Unipart Security Solutions Help Deter Intruders on Solar Farm in UK

The UK's largest UK solar farm has placed its trust in Unipart Security Solutions' Monitoring & Response Centre to keep watch over a security system designed to deter and detect intruders who might consider entering the facility containing valuable high tech solar panels.

Westmill Solar Farm is located in a remote location on the outskirts of Swindon. In addition to the cost of replacing solar panels, the ability to provide power for the National Grid could be severely affected if acts of theft or malicious damage were to occur. A security solution was therefore required which would allow mobile patrols to be rapidly directed to the precise location of any incident.

Whilst the robustness and ease of use of the security system, which needed to be effective regardless of the weather or lighting conditions, was the top priority, it was considered important not to increase light pollution in a location which is surrounded by green belt land. The client was also keen to minimize the running costs of the system. A conventional intruder alarm system verified by standard CCTV cameras would not therefore have been acceptable to the client as it would have involved the installation of supplementary lighting.

Working closely with Unipart Security Solutions and a number of security equipment manufacturers, Westronics designed a robust detection and signaling system which combines microwave perimeter detection, thermal imaging and high speed transmission technologies.