Active guard is an innovative, realtime tour system. It enables workers to easily communicate with the control room via the touch of a button and sends all button data back to control room immediately and directly in realtime using a secured access point name (APN) via the GPRS/GSM cellular network.
According to Zane Greeff, Elvey’s technical director, “Sending signals through an open cellular network shared with the public can create data backlog, which in turn can result in late security alerts. However, utilising a secured APN in a closed cellular and Internet environment means that there is a high level of security and safety uncompromised by sophisticated criminal syndicates”.
Active Guard has a wide range of uses including such things as keeping track of scheduled maintenance workers, tracking employees or contractors 'on-site' and 'off-site' times and keeping track of employees working alone.
The Active Guard tour system lets your employees or contractors sign on and off a site or a job by utilising the realtime button system.
They swipe their active guard on the button located at the site entrance/exit or located near the various job areas such as air conditioning vents, boiler rooms etc, and the information of their on-site/off-site times and whereabouts is sent directly to the main office/headquarters.
This is also a handy tool for emergency situations, for example employees working alone that are in trouble can push the panic button and the main headquarters can get their location and send someone to help them. They can also call the Active Guard and have a voice conversation with them to determine the situation.
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