When Smartflex moved from Ubi to a larger Tampines facility, Securevision delivered the full IP CCTV upgrade, expanded MicroEngine card access, and reinstalled DSC PowerSeries alarm - recycling proven assets, replacing what no longer fit.
Smartflex is a Singapore-based industrial manufacturing business and a long-standing Securevision client. We first worked with them in 2014 to relocate their security systems from their original premises into their Ubi facility. In 2019, when Smartflex outgrew Ubi and moved to a larger building in Tampines, they came back to us. The brief was both familiar and new: recycle what still served them, replace what didn't, and scale the security footprint up to fit the larger Tampines premises.
| Client | Smartflex |
|---|---|
| Location | Tampines, Singapore |
| Sector | Industrial - Manufacturing |
| Facility Type | Multi-level industrial manufacturing facility |
| Environment | Multi-floor industrial premises with mixed production, office, and circulation zones across levels 1, 3, and 5 |
| Project Type | Premises Move - IP CCTV upgrade, expanded card access, alarm reinstallation |
| Client Since | 2014 (first relocation: Ubi premises) |
| Completion | 2019 (Tampines move) |
| Scale | 73 IP cameras · 3× 32-channel NVRs · 11 network switches · 68 card-access doors + 2 turnstiles · 25-zone DSC PowerSeries alarm with 3 keypads |
The Tampines move was Smartflex's second relocation under our care, but it was not a simple transplant of the Ubi system. The new Tampines premises were materially larger - a multi-level industrial building with production, office, and circulation zones distributed across multiple floors. The number of access-controlled doors grew. The CCTV camera count grew. And the legacy CCTV at Ubi was a hybrid analogue/IP set-up that would not scale cleanly to the new footprint.
At the same time, Smartflex had assets that were genuinely worth keeping. The DSC PowerSeries alarm panel installed at Ubi had been working reliably for years, and the MicroEngine access platform was already familiar to their facilities team. Replacing equipment that still worked, just to deliver a "new install", would have been a wasteful answer to the brief.
The real industrial reality of this project was deciding, item by item, what to recycle and what to replace - and then sequencing the move so that production did not lose security coverage during the cutover. CCTV had to be rebuilt from the ground up; access had to be expanded with proven controllers; the alarm needed to be carefully reinstalled and re-zoned for the new floor plan.
| Security Layer | Ubi Premises (Pre-2019) | Securevision Tampines Installation |
|---|---|---|
| CCTV Architecture | Hybrid analogue + IP - would not scale to the larger Tampines floor plate | Full IP CCTV - 73 cameras across 3× 32-channel NVRs, 11 distributed network switches |
| Access Control Footprint | Smaller MicroEngine deployment matched to the Ubi door count | Expanded to 68 doors and 2 turnstiles on the same MicroEngine platform - additional controllers added |
| Alarm System | DSC PowerSeries panel - proven, reliable, zoned for the Ubi footprint | Same DSC PowerSeries panel reinstalled at Tampines, re-zoned for the new floor plan: 25 zones across levels 1, 3, and 5 with 3 keypads |
| Network Backbone | Limited switching capacity - sized for hybrid CCTV | 11 network switches sized for full-IP camera load and access controller traffic |
| Coverage Across Levels | Single-floor primary footprint | Multi-level coverage across levels 1, 3, and 5 - production, office, and circulation |
| Operational Continuity | N/A - running operation | Sequenced cutover so production at Tampines never operated without security coverage |
The cleanest answer for any vendor on a relocation project is "let's start fresh" - full new equipment, full new commissioning, full new invoice. The honest answer for Smartflex was different. Their DSC alarm had been faultless at Ubi. Their staff knew the MicroEngine access platform. Replacing both for the sake of a clean slate would have been wasteful, and it would have erased five years of operational familiarity.
We made a deliberate split: recycle the assets that still served the operation (DSC PowerSeries panel, MicroEngine controllers and credentials) and replace the asset that no longer matched the brief (the hybrid CCTV system, replaced wholesale with a full IP architecture). The bigger Tampines premises required more cameras, more doors, and more network capacity - but expansion is the right reason to add equipment, not the right reason to replace working equipment.
