Applications: BagScan installed at New York's JFK International Airport

Jun 1, 2000 12:00 PM, ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF

BagScan, a wireless baggage reconciliation system provided by Lufthansa Systems (North American Division), East Meadow, N.Y., has been incorporated at JFK International Airport for baggage handling operations. BagScan, which operates through a direct link to an airline's check-in system, uses barcode technology to receive, compare and match passengers' boarding and baggage data. At any time after passenger boarding and before a flight's departure, baggage and passenger data can be reconciled to assure that only authorized baggage has been loaded into an airplane's freight compartments. In the event that any luggage must be retrieved and off-loaded for security or other reasons, BagScan records the loading position of each bag, including its sequence number, container and container location.

Montreal-based Ilco Unican's Millenium access control system, is being implemented at Memorial University of Newfoundland. To enter a building, students, faculty members and university employees swipe a multi-technology card, referred to as the MUM smart card, through an Ilco Unican lock. The magnetic stripe is used for access control via the Millenium system while the Schlumberger smart card portion serves as a debit card for photocopy machines, food concessions, parking lots and a phone card with the local provider.

Ultrak Inc., Lewisville, Texas, is installing an entire CCTV system at the new Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas, which is scheduled to open in August. The installation includes more than 400 Ultrak UltraDome KD6 domes, more than 250 Ultrak KD5 domes, multiplexers, VCRs and monitors.

While demonstrating the capabilities of its UltraDome KD6 to a school district in suburban Phoenix, Ultrak Inc., Montreal, officials were able to detect and stop a crime in progress in the school's parking lot. The KD6 surveillance dome's zoom capabilities allowed them to spot the crime and to identify the perpetrator, who was a student who had been expelled and was not supposed to be on campus. The dome picked up the license plate of the car being broken into from more than 200 yards away.

Cavalier Software Inc., Newton, Mass., has announced a program to enhance the security of America's schools - School Safety Express Program. Upon successful application to the program, school districts in the United States will receive a free license for EasyLobby Express, Cavalier's entry level electronic visitor management software.

Theodor Kromer GmbH, Germany, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unican Security Systems Ltd., Montreal, has received an order for 660 mechanical and electronic high-security prison locks through Chubb Hong Kong Ltd. The locks are to be installed at Stanley Prison, the largest maximum-security institution in Hong Kong.

Motorized traffic controllers from Delta Scientific Corp., Valencia, Calif., have been installed by Signature Control Systems, Blacklick, Ohio, on the first two levels of the new multi-level parking garage at the Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio.

Swailes, Sheridan, Slade & Associates, Houston, has been retained by the Port of Houston Authority as a consultant on security issues for the 25-mile-long Port of Houston complex.

The detection systems division of PerkinElmer Instruments, Woburn, Mass., has been awarded a contract by the Federal Aviation Administration to provide state-of-the-art ray screening systems to select U.S. airports.

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