Municipalities, public bodies and community organisations · Quebec and Ontario
Security, network and communication systems for municipalities, public and community buildings
A municipality runs a dozen kinds of building with a small team: a town hall, a garage, an arena, a library, a pumping station at the end of a road. Vega Security links them, secures them and documents them, one building or one budget year at a time.
Many buildings, a small team and a ring of keys
Public buildings are open to everyone by day and empty at night, and they are spread over a territory rather than gathered on one site. Each was equipped in its own decade: a recorder here, an alarm panel there, a key cabinet at the town hall for the groups that use the hall.
We work for the director general, the public works or building manager and the IT lead of a municipality, for other public bodies that manage buildings, and for the organisations that run community centres and places of worship. Spending has to be explained, so the work starts with a document you can put in front of a council or a board.
- Buildings with no link between themThe garage, the arena and the library each have their own Internet line, their own recorder and their own passwords.
- Keys lent to user groupsSports clubs, volunteers and seasonal staff hold keys to halls and changing rooms, and no list is up to date.
- Yards and parking watched by no oneVehicles, fuel, tools and road salt sit behind a gate that is open during the day.
- A council chamber nobody can hear inMicrophones that cut out, a recording that fails and a screen that the public cannot read.
- Old walls you cannot openA heritage building or a church where pulling cable through the walls is not an option.
Linking and protecting the buildings of a town
Most municipalities proceed one building or one system per budget year. An audit puts them in order first.
- Security and network auditsAn inventory of the cameras, the doors, the alarms, the cabling and the networks of each building, with photos, priorities and recommendations. It is the document that supports a budget request or a call for tenders.
- Long-range wireless bridgesRadio links between the town hall, the garage, the arena and remote sites, where a trench or a leased line for each building would cost more every year.
- Fibre optic installation and cablingA fibre link between neighbouring buildings and a backbone inside the larger ones, tested and documented.
- Access controlCards instead of keys for halls, changing rooms, garages and offices. Each group opens its own door at its own hours, and several buildings are managed from one console.
- Video surveillanceCameras on the yards, the parking, the entrances and the public counters, with licence plate reading at a gate and viewing limited to the people the administration designates.
- Intrusion alarmWired devices where cable can be pulled and wireless ones where it cannot, with separate areas and alerts to the person on call.
- Commercial audio and videoMicrophones, speakers, displays and a simple control for a council chamber, a community hall or a place of worship, with the equipment racked and labelled.
- Enterprise Wi-FiWi-Fi for the public in a library, an arena or a hall, kept apart from the network of the administration.
- Network security (IDS/IPS)A firewall for each building, separate zones for the administration, the public, the cameras and the building equipment, and encrypted links between sites.
- VoIP and business telephonyAll the buildings on one phone system, with short dialling between them, shared messages and calls routed by service.
- Project managementA person who verifies the low-voltage work of another contractor on a new public building before the municipality accepts it.
From the budget line to the keys handed back
Public work follows a calendar of its own: study, budget, approval, then the work.
- An audit or a visit of the buildings
We go through each building with the person who looks after it, and deliver a written report that says what is in place and what should come first.
- A scope that fits your approval process
The work is described by building and by system, with the equipment named, so that it can be approved in phases. When you issue a call for tenders, we answer the documents as written.
- Work in buildings that stay open
Counters, halls and arenas keep their hours. We work around the bookings, and in a heritage building we agree on the cable routes before touching a wall.
- Handover to the people who hold the keys
The cards replace the keys, the list of holders is delivered, and the staff of each building are shown their part of the system.
What the municipality or the organisation holds afterwards
- A written report by building, which can be filed and reused the following year
- The list of card holders by door and by group, and administrator access in the name of the organisation
- A diagram of the links between buildings, with the measured performance of each
- The camera plan and the list of people authorised to view the footage
- The settings of the hall or chamber sound system, on record
Public and community buildings we work in
- Town halls and administrative buildings
- Arenas, libraries and community centres
- Municipal garages, yards and remote sites
- Places of worship and parish halls
- Public parking facilities
Related industries
Vega Security holds all the licences required for its work.
Questions from municipal and community managers
Can the project be spread over several budget years?
Yes. The audit report puts the work in order of priority, and each phase is quoted so that it stands on its own. Equipment is chosen so that what is installed in the first year works with what follows.
Can you price the work from our call for tenders?
Yes. Send us the notice or the documents. We answer what is specified and name the equipment. Beforehand, an audit can help you write the technical requirements.
How do we link buildings that are far apart?
By radio where there is a line of sight, by fibre where the buildings are close or share a pathway. A path study confirms each radio link before any equipment is ordered.
Can cameras and an alarm be installed in a heritage building or a church?
Yes. Wireless detectors and carefully chosen cable routes avoid opening old walls and woodwork. We walk the building with you and agree on every position and every route before the work begins.
Who can see the footage from the cameras?
Only the people the organisation designates. Each has a personal account, and the list of accounts is given to you at handover.
We are a small organisation with one hall. Is that a job for you?
Yes. A sound system for the hall, a few cards for the groups that use it and an alarm are a normal job. The client is the organisation that owns or runs the building.
Request a quote for a public or community building
Tell us which buildings are concerned, what the most pressing problem is and where the project stands in your budget cycle. We reply by e-mail or phone.
If the first step is an audit, we will say so and quote that alone.
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