Out of tragedy, a new beginning
GEORGE PARTINGTON
After workplace violence erupts, Connecticut Lottery relocates into a new - and secure - building.On March 6, 1998, a distraught Connecticut Lottery employee...
Biometrics moves to the mainstream
TINA D'AVERSA-WILLIAMS
Biometric technologies have advanced rapidly during the last few years. Large technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Compaq are now active biometrics...
Thieves sent packing at Roosevelt
DON GARBERA
New York City hotels occasionally suffer invasions. Teams of well-dressed "bag boosters" enter the hotels, stake out the lobbies and wait. Unattended,...
Stand-alone: Basic, low-cost, programmable access control
GEORGE PARTINGTON
Stand-alone access control represents the most basic level of security systems. But for some applications, basic is better. For small-scale situations...
Security Systems IntegrationRetrofit at Lexmark International blends fire and security systems to handle 20,000 daily transactions.
AC&SSI Staff
Single-seat control benefits printer manufacturerLexmark International Inc. needed a change. Its world headquarters, a 31-building, 450-acre research...
Sandia Labs developing next wave of technology Energy.
GEORGE PARTINGTON
Albuquerque company stresses innovation in its work for the U.S. Department of Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, N.M., is a hotbed of new technologies...
Stamford Marriott: Security includes promoting awareness
DON GARBERA
Not more than a handful of years ago, Stamford, Conn., was a sleepy little New England town where the biggest security problem was controlling teenage...
Deere & Company upgrades security continent-wide
AC&SSI Staff
Famous for farm equipment, the $12 billion corporation has expanded into other business areas, and is completing the first phase of a world-class security...
Securing pharmaceutical assets
MICHAEL FICKES
Linking access control to the IS network to improve operations and reduce costs. Three years ago, $9 billion global pharmaceutical giant Hoechst Marion...
Providing access control for 12 million attendees.
GEORGE PARTINGTON
It's Expo Time! If all goes according to the plans of Jose Cartaxo Vicente, Expo '98 will be a peaceful, summer-long celebration in Lisbon, Portugal,...
How to salvage $1.3 million in security technology
MICHAEL FICKES
When a main technology supplier changed priorities, the University of Maryland Medical System popped a software pill to save a huge investment in security...
Smart Buildings
AC&SSI Staff
Smart technology enables seamless facility control at municipal building in Holland Building owners worldwide face complex decisions about how to protect...
Smart stadium--An impressive and secure sports facility rises from the Arizona desert.
CAROL CAREY
Well before the first crowd of excited fans watched the first game played by Arizona's new major league baseball team at its expansive new stadium, Bank...
University Campus Security--Biometric program provides positive identification at UGA
KATE HENRY
Since its founding in 1798, the University of Georgia has been characterized by innovation. Located in Athens, Ga., about an hour northeast of Atlanta,...
How one biotechnology research and development company protects its ideas and processes with security technology
MICHAEL FICKES
The biotechnology research and development companies clustered in southern California live in fear of scientific error and industrial espionage.Inside...
Transportation Facilities Security
AC&SI Staff
Expansion of the Colorado Springs airport invites security innovation A door is a door is a door. That is true in many access control installations, but...
Bowdoin College's fast-track, multi-technology security integration.
Dr. Adam Thermos
The recent integration of security systems at Bowdoin College was a strange and wonderful fast-track project - so seamless that students were unaware...
After-hours security device secures doors; assists disabled clients
AC&SSI Staff
When the Independent Living Center in Hudson, N.Y., moved into its new facility, program coordinator Lee Stone noticed a potential security problem: The...
The glass shield
AC&SSI Staff
A striking glass wall in the lobby of a Manhattan high-rise doubles as a barrier against unauthorized removal of assets.In New York City, 540 Madison...
25 years of access control advances
STAN WAND
If the pace and rate of change in the recent past is an indication of things to come, advances in access control will continue to accelerate.Access control...
Controlling the 'doors' to information
GEORGE PARTINGTON
A device developed for the government applies physical access control to network connections."Illegal information gathering from government and private...
Down-to-earth security at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
STEVEN T. KUNTZ
Research and development for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is performed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), an operating division...
Which comes first CCTV or Access Control?
CHARLIE R. PIERCE
My first directive is usually to view security from a CCTV perspective. However, as a point of education, it is time to take a look from the other side...
Putting people trackers to work
Staff
Sharp HealthCare protects infants from abduction Though not a crime of epidemic proportions, the abduction of infants (birth through 6 months) from healthcare...
Critical Security Operation at inner-city hospital doesn't miss a beat
DON GARBERA
The system at North Central Bronx Hospital boasts 141 cameras, 83 card readers and alarmed door contacts in 431 offices.The community served by New York's...
