Security Products Magazine Digital Edition - September 2014

September 2014

  • How to Get the Most Out of Your Video Surveillance Investment
  • Enough to Go Around
  • The New Landscape
  • The ABCs of PoE
  • Enhancing the Customer Experience
  • Standardizing as a Breakthrough


Features

How to Get the Most Out of Your Video Surveillance Investment

Three agencies have cracked the code

By Rodell Notbohm

Transit systems across the country strive to make the smartest investments to improve community safety and provide valuable resources for law enforcement.


Windstorm Solutions for Hurricanes and Tornadoes

Various codes apply when preparing for the forces of nature

By Minu Youngkin

When it comes to windstorm solutions, it’s all code-driven as door, lock and hardware chosen for an opening are determined by hurricane or tornado codes. The challenge comes with knowing which codes apply.


Standardizing as a Breakthrough

Alcatel-Lucent locations find peace of mind at each spot

By Kim Rahfaldt

Alcatel-Lucent, a leader in products and innovations in IP and cloud networking as well as ultra-broadband fixed and wireless access, is responsible for countless breakthroughs that have shaped the networking and communications industry.


Enough to Go Around

Generating efficiency in vaccine delivery with biometric authentication

By Bill Spence

Some of the most satisfying applications of sophisticated security technologies have little to do with security. Today, biometric identity management plays a critical role in delivering necessary vaccines to children in the developing world.


The ABCs of PoE

Integrators have a real advantage with increased installation flexibility and lower labor cost

By Richard L. Malstrom

With the introduction of IP cameras, system integrators have experienced big improvements in the quality and performance of video systems that can be offered to their customers.


Protect a Key

KeyBank auto delivers accurate key usage information, convenience and security

By Ralph C. Jensen

When Steven Shaker wants to know who last took a car on his lot out for a demo or wants to see the demo history of a specific vehicle, all he has to do is go to his computer and check the Morse Watchmans KeyPro software for the answer.


The New Landscape

Visitor identity management in healthcare takes a turn for the better

By Ajay Jain

Managing access privileges for visitors, contractors and vendors in hospitals is a significant challenge for healthcare institutions.


Data Breaches: Who’s Ultimately Responsible?

By Ginger Hill

In 0.27 seconds, these were the top headlines that Google pulled from 67,500 results highlighting the latest data breaches around the globe.


Enhancing the Customer Experience

Primary security mission is keeping stores safe and shrink low

By Ted Guzek

Consumers’ expectations about their shopping experience at brickand- mortar, retail stores are changing. Mobile devices allow consumers to find any information they need with just a few clicks of a button, and this sense of immediacy has spread to how they shop.


Departments

The Proprietary Trap

Open Architecture 101 as it generally relates to access control and security technology

By Steve Fisher

The entire computing world at one time was strictly proprietary. In other words, the election to use one piece of software or hardware dictated the requirement to get additional expansion and support from the single provider for the lifetime of that purchase.


Hot Time in Atlanta

By Ralph C. Jensen

There are a lot of important things about the month of September: School is underway; football has started; and it is time for ASIS.


Dealer Strategies

Not All Universities are the Same

By Ralph C. Jensen

I’ve seen a lot of higher education campuses in my travels, and until late July, all of them have been beautiful, pastoral settings with buildings over acres of land. However, it was my pleasure and surprise to visit Pace University in downtown New York City.


When Does Warranty Begin?

A closer look at one of the most debated topics at the end of a project

By Charlie Howell

Most of us have been at the end of a project when the owner/ client asks the popular question: “When does the one-year warranty begin?” The answer becomes one of the most debated topics, only second to the end-of-project, door-locking hardware debacle.


The Backbone of Security

By Ralph C. Jensen

Rob Lydic spends a lot of time traveling around the upper Midwest and Northwest, heralding the needs of security, proper equipment and how dealers can make more money in their own businesses.


Picking Up the Pace

By Ralph C. Jensen

Idesco Corp. started in the security business in the early 1940s. They began with ID badging for the Department of the Army. Well, times have changed, a lot, in the past seven or eight decades but one constant is that Idesco is still involved in security.


Webinars

New Products

  • Unified VMS

    AxxonSoft introduces version 2.0 of the Axxon One VMS. The new release features integrations with various physical security systems, making Axxon One a unified VMS. Other enhancements include new AI video analytics and intelligent search functions, hardened cybersecurity, usability and performance improvements, and expanded cloud capabilities 3

  • Connect ONE’s powerful cloud-hosted management platform provides the means to tailor lockdowns and emergency mass notifications throughout a facility – while simultaneously alerting occupants to hazards or next steps, like evacuation.

    Connect ONE®

    Connect ONE’s powerful cloud-hosted management platform provides the means to tailor lockdowns and emergency mass notifications throughout a facility – while simultaneously alerting occupants to hazards or next steps, like evacuation. 3

  • A8V MIND

    A8V MIND

    Hexagon’s Geosystems presents a portable version of its Accur8vision detection system. A rugged all-in-one solution, the A8V MIND (Mobile Intrusion Detection) is designed to provide flexible protection of critical outdoor infrastructure and objects. Hexagon’s Accur8vision is a volumetric detection system that employs LiDAR technology to safeguard entire areas. Whenever it detects movement in a specified zone, it automatically differentiates a threat from a nonthreat, and immediately notifies security staff if necessary. Person detection is carried out within a radius of 80 meters from this device. Connected remotely via a portable computer device, it enables remote surveillance and does not depend on security staff patrolling the area. 3