SITE REPORTS

Mar 1, 2003 12:00 PM

United Nations (UN) weapons inspectors in Baghdad conducted their searches with the help of portable FT-IR spectrometers from SensIR Technologies, Danbury, Conn. The chemical identification technology can analyze and identify virtually all liquids, powders, pastes and gels.

Under a joint Department of Defense, Customs Service and Transportation Security Administration project, an additional Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis-based cargo inspection system from OSI Systems Inc. subsidiary Ancore Corp., Hawthorne, Calif., will be deployed for operational evaluation at the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.

American Express has implemented fingerprint readers from Bioscrypt Inc., Toronto, as part of an overall security system at its worldwide headquarters in New York City.

More than 100 elementary and secondary schools in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Wisconsin have chosen networked video equipment from Axis Communications, Chelmsford, Mass., to help with campus safety and security.

Patient registration at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton, N.J., has been streamlined with the help of the Smart Health Card from Health Card Solutions, Forest Lake, Minn. The cards, which are printed with Eltron Card Printers, are embedded with a magnetic stripe encoded with the patient's medical record number.

Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has chosen Schlage CM locks from IR Security and Safety's Electronic Access Control Division, Forestville, Conn. Nurses at the 256-bed acute care facility obtain access using unique access codes.

The Department of Defense (DoD) has licensed fingerprint recognition technology from Identix Inc., Minnetonka, Minn., to upgrade its existing fingerprint record files of all DoD military and civilian personnel.

The Shanghai, China branch of the Bank of Communications will implement 24-hour Automatic Teller Machine monitoring with technology from TeleEye Group, Hong Kong.

Performance Outfitters, Stamford, Conn., a storage and maintenance facility for high-end automobiles, has chosen a CCTV monitoring system from Radia Technologies, New Haven, Conn.

A major global pharmaceutical products company has ordered the iKey USB authentication key from Rainbow Technologies Inc., Irvine, Calif., to provide authentication, digital signature and encryption services.

To get its pay-per-visit business lounge up and running, Belfast International Airport has integrated an InfoProx reader from CEM Systems, Belfast, into the airport's existing access control system. CEM designed a membership card enabling members access to the lounge upon cardholder verification.

Lincoln Park, a gaming center in Rhode Island that includes 1,700 video slot machines and greyhound racing, has chosen a CCTV monitoring system from MAC Systems Inc., Avon, Mass. The Intellex Digital Video Management System selected was manufactured by American Dynamics, San Diego, and includes 23 DVRs and 308 cameras.

The state of Oklahoma's Department of Public Safety has chosen Viisage Technology, Inc., Littleton, Mass., to design, develop and implement the statewide secure license production program, which is designed to produce digital driver's licenses.

Singapore's Changi Airport has selected baggage screening equipment from L-3 Communications Inc., New York, to aid in airport security. According to L-3, the $45 million contract is its largest to date.

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