A new $A178 million retail development in Perth’s south is set to run on a security stack that will be familiar to many Australian integrators: Milestone XProtect for video management, Axis cameras for licence plate recognition, and Inner Range Integriti for alarms and access control. WA-based integrator Blueforce is delivering the combined solution for Stage 2 of the South Central development at Jandakot, a project being developed by Satterley Property Group and managed by Centuria Capital Group.
The project itself is sizeable. Stage 2 adds more than 36,400 square metres of showroom and large-format retail space across seven buildings, plus hospitality facilities and over 800 car bays, with completion expected in September 2027. Combined with Stage 1, the finished South Central precinct carries an end value of around $338 million. It is exactly the kind of multi-building, multi-tenant retail environment where getting the security integration architecture right at the design stage pays off for years afterwards.
What’s actually being combined
The three platforms named cover distinct but complementary functions. Milestone XProtect provides the centralised VMS layer, pulling together CCTV feeds and event data into a single operational view. Axis cameras are being deployed specifically for licence plate recognition at key vehicle access points, which in a large-format retail centre with 800+ car bays typically means main entries, loading docks and any boom-gated zones. Inner Range Integriti handles alarm monitoring and access control across nominated secure areas, likely including plant rooms, back-of-house corridors, tenancy risers and after-hours zones that don’t need to be open to the public.
None of these platforms are unusual choices individually. What’s notable is the deliberate integration between them rather than running three siloed systems that centre management has to monitor separately. As Blueforce put it, “the real value is not any single product, it is how these technologies work together to provide a more intelligent, proactive and manageable security environment.”
Why this matters operationally
For centre management teams, the practical benefit of a properly integrated VMS/access/alarm stack isn’t glamorous, it’s about reducing the number of screens, logins and alert streams that a single duty operator has to reconcile during an incident. A vehicle triggering an LPR alert at a loading dock, for example, can be correlated automatically with the relevant camera feed and any associated access control event, rather than requiring an operator to manually cross-reference three separate systems.
This kind of platform convergence is increasingly the default expectation on new-build commercial and retail developments in Australia, particularly larger ones with multiple stakeholders (developer, centre manager, individual tenants) who each need different views into the same underlying security data. Getting the integration architecture right during construction, rather than retrofitting it later, avoids a lot of the compatibility headaches that come with bolting disparate systems together after the fact.
It’s also worth noting the vendor combination itself: Milestone, Axis and Inner Range Integriti is a well-established pairing in the Australian market, with mature integration pathways between the platforms. That maturity reduces integration risk on a project of this scale and timeline.
The Mallen take
Projects like South Central Stage 2 are a useful reminder for facilities managers and building owners of what “good” looks like when specifying security for a new development or a major upgrade. The technology choices here (VMS, LPR-capable cameras, and an access/alarm platform like Integriti) are broadly consistent with what we’d recommend for any multi-tenant retail or mixed-use site of comparable size. The differentiator isn’t the brand names, it’s whether the integrator has designed genuine interoperability between them from day one, rather than three parallel systems that happen to share a network.
For existing sites considering a similar consolidation, the starting point is usually the same regardless of scale: a clear picture of what’s currently deployed, where the gaps are, and where integration would genuinely reduce operational overhead rather than just adding complexity. That’s the kind of groundwork the Mallen site audit is designed to establish before any procurement decisions get locked in, and it applies just as much to a strata-titled office building as it does to a $178 million retail precinct.
Original source: https://sen.news/blueforce-integrating-milestone-axis-and-integriti/