Your branch, your vault, your ATMs and your data centre each face a different threat, and each one gets audited. Bank security systems have to do more than record video. They have to prove coverage and retention when a regulator or the police ask, escalate an alarm to people who can act, and stay completely off the network your transactions run on. Yakkaservices designs, integrates, tests and supports the surveillance, access control, fire and network systems behind your bank under one contract.
Yakkaservices integrates the physical and building systems behind a bank. Here is where that work fits, and where it does not.
When your bank needs surveillance, access control, fire and the network behind them designed, integrated and certified together, and when one team is accountable for how they work as a whole.
If you need one camera run replaced or a single alarm panel swapped in a single branch, a focused specialist will often do it faster and at lower cost. That is the right call, and we will tell you so.
If you are buying core banking software, fraud monitoring, a security operations centre, or penetration testing, that is digital security. We design and separate the physical and building systems beside it, not the banking applications or the network defence.
A teller counter, a currency chest, an ATM lobby and a record store each invite a different kind of loss, so each needs its own rule about who gets in, what is watched, and how long the footage is kept. Treat a branch as one open space and you leave the highest-value rooms under the same weak control as the lobby. Your design has to follow the cash and the data, room by room.
In most buildings a camera that records is enough. In a bank, the footage is evidence a regulator, an auditor or the police will ask for, often months after the event. If coverage misses the counter, or the storage overwrites before the retention period ends, you fail the audit and lose the one record that mattered. Your cameras and storage have to be sized for the rule, not for the budget left over.
Cameras, door controllers and air-conditioning controls are computers on your network, and each one is a way in. Put them on the same network as your transactions and a weak camera password becomes a path toward the core banking system. Your building systems have to run on a separate, segmented network, designed that way from the first drawing.
Every system below rides the same physical infrastructure. We design, integrate and certify these six so they work together, not just sit alongside each other.
Every camera, card reader, ATM and teller terminal depends on the same cabling and network. We design and certify it to TIA-568-D (2018) and ISO/IEC 11801:2017, with the resilience that keeps a branch trading when a link or switch fails, and the segmentation that keeps these systems off your transaction network.
ICT infrastructureCameras on the counter, the ATM, the cash room and the vault give you the evidence an audit or investigation needs. We design coverage so no high-value zone is blind, and size storage for the full retention period your regulator sets, so footage is still there when someone asks for it.
ELV systemsThe vault, the currency chest and the server room each need their own rule about who enters, when, and with whose approval. Access control and intrusion alarms set those rules by zone, role and time, log every entry for audit, and raise a duress or after-hours alarm to a monitoring station.
ELV systemsAcross a branch network and a data centre, the building management system holds server-room cooling in range, watches power, and shows energy use site by site. Built on BACnet and Modbus, it tells you a cooling unit is drifting before the server room overheats, not after.
Building management systemA sprinkler over a server room or a record store destroys the assets it is meant to protect. We design early-warning detection and clean-agent suppression for those rooms to NFPA 72 (2022), IS 2189 and NFPA 2001, with the cause-and-effect evidence your fire approval needs.
Fire and life safety systemsBranch announcements, queue management and customer signage share infrastructure with voice evacuation. We integrate them so a fire event overrides routine messaging with a clear instruction by zone, and so token displays and customer screens run on managed hardware, not ad-hoc boxes.
AV solutionsFour failures that surface at audit, at inspection, or after a real incident. Each one is preventable at design stage.
The cameras work, the recorder is online, and nobody checks whether the counter is actually in frame or how many days of footage the disk really holds. Then an auditor or an investigator asks for last quarter’s recording of a specific till, and it was overwritten weeks ago. We have been called to branches where the vault camera covered the door but missed the dial.
A failed audit, and the one recording that mattered already gone.
Coverage mapped against every high-value zone, and storage sized for the full retention period your regulator sets, both verified at commissioning rather than assumed.
To save a little cabling, the cameras and door controllers get patched into the nearest network point, which happens to carry transactions. Now every device with a default password is a doorway into the core banking network. A weak camera becomes a regulator’s finding, or worse.
A cyber exposure that puts the transaction network one weak password away from the public lobby.
A separate, segmented network for all building systems, designed to IEC 62443 principles and documented, so an auditor can see the transaction network is isolated.
An intrusion alarm sounds locally but never reaches a monitoring station, or the access system records entries that no one can pull into a clean report. The system looks healthy right up to the night it is tested for real.
An after-hours breach no one is alerted to, and entry logs you cannot produce on demand.
Escalation paths and monitoring-station integration designed first, then commissioned against real alarm and duress scenarios, with audit-ready logging proven before handover.
A standard sprinkler head is fitted above a server room or a record store because it was the default on the drawing. The day it discharges, water finishes the job the fire started, taking the records and servers with it.
Critical records and servers lost to the suppression system, not the fire.
Clean-agent suppression and early-warning detection specified for those rooms, to NFPA 2001 and IS 2189, separated from the wet system protecting the rest of the building.
In a bank, the systems are only as good as the points where they meet. None of that happens by accident. It happens because the interfaces were drawn at design stage and tested before handover.
When one team designs and commissions all of it under a single contract, those interfaces are one team's responsibility. When each system is a separate contract, the gaps between them belong to no one, until the night they fail.
Compliance is easier to judge when you can see it by system. Here is what each system we deliver is designed, tested and approved against, for banking projects in India, the UAE and Oman.
Structured cabling and a segmented network that carries every building system without touching the transaction network.
Across all of them, you receive the evidence at handover: test certificates, the fire cause-and-effect matrix, network segmentation records, and as-built drawings.
The questions bank developers, security and admin managers, IT teams and consultants ask before they specify.
Tell us about your bank project and a senior engineer reviews it with you, then sets out what your systems need and where the risks are.
Response within one business day. No cost, no obligation.
