InVision subsidiary awarded grant to upgrade explosives detection

Jun 1, 2002 12:00 PM

Quantum Magnetics Inc., a subsidiary of InVision Technologies Inc., Newark, Calif., has been awarded a $1 million grant by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to develop an upgrade to the CTX family of explosives detection systems.

Viisage Technology Inc., Littleton, Mass., has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Curtiss-Wright Corp., Lyndhurst, N.J., to market and sell Viisage's face recognition solutions for surveillance and access control applications to the power plant and pipeline industries. Viisage has also acquired the intellectual property and related assets of the Miros division of eTrue.com, a face recognition firm. In addition to acquiring technology, Viisage also gained access to the company's customer base and distribution channels.

HID Corp., Irvine, Calif., has formed a technology alliance with Ensure Technologies, Ann Arbor, Mich., in which Ensure's XyLoc PC security software can facilitate deployments of HID PC access control solutions.

NTRU, Burlington, Mass., has joined the Smart Card Alliance, a non-profit multi-industry association committed to driving the widespread adoption of multi-application smart card technology.

Network Associates Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., and Internet Security Systems Inc., Atlanta, have formed a strategic alliance to deliver security products and services. The companies will also begin a cooperative research effort to support future product development.

Lenel Systems Intl. Inc., Rochester, N.Y., has opened a new headquarters office in Woking, England. The new office will serve the U.K. and Africa. Lenel has also joined the Cisco iQ Ecosystem Program, in which Lenel will work with Cisco Systems, San Jose, Calif., to deliver a “Total Security Knowledge Management Solution.”

Cavio Corp., Vancouver, B.C., has partnered with McCallum Risk Co., San Antonio, to provide risk management assessment for both physical and virtual access control.

InsideContactless, Aix-en-Provence, France, and OmniTek, Syosset, N.Y., an Ademco Group company and a division of Honeywell Intl., are strengthening their partnership by giving OmniTek access to Inside's reader technology to develop a new line of smart card readers.

Comprehensive Identification Products Inc. (CIPI), Burlington, Mass., has reached a distribution agreement with Digital Imaging Intl. Gmbh, a subsidiary of ImageWare Systems Inc., Germany, in which CIPI will distribute the EdiGuard card printer product line in the Americas.

Monitoring Automation Systems (MAS), Irvine, Calif., has reached an agreement with Prosegur, Spain, in which MAS provides Prosegur automation software for the company's global expansion.

ITI-branded equipment from GE Interlogix Inc., Austin, Texas, is now available through select security product distributors. Most distributors will stock only current production ITI systems and components. Additionally, GE Interlogix has expanded its Wireless Awards program to feature three new wireless residential categories and a wireless fire category.

The Identification Technology Group (ITG) of ASSA ABLOY, New Haven, Conn., has established a Hong Kong-based distribution center that will serve HID Corp. customers in the Asia-Pacific region.

SimplexGrinnell, Westminster, Mass., a unit of Tyco Intl.'s Fire and Security Division, recently provided a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in fire protection at a Buffalo, N.Y., symposium. The overview focused on new solutions dealing with sprinklers, special hazards and electronic monitoring of portable extinguishers.

Axcess Inc., Dallas, has been awarded a contract to provide networked digital video and personnel, vehicle and asset management products and solutions by the Texas Local Government Purchasing Cooperative. The cooperative's membership includes more than 700 government entities and was created so members could electronically purchase products from bids submitted by suppliers.

Fiber Options, Bohemia, N.Y., a GE Interlogix company, has appointed KLM Marketing, Mechanicsville, Va., as a manufacturer's representative for its security and broadcast product lines. KLM will represent Fiber Options in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C.

BroadWare Technologies, Cupertino, Calif., has announced the availability of its Remote Video Access Web-based video monitoring service.

IndigoVision Group plc, Edinburgh, Scotland, has licensed its VideoBridge technology to Radiant Communications Corp., Massapequa, N.Y., to send video and audio over LAN/WAN and fiber-optic links in several applications.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, and Waveset Technologies Inc., Austin, Texas, have formed a strategic alliance to provide secure identity management services to Fortune 1000 enterprises.

Vigitron Inc., San Diego, has signed an agreement with F.M. Valenti Inc., Peabody, Mass., in which F.M. Valenti will represent Vigitron's UPT transmission products in New England and New York.

Philips Communication, Security & Imaging Inc. (CSI), Las Vegas, has completed its West Coast Training/Demonstration facility. The facility includes classroom-style auditoriums complete with surround sound and a six-foot video wall for presentations.

Checkpoint Systems Inc., Thorofare, N.J., will appeal a federal jury's guilty verdict concerning antitrust violations. The lawsuit was brought by ID Security Systems Canada Inc., a subsidiary of Netherlands-based Dutch A&A Holding BV, which alleged that Checkpoint interfered with ID Security's contract to distribute anti-theft retail tags made by Tokai Electronics of Japan. ID Security originally asked for $270 million in damages. The jury assessed damages of $26 million, but those damages are subject to potential tripling by the court under a rule known as trebling.

Fargo Electronics Inc., Minneapolis, has been granted a patent by the Japan Patent Office for Fargo's Printer Ribbon Identification Sensor. “The pin core patent covers technology which assures that the proper ribbon is installed in Fargo printers,” says Jeffrey D. Upin, Fargo's general counsel. “Sensors in each Fargo printer detect specific configurations of small metal pins in the core of each dye-sublimation, resin, or overlaminate ribbon, preventing installation or usage of any incorrect ribbon.”

Ademco Group, Syosset, N.Y., a part of Honeywell's Security and Fire Solutions division, has unveiled an online image library that lets dealers download photographs for use in marketing materials.

Shareholders of Identix Inc., Los Gatos, Calif., and Visionics Corp., Jersey City, N.J., can vote in late June on the companies' proposed merger. Visionics' shareholders of record can vote on the matter June 24, while Identix will hold its meeting the following day.

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