As one of the world’s fastest-growing snack producers, pladis Global makes such tasty brands as McVitie’s Digestives, Jacobs savories, Carr’s biscuits and GODIVA chocolates. With 27 bakeries in 11 countries, pladis treats are a happy staple in billions of homes. North helped them upgrade their security with central video overview of multiple locations and cost-effective data storage with AWS cloud.
North partnered with pladis to deliver an expansive upgrade of their CCTV systems across three McVitie’s sites in the UK. They aimed to gain greater security coverage, safeguard facilities, and ensure the ongoing safety and wellbeing of employees, visitors and communities.
Situation: need to upgrade multiple sites to IP video and cloud
For the initial project, North upgraded the outdated CCTV system at Harlesden in North London – Europe’s largest biscuit production site. The next phase of implementation was adding 120 cameras, updated from analog to intelligent HD IP networked technology.
Cloud-based Milestone video management software (VMS) was deployed to improve operational efficiency and warehouse management across the locations in Harlesden, Stockport and Carlisle.
Results: data storage costs cut significantly
The transition to XProtect Expert VMS has revolutionized the way that pladis operates. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud-hosted VMS provides a flexible platform for multi-site coverage that streamlines and maintains operations.
Harnessing the advanced technology has enabled pladis to work smarter. Operators can now search, manage and analyze video across all three sites from the centralized, web-based platform, which has greatly enhanced situational awareness and incident response.
