ProtectED Rooms Officially Launches with Bullet-Resistant Bookcase that Becomes Physical Barricade; Protects People in Violent Events such as Active Shooters and Civil Unrest
ProtectED Rooms officially launched with the introduction of its groundbreaking bookcase. Designed with a focus on protecting school children and staff in an active shooter situation, the impenetrable bookcase easily rolls and locks into place blocking the classroom entryway – with the potential to lock down an entire school in seconds. The Atlanta-based company has expanded with a presence in the Boston area to serve the Northeast region.
Dortronics Door Control Keep Clean Rooms Better Protected
Dortronics Systems offers a comprehensive line of door control products that combine to provide laboratory and research facility management with comprehensive solutions to better protect clean rooms with harmful contagions. Products include touchless and waterproof switches, motion sensor door releases, and maglocks of all sizes and holding strengths, and customized door interlock controls. Dortronics clean room door control solutions include touchless and waterproof switches.
IDIS Delivers a Comprehensive 1,000 Camera End-To-End Video Solution To London Landmark Hotel
IDIS have been selected to provide the Zedwell Piccadilly Hotel, located in the heart of London’s West End, with a full 1000-camera IDIS solution. The Zedwell Piccadilly was recently expanded and transformed with a top-to-bottom refurbishment, including an extension with a major annex in neighboring Great Russell Street, bringing the total number of rooms to over 700.
Social Media Giant Achieves Optimal Space Utilization with Quanergy’s 3D LiDAR Smart Spaces Solution
Quanergy has successfully partnered with a prominent social media provider to effectively optimize the organization’s use of space across campuses for enhanced productivity and improved employee experience. The social media giant faced the critical need to improve space utilization across their campuses, which comprised of numerous conference rooms, cafeterias, and other general-purpose areas.
Terabee Announces Major Project to Reduce Energy Consumption and Expenditure, and New Product Features
French sensor solutions technology company, Terabee, who manufacture their flagship people counting sensors in the EU, have partnered with FIPOI, the Foundation for buildings for International Organisations in Geneva, on a major people counting project as part of FIPOI’s strategy to reduce energy consumption and expenditure. By integrating the Terabee people counting system with the CICG Building Management System (BMS), FIPOI hopes to reduce the conference center’s energy consumption
Physical Security And Cyber Security: Two Layers Of An Overall Security Solution
Physical security is a crucial aspect of cyber security as it deals with the protection of the tangible components of a computer system. Given that it involves safeguarding the actual physical parts of a computer system, physical security is an essential component of cyber security. The elements of physical security include protecting workstations, servers, storage systems, and other pieces of gear. To guarantee the privacy, accuracy, and availability of the data stored and processed on these systems, these assets must be physically protected.
3 Roles Security Plays in Manufacturing Distribution
The pressures of the global pandemic forced remarkable evolutions in the way we do business as well as the tools with which we perform our tasks. Upon inspection, manufacturing and distribution in particular were presented with significant challenges of productivity, supply chain continuity, employee safety as well as the increased requirements around workplace safety. With these factors in play, leaders in this space were able to deftly respond to the initial COVID-19 workplace requirements via OSHA & CDS.
Openpath, Allegion Expand Mobile & Cloud Based Access Control Capabilities to All Doors with Schlage Wireless Locks Integration
Openpath announces a new cloud-to-cloud integration with
Schlage NDE and LE mobile enabled wireless locks from Allegion. This new integration provides a greater selection of cost-effective security solutions across an organization’s entire deployment and makes Openpath one of the only physical access control providers in the commercial space to natively support a Bluetooth credential with Schlage locks.
Dortronics 48900 PLC Interlock Controller is a Key Element in Protecting Sterile Environments
Dortronics Systems announces that its 48900 PLC interlock Controller is a highly effective and cost-efficient solution to properly sequence and help maintain sterile operating conditions in interlocked areas with up to 9 doors. The 48900 series is a fully integrated single-board access control solution that provides installers with complete control of all operating and configuration options without challenging and complex software or programming. The simplicity and flexibility of this door solution makes it a perfect option for cleanrooms and biolabs.
