Security · Fire · Incident management
Echelon monitors CCTV, fire and intruder alarms and process conditions from its control centre in the Lincolnshire Wolds — and sends people when something needs a person.
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Notices & updates
You may have arrived here from the former IBWEST web address, or after trying to call IBWEST.
IBWEST has gone into administration and is no longer monitoring your alarms. Unless you have made alternative arrangements, nobody is.
Echelon does not hold your details — we are not permitted to. If you want us to take over monitoring, you need to contact us so we can set you up. Call 01472 352462 or email us.
Live from the control room
Services
CCTV
No operator stares at a wall of screens for eight hours and stays sharp. Our systems watch for movement and for crossings of lines you define, then put the right camera in front of an operator. They respond to an intruder — not to a passing cat.
ALARM
Fire and intruder alarms, permanent or temporary, with callout initiated on activation. Through a partnership with an SSAIB registered installer we can arrange monitoring for just about any signal format.
PROCESS
Temperature, humidity and similar conditions, watched around the clock so a failing chiller or a damp store is a phone call at 3am rather than a write-off in the morning. One of our fastest-growing services.
RESPONSE
We hold your keys and attend so your staff don't have to. Echelon deploys its own resources across its home area, and works with a multinational partner where our own response would not meet the service level agreed.
GUARDING
Sensors and analytics cover most of it. Sometimes the answer is still a person on the ground. Static or mobile officers, arranged for as long as you need them.
INCIDENT
Emergency planning, business continuity and live incident management, drawn from a team that has done it for real. You hope you never need it. It is there if you do.
EVENTS
Licensed officers for events of any size, briefed against your event plan and your risk assessment — entry searching, crowd movement, stewarding points and the exit. Where CCTV is in place, the control room can watch it live while the event runs.
MEDICAL
Medical cover scaled to what the event actually needs, from a first aid point through to treatment facilities and ambulance provision, planned against the crowd size, the activity and the distance to the nearest emergency department.
Watchkeeping
The Echelon control centre and main operating base sits in the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape, and most of our customers are in Lincolnshire and Humberside — close enough that our own response vehicles get there.
Coverage is another matter. Monitoring does not care where a site is, and neither do we: any time, any place, anywhere.
Contact
If it is urgent, phone — the line reaches an operator, not a queue.
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