On watch
Control centre manned 24/7 Monitoring CCTV, fire, intruder and process signals Keyholding and response across Lincolnshire, London, Wales and North Lincolnshire
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Security · Fire · Incident management

Someone is watching
your site right now.

Echelon monitors CCTV, fire and intruder alarms and process conditions from one control centre in the Lincolnshire Wolds — and sends people when something needs a person, from our own bases in Lincolnshire, London, Wales and North Lincolnshire.

Accredited to

  • ISO 27001 — Information security management system, certified by Citation Certification
  • ISO 9001 — Quality management system, certified by Citation Certification
  • Cyber Essentials Plus certified
  • Hikvision Certified Partner
  • Armed Forces Covenant — Employer Recognition Scheme, Bronze Award
  • ICO Registered — Information Commissioner's Office
  • OFCOMLicensed hirer

Notices & updates

What's changed recently

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Notice to IBWEST customers

You may have arrived here from the former IBWEST web address, or after trying to call IBWEST.

IBWEST has gone into administration and is no longer monitoring your alarms. Unless you have made alternative arrangements, nobody is.

Echelon does not hold your details — we are not permitted to. If you want us to take over monitoring, you need to contact us so we can set you up. Call 01472 352462 or email us.

Live from the control room

What the watch looks like

159
Sites monitored
241,079+
Alarms handled, last 12 months
527
Patients treated at events
18,742
Coffees drunk keeping the watch (unofficial)

Services

What the control room handles

  1. Security operator monitoring live CCTV camera feeds in a control room

    CCTV monitoring

    No operator stares at a wall of screens for eight hours and stays sharp. Our systems watch for movement and for crossings of lines you define, then put the right camera in front of an operator. They respond to an intruder — not to a passing cat.

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  2. Close-up of a fire and intruder alarm control panel

    Alarm monitoring

    Fire and intruder alarms, permanent or temporary, with callout initiated on activation. Through a partnership with an SSAIB registered installer we can arrange monitoring for just about any signal format.

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  3. Environmental monitoring equipment and gauges in a server room

    Process monitoring

    Temperature, humidity and similar conditions, watched around the clock so a failing chiller or a damp store is a phone call at 3am rather than a write-off in the morning. One of our fastest-growing services.

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  4. Echelon response vehicle and officer attending a commercial site at night

    Keyholding and alarm response

    We hold your keys and attend so your staff don't have to. Echelon deploys its own resources across its home area, and works with a multinational partner where our own response would not meet the service level agreed.

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  5. Security officer patrolling a perimeter fence line at dusk

    Manned guarding

    Sensors and analytics cover most of it. Sometimes the answer is still a person on the ground. Static or mobile officers, arranged for as long as you need them.

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  6. Control room operator reviewing an incident response plan

    Incident management

    Emergency planning, business continuity and live incident management, drawn from a team that has done it for real. You hope you never need it. It is there if you do.

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  7. Security officer checking wristbands at an event entrance

    Event security

    Licensed officers for events of any size, briefed against your event plan and your risk assessment — entry searching, crowd movement, stewarding points and the exit. Where CCTV is in place, the control room can watch it live while the event runs.

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  8. Medical tent and first aid equipment at an outdoor event

    Event medical cover

    Medical cover scaled to what the event actually needs, from a first aid point through to treatment facilities and ambulance provision, planned against the crowd size, the activity and the distance to the nearest emergency department.

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  9. Close-up of a two-way radio handset clipped to a hi-vis jacket

    Radio hire

    Two-way radios for events and sites that need reliable on-site communication, supplied and licensed through us so you're not left working out Ofcom paperwork yourself.

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Watchkeeping

Based in the Wolds.
Not limited to them.

The Echelon control centre sits in the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape — one room, watching everything, every night. Response is a different matter: we have our own teams based in Immingham, Epsom and Rhondda too, covering North Lincolnshire, London and Wales directly, not through a subcontractor.

Coverage is another matter still. Monitoring does not care where a site is, and neither do we: any time, any place, anywhere in the UK.

Watch
24 hours, every day of the year
Base
Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape
Core area
Lincolnshire, London, Wales & North Lincolnshire
Monitoring
Anywhere a signal reaches us

Where we work

A local base, wherever you are.

One control centre. Four teams on the ground.

Clients

Who we watch for

Client logos will appear here.

Contact

Tell us what needs watching

If it is urgent, phone — the line reaches an operator, not a queue.

We use what you send here to answer your enquiry. Nothing else.