Picard Surgelés

Deep-freezing is indisputably the best technology for preserving food naturally and retaining its original qualities. For more than 35 years Picard Surgelés has used this technology to offer consumers the best possible products, thus providing a real service in terms of helping them prepare all their daily meals. For 35 years Picard Surgelés has offered its customers the pleasure of high quality nutrition on a daily basis by selecting only the best ingredients. With more than 800 deep-freezing stores, Picard Surgelés is the largest specialist company in France, and at a European level, is currently expanding in Italy.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

Historically Picard Surgelés had alarm systems from various security manufacturers installed by multiple companies. The company decided to streamline its security system throughout its network of stores. In 2004, Picard Surgelés started to standardise its intrusion detection, employing UTCFS's CD panel system. Today more than 800 stores are equipped with this panel. As Picard Surgelés continued to expand its retail network, it again reevaluated its security requirements and decided to gradually upgrade all existing sites with UTCFS's new intrusion detection platform, with further extensions for access control and video surveillance capability.

UTCFS’s solution

Following close cooperation between both parties, Picard Surgelés selected UTCFS again for their new security solution, based on UTCFS’s ATS Master platform and detection technology. It also includes compact cameras connected to digital recording devices. The system can be managed both locally and centrally using Picard Surgelés’ private network and provides a fully integrated solution comprising intrusion detection, access control and video surveillance. This solution addresses the higher technical security demands from Picard Surgelés’ management and commercial teams. Over the next years, all new stores will be equipped with UTCFS’s improved security platform.