Facility Security


Dissecting The Layers

When people talk about layered physical security, they often think it involves having more than one security device at a particular point on their property.

Circle The Wagons

As the first line of defense, perimeter security is often the initial focus: physical barriers, deterrent strategies, access control and intrusion detection systems, ground sensors and street patrols.

HID Global's Access Control Solution Safeguards China Hospital

First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University in Guangzhou, China has selected HID Global's networked access control solutions and contactless readers to provide multi-layered security with advanced access control level settings and centralized monitoring to improve the hospital’s overall security in key access zones.

VIVOTEK Cameras Guard City of Halle, Belgium

In order to meet numerous complex technical specs and requirements for the Healle, Belgium surveillance project, many different types of cameras were sought after. Some of the challenges facing the VIVOTEK teams and system integrator included varying lighting conditions at the station, from dimly lit parking lots, to outdoor entrances, interior corridors and a jail.

New High School Implements System Sensor ExitPoint

To help protect students and staff in the case of an emergency, school officials from Hueytown High School and the building’s architectural firm, Lathan Associates, looked to an engineering firm to design a fire system for them.

Jersey Mike's Selects Envysion as Preferred Video Surveillance Provider

Jersey Mike's Franchise Systems has selected Envysion as its preferred video surveillance provider.

Smarter Security Protects New Vocus Headquarters Building

Vocus recently has deployed Smarter Security's Fastlane GlassGate™ 200 optical turnstiles in the main lobby of the company’s new headquarters building in Beltsville, Maryland.

Nebraska Medical Center Improves Patient Safety with IQinVision

The Nebraska Medical Center, located in Omaha, has deployed nearly 300 of IQinVision's IQeye HD megapixel cameras to ensure patient safety, upgrade medical care, and reduce staffing costs.



Spa Resort Casino Chooses SSI to Manage Surveillance Upgrade

Spa Resort Casino located in Palm Springs, Calif., has chosen Surveillance Systems Integration (SSI) to direct a major surveillance and security upgrade.

Luxury Complex Installs Morse Watchmans Key Control System

At the garden-style, gated Brookview Apartment community in Marlton, NJ, Property Manager Eric Schulz is working to prevent problems with the help of a Morse Watchmans automated key control and asset management system.

Security Management System Delivers

Security Management System Delivers

The installations of high-end electronic turnstiles that offer Web-accessed integration of a visitor management system, access control and elevator control have increased by more than 400 percent.

PT Pelabuhan Selects Bosch to Secure its Indonesian Seaport

PT Pelabuhan, a company specializing in handling containers for international and domestic transportation in several ports in Indonesia, has chosen Bosch to help secure its seaport in Medan.

W-Industries Adds Waterfall Security's Unidirectional Security Gateways

Waterfall Security Solutions, a provider of Unidirectional Security Gateways, and W-Industries, a systems integrator headquartered in Houston, TX, has installed Waterfall Security System's Unidirectional Security Gateways at two facilities of a large oil and gas exploration and production firm, both an onshore facility and an offshore platform.

Senstar Sells More Than 200 Km of Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems

Senstar Corporation announced today the sale of over 200 Km of perimeter intrusion detection systems (PIDS) protecting solar power generation facilities in Germany.

Firetide Wins Korea's Largest Wireless Access Point Deal for Hospitals

LG Uplus Corp., Korea's third-largest service provider, will use Firetide wireless acess points (APs) to support a massive wireless LAN (WLAN) project that will provide coverage for 180 of Korea's largest hospitals nationwide.

Major Korean Bank Installs IQinVision IQeye Cameras

A major bank in Korea has installed more than 4,5000 IQinVision IQeye Alliance mini-dome cameras in its headquarters and bank branches throughout the country.

NRF Report Finds Organized Retail Crime Growing

A recent NRF survey shows retailers think organized crime is becoming more troublesome than ever before.

Ensuring Patient Privacy, Enhancing Security

Today’s video surveillance camera manufacturers offer models specifically built for the healthcare setting.

End to End Surveillance

At the behavioral health hospitals, risk management and staff training programs play an important role in the overall vision of their parent corporation by creating a safe and effective environment for patients, employees, visitors and the general public.

Selling A Proactive Approach

In the physical security industry, an ounce of prevention is definitely worth a pound of cure. No one knows that better than Laurie M. Morris, president of Warren Protective Services Ltd., headquartered in Toronto.

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