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The automatic electric gate opening systems’ market is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly 3.9% over the next five years, will reach 1480 million USD in 2023, from 1170 million USD in 2017, according to a new study. A gate opening systems are mechanical devices used to open and close a gate, such… Read more »

Installing turnstiles as part of an organizations’ security/monitoring/access control system can help prevent employee theft, inventory shrinkage, vandalism, and shoplifting, experts have argued. With access control / entry control security systems, it becomes easy to control unauthorised entry into your business. A business should not give employees the freedom to access all offices. For instance,… Read more »

A metal fence and a moat is being built around an Andover field to stop travellers after more than 40 caravans and cars illegally broke through the barriers at Picket Twenty to set up camp on the sports pitch last year, a news report has revealed. Test Valley Borough Council has increased its security measures… Read more »

A retail store has revealed plans to install new car park barriers in order to prevent car-related anti-social behaviour, much to the relief of local residents and authorities. Local councillor Shauna Cusack yesterday expressed her relief that the barriers she has been lobbying Home Bargain’s central management to install are now underway. Welcoming the move,… Read more »

Multiple folding steel bollards are set to be deployed at an Aberdeen city centre car park, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The proposals were lodged by Aberdeen Performing Arts for the posts at the staff facility at His Majesty’s Theatre in October. They will be used to… Read more »

A dense array of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) measures is to be deployed around the Dubai Arena, a multi-purpose indoor events space that can house an audience of 17,000 on four levels spanning half-a-million square feet. According to news report on the matter, anti-terrorism measures include a combination of 600 static and removable bollards, barriers… Read more »

New electric sliding gates, as well as a rather unusual speed limit appeared in Newcastle’s Exhibition Park, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. Electric gates have been installed at the vehicle entrance to the city centre green space, along with signs telling motorists to stick to 9 3/4mph…. Read more »

A local authority has decided to erect a set of metal fences around an area used for shelter by local homeless people, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. Shelters at Duke’s Mound, Brighton, which have been providing protection from the elements for rough sleepers for years, were fenced… Read more »

Electric gates, CCTV systems, fences, secure store rooms and even moats are now being considered by farmers as the level of rural crime has increased significantly over the past few years. A report by insurers NFU Mutual shows that, in 2018, crime in the countryside went up by 12%, for an overall cost to the… Read more »

It is hoped that a new car park barrier system and extra parking capacity at Raigmore Hospital will sort out the parking issues that have affected it in recent years, a news report in the local media can reveal. At least one of the new overspill car parks will be open while barriers are also… Read more »

Bollards are set to be installed to stop people driving through a gateway in the city walls after the previous barrier broke, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The measures will be installed at Victoria Bar and will mean only residents, cyclists and emergency services will be able… Read more »

The Rusholme sixth-form college has asked for planning permission to deploy nine-foot high fences to stop people breaking in, a news report can reveal. The Xaverian College argues that this access restriction solution would prevent acts of ‘minor vandalism’ that regularly affect the college, according to student support vice-principal Simon Channell. He wrote in planning… Read more »