SITE REPORTS

Dec 1, 2003 12:00 PM

The 5.6 miles of Minneapolis' Midtown Greenway project for transportation and recreational uses will be monitored with a digital video multiplexer/recorder from GE Interlogix Video Systems Group, Corvallis, Ore. There are also plans to install 21 GE Interlogix cameras and 20 Code Blue towers along the Greenway.

The Pima County Jail, Tucson, Ariz., has adopted 13.56 MHz tags, cards and readers from Texas Instruments Radio Frequency Identification (TI-RFid) Systems, Dallas, for prisoner identification and officer access.

Fort Drum, a U.S. Army base in Watertown, N.Y., has awarded an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) to Siemens Building Technologies Inc., Buffalo Grove, Ill., to fulfill a federal mandate to reduce its energy costs.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has selected Johnson Controls Inc., Milwaukee, to provide security and monitoring for the water resources serving its 5,200-square-mile service area. The system includes an access control system with several hundred readers and cameras, digital CCTV recording and software and wireless CCTV.

To provide a safer shopping environment for students attending the University of Cincinnati, local merchants have banded together to provide a video surveillance system from American Dynamics, San Diego, that includes 24 low-light capable, high-resolution black-and-white fixed cameras and two Intellex Digital Video Management Systems.

McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas has chosen to deploy UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) smart label tags from Matrics Inc., Columbia, Md., to track passenger baggage.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has retained Kroll Inc. subsidiary Kroll Government Services Inc., New York, to provide preliminary background checks for TSA screeners and other employees.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has chosen to deploy 1,000 optical stripe read/write drives and biometric verification systems from Information Spectrum Inc., a subsidiary of Anteon International Corp., Fairfax, Va., for use in the U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indication Technology (U.S. VISIT) program.

Aéroports De Paris (ADP), has selected biometric identity control technology from SAGEM, Paris, to identify personnel entitled to access the apron security areas of the Charles de Gaulle and Orly international airports.

The Indianapolis Public School district has chosen remote access control and monitoring, asset tracking and bus monitoring systems from the Honeywell Building Solutions division, Minneapolis. The systems will monitor 90 buildings and 330 school buses.

Rex Healthcare of North Carolina has deployed 39 HandKey terminals, along with its HandNet software from IR Recognition Systems, Campbell, Calif., the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand's (IR) Security & Safety Group's Electronic Access Control Division (EACD).

Rent-A-Center Inc., a rent-to-own retail operator, has begun deployment of a national, secure wireless network including SOHO TZW wireless security appliances from SonicWall Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. They enable the secure transfer of customer information between terminals and wireless employment kiosks.

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