LeaseChoice provides a comprehensive suite of equipment funding and management solutions. We source wholesale funding to package solutions specific to your industry and business. Thousands of Australian organisations have utilised our facilities to achieve optimal cashflow and tax effective solutions for their equipment and infrastructure requirements. Our platform provides clients with a complete asset management solution through procurement, financing, management and disposal. A total cradle to grave philosophy tailored to your business needs.

LeaseChoice is able to access wholesale funding lines through diverse local and internationali nstitutions. This gives you greater access to credit at market leading rates. Our LeaseChoice consultants specialise in specific industries and market segments and have initimate knowledge of your business and your competitive environment. LeaseChoice systems are best of breed and designed with a customer centric approach. You have instant access to all equipment and contracts; information to help facilitate better decision making whenever you need it.

Leasechoice Pty Ltd is pleased to announce a strategic alignment with listed mortgage and financial services group, Firstfolio Limited (ASX:FFF), The strategic alignment involves a transfer of the Leasechoice origination team, funding capacity and systems to Firstfolio Limited, who will seek to further develop and build upon Leasechoice’s national leasing origination infrastructure and distribution.

Axis has launched two new illuminators; the AXIS T90A32 IR-LED 30-60 DEG and AXIS T90A42 IR-LED 30-60 DEG. These 850 nm semi-covert IR LED Illuminators offer adjustable angles at 30 to 60 degrees, and can cover distances from 53 meters up to 160 meters. The Axis illuminator portfolio consists of eleven different models suited for many different applications. To help you choose the correct illuminator model for your network video installation, visit the new online selection guide.

What’s the right lease for you?

Does your company have a point of view on leasing versus the outright purchase of capital equipment?

Have you considered how redundant technology might compromise the integrity of your current security system?

Does the affordability of certain security system technology influence the type of security solution you end up with?

SSE Installations recognises that many organisations struggle with these and other questions when it comes to choosing the right security solution. That’s why SSE Installations provides its customers not only with the appropriate security solution but also with a range of options that address the cost of that solution. For example, we can offer the option of taking out an operating lease with SSE Installations to reduce the capital expense involved with your company’s security needs.

Leasing programs can be tailored to your individual needs and include Comprehensive Maintenance which provides equipment warranty over the life of the agreement. This leaves you with ongoing support to assist you in the operation of your security system, for the life of your system. And because SSE Installations specialise in electronic security systems, our customers will always have access to the most advanced equipment on the market.

Frequently Asked Questions 

Q. Why should I lease?

A. Keep Debt off the Balance Sheet.

Generally accepted accounting principals allow lessees to acquire assets without the accompanying debt appearing on their balance sheet.

• Minimal down payment required.

Most traditional financing options require a sizeable down payment. SSE Installations has reduced the price of electronic security dramatically by replacing high, up front purchase costs with a minimal down payment amount followed by low monthly payments. Leases can also include “Low” costs like installation and maintenance packages.

When equipment is purchased with borrowed funds, credit lines with lenders are reduced. When equipment is leased, businesses have, in fact, established additional lines of credit with the lessor.

• Improve your profitability and liquidity.

When a company purchases equipment, it must capitalise the equipment on its balance sheet by showing it as an asset, along with a corresponding liability for any loans used to finance the equipment’s purchase. This alters various financial ratios e.g. Debt/Equity. However, if a lease is classified as an operating lease for the lessee’s financial reporting purposes, it is not required to be capitalised in the financial statements.  Furthermore, the only expense appearing on the lessee’s income statement attributable to the lease would be the full lease amount of the payment.

Q. What should I do if I have problems with the equipment that I lease?

A. SSE Installations is solely responsible for service or warranty issues and we will support your equipment over the term of the lease. Leasing agreements come with Comprehensive Maintenance for the duration of your contract.

Q. What is Comprehensive Maintenance?

A. As part of your leasing agreement, you will receive added value with the inclusion of Comprehensive Maintenance on all system repairs (including parts and labour) for the duration of your contract. Some conditions apply, please ask your SSE Installations Consultant for further detail on these conditions and how a Service and Maintenance plan can minimise the risk to your property and assets.

Q. What happens at the end of my operating lease agreement?

A. At the end of the term you have the flexibility to:

Refurbish the existing equipment with new equipment under a new agreement, Continue with the operating lease, Offer to buy the equipment at “market value”.  

Q. Can I cancel the agreement?

A. An operating lease is a fixed term contract, if you cancel, you must pay out the balance of the agreement.

Contact SSE Installations on 02 8001 6654 and we will look after you leasing needs

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

The NSW Police Force CCTV Register (’the Register’) is a database which has been established to record the location of CCTV installations across NSW.

Information stored in the Register has been collected and will be used for operational policing purposes. We will not provide this information to a third party and we will secure this information from unauthorised access.

Your consent to supply this information to us for inclusion in the CCTV Register DOES NOT mean that you consent to supply us imagery captured by, or stored on, your CCTV system/s (eg. video footage or still images).

There is no obligation for you to provide information. Registration is purely voluntary.

Every effort will be made to ensure that information stored in the Register is accurate. To assist us, please notify us if any of the information you have provided changes. We may contact you from time to time to verify the information you have provided to us.

If you wish to have your details removed from the Register, please advise us in writing.

·                 Click here to Register your business CCTV details on-line

·                 Click here to Download a CCTV Register Form (PDF, 880KB)

·                 Click here to Download a CCTV Register Brochure (PDF, 429KB)

From NSW Police

Personal Safety in the Workplace

The Victorian Police website has some useful tips to help you remove the element of opportunity for crime within the workplace for both employers and employees.

