Staff at CSE Consultants have undertaken many small, medium and large scale projects utilizing integrated telecommunications and electronic security systems. We have direct knowledge, exposure and experience from inception through design and completion of fully integrated security solutions in a networked environment. We understand the system configurations and requirements as well as the necessary network topology to support the long term trouble free operation of these systems.

Some recently completed flagship projects include:

Queensland Police Service CCTV Installation.

The Queensland Police Service through the Department of Housing and Public Works identified the need for surveillance to be provided to a large number of small stations across Queensland in light of the recent heightened terror alert.

CSE were engaged to provide a full review of existing security across thirty stations as part of the first phase of the project including providing a surveillance and recording system recommendation to address the requirements. CSE produced full design documentation for each station and project managed the installation within very tight timeframes.

Sanctuary Cove.

The principal body corporate at Sanctuary Cove tendered for a thorough review and security risk assessment for a complete upgrade to the currently installed security systems across the site. Sanctuary Cove features a large and diverse business comprising a resort complex, a commercial shopping and marina precinct as well as a large residential community.

CSE Consultants were successful for this large project and have completed the risk assessment phase and concept design phase. The final solution from a technical and integration perspective will be a broad mix of systems providing advanced levels of safety and security.

University of Queensland.

The University of Queensland St Lucia campus currently operates a diverse mix of electronic security systems. Systems include separate access control, CCTV, intruder detection systems and help points all managed by a labour intensive workforce. A number of these systems are approaching end of life and feature little or no integration or interoperability.

CSE Consultants were engaged to conduct a market analysis of available intruder detection systems and provide a recommendation on replacement equipment including an upgrade strategy to align with the University's security end game solution. The next phase of the project is to design and project manage the implementation of the intruder detection system across the campus encompassing some three hundred panels to be replaced.

Department of Education and Training

In 2015 the Department of Education and Training embarked upon a program to amalgamate a large number of state school outbuildings alarm panels on to the parent school alarm panels. This project included a full upgrade to the existing end of life access control and intruder detection systems.

CSE were engaged to provide the design, documentation and construction supervision to ninety schools as part of an ongoing alarm panel upgrade project.

Sunshine Coast Council.

The Sunshine Coast Council is an amalgamation of a number of smaller local council portfolios spread across a large area of the Sunshine Coast. The council have embarked upon a major upgrade of their security technology across a number of their sites migrating to an integrated IP access control and CCTV system.

CSE Consultants have been engaged to design, document and project manage the security solution across a number of sites. This project is ongoing.

Department of Justice and Attorney General.

The Queensland Government's Department of Justice and Attorney General engaged CSE Consultants to develop and present a business case, including a full design solution to transition their current analog CCTV design solutions to an IP based CCTV recording and monitoring solution for their Courthouses and Youth Justice offices across Queensland.

This presentation included a full review of available and relevant CCTV technology as well as the most effective supply chain arrangement and provided a sound transition methodology according to the Departments requirements.

CSE have since designed and documented a mixture of over thirty sites across Queensland in accordance with the provisioned solution.

Australian Customs and Border Protection Service

The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) own and maintain a comprehensive CCTV surveillance, recording and monitoring system at the Brisbane International Airport.

ACBPS recently announced an upgrade from their existing analog system to a server based IP solution. CSE Consultants were engaged to provide a transitional design solution and methodology to firstly a hybrid analog/digital solution to secondly a fully digital solution with zero system downtime.

Cairns Base Hospital Redevelopment.

The project comprised the implementation and integration of a fully integrated security solution for a number of new local health centres as well as a major upgrade to the Cairns Base Hospital. Access control, intercommunication and CCTV systems installed in the Health Centres were networked to the hospitals security control room via the Queensland Health Wide Area Network.

Cairns Base Hospital works included a new six story building housing core hospital services including pathology, radiology, maternity, surgery and oncology. The remainder of the site underwent a complete services refurbishment.

The security scope of works included a range of integrated digital systems including access control and intruder detection, CCTV VMS, surveillance, monitoring and recording, video intercom as well as a tracking duress system for the mental health facility. The fully redundant solution with full failover operability is connected via a dedicated engineering services network across the site to the security control room providing a truly converged redundant enterprise level IP based solution. The entire solution is monitored locally in a purpose built state of the art master control room.

CSE provided the complete integrated security solution design including the master control room and managed the construction phase over a three year period.

The Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR).

The QIMR project comprised the construction of a new sixteen storey laboratory facility being QIMR Central and the refurbishment of the existing adjacent thirteen storey Berghoffer building on the Royal Brisbane Hospital site.

The QIMR provides the primary cancer research facility for Queensland and comprises a blend of office space, teaching facilities and state of the art research laboratories. Laboratories are certified physical control level 3 (PC3) labs as certified by the Commonwealth Office of Gene Technology Standards to manage organisms deemed extremely hazardous.

Highly reliable access control, surveillance and intercommunications equipment and operation is paramount in the laboratories to maintain operation and continued facility certification. The laboratories were certified to include insectaries facilities, rodent facilities, invertebrate facilities as well as hazardous substances and organisms.

CSE designed the complete integrated security and telecommunications systems and infrastructure, including the entire QIMR campus data centre. Additionally CSE project managed the electrical, communications, security, audio visual, dry fire and fire engineering services for a four year period through the construction phase.

Brisbane Airport Corporation - Domestic and International Terminals.

In late 2013 the Brisbane Airport Corporation identified and planned for twenty nine specific projects to be rolled out across the precinct out to the year 2034. Projects varied between additional multi level parking facilities to a five star hotel.

Two separate engagements were completed by CSE including a review and report on the electronics engineering support and building infrastructure as well as upgrade recommendations to core building infrastructure and services elements supporting these projects.

The second engagement was to undertake a complete asset based management plan and review of the installed access control and surveillance systems at both terminals. The review and plan identified several opportunities for improvement across the system and operational methodology including CAPEX and OPEX projections over the next 10 years.

Department of Transport and Main Roads

The Department of Transport and Main Roads manages a large and complex state-wide IP based surveillance system installed across eight regions. The installed system comprises multiple separate IP based DVTel CCTV systems interfacing with traffic management systems in regional traffic management centres over a corporate WAN/LAN.

CSE was engaged to define a solution to enable full systems expansion aligned with future growth expectations including detailed additional connectivity needs aligned with a parallel access strategy project. A thorough review of existing hardware, associated network, system software, configuration, licensing, management and capacity issues was undertaken and assessments were made on the details provided. A full and complete security risk assessment was also undertaken on the CCTV system as well as the Departmental network supporting the CCTV system.

The report also provided a transitional solution and strategy to reach a "best in class" state-wide surveillance and recording system.

"The Park" Centre for Mental Health.

"The Park" is the Queensland State Government controlled centre for members of the public who experience mental health issues and require a level of external personal care. The centre comprises a large campus with program and accommodation facilities ranging from low security to maximum security.

The installed DVTel surveillance system comprises a medium sized site with cameras connecting to strategically placed network edge switches throughout the site, in turn connecting to the core network switch located in the facilities security control room. The master control room sits adjacent the security equipment room in the high security control checkpoint building.

Several projects have been undertaken by CSE on the access control and surveillance systems at this site. A recent project of note was to provide the detection and alarming through the security management system of consumers climbing the exercise yard fences through the use of a video analytics based program attached to the existing surveillance system.

Knowledge Based Research Building (Boggo Road).

The new KBRB Boggo Road building is one of the State and Federal Government's shared facilities and provides a unified campus to combine several Department's research, technical and operational functions.

The site comprises a unified security solution including approximately fifty cameras and associated network video recorders, a digital video intercommunication system fully integrated to a digital access control intruder detection system and security management system all monitored by on site security staff. All systems were virtualized and integrated over a dedicated copper and fibre optic network security network.

CSE designed, documented the systems and managed the construction phase of the project over a two year period.

Knowledge Based Research Building (Coopers Plains).

KBRB Coopers Plains is the most recent upgrade to the Government Chemical Laboratory Precinct in Brisbane. The site includes a Bone Marrow storage facility, the Government's Mortuary and Forensic Investigation unit, a secure Police storage facility, administration buildings and now a large animal research facility as well as an aquatic fauna research facility.

Three new multi level buildings were constructed on the site in the most recent project including a Physical Containment Level 4 - PC4 laboratory. The PC4 large animal research facility achieved the highest level of laboratory containment and security classification where strains of the Hendra virus and other bovine viruses are contained.

CSE provided the integration strategy, design and documentation as well as the construction services of the access control, surveillance and intercommunications systems along with the associated integration to the existing head end systems for the three new buildings.