Specialist rural security
CCTV, alarms, access control and monitoring designed around the realities of remote yards, farms and country property across Wales.
Designed, installed and maintained by Secure Systems, an SSAIB certified security installer, from Abersychan in Torfaen.
Why rural sites are different
Most of what is sold as rural security is ordinary domestic equipment with a tractor on the box. It fails on distance, on darkness, on connectivity and on false alarms. Those four things are what a survey is for.
Rural crime cost Wales an estimated £2.2 millionin 2025. Across the UK, quad and ATV theft reported to NFU Mutual rose 31 per cent, and livestock theft by almost 30 per cent.NFU Mutual Rural Crime Report 2026
Yards empty out after evening stables and farms are dark by teatime in winter. The hours when nobody is there are the hours that matter, and they are the hours a system has to work without anyone watching it.
A camera on the farmhouse is little use when the machinery shed is three hundred metres down the track. Coverage has to follow the value, which usually means the buildings furthest from the house, the power and the router.
Quads, trailers, horseboxes, tack, fuel and GPS units are all designed to be moved quickly. Detection at the building is often too late. What stops a loss is seeing a vehicle at the gate and knowing about it while it is still there.
Rural darkness is total. A camera specified for a lit car park produces a grey smear on a yard at two in the morning. Night performance is a design decision made at survey, not a setting changed afterwards.
Blowing hedges, driving rain, cattle against a fence and a barn owl through a beam all trigger badly specified detection. After a fortnight of false alarms people stop responding, and a system nobody trusts is worse than no system.
Most rural sites have one usable connection and it is nowhere near the buildings that need watching. Getting a picture back off a stone barn in a dip is a networking problem before it is a camera problem.
What we fit
Six capabilities, specified for the site rather than picked from a package. Each one has its own page explaining how it is used on a yard, a farm and an estate.
Cameras that read a number plate at the gate and a person at the barn door, in the dark, in the rain.
A number plate at the gate and a face at the barn door are two different camera specifications, and most systems are sold with neither. We set each camera a job, then choose the lens, the sensor and the lighting that does that job at 3am in rain.
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Entry that survives twenty liveries, a farrier, a vet and a feed delivery, without a key under the water trough.
Twenty liveries, a farrier, a vet and a feed delivery all need to get in, and one of them will leave next month. Fobs and codes you can cancel yourself beat a key under the water trough, and an existing gate can usually be automated rather than replaced.
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Getting a picture off a building with no broadband, and getting a response when something happens at 3am.
Getting a picture off a building with no broadband is a networking problem before it is a camera problem. Point-to-point links, cellular where the signal is real, and alerts routed to whoever can actually act on them at that hour.
Explore remote monitoringDetection zoned around tack rooms, workshops and fuel stores, set up so livestock and weather do not trip it.
Early warning in stable blocks, hay and straw stores and workshops, where a fire is unsurvivable within minutes.
Lens cleaning, seal checks, battery replacement and signal tests, because rural kit weathers faster.
The gate, at night
Almost every rural loss starts at the entrance, hours before anything is taken. That is the frame worth having.
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A yard has a security problem that a house does not: a lot of people have a legitimate reason to be there, and almost none of them are employees. Liveries come at odd hours. The farrier, the vet, the feed merchant and the physio all arrive unannounced. The tack room holds twenty thousand pounds of other people’s property and the trailer is parked where it can be hitched in ninety seconds.
Insurers have taken notice. Trailers and horseboxes account for the majority of equine theft claims, and tack for most of the rest. What works is coverage at the point of entry, detection inside the tack room and the lorry park, and access you can change when a livery leaves without recutting every key on the yard.
Farming & agriculture
A working farm is a collection of separate security problems that happen to share a postcode. The workshop, the fuel tank, the machinery shed, the grain store and the stock buildings each have a different risk, a different value and usually a different distance from the house.
The pattern we see is reconnaissance first, then a return visit. That is why the gate and the track matter more than the yard light. A camera that reads a plate at the entrance, at night, in rain, gives you something the police can act on. Detection on the buildings gives you the time to respond.
Connectivity & power
The hard part is rarely the camera. It is getting a picture back from a building with no broadband and no spare power, and getting an alert to a person who can act on it.
Where a cable run is impractical, a licence-free point-to-point link carries a building back to the recorder over line of sight. It is usually cheaper than trenching and it does not care that the track is in the way.
Where there is no fixed line worth using, a 4G router with an aerial in the right place will carry alerts and remote viewing. We check actual signal at the building during the survey rather than trusting a coverage map.
Standalone solar and battery units cover a gateway, a field entrance or a stack where running a supply is not worth it. They have real limits in a Welsh January, and we will tell you where those limits fall before you buy one.
Footage after the event is evidence. What changes the outcome is an alert that reaches a person while a vehicle is still on the track, routed to whoever is actually able to act on it at that hour.
Who we work for
The equipment overlaps. The problem does not. Each of these has its own page, written for that reader rather than adapted from a general one.
How it works
No charge, no obligation, and no equipment list until someone has stood in the yard.
Gates, tracks, yard, stable block, tack room, workshop, fuel store, outbuildings. We want to know what has already happened here, what worries you, and who comes and goes.
Where the power is, what the broadband and mobile signal really do at each building, what cable routes exist, and which buildings need a wireless link or their own connection.
Camera positions and what each one is there to see, detection zones, access points, and what is deliberately not included. Priced for the property, with phasing if it makes sense to start with the gate and the tack room.
Tidy cabling, weatherproof terminations, and commissioning done with you present so you leave knowing how to arm it, who gets the alerts and what to do at 3am.
Lens cleaning, seal checks, battery replacement and signal tests on a schedule, plus someone who answers the phone. Rural kit weathers faster than commercial kit.
Verified Google reviews of Secure Systems, the company that carries out every Equestrian Security Solutions installation. They are commercial and domestic customers rather than yards, so read them for how the team works rather than for equestrian experience.
We have used Secure Systems for years and have always had 5 star service on both fire and intruder systems. Paul and his team are top class installers and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Secure systems did a fantastic job of providing new remote access security cameras, security and fire alarm systems in our new warehouse. They utilised some existing infrastructure and only installed new when needed. Providing a high quality, cost effective service, with excellent response times.
Very professional service and fully explained types of system they offer and the best type for me. Very clean installation and no damage to my property. Great after service maintenance as a slight technical fault on my system was fixed in less than 24hrs. I would happy recommend this company.
Where we work
The engineering base is at Abersychan in Torfaen, so south and mid Wales is home ground and gets the shortest response times. We work throughout Wales, from Monmouthshire and the Brecon Beacons to Powys, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, and into Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire where the site suits it.
Rural work is different from town work in one practical way: we would rather cover fewer counties properly than claim a national footprint and take three days to reach a fault. If your postcode is outside a sensible maintenance radius we will say so on the phone rather than after the install.
Next step
An engineer walks the site with you, works out where the gaps actually are, and writes it up. You get a specification and a price for the property in front of us, not a package picked before we arrived.