Site security in Ballymena, for town and land.

Ballymena sits on the M2 and A26 corridor, and a good share of the sites we cover are new housing estates where plots are built and handed over in quick succession, sometimes only a matter of weeks apart. A tower fixed to one spot for months does not suit that pace, so towers here are set up to be lifted and repositioned as soon as a plot completes, keeping cover on whichever part of the estate is still active.

Business park units around Galgorm and Fenaghy Road usually already have power close by, which makes a mains connection straightforward, while phased redevelopment of the town's older industrial land can go either way depending on the stage reached. Out past the edge of town, on the County Antrim farmland, sites typically start with no supply at all, so a solar tower is the standard fit until a connection is made.

• Towers built to move quickly between new-build plots
• Solar power for farmland with no early connection
• Temporary alarms fitted to cabins on active estates
• Positioned on the compound gate and the delivery road
• Weekly or monthly hire, repositioned as plots complete

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council covers Ballymena, and the town mixes business park units, older industrial land and residential streets around Harryville, with agricultural land taking over once you leave the built up area. A new-build estate under construction changes week to week, so the tower that covered plot one in January is often somewhere else entirely by March.

Rural sites off the county roads leading out of town are the opposite: a single access lane, no passing traffic once work stops, and conditions that barely change from month to month, which is why detection and remote monitoring do more of the work there than on an active estate. A tower on the gate and a temporary alarm on the cabin cover both patterns without needing separate equipment for each.

A site visit settles the detail, but these combinations come up regularly around Ballymena.