Simon Baugh is Group Head of Marketing at DeterTech. Security on Screen visited the company’s stand (5 F117), viewed the products and spoke to Baugh about the company’s applications and industry trends.
Baugh is excited about the company’s recent introduction of SmartSpray® as a retail crime deterrent. He said, “DeterTech delivers peace of mind to communities, every day of their lives be that at work, home or during leisure activities. Our product range allows us to detect, deter and even apprehend.”
Get near the DeterTech stand in hall 5 and you’re confronted with a PID360 which makes you unwilling to take any liberties with staff or the booth!
The PID 360 is an intruder detection alarm system with 360-degree field of view cameras. It is unmatched as a temporary site security solution. Baugh offered to demonstrate its audio deterrence, but it wouldn’t have gone well with the bass track of the music being pumped out at the centre of the hall! DeterTech claims 80% intruder deterrence for PID 360 as well as review of activations within 60 seconds.
The product has a provable record of preventing break-ins and is particularly suited to building sites or any void site. Baugh stressed that as economies undergo change – even upheaval – many sites are temporarily void and without mains power or telephony. The PID 360 is battery-powered with up to 18 months’ charge.
He takes particularly pride in DeterTech’s own alarm receiving centre (ARC) but stresses that the company is outward-facing in terms of collaborating with offerings from others including other ARCs that the client might use.
“Permutability” was a word I had trouble getting into my notebook and it was a new one on me. But Baugh used it when explaining how the company’s SmartWater® forensic marking works. SmartWater® should be distinguished from competitive products by its use of rare earth metals. This means that any batch of goods can be protected by SmartWater® by being marked with a unique (invisible except to a UV torch) code equivalent to an individual’s DNA.
He stresses the success of DeterTech in collaborating with Opal, the national intelligence unit run by UK police forces focused on serious organised acquisitive crime. The DeterTech stand has samples of high-value items that represent major theft problems; I note examples of copper pipe, copper-rich cable and even a catalytic converter whose metal parts are prized by criminals.
A depressing (mind-boggling) statistic to end with. Simon Baugh tells me that from January to August 2024, a fifth of the 70 reported theft incidents at UK solar farms resulted in 20 kilometres of cable being stolen – that is at each incident – with thieves often bringing the equipment with which they process the cable on site with them.
In the first eight months of 2024, over 70 theft incidents were reported at solar sites, with more than 20% involving cable thefts of at least 20 kilometres in length. It’s a trend that DeterTech is endeavouring to reverse with a formidable product offering.
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