SITE REPORTS

Jan 1, 2003 12:00 PM

Loma Linda University Medical Center (Calif.) is securing medications and special equipment kept in approximately 100 drawers and cabinets with a “Locknetics On Board” standalone access control locking system from IR Security and Safety's Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), Forestville, Conn. Nurses can open the door and cabinet locks by entering a code on the locks' keypad.

NKL Safes, New Albany, Ind., has selected access control technology from Bioscrypt Inc., Toronto, to control access to safes for cash management markets by integrating Bioscrypt's OEM module into their AuditLok XLV system as a way to provide positive user identification.

Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, the largest municipal water district in Utah, has added CCTV equipment from Alarm Control Co., Salt Lake City, to four sites. The SmartSight Video Solution includes 13 cameras, some with night vision capabilities.

Down Lisburn Trust, the principal provider of health and social care to residents of the Down and Lisburn regions of Northern Ireland, has chosen an integrated access control and badge production system from CEM Systems, Belfast, a business unit of Tyco International's Fire and Security Division.

Parking garages at Barnes-Jewish Hospital's Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center and St. Louis Children's Hospital have chosen a video surveillance system from Cernium, Inc., St. Louis, that uses behavior-recognition technology to analyze movement and activity.

cVideo Inc., San Diego, is working with San Diego-based Electro Specialty Systems to provide security systems for National Football League (NFL) events at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium — including Super Bowl XXXVII. cVideo's Marathon system will record digital video from cameras located throughout the stadium for the stadium's command center where security officials will use the information for crowd control.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected ImageWare Systems, San Diego, to provide secure credentials for roughly 100,000 agency employees and contractors. The ID cards and badges can be produced on the Web and can incorporate biometric data, security holograms and smart chips.

BTA, a large London-area hotel, has selected CCTV, access control, intercom systems, and Ethernet over a single pair of standard telephone wires from DVTel Inc., Buckinghamshire, U.K.

The Colorado Department of Revenue (DOR), Motor Vehicle Business Group, has enhanced its driver's license issuance program with automated facial recognition technology from Digimarc Corp., Burlington, Mass.

Nearly 500 users at Troy (Mich.) Beaumont Hospital are using 15 HandKey readers from IR Recognition Systems, Campbell, Calif., to control access to high-security areas. Additionally, students at Johnson and Wales University in northeast Denver are using HandKey readers to control access to dormitories.

O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and Denver International Airport have purchased ID-CHECK document verification units from Intelli-Check Inc., Woodbury, N.Y., to be deployed for security purposes.

A nuclear facility in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has upgraded its physical security system with the help of Infrasafe's government division, Advantor Systems Corp., Orlando, Fla. The company has helped perform upgrades at 12 sites within the former Soviet Union under the Nuclear Non-proliferation initiatives of the U.S. Government.

The Pocono Mountain School District (Swiftwater, Pa.) has recently authorized The Protection Bureau, Exton, Pa., to purchase and install 105 Digital Chaperone monitoring systems from Silent Witness, Surrey, B.C., for use in the district's school bus fleet.

The airport authority of Spain, AENA, has ordered 13 in-line, automated Level 1 explosive detection systems (EDS) from L-3 Communications' Security and Detection Systems division, New York.

The Bavarian police have announced two automatic licence plate recognition and biometric border control projects at a land border crossing point in Waidhaus, Germany. They have chosen facial recognition technology of ZN Vision Technologies AG, Bochum, Germany.

An Asian country has selected printers for driver's licenses from Team Nisca, Somerset, N.J. Using nearly 100 Nisca printers and laminators and customized holographic material, the country will produce licenses for more than 20 million drivers.

Duval County Public Schools (Jacksonville, Fla.) will install digital CCTV equipment in 17 high schools, 25 middle schools, administration offices, warehouses and some elementary schools from GE Interlogix's Kalatel division, Corvallis, Ore. At the high schools and middle schools, the system will monitor facilities with 59,000-plus students.

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