Security Today Magazine Digital Edition - September 2020

October 2020

  • No Touch, Low Touch
  • Going the Distance
  • Driving New Options
  • Accelerating Security
  • Bringing Rapid Identification


Cover Story

No Touch, Low Touch

No Touch, Low Touch

By David Price

The global COVID-19 pandemic has made eliminating the spread of germs a critically important life-safety imperative.


Features

Smarter Power Consumption

By ZhiYoong Foo

What if the next generation of IoT sensing solutions offered ubiquitous, unobtrusive, and more aesthetically pleasing sensing? And, what would that mean for security and compliance?


Driving New Opportunities

Driving New Opportunities

By Robert Muehlbauer

When network video cameras first came on the market, they were chiefly bare bones video streaming devices.


Today’s Essentials

By Alex Doorduyn

Many of today’s video security systems feature 4K HD video to help human operators monitor and react better, but also to provide the best possible raw video data for the AI and machine learning programs that are used to continuously enhance operations.


Bringing Rapid Identification

By Russell Megonigal

As biometric readers play an increasingly prominent role in law enforcement, one of the newest high-value use cases is the ability to identify persons of interest on the street using smaller mobile biometric readers that are easy and safe for officers to both carry and use.


Democratizing Access

Democratizing Access

By Barbara Rizzatti

The Dover International Speedway’s high-banked, one-mile concrete oval race track is known as “The Monster Mile”.


Shifting Strategies

By Barry Goodson

The onslaught of COVID-19 has elevated security measures in every border control operation within the Department of Homeland Security.


Going the Distance

By Ronnie Pennington

Networked devices have made all the difference in giving security and communication systems far more ubiquity, capabilities, and performance than anyone could have dreamed of when the IP was invented in 1974.


An Essential Business

The manufacturing sector is extraordinarily diverse, ranging from the manufacturing of advanced fighter jets to ventilators, and pharmaceutical products to cars, paper products, steel, clothing, high-tech components and beyond.


Departments

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL

High Quality Integration

By Eddie Reynolds

Whether you are walking through U.S. customs at an airport or the lobby at a critical facility like a data center, a visitor checkpoint to verify your identity is standard.


Industry Professional

Meet the Director of Happiness

By Ralph C. Jensen

It is true that a picture is worth a thousand words. A nice, feel-good story is an escape from the mundane world of work.


New Products

  • Camden CV-7600 High Security Card Readers

    Camden CV-7600 High Security Card Readers

    Camden Door Controls has relaunched its CV-7600 card readers in response to growing market demand for a more secure alternative to standard proximity credentials that can be easily cloned. CV-7600 readers support MIFARE DESFire EV1 & EV2 encryption technology credentials, making them virtually clone-proof and highly secure.

  • FEP GameChanger

    FEP GameChanger

    Paige Datacom Solutions Introduces Important and Innovative Cabling Products GameChanger Cable, a proven and patented solution that significantly exceeds the reach of traditional category cable will now have a FEP/FEP construction.

  • 4K Video Decoder

    3xLOGIC’s VH-DECODER-4K is perfect for use in organizations of all sizes in diverse vertical sectors such as retail, leisure and hospitality, education and commercial premises.