PERMISSION TO MOVE FREELY
By RANDY SOUTHERLAND
Its reach and responsibility are staggering when it comes to providing medical services to those in need. Patients scattered over more than half of the...
New System Has Teeth
By KATE HENRY
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) is the state's principal university of the health sciences. A teaching, research and medical...
Security a Staple at L.A. Arena
The Staples Center, home of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings, and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks, has implemented...
Tracking Students With Biometrics
Students at Bar-Lev High School in Tel Aviv, Israel, now register their arrival at the school using biometric fingerprint readers from Lavie TimeTech...
One Phase At A Time
By ARTHUR J. BOURQUE III and EVELYN MESERVE
In many ways, Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass., couldn't ask for a better location. Close to major roads and public transportation, the hospital...
Product Focus
Data Conversion For Access Control Translates major reader technologies The data conversion system for card access control systems uses configuration...
From the Front Lines of Access Control
BY PAUL FREIRICH
I have been associated with a security systems integrator for 30 years and have been president of it for almost 13. During all those years I have designed...
3, 2, 1 Contactless
BY RANDY SOUTHERLAND
Overlooking Pennsylvania's Lake Erie, Mercyhurst College is as much a tribute to the past as it is a center for educating professionals of the future....
Super Nova
University campuses are often thought to exist as a community unto themselves, which is not entirely accurate. Campuses are often located right in the...
Off-Site But In Control
When VEI Inc., an Indianapolis property management firm responsible for multiple healthcare facilities across the region, needed to consolidate management...
Fingerprints: The Role of the Processor
Kevin Klein
Fingerprint recognition is one of the primary forms of biometrics and is used in diverse applications such as cell phones, car entry and security checkpoints....
Under Lock and Keypad
The University of Connecticut Health Center, with 35 buildings covering more than 2 million square feet and 8,000 doors, has chosen standalone electronic...
Biometrics: The Basics
James Gompers
DEFINITION Here's a quick definition of biometrics: As it pertains to security, biometrics is an emerging field of technology devoted to identification...
BIO METRICS: The Future Is Today
By Michael Fickes
For more than two decades, card access control and CCTV systems have anchored the lion's share of commercial and government security programs. Today,...
TECHNOLOGY put to the test
By Corrina Stellitano
Employees and consumers have become accustomed to the routines of security: enter your PIN or password; smile for the camera, stare into the lens; press...
City of Edmonton Upgrades Access Control
15 years ago city officials in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, Canada, wanted an electronic access control system that could help protect dozens of...
Roadblocks To Disaster
By CORRINA STELLITANO
Stopping weapons disguised as vehicles requires varied approaches -- and available technology stands ready to do the job....
ANCIENT artifacts, MODERN technologies
By Randy Southerland
From serious researchers to wide-eyed school children, a total of 4.5 million visitors make their way through New York City's American Museum of Natural...
Security Systems Turn Up The Heat
By MICHAEL FICKES
The $8 billion Fortune 500 SCANA Corp. has begun to integrate the controls of its company-wide building security systems, fire safety systems, and heating,...
A Texas-Sized Tower
By KATE HENRY
The Renaissance Tower in Dallas is a gleaming tower of commerce whose exterior reflects, along with the blue sky and hot Texas sun, the hustle and bustle...
Horizon Gives Big Banks A Run For Their Money
By KATE HENRY
Increasingly rare and therefore all the more valuable, Horizon Bank, Pembroke Pines, Fla., was chartered in 1999 to serve as an independent, local bank...
Throw Away the Keys
By Randy Southerland
At California's Biola University, students in dorms are trading in conventional metal keys for hotel style cards. For this quiet suburban campus, it means...
Keypads
Stand-Alone Access Control Keypad Up to 200 enrolled users Using piezo switch technology, the keypad has no moving parts or buttons. Keypad meets IP68...
The Eyes Have It
by Jacqueline Emigh
With air safety concerns soaring all over the world, iris recognition tests are turning up at several airports in North America and Europe. In one recent...
A victory for Victoria, B.C.
Compiled by JENNIFER PERO
A Victory for Victoria, B.C. LOCATION:Victoria, B.C. USER:Victoria International Airport TECHNOLOGY:Access Control Software As one of the world's most...
