Security without reservations at New York's Peninsula Hotel
DON GARBERA
The Peninsula Hotel's security operation lives up to the hotel's first-class reputation. The Peninsula Hotel is in the heart of New York's most prestigious...
Empire State Building
By DON GARBERA
The Empire State Building, the centerpiece of New York City, rises 1,454 feet above the street. Built with a 60,000-ton steel frame, the building's exterior...
Telecheck
By MICHAEL FICKES
Telecheck employees move freely through the company's high-rise headquarters building in Houston. They move so freely you might not realize that an advanced...
AAA National Headquarters
By Staff
We needed to be more careful. When you need to replace your antiquated, manual security procedures with a more technologically sophisticated system, how...
Miami Beach Police Department
>By Staff
Few places are more in need of accurate, reliable and secure access control than law enforcement precincts. Consequently, when the Miami Beach Police...
A microchip in a plastic card
By GEORGE PARTINGTON
If you read it, they will come. That could be the mantra of the smart card industry in the United States, especially as it relates to access control applications....
Integrating existing equipment with new technology creates state-of-the-art
By JANIE JARVIS
The Mellon Bank Center is a 54-floor building in Philadelphia that houses about 40 office tenants. Although the access control computer system installed...
After evaluating existing systems, the company made a change.
By WILLIAM A. LEE
In 1996, AirTouch Cellular, Dublin, Ohio, brought Rick Roberts on board as safety and security manager in an effort to solidify its security program and...
At the corporate headquarters of The Principal Financial Group
By P.J. CANNON
A man arrives at his wife's place of employment and a heated argument ensues. They leave the main building with voices raised and head for one of the...
Proximity system controls access to Citibank's Brazilian headquarters >BY Staff
An Indala proximity system, backed by CCTV cameras, replaced guards at critical entrances and complemented the building's architecture. Housed in a landmark,...
Programmable cards help telecom company monitor building entry
By Don Garbera
More than 100 buildings have been put on-line at tele-communications provider NYNEX. Future plans are to put all 2,200 sites on-line. NYNEX, a major telephone...
Proximity cards go the distance
By GEORGE PARTINGTON
Convenience is desirable in door entry systems, and what is easier than approaching a door, opening it and walking in, just as if it were unlocked? With...
