HOSPITAL INTEGRATES ACCESS AND VIDEO
Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., recently opened a new Cancer Treatment Center and was faced with the challenge of protecting its facility,...
ID Cards Getting Smarter
By John Ekers
There is more and more technology going into a typical high school's ID card program. Functionality now can include physical access, logical access, identification,...
Merging Systems
by Randy Southerland
When it came to access control, the School District of Lee County in southwest Florida was looking for a system that allowed maximum flexibility while...
One Card at a Time
by Corrina Stellitano
For some, college is just a rest stop on the road to responsibility. Knowing this, proactive college administrators are selecting security systems that...
Prestigious Protection
By Carol Carey
With 34,933 students and 12,112 employees, the University of Maryland at College Park is one of the largest and most prestigious institutions of higher...
FREE TO ROAM
BY CORRINA STELLITANO
Imagine a corporate workforce with no formal assignments to its 3,000 desktop computers: Many times each hour, the employees rise and switch stations....
Precision Security
By Randy Southerland
One night, a large metal loading bay door at the warehouse section of the Orangeburg, N.Y., distribution center for Olympus Surgical and Industrial America...
Restored & Safe
By Erin Semple
Following completion of a $9 million restoration project, the Old Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville, Ga. part of Georgia College and State University...
Cambridge Secures Its Back Doors
Cambridge (Mass.) College needed to secure the entrances and parking structure at its main campus. Because the building is used by administrators, faculty,...
A Picture of Health
By Corrina Stellitano
This May, Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., introduced a new CT scanner capable of creating a three-dimensional picture of a patient's heart...
Fairleigh Innovative
By Randy Southerland
Fairleigh Dickinson University is the largest private institution in New Jersey with 10,000 students pursuing higher education on two campuses in the...
Protection Preventive
By Don Garbera
When a patient is admitted to Norwalk Hospital, a security supervisor visits on the first day. The supervisor addresses a series of questions with the...
A Reassuring Touch
By Jacqueline Emigh
After years of trial-and-error experimentation, biometric identification is finally starting to see wide-scale adoption by corporations and government...
City Hall & Beyond
by Carol Carey
Five years ago, access control for city employees in Eugene, Ore., was relatively uncomplicated: more than 500 employees were issued proximity cards to...
FIRST AND GOAL
BY RANDY SOUTHERLAND
On any given Sunday, the roar of nearly 69,000 voices cheering as one rises up from the cavernous expanses of Titans Coliseum, home of the NFL's Tennessee...
ELECTRONIC DOORKEEPER
By CORRINA STELLITANO
The Seneca Nation of Indians recently introduced new access control and surveillance systems in the Seneca Allegany Casino in Salamanca, N.Y., and upgraded...
Well-Educated in Access Control
Cambridge College, founded in 1971 and an independent institution since 1981, offers an environment in which working adults can continue their education....
The Evidence Is In
When RenewData opened its new evidence processing center in Texas, company officials wanted something none of its competitors offered physical security...
Biometrics In Full Swing At Borders
Foreign visitors at the 50 busiest land border crossings in 10 states are now being fingerprinted as part of the government's new biometric screening...
Securing a Historical Treasure
Approaching the entrance to Missouri's newly remodeled Kansas City Central Library, one is struck with awe at its grandeur. Built in 1904, the former...
HOT WHEELS, COOL SECURITY
THE COLLECTION is a luxury car dealership in Coral Gables, Fla., located in a state-of-the-art, three-story, 350,000-square-foot facility. It is home...
New Life To Old
From the outside, the new Milwaukee Theater still looks a lot like the Milwaukee Auditorium, from which it was reborn. Inside, however, the transformation...
ID AND THE NEED TO KNOW
by JACQUELINE EMIGH
Identifying employees and company visitors is not what it used to be. Waves of corporate financial scams, federal regulatory changes and international...
Ancient Monument, Smart Technology
Each year, more than 4 million people from around the world visit the Great Wall of China. To streamline access by reducing ticket jams, fraud and system...
A Beacon of Security in New York Harbor
Hailed once again as a beacon of hope, the Statue of Liberty welcomed back huddled masses of tourists in early August for the first time since it was...
