Site Reports

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM

• South Sioux City in Nebraska has integrated IP Digital Video solutions from Vicon Industries Inc., Hauppauge, N.Y., with the city's wireless Internet service to provide local police and 911 emergency centers remote monitoring of public school district video cameras.

• Southern Utah University has deployed Schlage Computer-Managed (CM) locks from IR Security Technologies, Forestville, Conn., to secure offices, computer labs and the lock shop itself at the 100-year-old regional university.

• The 2006 Rose Bowl football game in Pasadena, Calif., featured a mass notification system from ADT Security Services Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., a unit of Tyco Fire and Security. The system uses “intelligible voice” to provide warnings and real-time information to people in a crowded or endangered area.

• The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, has deployed K12-rated decorative bollards from Delta Scientific, Valencia, Calif., to protect from car and truck bombs the drop-off to its medical facility and a new vault constructed to house biochemical substances.

• CVS, the United States' largest drugstore chain with 5,461 stores in 37 states, has expanded its use of Video Investigator software from IntelliVid Corp., Cambridge, Mass., which relies on Intelligent Video Analysis (IVA) technology.

• The Superior Court of the Virgin Islands in St. Croix, has deployed electronic sliding gates and barcode readers from Barcode Automation Inc., Winter Springs, Fla., to keep visitors from parking in the reserved employee spaces.

• Clemson University's new International Center for Automotive Research (ICAR) in Greenville, S.C., has chosen a fire and life safety system from Fire-Lite Alarms, Northford, Conn., which was installed by Pace Electric, a local distributor.

• Harrington Bottling, the Pepsi bottling plant located in Butte, Montana, has implemented smart card technology from LEGIC Identsystems Ltd., Chicago, for integrated time-and-attendance and for access control.

• Carrefour, Europe's largest retailer, has selected digital radio frequency technology from Checkpoint Systems Inc., Thorofare, N.J., as part of an aggressive source-tagging program to help reduce shrink.

• Wansbeck District Council in London has deployed the intelligent Security Operations Center (iSOC) platform from DVTel Inc., Ridgefield Park, N.J., to increase security and management effectiveness across three towns in the district. The District Council employs a significant number of cameras over the IP network to cover a 16-mile area.

• Amarillo City Transit (ACT) has selected a networked video solution from Verint Systems Inc., Melville, N.Y., to enhance security on its fleet of 23 buses that operate on fixed routes covering more than 50 square miles of Amarillo, Texas.

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