Phison and Cigent Partnership Sets New Standard in Cybersecurity
Phison Electronics Corp and Cigent Technology, unveiled design details behind the partnership that has delivered the industry’s first and only line of self-defending storage devices with cybersecurity built into the firmware itself to protect against ransomware, data theft and malicious insider theft. Phison’s innovative and robust NAND flash solutions support a broad range of applications including embedded, consumer, enterprise and automotive.
Iceland’s Financial Services Backbone Relies On Genetec To Safeguard Its Data Centre
Genetec announced that Reiknistofa Bankanna, an IT service provider for Icelandic financial institutions, has recently overhauled its security infrastructure with Genetec Security Center. With the help of its system integrator Hafnes Ehf, RB is now using Genetec to manage its cameras, access control, and video analytics through one unified interface. RB is a provider of mission-critical IT systems for Icelandic financial institution.
HID Global Announces Support for Student IDs in Apple Wallet
HID Global announced support for Seos® enabled student IDs in Apple Wallet. Beginning this fall, students, faculty and staff at Clemson University will be able to add their IDs to Apple Wallet and use their iPhone and Apple Watch to access buildings on campus, purchase meals and much more. To support student IDs in Apple Wallet on iPhone and Apple Watch, HID provides Seos-enabled credentials, HID iCLASS SE and HID OMNIKEY readers.
The Cloud Takes Security To New Heights
The world of physical security has undergone seismic changes in the last 10 years in video, analytics, and the utilization of security technologies for business intelligence. Technology that once was considered science fiction has now become a reality. In the education market, these technologies have come at a very opportune time with constrained budgets, administrative staff reductions, and tragic incidents requiring lockdowns and video observations reaching an all-time high. One of the greatest advancements that has come to market during this time has been cloud-based access control.
Milestone Enables Video to Boldly Go Where No Video Has Gone Before
Milestone Systems, the open platform company in networked video management software (VMS), has released Device Pack 8.1 for partners and customers using Milestone XProtect monitoring solutions. A highlight of this release is support for Digital Barriers’ TVI wireless video streaming that contains a patent-protected codec which dynamically adjusts video image resolution and pixel density to fit the quality of bandwidth available for video transmission.
Do You Have a Right to Privacy From Video Cameras in Public Places?
There are no Federal laws that prohibit hidden video surveillance also known as Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) in public or in the workplace. Most states do not prohibit it either. Only California, New York, and Rhode Island prohibit hidden video cameras in places where people expect complete privacy such as locker rooms, bathrooms and other places where people undress.
Patented FlexPower iSCAN RS With Network Status
The FlexPower® RS Series iSCAN (Supervision Control Access Notification) Networked Rackmount SmartPower system is an intelligent, networked-based device that features single or dual voltage, 8- or 16-outputs, in one device. It’s designed specifically for the access control, security, CCTV, and mass notification segments of the life safety industry and the new rack mount configuration provides additional installation possibilities, including data centers, control rooms, or other limited footprint spaces.
Kaba Launches Kaba Mobile Access Solutions
Kaba announces the availability of its Mobile Access Solutions, which allows users to access many Kaba RFID door locks with mobile devices such as smartphones. Powered by LEGIC IDConnect technology, Kaba’s Mobile Access Solutions securely manages digital credentials so users are ensured that their information is not shared with unauthorized parties. At HITEC (Hospitality Technical […]
Olathe Kansas Schools Upgrade Classroom Security With Multiple Schlage Products
Allegion PLC (NYSE: ALLE), a leading global provider of security products and solutions, announced that the Olathe Public School District in Kansas is improving classroom security and simplifying key control by replacing multiple brands of locks on classrooms and other doors with Schlage locks and a patent-protected Everest 29™ key system. Previously, the district used […]