NORTH CANTON, Ohio — Australia's largest building society, Heritage, plans a $1.2 million refurbishment of its fleet of ATMs that includes the first-ever use of digital surveillance cameras by an Australian building society.
Forty-seven new Diebold Opteva ATMs will be deployed throughout Heritage's network of branches and mini branches, bringing the total number of devices in the Heritage ATM network to 82. Ten of these units will be installed in new sites, making member access to Heritage services even more convenient.
John Minz, chief executive office of Heritage, said deployment would be staggered throughout 2005. Ten of the new machines will be installed in new Heritage outlets, including branches and mini branches as outlined in the Society's new growth action plan that provides for 11 new branches (six this year), additional community branches and new mini branches throughout southern Queensland.
The advanced Opteva terminals are being deployed with digital surveillance cameras, alarms, consumer awareness mirrors and other security enhancements designed to deter such criminal activity as card-skimming, in which personal information is duplicated from bank cards.
According to Reg Bohler, managing director of Diebold Australia and New Zealand, Heritage is the first building society in Australia to combine the new generation Opteva family with an integrated digital surveillance system.
