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SECURING SUSTAINABILITY
thinking organisation. By measuring and communicating these benefi ts, security
leaders can secure the
resources needed to ensure both safety and sustainability for years to come.” An early adopter of this philosophy
was Sweden’s Axis Communications. In a 2022 article
for Security
Management magazine headlined Sustainability in the Security Industry: Everyone Has a Role to Play, Carl Trotzig director of Quality & Environment, stressed: “It’s not okay to just have a ‘take-make-break’
approach to
resources. All organisations need to take responsibility.” Many companies such as NSC Sicherheitstechnik
with international partners – a good example here being Apollo Fire
Detectors - pursue sustainability that journeys and
environmental awards and follow a Made-in-Germany philosophy that ensures all their products are manufactured at
their Bielefeld headquarters, reducing international work closely actively
data centres is slashed by up to half. And ahead of the EU’s proposed
Circular Economy Act, regenerative, closed-loop cradle-to-cradle systems are now giving previously replaceable hardware a longer lease of life. Product design has taken a more
modular form. Rather than replacing a whole metal camera enclosure when an internal sensor or lens breaks, new hardware lines feature
hot-
swappable modular internal cores. Upgrading to a faster processor or fi xing a component no longer means creating e-waste from the aluminium housing or cabling. And led by the likes of Sweden’s Axis Communications, the industry has achieved massive milestones in ridding hardware lines of PVCs and bio-accumulative fl ame retardants, shifting
focus to recycled ocean
plastics and renewable bioplastics for exterior dome and bullet housings. One potential
question mark
came in the recent annual global trends report by New Zealand-based Gallagher Security which showed that
SUSTAINABILITY IN SECURITY IS NOT JUST
ABOUT GREEN INITIATIVES, IT'S ABOUT CREATING SYSTEMS THAT PERFORM EFFICIENTLY, LAST LONGER AND ALIGN WITH THE VALUES OF FORWARD-THINKING ORGANISATIONS
supply-chain emissions. AI has also played its part in the
development of low-light processing. Manufacturers such as South Korea’s Hanwha Vision have demonstrated the advantages of Neural Processing Units that can effi ciently interpret colour and shapes in near-total darkness. Such advancements mean European retailers can turn off external storefront lighting completely
at
night, saving over one million kilowatt hours of electricity annually. And Intelligent Video Compression
relies on AI to dynamically separate moving targets from static backgrounds by only compressing and transferring the “active” data, which means the power required for network traffi c, server processing, and cloud
only 44 per cent of those surveyed said they had sustainability strategies in place - a signifi cant decline from last year’s report, where 60 per cent said they had. And of those who did not, one-third expected them to be implemented within six months. But authors note that momentum
hasn’t materialised, although it also notes the “slowdown may refl ect a broader global trend. Many organisations have already implemented the most accessible sustainability sustainability
measures and is also becoming
increasingly integrated into ‘business as usual,’ which may make some respondents less likely to view these actions as distinct strategies”.
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