Find out more about personal safety from the VIC Police website

Online tool to benchmark your organisation’s security

A new on-line toolkit allows companies to assess how secure they and their employees are.
Developed by Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International Ltd, a spin-off company from the University of Leicester, the on-line benchmarking tool enables organisations to benchmark their security.
The tool - hosted on the Perpetuity website - is completely free of charge and easy to use. It enables organisations to benchmark their organisation against others in the industry.

Go to: http://www.perpetuityconsultancy.com/benchmarking.html

Supplied by ASIAL

AIC report providing a breakdown of crime types and the costs of crime across Australia

·                  View the report from the Australian Institute of Criminology

Closed circuit television (CCTV) has been included in this document partly because it is often in competition with street and other public lighting for government crime-prevention funding. For 1996 through 1998, more than three quarters of spending by the UK Home Office on crime prevention was for CCTV systems (Welsh and Farrington 2002, p 44 [116]). Another reason is that it also has its own lighting requirements.

The last decade of the twentieth century saw a rapid rise in the deployment of video surveillance, despite concerns about civil liberty and increasing imaging capability (Honess and Charman 1992 [45]). Existing cameras need artificial light to operate properly at night. Vermeulen (1992) [114] showed that a charge-coupled-device (ccd) video camera with a typical good quality objective lens required a scene luminance of 26 lux for excellent picture quality.²⁴The required values depend on the type of lamp in use.

Video cameras and high-pressure sodium lights were installed at metropolitan railway stations in Melbourne about a decade ago (Carr and Spring 1993 [18]). The luminaries used are fully shielded (ie, confining the directly emitted light to the horizontal direction and below), but generally both the direct glare from the lights and the lit surfaces of the station tend to be unpleasantly bright by comparison with illumination in most of the surrounding area. Adjacent car parks for rail travellers are also over lit with semi cutoff high-pressure sodium lamps, which are much worse as sources of glare.

A photometric survey²⁵of two of the stations and one of the adjacent car parks indicated that the horizontal luminance in the car park and bus shelter ranged from 25 lux to 71 lux. On station ramps and platforms, the range was 88 lux to 452 lux, with a typical value of about 300 lux, over ten times brighter than Vermeulen found to be sufficient for use with CCTV, and also over ten times brighter than is required to reduce fear of crime to near daylight values (Boyce et al. 2000 [14]).

The glare and steep illumination gradients cause visibility losses in the vicinity, particularly for elderly persons and others with increased intraocular light scatter. It would appear difficult to separate overbright lighting and presence of the cameras in any attempts to assess effects on crime and fear of crime.

For video camera installations in general, attempts at cost cutting might increase the need for bright lighting because brighter scenes allow the video camera lenses to be operated with smaller aperture stops (numerically larger f-numbers). This allows the use of cheaper lenses as prime cost items, but imposes greater prime costs for light fittings and greater operating costs for electricity. The desire for sharp images over a greater range of distance could also lead to demands for brighter lighting because smaller aperture stops give increased depth of focus at the cost of dimmer images.

Note that for a given amount of illumination from a high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamp, about 25 % more light is required from a low-pressure sodium (LPS) lamp for the same picture quality (Vermeulen 1992 [114]). HPS is more effective because it is richer in red and near-infrared radiation for which the ccd image sensors are relatively much more sensitive than the eye is.

Astronomical Society of Victoria, Inc., Australia

Boyce and Rea (1990) [13] used low-pressure sodium lamps and high-pressure sodium lamps with street lighting and floodlighting distributions along with rural moonless darkness in an experiment where alerted `guards’ had to detect and recognise `intruders’ walking along a path or moving so as not to be seen in a large open area. Lighting was mostly better than darkness for detection and recognition, but there was little difference between floodlighting and darkness in the open area task. There was no disadvantage for low-pressure sodium lamps in detection or in face recognition, but a (reasonable) caution not based on the results at hand was given against its use when colour recognition could be important. Recognition was better with the more diffuse light distribution (street lighting). Vertical plane luminances of between 4 and 10 lux were recommended for security lighting installations to give a high level of detection and recognition. The desirability of limiting light spill was not mentioned.

This experiment gave the greatest possible advantage to the guards and the greatest possible disadvantage to the intruders. For instance, the guards had the lights above and behind them, while the intruders had to move towards these intense glare sources. Reversed lighting direction relative to the intruder and guard positions must also occur in practice but it was not mentioned let alone subject to investigation. Nor is this the only practical case in which lighting will tend to aid intruders more than it hampers them. Most security-lit areas are not under continuous surveillance by guards, and prospective intruders may be able to time their incursions appropriately, in which case the lighting may then be a distinct advantage.

The recommended luminances are doubtless accepted by the security lighting industry as impeccable scientific guidance. Regardless, far brighter installations are commonplace in many developed countries. Presumably, more is considered better, with the excess dependent on how much extra the client can be induced to pay for.

The situation is changing somewhat with the increasing use of sensor-operated lighting and CCTV systems. Nevertheless, security lighting remains in widespread use, signalling the presence of valuable items and ready to assist lawbreakers when there are no police or security personnel close by.

Astronomical Society of Victoria, Inc., Australia

Because C-Tick labelling is optional for incandescents, suppliers that choose to label the products must comply with compliance level 1 and hold a completed Declaration of Conformity (DoC) and a product description. The labelling of incandescents is not mandatory because they are deemed to fulfil the requirements of the standard without further testing

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