Vigitracking
The all-round tower for building sites: 360° cameras, Doppler radar and 5G transmission, for a standard site footprint.
Learn moreConstruction site CCTV: self-powered tower hire
Intrusion detection, siren, strobe and 24/7 remote monitoring: Astech Security secures your construction site with self-powered CCTV towers, for hire and with no mains connection.
A construction site is an easy target
A construction site brings together everything thieves look for: copper, plant, fuel and materials, on an open site that is often isolated and empty at night, at weekends and over the holidays. Visits are planned in daylight, among the comings and goings of the trades, and they are repeated as soon as a first theft goes unnoticed.
- Theft of cable and metals, sold on by weight, forcing you to redo services already installed.
- Theft of plant, tools and fuel from plant compounds and storage areas.
- Vandalism to work in progress, formwork and temporary installations.
- Fires, accidental or deliberate, on a site where no one is there to raise the alarm.
- Intrusion and squatting, which also expose the client to liability in the event of an accident.
The stolen equipment is only the first bill. Then come the stoppage, the delay penalties, the insurance excess, and the higher premium at the next renewal.
What construction site CCTV has to be able to do
A construction site is not a warehouse: there is no power at the start, no reliable fencing, and the perimeter changes with every phase of the works. A fixed installation does not suit it. The system therefore has to:
- work without a mains connection, on batteries and solar panels, from the first day on site;
- be set up and moved quickly, in a few minutes, as the works progress;
- detect rather than record: a camera that films without alerting anyone merely documents the theft the next day;
- respond on the spot with a siren and a strobe, before the equipment leaves the site;
- transmit the alarm over 5G to an operator who verifies it and calls the police.
How your site is kept under surveillance
1. Detection
The 360° cameras and the Doppler radar track movement across the site boundary. Video analytics tell a human figure from an animal or a branch, which avoids needless alarms.
2. Immediate deterrence
On detection, the tower sets off a strobe and a sounder reaching 135 dB, and the operator can challenge the intruder by voice. Most visits end there.
3. Round-the-clock monitoring
The alarm travels over multi-operator 5G to our APSAD P5-certified remote monitoring centre, linked to your towers 24/7, at night and on public holidays.
4. Alarm verification
The operator checks the live images, confirms the intrusion, calls the police and your site manager, and sends you the time-stamped footage.
For the detail of the risks, the choice of equipment and the rules to follow, our guide to construction site security covers each point in turn. The intrusion detection page presents our full range, and the major project sites page covers large-footprint schemes.
Our CCTV towers for construction sites
Four towers, one principle: detection, deterrence on the spot and an alarm sent to our operators. The choice depends on the power available, the area to cover and how often the tower has to move.
Vigitracking Echo
Long-range Doppler radar, for a large perimeter or a linear site to be covered from only a few positions.
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Totema Viginomad
The fully solar mobile tower, deployed in a few minutes and moved along with the phases of the works.
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Vigisolar
The self-powered solar tower that runs all year without a mains connection, for long projects and isolated sites.
Learn moreWhat the hire includes
Our towers are hired by the week or by the month, for the duration of the works, at a net price with no hidden costs. The hire includes:
- the site survey from your plans and the choice of where the towers go;
- transport, installation and the setting of the detection zones to be watched;
- 24/7 remote monitoring and alarm verification by our operators, in France;
- maintenance and replacement of the equipment throughout the hire;
- moving the towers as the works progress, then removal at the end of the job.
Beyond the camera
Video does not answer everything. Depending on how your site is laid out, we complete the system with:
- dog handler patrols, for a human presence on site at night and at weekends;
- a thermal camera, which picks up a fire before the flame;
- a solar trailer, to power equipment on a site without electricity;
- purpose-built equipment, when the site does not fit the usual pattern.
Filming a construction site: what you must respect
CCTV on a construction site is lawful, provided it stays within a clear framework:
- inform people with visible signs at every entrance, naming the person to contact;
- frame the cameras on the site boundary: filming a public highway requires authorisation from the prefecture;
- limit how long images are kept, one month at most under the French data protection authority’s guidance, unless proceedings are under way;
- inform employees and the trades on site, and never keep a workstation under continuous surveillance.
These points are indicative; the detail is in our guide to construction site security. Our teams check with you that the installed system complies.
Why trust Astech Security with your site
Twenty years of construction sites
Astech Security has been securing construction sites since 2006, for civil engineering and building contractors, wind and solar farms and industrial plants.
French-made equipment
Our towers are designed and assembled in France, at our supplier’s works, and configured site by site.
Cameras and people
Self-powered CCTV, dog handlers and mounted guards: a single point of contact for the whole system.
An authorised company
Private security activity authorised by CNAPS (France) (no. AUT-078-2123-03-25-20240756973). We work throughout France from Pau.
Secure your construction site
Send us your site plan and your dates: we will survey the site and propose a costed system.
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