A comprehensive critical infrastructure security system is bringing unified access control, scalable intrusion detection, and lone worker safety into a single platform.
This initiative supports operators of essential services like electricity, water, and gas networks in safeguarding their distributed sites, complying with regulations, and ensuring the continuous provision of essential services. Disruptions to these services can lead to significant economic impacts and community safety concerns, making their protection a national imperative. The challenge is heightened by the nature of critical infrastructure, which often involves widely distributed networks rather than a single, centralised location.
Meeting demanding regulatory requirements
The security of critical infrastructure is governed by stringent regulations across various sectors, including energy, water, and sewerage. Stakeholders are required to implement a Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program that accounts for physical security along with cyber threats, personnel, and supply chain management.
Robust physical security systems are thus essential for regulatory compliance. For over 38 years, Inner Range has collaborated with experts to develop security solutions tailored to protect critical assets through a multi-layered strategy suitable for challenging environments.
Enhanced access control
The security of critical infrastructure is governed by stringent regulations across various sectors
The backbone of Inner Range's solutions is access control, ensuring only authorised individuals access sensitive sites. The system utilises a combination of access cards, mobile credentials, PINs, or biometric verification. By employing multifactor authentication, security is further enhanced.
Video surveillance, detailed scheduling, and real-time logging provide operators with full visibility over all access points. The highest-risk areas benefit from Inner Range's High-Security solution, which boasts Class 5 accreditation under the AS/NZS 2201.1 standard, indicating suitability for high-security Zone 3 environments. This solution not only defends against external threats but also mitigates insider risks through measures such as two-factor disarming.
Advanced video analytics for perimeter defence
Inner Range's advanced video analytics technology supports extensive perimeter protection by integrating with devices like electric fences and beams, offering layers of security suitable for various site configurations.
These smart analytics enable automated threat responses, irrespective of the site's size or nature. The Multipath IP Cellular communication platform leverages internet and 4G networks to relay encrypted alerts to monitoring centres, ensuring timely responses from first responders, even in remote areas.
Ensuring lone worker safety
Remote and sometimes hazardous locations necessitate robust lone worker safety systems
Remote and sometimes hazardous locations necessitate robust lone worker safety systems. Inner Range integrates duress alarms with man-down detection and personal tracking systems. When alarms are triggered, the Communicator messaging application informs security personnel via SMS and email, while Real-Time Location Systems identify the precise location of the individuals onsite, facilitating prompt and efficient responses.
Inner Range's Enterprise platform amalgamates various security functionalities, including access control, video surveillance, building management, and more, into a seamless interface. This integration allows operators to monitor assets, machinery, and site conditions effectively, transforming large and complex networks into manageable systems with complete visibility.
A unified approach to security
The strength of Inner Range's system lies in its integrated approach, combining access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and other security measures into a cohesive unit. This unified platform enables rapid threat detection, location tracking, and automated response capabilities. Each deployment benefits from professional support, including software maintenance and security updates. With over 130 integrations and more than 170,000 systems deployed worldwide, Inner Range's platform can adapt from a single facility to a national scale.
The seamless integration of access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, perimeter protection, and worker safety ensures that critical infrastructure remains secure, maintaining uninterrupted services from core systems to remote sites.
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 authorised 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 defence 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 defence. 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.
Specialised 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 specialised 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 centralised 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.
