Privata Gods och Bostäder

What makes a private estate hard to protect?

A large property has a long boundary and nobody watching it. Walls, hedges, railings, a main gate, a service entrance and usually a stretch of open ground or tree line all form part of the same perimeter, and each behaves differently. Cameras cover what they can see, and darkness and foliage take most of that away. By the time an intruder is close enough for a door or window contact to react, they are already at the house.

Where does an intruder actually cross?

Rarely at the front gate. The crossing point is normally the least visible part of the boundary — behind a hedge, at the bottom of the garden, along a field edge, or over a wall screened by trees. That is precisely where a camera has no useful view, and precisely where a passive detector belongs. Detecting the crossing buys the one thing an internal alarm cannot give you: time.

How do you detect without false alarms every windy night?

This is the objection that kills most residential perimeter systems, and it is a fair one. RBtec sensors process the signal to separate a person climbing, cutting or crossing from the wind, rain, animals and passing traffic that move a boundary all night. On a fence line the IRONCLAD stängsellarmsystem applies three layers of filtering before it raises anything. Sensitivity is set on site against live walk tests on your own boundary, not taken from a default.

What about the parts of the boundary with no fence?

Most estates have them — a driveway, a paddock, a lawn running down to a tree line. Seismo buried ground sensors detect footsteps and vehicles through the ground itself, with nothing visible on the surface. Nothing is mounted, nothing is seen, and nothing spoils the view from the house. Where the boundary is longer, nedgrävd fiberoptisk detektering covers the same idea over greater distances.

Which RBtec products fit private estates?

• IRONCLAD. Fence-mounted detection for railings, mesh and palisade, zoned so an alert names the section.
• Seismo ground sensors. Buried and invisible, for lawns, driveways and open approaches with no fence.
• VäggLarm. Detection on solid walls, where an intruder climbs rather than cuts.
• MicAlert. Microphonic sensor cable for longer boundary runs at lower cost per meter.

How does an estate project run?

It starts with the boundary, not the product. A survey walks the whole perimeter and marks where somebody would realistically cross, what that section is built from, and where cable can run. That produces a zone plan — usually four to eight zones, so an alert tells you which part of the grounds was crossed rather than just that something happened. Installation is a few days on most properties. Alarms come out on dry-contact relays into whatever alarm panel, CCTV or automation system is already in the house, so nothing has to be replaced. Talk to us about your boundary.