Exercising its large-scale security integration capabilities, Diebold Inc. is managing the installation, integration and maintenance of a complex security software system for the new World Trade Center (WTC) site in New York City. The comprehensive Situational Awareness Platform Software (SAPS) system will collect, correlate and display information from a wide variety of the WTC site’s critical security systems, as well as provide identity management capabilities.
The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA), a global consortium of physical security providers headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and focused on promoting the interoperability of IP-enabled devices, has elected Larry Lien of Proximex of San Jose. Calif., as its new chairman and Marine Drive of Honeywell Security Group of Melville, N.Y., as vice chairman.
A while back, Nate Rice faced the big decision: how and how fast to move to IP-based security video while maintaining and not diminishing his investment in analog cameras and legacy digital video recorders (DVRs). It was not, however, ever a question of continuing to grow and scale up the analog infrastructure.
"Cloud computing” is a catch-all term that refers to many different technologies and business models. But they are not all created equally. Some are turnkey; others roll-your-own. Some are secure; others easily exploited. Some are publicly accessible, others highly restricted. For cloud-based physical security applications, all of these characteristics are important to consider.
The goal of Goodwill Industries of Silicon Valley (GWSV) is to help the San Jose community’s unemployed become employed. Founded in Santa Clara County in 1926, GWSV is part of Goodwill Industries International, one of the largest social service organizations in the world. GWSV is dedicated to improving employment opportunities, increased standards of living, economic independence, and restoring its clients’ self value. They accomplish this through workforce creation, vocational training and environmental stewardship
There are 240 miles of Cat5e and four miles of fiber. There are nearly 150 cameras, all IP-based and power over Ethernet (PoE) enabled. The cameras integrate with electronic access controls, which include biometrics. There is Wi-Fi inside the concrete-challenging facility and some staff have Android phones for text and email communications during operations and security incidents.
Brivo Systems LLC, a provider of Software as a Service applications for security management, today announced that a Whole Foods warehouse located in Aurora, Colo., near Denver, has installed Brivo ACS WebService to improve security and operations at the 110,000 square foot facility and adjoining bakery.
Communication Networks of Danbury, Conn., doing business as ComNet, a manufacturer of fiber optic transmission and networking equipment, named Ricardo Acle as the company’s director of Latin America sales. Ricardo is responsible the company’s Latin America sales effort.
Standards for the physical security industry took an important step forward at ISC West with the successful demonstration of interoperable products from Honeywell, UTC F&S, Tyco, Hikvision, Arecont Vision, IQinVision and ObjectVideo, according to PSIA.
To many people, the name ADT is synonymous with residential security — much like Coke and soda (or pop if you’re from the Midwest). The company, however, has a $2 billion a year commercial security unit, which is proactively building cutting-edge solutions for business and government customers.
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