Security access systems - Case studies

Symmetry will control access throughout the facility and staff and patients will use their access cards The Commonwealth Center for Children & Adolescents, an acute care, mental health facility for youth, has chosen AMAG Technology’s Symmetry V8 access control system with Symmetry CompleteView Video Management System and Symmetry PowerProtect NVR platform to secure its hospital facility in Staunton, Virginia. AMAG Technology is a security management solution provider...

Nick Dooley comments on LOCKEN's efforts to provide optimum security to leisure organisations Leisure facilities, such as theme parks and entertainment destinations, which employ thousands of staff and see tens of thousands of visitors pass through their gates each day, have demanding and complex security requirements. In order to provide a security solution suitable for each element of the infrastructure, including rides, shops, restaurants, photo booths, hotels and main...

Vindicator products are also approved for operation across the Air Force’s data networks Honeywell recently announced that its newest generation of Vindicator® Command, Control and Display Equipment (CCDE) has been certified to protect critical assets at U.S. Air Force bases worldwide. The Air Force awarded the certification after exhaustive qualification, testing and evaluation. Vindicator solutions have been on the USAF-approved equipment list without interruption...

Securitas has entered into 10-year partnership worth £31million to improve services Securitas has entered into a ground-breaking 10-year partnership to provide security and reception services to the University of Hertfordshire. The partnership, worth £31million over 10 years, was awarded as part of a long-term initiative that will see the organisations work closely together, improve service and save the University, based in Hatfield Hertfordshire, around &poun...

Matrix COSEC DOOR PVR, a palm vein based door controller for attendance marking was also installed at the laboratory Introduction: Started in 1961, Rottapharm is present in 90 countries worldwide with more than 1800 employees in the field of consumer healthcare products, reimbursed prescription products and natural extracts. For its Thailand based research laboratory, they were facing issue of long fingerprint identification and verification time. This was resulting long queu...

There were a total of seven Vicon Kollector DVRs at three different venues At the 2005 All Star Game, held in Detroit, security ran exceptionally smooth, thanks in part to updated video equipment from Vicon Industries Inc. Comerica Park security is handled through Detroit Tigers, Inc (DTI), a division of Ilitch Holdings Inc. (IHI), the company that manages several sports teams’ venues, as well as some theaters and a food distribution service. At all of these venues, the...

The site is now equipped with padlocks, cylinders and keys from the ABLOY Protec2 CLIQ range A critical public utility that also attracts 190,000 tourists every year provides the ultimate security challenge. Infrastructure safety is paramount, but so too is the flexibility required to welcome hundreds of daily visitors. At Llyn Brenig Reservoir and Visitor Centre, the answer was ASSA ABLOY`s CLIQ® technology. ASSA ABLOY UK, Technical Sales Manager comments “Cri...

With ViconNet software, you can modify the bandwidth by adjusting frame rate Founded in 1882, Dow Jones & Company has long been recognised as the authority on business and financial news worldwide. In addition to generating the world’s leading business publication, The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones has built a media empire that includes investment indexes, magazines, daily and weekly newspapers, newswire, radio and Internet news services. Yet, its most important ass...

ACT door controllers, door stations and proximity fobs are being used at Urban Village development Secured Alarm Systems are installing access control equipment from ACT at a £25m regeneration project in Swansea, Wales. The integrator is using ACT door controllers, door stations and proximity fobs at the Urban Village development, an ongoing project that has already transformed the High Street and Strand area of Swansea with a set of mixed-use commercial and residen...

Nedap’s uPASS Reach long-range UHF readers in combination with IDTECK elevator384 access control system were installed To optimise the monitoring and management of all vehicles and people access points at the company’s headquarters, the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication group (VNPT) recently upgraded the building’s entire access control and surveillance system. Nedap’s uPASS Reach readers were selected to facilitate hands-free access and elevator manag...

The system also allows groups access rights to specific areas of the school within prescribed time frames Three new schools in Sheffield - Silverdale, Newfield and Talbot all of which opened in 2009, are now benefitting from TDSi technology. Working closely with facilities management company Vinci Facilities, TDSi installed a complete access control system which included MIFARE®readers, MICROgarde 1 and 2 controllers and EXgarde management software.  MIFARE for cashl...

ASSA ABLOY supplied Powershield fire and personnel doorsets that features kick plates for added durability and a high-end finish Security Doors, a division of ASSA ABLOY UK, has successfully completed a £5m design, supply and installation of Powershield steel doors to the new Terminal 2A at Heathrow Airport. The first flights arrived at The Queen’s Terminal at the beginning of June 2014, almost 60 years after the original Terminal 2 opened as the airport&rsquo...