The decision saved Smartflex meaningful capital cost on the alarm and access scope, while letting us redirect that budget into the IP CCTV upgrade where it was genuinely needed. It also kept their facilities team on platforms they already understood - which is its own kind of operational resilience that no proposal line item captures.
Securevision ran the Tampines move as three parallel scopes - CCTV, access, alarm - sequenced so that the new building could come online with security coverage from the first day of production.
New cameras, new NVRs, new network backbone - designed against the Tampines floor plan rather than retrofitted from Ubi. 73 cameras, three 32-channel recorders, eleven distributed switches.
Existing MicroEngine controllers retained where they fit; additional controllers added for the new door count of 68 plus 2 turnstiles. Credentials migrated; familiar platform retained.
The proven DSC PowerSeries panel uninstalled at Ubi, reinstalled at Tampines, and re-zoned for the new floor plan: 25 zones distributed across levels 1, 3, and 5, with 3 keypads positioned for daily arm/disarm by the operations team.
The three streams were timed against the production move-in schedule - so that on the day Tampines became the operating premises, CCTV, access, and alarm were all live and verified, not still in commissioning.
The result was a relocation with no security gap day. Every floor that came online for production had its surveillance, access, and alarm coverage live before the first machine was switched on.
Independent but coordinated layers - IP surveillance, expanded card access, and reinstalled intrusion detection - sized for the Tampines footprint and integrated into Smartflex's daily operations.
A full IP CCTV architecture sized for the multi-level Tampines facility. Three 32-channel NVRs aggregate camera feeds across production, office, and circulation zones, with eleven distributed network switches forming the IP backbone.
Surveillance & Detection →Card access expanded from the Ubi footprint with additional MicroEngine controllers. Two turnstiles handle the main staff entry/exit; 68 access-controlled doors cover production zones, office areas, plant rooms, and restricted-zone perimeters across the building.
Entry Access Control →The recycled DSC PowerSeries panel re-zoned for the new floor plan. 25 detection zones distributed across levels 1, 3, and 5, with 3 keypads positioned for daily operational use. Proven hardware, refreshed deployment.
Intrusion Detection →A mixed deployment combining new IP CCTV equipment, expanded MicroEngine access infrastructure, and the reinstalled DSC PowerSeries alarm - all sequenced for a no-downtime cutover into the new Tampines premises.
Cameras: 73× Hikvision IP Cameras across all production floors.
Recording & Network: 3× 32-Channel NVRs + 11 Switches.
Door Access: 68 Doors on MicroEngine Platform.
Entry Points: 2× Integrated Turnstiles.
Panel & Zones: DSC PowerSeries (Recycled & Re-Zoned).
Control: 3× Keypads at strategic points.
CCTV, access control, and alarm all live and verified on the day Tampines became the operating premises - sequenced cutover meant production never ran without security coverage.
Recycling the proven DSC PowerSeries panel and retaining the MicroEngine platform redirected budget into the IP CCTV upgrade where it was genuinely needed - rather than spent on replacing equipment that still worked.
Smartflex's facilities team kept the alarm and access systems they already knew. Five years of operational familiarity carried across the move - a form of resilience no proposal line captures.
A long-term client relationship - first move in 2014, second move in 2019 - produced a more accurate, more honest, less wasteful relocation than a fresh-vendor brief ever could. That is the dividend of working with the same team across multiple chapters of a business.
It would have been easier to quote Smartflex a clean-sheet build for Tampines - new alarm, new access, new everything. It would also have been wrong. The DSC panel they had at Ubi was working faultlessly; their team was fluent on the MicroEngine platform; the asset that genuinely needed replacing was the hybrid CCTV that no longer scaled. We learned across two moves with the same client that operational familiarity has real value, and that the right answer to "should we keep this?" is almost always "what is it actually doing for you?". We replaced the CCTV because it had hit its ceiling. We kept the alarm and the access brain because they had not.
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