General Electric

London’s National Gallery stands on the north side of Trafalgar Square and houses one of the greatest collections of European paintings in the world. The existing building is the cumulative effort of many generations of architects – with developments largely prompted by the continuous growth of the collection and more recently by the growing demand for auxiliary spaces due to changing visitor needs and expectations. A well known London landmark in its own right, the Gallery attracts millions of visitors each year, from all over the world. It is widely recognised as a building of immense importance.

GE Energy Financial Services

GE Energy Financial Services’ 350 experts invest globally with a long-term view, backed by the best of GE’s technical know-how and financial strength, across the capital spectrum and the energy and water industries, to help their customers and GE itself to grow. With $19 billion in assets, GE Energy Financial Services, based in Stamford, Connecticut, invests more than $5 billion annually in two of the world’s most capital-intensive industries, energy and water. The GE Energy power projects can produce 22 GW of electricity, enough to power more than 20 million homes.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

The Serpa solar power plant, owned by GE Financial Services and located in Portugal, began construction in June 2006 and was completed, as planned, in January 2007. Like every large company, the power plant needed a solution offering all possible discretion and security. Taking into account the wide variety of businesses making up GE, UTCFS was turned to and selected as the company to provide the security system to be installed for the Serpa solar power plant.

UTCFS’s solution

To secure the power plant, UTCFS delivered a total package consisting of access control, fire panels, perimetric fence protection, video surveillance, digital video recorders and remote monitoring via internet using Titan software. The Titan software system allows all the different security systems to work seamlessly in an integrated fashion. Thus, alarm signals are combined with other security systems like video surveillance, so when an alarm is sounded it triggers video cameras to record images at this specific location. UTCFS’s total solution offered the Serpa Solar Power Plant everything it needs to fulfill their security requirements.