Pennine Housing 2000 (PH2K) which manages just over 11,000 social housing properties in Calderdale, West Yorkshire is now operating what is thought to be the most advanced IP-enabled CCTV monitoring solution of any housing association in the UK. This is the culmination of an ambitious project, which saw close cooperation between Pennine, consultants Faber Maunsell - who came up with the initial concept - integrators BBV and CCTV solutions providers Dedicated Micros.
This development for Pennine was 18 months in the making and stemmed from a desire by the housing association to be able to have a central control room at one location - Mixenden - which would have the capability of controlling and monitoring the security of seven remote sites. Previously, all of Pennine's locations, scattered across a wide geographical area, were served by standalone CCTV solutions with monitoring of CCTV cameras provided via control rooms within each block of flats so there was no ability to manage incidents or share information across sites.
