Networked/Converged Systems Archive
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
By Paul C. Boucherle
Advances in digital technology within the security industry are driving today's convergence mania. For example, options abound in security video surveillance,...
Route 66 Casino Realizes Benefits From Physical Security System
Laguna Development Corp.'s Route 66 Casino, a nostalgia-themed casino near Alberquerque, N.M., that offers 1,600 slot and video poker machines, 26 table...
Building Interdepartmental Alliances Based On ROSI
By Paul C. Boucherle
EDITOR'S NOTE: Our monthly column translates issues of convergence into everyday, practical terms. The goal is to provide readers with an action plan...
Tech Watch
They're functional, ergonomic and comfortable. These control room consoles feature updated features to help command center officers and dispatch personnel...
Protecting The Servers
Kim Rahfaldt
Equinix is a global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and...
Building A Case For A More Robust Network
By Paul C. Boucherle CPP, CSC
I have discovered what I believe to be a universal truth every IT person wants a larger, faster, more scalable, and more robust network. Being a recovering...
9 Rules of Security Integration
By Michael Fickes
Emerging technology is rocking the world of corporate and institutional security directors. Several years ago, security technology networks avoided the...
Ensuring Continuity
By Ashley Roe
Toronto Pearson International Airport - Canada's busiest airport, handling more than 31 million passengers a year - has deployed Planet Associates' Infrastructure...
Access Control Goes Online
By Michael Fickes
Access control used to be so much trouble. You had to install all those intelligent boards one for every eight or 12 readers plus cables from the readers...
IP Security Supplement
Open Up The Dialogue
Building contractors and specifiers have unique perspectives and valuable positions in building design and in selecting a security system. Working with...
A Central Structure
BY STEPHANIE SILK
The Pointe-de-I'ile School Board in Montreal includes 70 buildings, a student population of 29,000 children and 9,000 adults annually and a staff of 4,500...
Putting Video To The Test
Video has long played an essential security role as the Fort Smith Public Schools (FSPS), Fort Smith, Ark., cope with incidents such as vandalism, theft...
The Genesis Of An Emergency System
Cleveland State University (CSU) is making a name for itself these days, not only as a quality educational institution, but as a national leader in campus...
Enabling HD
By Stephanie Silk
The Chumash Casino Resort, a 200,000-square-foot hotel and casino complex located in Santa Ynez, Calif., a city 35 miles north of Santa Barbara, offers...
The Next Level of Convergence
By Michael Fickes
The ubiquitous industry buzzword has another meaning for security professionals at many top companies: converging security with business interests to create strategies to add value to the bottom line...
No Interruptions
Ten minutes into a video during a film studies lecture, the projector flashes no signal on a blank screen. With 200 students waiting, the professor attempts...
Viscount As Built Software
As Built Software from Viscount Systems is a Web-based software package that help users design and manage As Built Security drawings....
Now & Future TECHNOLOGIES
By Ashley Roe & Stephanie Silk
Technology is coming at you faster than ever before. No surprise if you fall behind on modern innovations, or lose interest in the latest and greatest....
Digitize Relay Alarm for Cell Phones
When integrated with the System 3505 and Remote Annunciator alarm monitoring system, the SMS Text-2-Cell Option from Digitize Inc. transmits addressable alarm data and user-defined text to report fire and security alarm conditions. The plain-English text provides alarm point-of-origin, type and user-defined contact information. ...
Sensaphone Wireless Remote Monitoring System
The standalone Sensaphone 2800 is a remote monitor and alarm notification system that has eight external inputs, including four wireless sensors. The system helps protect equipment and facilities by alerting users to changes in environmental conditions. Each wireless sensor can be placed up to 300 ft. from the base unit, and each distance is extendable to an additional 300 ft. for each repeater, with no limit to the number of repeaters. ...
Imprivata OneSign Physical/Logical
Imprivata OneSign Physical/Logical integrates network and building access to provide a single consolidated user identity for greater overall enterprise security and risk management. By centrally mapping an employee’s multiple corporate IT and physical security identities with their respective access policies and events, OneSign confirms an employee’s location, validates their identity, dynamically enforces and enables information access policy and reports in real-time all access events for quick and easy compliance with data privacy and protection regulations. ...
Threat Advisory System Response Guideline Eligible For Suggestions
The ASIS Commission on Standards and Guidelines is soliciting comments on suggested revisions to the Threat Advisory System Response Guideline. The TASR Guideline, up for a 60-day public review-and-comment period, was first published in 2004. All ASIS Guidelines are re-evaluated every three years, with the possibility of revision, if warranted.
To provide input, go to the Guidelines section of the ASIS Web site here. Comments must be submitted by Feb. 1, 2008. The TASR Guideline can be downloaded, free of charge, on the site. ...
American Fibertek Network Monitoring System
The Scout Network Environmental Monitoring System from American Fibertek remotely monitors user-defined environmental conditions such as temperature, airflow and humidity levels, fan failures and power line changes. The system, a component of the American Fibertek’s V’nes networking system, notifies users of impending network failures so they can take appropriate action and preserve the integrity and continued operation of critical systems....
Viking Electronics Emergency Phone
The compact, hands-free E-1600-60A emergency phone from Viking Electronics features a vandal-resistant blue-powder-painted finish. The unit’s phone line can be powered and installed on any analog telephone line or PABX (Private Automatic Branch Exchange) station....
