials that are hazardous and often located in hostile locations. As a result, robust safety and security monitoring are critical to operations and require surveillance capabilities that are hardened to perform reliably and deliver surveillance from the most challenging environments.

Digital Barriers provides highly resilient surveillance solutions to the power, utilities and natural resources industries. Our solutions encompass perimeter security for high-security sites, such as nuclear power stations, as well as unattended surveillance monitoring of remote assets, such as oil and gas pipelines. We build-in features that are specific to the sector, such as spark-free video/data transmission, long service life and extreme temperature tolerances.

Intrusion detection for pipelines

We offer a covert intrusion detection solution that is designed to monitor long expanses of oil and gas pipelines in remote and often hostile locations. It features an autonomous wireless sensor network that is capable of detecting seismic activity, such as vehicle or human activity, and automatically alerting this via a self-forming, self-healing network. The sensor nodes are lightweight, quick to deploy and have a long service life, representing a cost-effective solution to countering terrorism, vandalism and theft across valuable and vulnerable pipelines.

Critical infrastructure protection

Major energy and utilities sites, such as nuclear power stations and refineries are complex sites to secure with a requirement for resilient surveillance. Our specialist services, sensor systems and video analytics provide monitoring and alerting for critical infrastructure sites in a range of situations – including hostile environments. We can also provide rapidly deployable mobile units that can augment fixed surveillance and address surveillance blind spots. Our technologies are deployed into petro-chemical operations and power stations worldwide.

Remote site monitoring

We provide a wireless video surveillance solution for monitoring remote critical assets, such as electricity substations. By integrating with existing intrusion detection alarms, it provides automated alerting to potential incursions with a real-time picture from the remote location. This enables verification of incidents and false alarms, without the need for costly manpower deployments in the field. The solution is simple to configure and cost-effective to operate.