Carrefour hypermarkets in Saudi Arabian are very large retail areas receiving thousands of visitors per day. Each store also has up to hundred employees. To maintain optimum security and safety for people as well as products Carrefour management has to overcome many operational challenges. The CCTV system considered as an antitheft system in the past is nowadays offering much more thanks to advanced features: monitoring of products and assets, assistance in managing manpower and operations as well as supporting safety equipment whenever incidents have happened.
Over the past 40 years, Carrefour group has continued to grow so that it becomes one of the global distribution groups. As the second-largest and Europe's largest retailer, the group operates four main grocery store formats which are hypermarkets, supermarkets, hard discount and convenience stores. Carrefour group currently has over 15,000 stores, either company-operated or franchised. With a presence in 30 countries, over 54 percent of the group turnover derives from outside France. The group expects strong potential for further international growth in the future, particularly in such large national markets as China, Brazil, Indonesia, Poland and Turkey.
Carrefour hypermarkets are very large retail areas receiving thousands of visitors per day. Each store also has up to hundred employees. To maintain optimum security and safety for people as well as products Carrefour management has to overcome many operational challenges. The CCTV system considered as an antitheft system in the past is nowadays offering much more thanks to advanced features: monitoring of products and assets, assistance in managing manpower and operations as well as supporting safety equipment whenever incidents have happened.
Rajab and Silsilah (RS), a partner of Bosch Security Systems, ensured all its hypermarkets safety by deploying more than 10 CCTV and public address (PA) in existing facilities.
The products in this project include Dinion 455 and high speed dome cameras that allow 360 degrees surveillance (AutoDome). The control rooms are equipped with high quality reliable digital recorders along with matrix switcher. Thus, the used control equipment allows a comprehensive viewing of live and recorded images in the easiest way which makes the operators' tasks more efficient.
Praesideo, the digital public address and voice evacuation system in the market, allows to meet all the requirements for paging, sales promotions, call for prayers and for emergency evacuation.
Moreover, the system's optical network offers total freedom in its design of the system. It is even IEC60849 certified so that all emergency evacuation standards are met.
The solution Bosch provided for all the Saudi Arabian Carrefour markets has substantially supported their operations by increasing security and safety in the premises. Hence, employees can put the focus on their business again.