SPS loop seals the door to stowaways
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• by Peter Lawton A specialist security company is stealing into the transport market with a new system for trailers designed to guard against stowaways and theft.
Special Products and Systems (SPS) of Leigh-on-Sea in Essex has cut its teeth providing security and detection systems to the likes of Barclays Bank and now thinks its Trailer Safe product can help hauliers.
The Trailer Safe consists of an electronic loop around a trailer's curtains and doors which sounds an alarm in the cab if broken or tampered with.
Drivers can also be alerted to a possible breach of the trailer by a pager up to 1,000m from their truck.
A sound monitoring unit in the trailer Is Included in the system and connected with the cab where the driver can listen out for any suspicious noises on a loud speaker or a pair of headphones.
Ken Foulds of SPS explains that the equipment is cali
brated to pick up a defined frequency band, so talking or sneezing is piped into the cab but not all road noise from the inside the trailer.
Trailers waiting in yards can also be protected with the system reporting back from them to a central control box wired into the office.
SPS says it has built a number of failsafe measures into the system.
Eurobox, a Basildon-based firm working between the UK and ftaly, has opened the order book with three cabs and five trailers to be fitted out. A complete system for one truck costs 1495 excluding fitting, with the remaining prices on a sliding scale down to 1415 if 100 or more units are ordered. Contact: 01702 5111586.