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Videofied – Property Monitoring

• 29 December 2014
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Videofied – Property Monitoring by Cellphone

For an installation fee of $120,000 upwards and monthly charge of $10,000, security-conscious Jamaicans can now monitor movements at their homes via their mobile phones.

The service is also available to businesses at average subscription cost of $250,000 plus a monthly fee.

Six weeks into its launch in Jamaica, the latest electronic security surveillance system is being touted as more cost-effective than manned security solutions, creating the possibility of job losses for security guards.

Hawkeye Electronic Security Limited says it has struck a partnership deal with United States-based RSI Video Technologies to bring to the Jamaican market the new product, Videofied, a wireless video security system which delivers alarm notification and video images in real time to its monitoring centre and, if clients desire, to their mobiles.

GPS tracking device unearths chop shops

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Patrick Foster, Jamaica Observer – April 6, 2008

Amidst runaway car thefts in the island, modern technology has provided an almost foolproof method of motor vehicle security — the much-heralded global positioning system (GPS) tracking device. According to industry data, a motor vehicle is stolen in Jamaica, on average, every seven hours with the recovery rate lagging single-digit per cent behind.

The GPS tracking device, however, offers an opportunity, not only to improve the recovery rate, but also unearth the numerous chop shops where stolen vehicles are routinely scrapped. “With an increased use of the system, it has led to the discovery of many chop shops across the island,” Patrick Jones of Hawkeye Electronic Security told Auto.

Woman pleads guilty

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The Jamaica Observer – August 29, 2006

A 51-year-old woman was last week given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court for attempting to steal nine textbooks from the 70b King Street branch of Kingston Bookshop.

The woman, Sharon Smith, who appeared before RM Martin Gayle, was given six months at hard labour for the offence, but had the sentence suspended for 12 months .

New Cost Effective Cameras Beef Up Port Security

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The Gleaner – July 25, 2006

Hawkeye Electronic Security Limited has signed a contract with the Government to provide closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance equipment for the ports of Kingston and Montego Bay.

Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce Minister, Phillip Paulwell, who made the announcement at a Hawkeye-organised CCTV seminar at Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston last week said that the technology to be provided was an upgrade of the CCTV system, which has been in place at the two ports for the last two years.