Article published in Smart Security Solutions by Andrew Seldon.
In February this year, SMART Security Solutions travelled to Cape Town to experience the uncanny experience of a city where potholes are fixed, and traffic lights work. Despite the shock and awe of encountering such anomalies, as compared to the towns and cities in the rest of South Africa, especially in Gauteng, we recovered from the trauma in time to host our annual SMART Estate Security Conference in the Western Cape, once again at the D’Aria Estate and Winery.
The venue was once again packed with delegates and sponsors, who were able to hear several excellent presentations from the various speakers.
Service provider benchmarking
Following the tea break, the second session of the day was kicked off by Johan van Wyk, sales and marketing director at FANG Fences & Guards. The topic of his presentation was vetting system integrators, a contentious, but necessary topic of conversation for estates which have experienced poor service, delivery and maintenance in the past. To be less contentious, Van Wyk used the title ‘Benchmarking System Integrators’.
No matter the terms used, the need for estates to vet their integrators before committing to projects, whether new installations or upgrades, is critical. Security is a grudge purchase, but South Africans have no choice but to spend the money.
