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­Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries plc was formed as a public company in 1890 from an amalgamation of three local brewing businesses and is now one of the top 300 quoted companies in the UK.

They are the largest independent brewing group in the UK who pride themselves on their consistent excellent quality of beers, brewed in the traditional way using the very best quality, natural ingredients.

Due to constant expansion and a need to upgrade their IT capabilities, a brand new computer room was installed at the brewery's premises. To protect their substantial investment the brewery required the equipment to be monitored at all times.

Letrex, IT Solutions provider, based in Birmingham, West Midlands is an information technology company that has organised itself around the needs of today's businesses. They help businesses streamline and upgrade their information systems and their vision of quality includes a commitment to excellence in every phase of their business, implementation of measurement tools, and a process of continual improvement. It was these qualities that helped Steve Nicholls at the brewery decide that Letrex were the right company to partner with on this project.

Letrex are an official NetBotz Accredited Reseller, which is evidence of their commitment and investment, of both time and money, on training, research and development.

Letrex recommended NetBotz, a global leader in IP-based intelligent security platforms, providing environmental and visual monitoring, combined with alerting and proactive output and power control capability.

The NetBotz product range allows a company to improve network reliability and availability while increasing the productivity of IT resources that are tasked with maintaining these networks. NetBotz appliances are simple, low-cost and require no additional resource development. NetBotz appliances can operate independently or as part of an enterprise management solution.

Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries opted for a WallBotz 500 unit, the WallBotz 500 Extended Storage System and 2 additional cameras. The WallBotz 500 is the next-generation NetBotz monitoring appliance – with pod-based architecture it gives the user tremendous flexibility and expandability. Camera pods and sensor pods can be located as far as 104 metres from the base station, fllowing coverage of multiple rooms or cabinets. The base station itself can connect to the LAN via a 10/100 Ethernet connection. The Camera Pod 120 boasts a surveillance-class camera and audio recording, with multiple resolutions up to 1280x1024 and frame rates as high as 30 fps. A microphone is built into the camera pod for recording audio clips associated with the picture clips. An external microphone can be used for placement closer to the sound source.

The WallBotz 500 Extended Storage System combines the Extended Storage software with a 60 GB external USB hard drive, allowing persistent retention of up to 6 months (or 5000 alerts) of alert and sensor data.

Letrex was chosen to install the environmental monitoring system due to their flexibility and approach to problem solving, they also keep on top of the latest technologies available to satisfy requirements such as this. The products were purchased from Mayflex, the leading distributor for the NetBotz product range within the UK.

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