Virtual Guard Service - Remote Monitored Video Surveillance

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JimH21 (Florida)
Posts: 4

Posted:

What is your experience using Remote Monitored Video Surveillance for their community, sometimes called Virtual Guard services?

What was the application? (Pool area, Front Gate, etc.)

Has it been a good value?

Would you recommend this type of service?

Is it expensive?

GenoS (Florida)
Posts: 4,276

Posted:

You asked the same question in 2015 and 2016. Go look at the answers people gave you then. Are you shilling for that particular company's product or service? Because that's what it looks like.

TimB4 (Tennessee)
Posts: 21,059

Posted:

Geno is correct. Seems to be a once a year question:

Subject: Virtual Gate Guard 2012 thread that was reactivated by JimH in 2015 (asking good questions). Jim was told to start a new thread and the one below was stated.

Subject: Pool Vandalism and trespassing 2015 thread

Subject: Virtual Guard and Virtual Gate Guard 2016 thread

Jim was never asked any questions so there were no replies from him. However, he also never posted anything else on the thread. Hence the feeling the issue isn't an actual issue but an opening for spamming. However, this might not be the case.

So Jim, are you on your Board looking into this issue?

What security measures does your Association currently use?

KerryL1 (California)
Posts: 14,550

Posted:

Our Board just interviewed a Gen. Mgr. of another urban high rise to be our new General Mgr. His 100-unit building only has one entrance and it's into their underground parking garage. The GM, with a background in high rise access control, looked at many options to try to prevent vagrants from too-often following cars into the garage and then potentially into their elevators, etc. 24-7 access control officers didn't seem warranted and was too expensive so they introduced more cameras which, he said solved the problem.

He does have a 24/7 desk staffer in their lobby and they are the ones who review the tapes and watch the monitors. The police were phoned the minute someone saw the trespassers enter their garage. It doesn't take long for word to get around that a particular high rise is no longer a soft target.

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