Cypress Integration Solutions and Farpointe Data have joined forces to supply security integrators with products that will bring improved security and flexibility, thanks to the Security Industry Association’s OSDP access control standard.
Systems integrator Preferred Technologies Inc., Houston, has integrated the intelligent networking capabilities of LifeSafety Power’s FlexPower iSCAN (Supervision Control Access Notification) SmartPower system to Genetec’s unified security platform called Security Center. Preferred Technologies, known as Pref-Tech, has implemented the integration successfully at numerous customer sites.
Physical security systems run on state-of-the-art hardware and software infrastructure. Increasingly the industry is turning to cloud application solutions, and identity databases are being hosted on virtualized servers.
The Security Industry Association (SIA) announced the Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) with Data Security Extension as a new Standards Department project within the organization’s American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards program.