GE Solution Protects Olympic Venues

Apr 1, 2006 12:00 PM

Fire and life safety, explosives trace detection, intrusion and video equipment and systems from GE's security business were deployed throughout the Torino area during the 2006 Winter Olympics, including the athletes' village, and will continue to protect visitors and residents in the future.

In the athletes' village, GE Security worked with its business partner Securpoint to supply GE DP2051 and DP2061 optical smoke sensors and fire control panels to provide early detection and signaling of any fire outbreaks. GE's KSA701 fire control panels, IP-networked to management software with a graphical user interface, monitored the hospitality area, which is to be converted into residences.

Torino International Airport operator SAGAT chose to work with GE Security and its business partner Seteco to deploy GE's CTX9000 explosives detection system. The airport also uses GE's VaporTracer portable explosives trace detectors to heighten security with on-the-spot sampling capabilities.

A great number of parking lots, hotels, roads and government buildings in Torino also used GE Security fire and life safety, intrusion and surveillance systems.

Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano (IGMI), one of the national institutions providing the Italian government with digital cartography and integrated feature data, used software from another supplier, Intergraph Corp., Madison, Ala., to aid in the security operations at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. IGMI's task was to integrate and validate data from multiple sources to assist in securing Olympic venues, which spread across Italy from the city of Turin to the mountains bordering France.

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