{"id":30662,"date":"2019-12-05T10:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T10:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=30662"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T09:48:38","slug":"axis-donation-gives-orphanage-peace-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/12\/05\/axis-donation-gives-orphanage-peace-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Axis donation gives orphanage peace of mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A fully networked camera solution provides visibility and accountability, letting orphanage focus on what\u2019s important \u2013 its children.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the South African Child Gauge Report of 2018<\/em>, millions of South Africa\u2019s children are still hungry, 40% have had multiple experiences of violence in their homes, schools and communities, and over four million children don\u2019t live with either biological parent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statistics are dire, but there is a beacon of hope for these\nchildren through organisations such as Give a Child a Family (GCF). Based in\nKwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa, the organisation is a child protection\norganisation promoting the rights and wellbeing of children and works to the\nbelief that children have the right to grow up in a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the vulnerable children in the care of GCF are orphans and\nhave experienced risks to their survival, protection and development, including\npoverty, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and lack of access to essential\nservices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the children have been removed from very abusive homes and\nare kept in the sanctuary of GCF which is part of the reason the organisation\nrequired the assistance of a robust network of cameras that could provide\nonsite and remote surveillance, security and oversight of its environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is with this that Axis communications stepped up to the plate\nand donated a fully networked and functional system for GCF. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology helps accountability <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The diverse requirements of GCF were met by Axis with a donation\nof 15 cameras, that included indoor and outdoor units as well as cameras with\naudio so that incidents could be recorded in their entirety, monitors, cabling\nand switches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cameras donated include the Axis P3215-VE Network Cameras; Axis P1354 Network Cameras, Axis M3004-V Fixed\nDome Network Camera for indoors and Axis P3225-LVE Network Cameras optimised\nfor forensic video. The system is fully networked and includes an upgraded server to\nhost the video footage on for an extended period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe biggest need we had, spoke to the fact that we provide the\nchildren in our care protection,\u201d said Charmaine Wagenaar, Director Support\nServices at GCF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a place of safety, there are always external risks that\nthreaten this sanctity, such as parents who have been denied access to their\nchildren come and try snatch the children back. Secondly, our property had been\nsubject to crime, where people were breaching our perimeter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThirdly we needed accountability amongst our staff, so that they\nwere aware that they were being watched and to give them the assurance that we\nhad evidence of potential incidents in the environment, so we could protect\nthem if needed. You could say that Axis came to our rescue with their donation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A team from Axis did the initial visits to the property,\nidentified the needs of GCF and then appointed partner 3 Core Electrical to\nassist with the installation. Using a combination of newer cameras as well as\nencoders, the team was also able to provide smart features to legacy equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cameras were placed at all the entrances\nand allow for both number plate and facial recognition, and now also boast low\nlight capabilities with the Axis Lightfinder technology. This provides the GCF\nteam much needed \u2018eyes at night\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new server placed on site can store more than 60 days of\nrecordings, allowing the team to retain footage for investigative purposes. The\nsystem also supports remote login and management capabilities from a mobile\nphone, and GCF\u2019s global funders based in Sweden, can access the environment at\nany given point to monitor the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of time was spent by the team of GCF tracking items\nthroughout the home, now with the Smartsearch feature from AXIS Camera Station,\nstaff can search for specific items, identify when it disappeared and from\nwhere, without looking through footage for hours. The interface of ACS allows\nGCF to map events and then follow their sequence, switching between cameras and\npinpointing or accessing a camera in the exact area the event is occurring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The children who matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAccountability is quintessential when you have children in your\ncare, and our new camera system ensures we can eliminate any potential\nwrongdoing, food is distributed properly, and if there is an incident with a\nparent, we have the footage as a record,\u201d said Wagenaar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are absolutely delighted, the investment by Axis and 3 Core Electrical\nand the donation they have made to GCF is phenomenal. The team was professional\nand courteous throughout the entire time it took to install the system and the\nquality of the installation outstrips the calibre of our old system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is also exceptionally easy to use, I am not technical at all,\nbut I can navigate through it with ease. I don\u2019t know what investment they made\ninto our organisation, but I can only imagine it was huge, I just want the team\nto know that the benefits we are receiving from the new system definitely\njustify their investment and we are eternally grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fully networked camera solution provides visibility and accountability, letting orphanage focus on what\u2019s important \u2013 its children. According to the South African Child Gauge Report of 2018, millions of South Africa\u2019s children are still hungry, 40% have had multiple experiences of violence in their homes, schools and communities, and over four million children don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,338,5,19,9059,13,262],"tags":[11917,8791,10793,11537,11915,11914,11913,11916,11911,11910,7403,453,11909],"class_list":["post-30662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-case-study-newsletter","category-enterprise-security","category-regional-news","category-south-africa","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-3-core-electrical","tag-axis","tag-axis-camera-station","tag-axis-lightfinder","tag-axis-m3004-v-fixed-dome-network-camera","tag-axis-p1354-network-cameras","tag-axis-p3215-ve-network-cameras","tag-charmaine-wagenaar","tag-gcf","tag-give-child-a-family","tag-kwa-zulu-natal","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african-child-gauge-report-of-2018"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30662"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30679,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30662\/revisions\/30679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}