Site Reports

May 1, 2005 12:00 PM

• SECURITY OFFICIALS AT THE CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL HAVE CHOSEN 27 PEBBLE PRINTERS from Evolis Card Printer, Angers, France, to personalize visitors' badges with photos, texts and barcodes. The Quantum, an industrial printer, will print out badges for groups from 300 to 800 people.

• BELFAST HARBOUR HAS CHOSEN TO DEPLOY ADVANCED ACCESS CONTROL AND ID BADGING from CEM Systems, Belfast, part of Tyco Fire and Security's Access Control and Video Systems business unit.

• CAMELLIA GARDENS, A RETIREMENT CENTER IN SLIDELL, LA., HAS DEPLOYED FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS from Silent Knight, Maple Grove, Minn., a division of Honeywell, that include heat detectors, strobes, door releases and other technologies.

• PALISADES NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN COVERT, MICH., SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ST. LUCIE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN FLORIDA, AND PILGRIM NUCLEAR STATION IN MASSACHUSETTS HAVE INSTALLED VEHICLE BARRICADE SYSTEMS from Delta Scientific, Valencia, Calif., which can stop and destroy vehicles weighing up to 20,000 pounds and traveling at up to 70 mph.

• RENO/TAHOE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, RENO, NEV., HAS CONTRACTED WITH JOHNSON CONTROLS, MILWAUKEE, TO PROVIDE SECURITY, IT AND OTHER TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES at a new offsite security control and command center, as well as upgrades throughout the terminals, concourse and parking garage. Information from several low-voltage systems, such as access control, CCTV, fire, radio and telecommunications, will be controlled from the command and control center, which will be the heart of the airport's security operations.

• MICROSOFT HAS CHOSEN MULTI-TECHNOLOGY, MULTI-APPLICATION CREDENTIALS from Indala, San Jose, Calif., to enable employees to have network and physical access control.

• THE PORT OF ANTWERP IN BELGIUM, EUROPE'S SECOND LARGEST PORT, HAS JOINED THE PORT OF ROTTERDAM IN THE NETHERLANDS, EUROPE'S LARGEST, IN DEPLOYING HAND GEOMETRY TECHNOLOGY from IR Recognition Systems, Campbell, Calif., to verify visitors to the port.

• THE DUTCH SUPREME COURT HAS SELECTED THE JOINT BIOMETRIC SECURITY SOLUTION from Zvetco Biometrics, Orlando, Fla., and Saflink Corp., Bellevue, Wash. to defend against data and identity theft. Nearly 270 users will be enrolled into the solution, preventing unauthorized network access by replacing usernames and passwords with a fingerprint scan.

• PACIFIC ELECTRIC LOFTS, A LEGENDARY DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES BUILDING THAT HAS BEEN REFURBISHED FOR OCCUPANCY, HAS INSTALLED AN ACCESS CONTROL AND SECURITY SYSTEM from Viscount Systems Inc., Burnaby, B.C., to help control visitor access.

• NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS RECENTLY INSTALLED AN ADVANCED SECURITY SYSTEM IN ITS 1789-ERA STATE HOUSE THAT INCLUDES HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEO SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT from CoVi Technologies Inc., Austin, Texas. American Alarm and Communications Inc., Manchester, N.H., designed and installed the system.

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