Case Study Senstar LM100 deters and detects theft at remote substations It doesn’t get much more remote than the locations of some of the substations owned by a certain US statewide electrical utility company. Unfortunately, the isolation makes these sites easy pickings for thieves as it can take up to a day for security personnel to reach them following notification of an intrusion. A handful of the company’s 43 sites have a Senstar competitor’s cable-based intrusion detection system along their perimeter fences. When a cable is cut, an alarm is sent to a security management system (SMS), but nothing effectively further deters the intruders from entering the site. They simply hide nearby to see what the response will be. Once convinced the coast is clear, they proceed to enter

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