Shrewsbury Town Football Club have set the pace so far in League One in the 2017-18 football season, in contrast to a dramatic end to their 2016-7 season when the Town finished near the bottom. It may be a coincidence, but the club’s Sundorne training facility on the outskirts of the county town has had a complete refurbishment. The football club has invested heavily in ensuring that the quality of the training pitches is equal to the match day playing surface at the Montgomery Waters Meadow stadium. The players, coaching and fitness staff are also using computer-based analysing equipment and on-site catering facilities at the complex, pictured.
The site required a security system. A CCTV system was installed for monitoring. Shrewsbury Town’s chief executive Brian Caldwell approached one of the club’s main sponsors Pro-Vision Distribution. As a national distributor of CCTV, access control and public address equipment, Pro-Vision were well placed to advise. After a site visit from local and family-run installation company KJ Electronics Systems Ltd, who specialise in CCTV, perimeter protection and intruder alarms the new surveillance equipment was installed. Based on the Samsung Wisenet brand, the agreed specification included four vandal-resistant, true day-night dome cameras, a high definition external bullet camera and a pan-tilt-zoom camera with all recorded data stored on a network video recorder. The true day-night specification means that the cameras can be viewed 24/7 regardless of the natural daylight present and the recorder can manage any extra cameras that may be required. Any alarm activation event is sent to a central monitoring station via a secured connection.