The project enables Genetec to demonstrate its latest unified IP security solutions in a simulated control room Leading control room furniture manufacturer, Winsted has supplied a customised console solution at the Genetec UK Solutions Centre, located in Reading, UK. The project enables the physical IP security solutions provider to demonstrate the very latest in their unified IP security solutions in a simulated control room. For over 15 years, Genetec has led the developmen...

CEM’s access terminal, emerald, has been installed at the airport providing solution beyond access control CEM Systems, part of the Security Products business unit of Tyco, can announce that its long standing customer London Gatwick Airport has undergone a major upgrade of its AC2000 access control and security management system. The project was phased throughout 2014 and involved an upgrade of AC2000 Airport software, as well as the upgrade of more than 700 card rea...

CLIQ® remote programming devices enable managers to update keys anywhere even in the field Challenge Founded as a private gas company in the 1800s, Industrielle Werke Basel (IWB) is now an independent utility owned by the city and canton of Basel. It employs over 750 people and supplies around 190,000 customers in Basel and north-western Switzerland with electricity, district heating, biogas and natural gas, energy services, telecommunications and safe drinking water. As...

The solution employs a combination of Optica readers together with EXcel 4 controllers Background Integrated access control specialist TDSi and its partner CSG Fire and Security have completed the design and installation of a complete access control system for C4L, one of the country’s fastest growing independent internet service providers. Established in 2000, C4L has grown rapidly and now has over 25 data centres across the UK and in Europe. This rapid growth led...

The stainless steel pull handles have been fitted to 27 doors of the school’s new sixth form centre Kingdown School, a co-educational secondary school in Wiltshire, is using stainless steel door handles from the Impressionist range by Alpro. The pull handles have been fitted to 27 doors created by Richmark Aluminium Systems on the school’s new sixth form centre designed by E10 Architects. The civil work was performed by Ken Biggs Contractors Ltd. based between Bri...

Danfoss with Nedap applied its ‘one company, one way’ strategy to central strategy and programme for security and access control Danfoss, an international supplier of mechanical and electronic components for various industries, gives the green light for the international roll out of AEOS, Nedap’s security platform. The next five years this platform will be introduced globally at all 80 locations. In 2014, Danfoss together with Nedap applied its company strate...

LEGIC provides its Connect trusted service through an existing Kaba Saflok room key management solution Opening hotel rooms with smartphones became reality in Las Vegas. The Cromwell Las Vegas decided to use the combination of the LEGIC Connect trusted service, Kaba Mobile Access Solutions and Bluetooth Low Energy, allowing the hotel to send keys onto smartphones with the touch of a button. The Cromwell Las Vegas, operated by Caesars Entertainment, is now one of the first hot...

see bigger image The contract follows a pilot programme that allowed ESBT to ascertain benefits of LOCKEN’s access control solution ESB Telecoms (ESBT), a subsidiary of Ireland’s public electricity distribution company, has contracted LOCKEN to upgrade its access infrastructures. The contract, which covers the provision of 1,000 access systems for Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) base stations at 450 locations throughout the country, follows a p...

TBS partner, United Systems, deployed 36 2D-Terminals increasing Dhofar Insurance’s efficiency and productivity Dhofar Insurance has 25 years of experience in delivering a wide range of insurance services in every region of the Sultanate of Oman. The company has a network of 45 offices, spreading from the major cities to the remotest areas. Dhofar Insurance was searching for a progressive Time & Attendance biometric solution that would allow employees to log-in in o...

Avigilon’s Access Control Manager and HD surveillance solution helped maintain and improve safety at each school in the district Avigilon Corporation (“Avigilon”), a leading global provider of end-to-end security solutions, recently announced the Liberty Public School district has deployed its end-to-end Avigilon security solution, including access control and high-definition (HD) video surveillance, to improve school safety, accelerate incident response...

150 pairs of converters were installed in campus as a part of the 2nd phase of OTS product installation Princess Nora Bint AbdulRahman University in Riyadh recently enhanced its billion dollar surveillance system by adding 150 pairs of OT Systems' ET1111 media converters to its state-of-the-art access control system spanning the entire campus. This is the University's second phase of OTS product installations. It first installed OTS solutions nearly four years ago as part...

User cards can be added to, and removed, from the system, allowing  the centre flexible and convenient security Mul-T-Lock’s SMARTair™ access control solution has been installed at the Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre, to accommodate the unique requirements of its staff and guests at the historic site in Brighton. Home to an international Buddhist community The Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre is home to an international Buddhist community and its...