A newly integrated security system for critical infrastructure combines high-assurance access control, scalable intrusion detection with video verification, perimeter protection, and lone worker safety.
This unified platform aids operators of electricity, water, and gas networks in safeguarding distributed sites, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining uninterrupted essential services. The disruption of these services can have severe economic and social impacts, making their protection a national priority. However, securing critical infrastructure is challenging due to its spread across remote geographies and numerous facilities like substations and treatment plants.
Challenges in Demanding Environments
Strict regulations now govern critical infrastructure across sectors such as energy, water, and sewerage. Operators are required to implement a Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program that includes physical security alongside cyber, personnel, and supply chain risk management. This regulatory framework necessitates robust physical security systems for compliance.
Inner Range has developed security solutions for over 38 years in collaboration with critical infrastructure experts, creating a multi-layered approach designed to protect vital assets in challenging environments.
Access Control and Multi-Layered Security
This regulatory framework necessitates robust physical security systems for compliance
Access control forms the cornerstone of security, ensuring only authorized personnel can access sites using methods such as access cards, mobile credentials, PINs, or biometric authentication. Multi-factor authentication enhances this security, while video surveillance, detailed scheduling, and real-time logging offer comprehensive visibility over access points.
Inner Range's High-Security solution has achieved Class 5 accreditation under the Australian and New Zealand standard AS/NZS 2201.1 for high-security environments in Zone 3. It not only defends against external intruders but also helps mitigate insider threats through two-factor disarming, rapid polling, and robust encryption. This solution is employed in defense and critical infrastructure throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas.
Advanced Video Analytics and Perimeter Security
Operators benefit from advanced video analytics for intruder detection, which can scale to thousands of locations. Integration with perimeter devices like electric fences and beams adds additional security layers for large areas. Whether protecting an expansive area or a compact building, smart analytics provide automated threat responses.
Even in remote sites, the Multipath IP Cellular platform transmits encrypted alarm messages via the internet and 4G networks, ensuring swift action by first responders.
Lone Worker Safety and Integrated Systems
Inner Range offers duress alarms that integrate with lone worker systems featuring man-down detection
Critical infrastructure often involves operations in remote or dangerous environments where workers might operate alone, making their protection essential. Inner Range offers duress alarms that integrate with lone worker systems featuring man-down detection and personal tracking. In case of an alert, guards and staff are promptly informed through the Communicator messaging app, while Real-Time Location Systems enable rapid response and video surveillance offers situational awareness.
Inner Range's Enterprise platform amalgamates access control, video surveillance, building management, intercom systems, environmental monitoring, and specialized key locking into a singular interface. This centralized oversight allows operators to monitor assets, machinery, and site conditions and respond promptly to incidents, transforming complex estates into manageable and secure environments.
Coordinated Security Operations
The system's strength lies in the coordination of different security layers. Access control, video surveillance, intruder detection, perimeter sensors, facial recognition, location tracking, and lone worker safety work in unison through a single interface to automatically detect, locate, and respond to threats while alerting the appropriate personnel.
With support for deployment including software maintenance, cybersecurity updates, remote assistance, and custom integration, Inner Range's system, boasting over 130 integrations and more than 170,000 systems worldwide, can scale from a single facility to a broad national network. This comprehensive approach secures critical infrastructure, essential for national stability and service continuity.
A critical infrastructure security system unifies high-assurance access control, scalable intrusion detection including video verification, perimeter protection, and lone worker safety into a single platform, helping operators of electricity, water, and gas networks protect distributed sites, support regulatory compliance, and maintain the uninterrupted delivery of essential services.
A loss of these services disrupts economies and endangers communities, which makes protecting them a national priority. It's also uniquely difficult, because critical infrastructure is rarely a single site. It's a distributed network of substations, treatment plants, and pipelines, often spread across vast and remote geographies.
Most demanding environments
That challenge is now backed by strict regulations across in all sectors including energy, water, and sewerage. Responsible entities must maintain a Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program that addresses physical security alongside cyber, personnel, and supply chain hazards. For operators, strong physical security systems have become a compliance necessity.
For over 38 years, Inner Range has purpose-built security solutions alongside critical infrastructure experts, protecting these vital assets with a multi-layered approach designed for the most demanding environments.
Multi-factor authentication
Access control is the foundation. Inner Range ensures only authorized personnel reach a site, using access cards, mobile credentials, PINs, or biometric authentication. Multi-factor authentication combines these methods for stronger protection, while video surveillance, granular scheduling, and real-time logging give operators complete visibility over every access point.
The highest-risk zones demand more. Inner Range's High-Security solution has attained Class 5 accreditation which is the highest classification for intruder alarm systems under the Australian and New Zealand standard AS/NZS 2201.1, built for Zone 3 high security environments. Where traditional alarms focus only on external intruders, Class 5 also defends against insider tampering, through two-factor disarming, faster polling, and end-to-end encryption. Inner Range’s High Security solution has also been deployed to secure defense sites and critical infrastructure throughout Europe, the Middle East and the America’s.
Advanced video analytics
For operators, this means genuine assurance. Every detector, cable, and message is encrypted, from the edge device right through to the control panel, so the system can be trusted to detect and report a breach even when someone is actively trying to defeat it.
For most sites, the perimeter is the first line of defense. Inner Range provides advanced video analytics for intruder detection that can scale across thousands of locations. Integrations with perimeter devices such as electric fences, beams, and other detection technologies provide the physical additional layers of perimeter security for large areas. Whether the protected area is an open expanse or a small building, smart analytics enable instant, automated threat responses.
Distance is no barrier. The Multipath IP Cellular communication platform uses the internet and 4G cellular networks to transmit encrypted alarm messages to monitoring center's, ensuring first responders can act quickly no matter how remote the site.
Video surveillance systems
Critical infrastructure work often happens at remote and dangerous sites where, sometimes, people work alone. Protecting these workers is both an operational and a duty-of-care priority.
Inner Range supports duress alarms from fixed or mobile systems that integrate with lone worker systems featuring man-down detection and personal tracking. When an alarm is raised, guards and staff are notified instantly through the Communicator messaging application via SMS and email, while Real-Time Location Systems pinpoint personnel on site for a faster response and video surveillance systems provide the eyes and ears on the situation.
Specialized key locking
A single utility can span hundreds of sites and dozens of subsystems. Inner Range's Enterprise platform unifies access control, video surveillance, building management, intercom, environmental monitoring, and specialized key locking, all into one interface.
Operators get a single platform to monitor people, assets, machinery, and site conditions, and to respond to incidents in real time. This centralized oversight is what turns a sprawling, complex estate into something manageable, visible, and defensible.
Unifying access control
The real strength is in how the layers work together. Access control, video surveillance, intruder detection, perimeter sensors, facial recognition, location tracking, and lone worker safety operate as one coordinated system through a single pane of glass to detect, locate, and respond to threats automatically. Alerting the right people the moment an incident occurs.
Every deployment is backed by professional support, from software maintenance and cyber security updates to remote assistance and custom integration. With over 130 native integrations and more than 170,000 systems deployed globally, the platform scales from a single facility to a national network.
The infrastructure a nation relies on cannot afford gaps or guesswork. By unifying access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, perimeter protection, and worker safety into one coordinated platform, Inner Range helps operators protect what matters most, and keep essential services running, from the core to the edge.
