Site Reports

Sep 1, 2006 12:00 PM

• PricewaterhouseCoopers has chosen an RFID physical computer asset protection solution from Axcess Intl. Inc., Dallas, for use in its Mexico City office. The system enables real-time detection when a valuable asset such as a laptop has been removed from a secured area.

• The United Kingdom's Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, has deployed crash-rated barriers from Delta Scientific, Palmdale, Calif., to protect its facilities from vehicular threats. Each barrier is a 108-inch (2,743 mm) rising steel plate that can stop a 15,000-pound vehicle traveling 40 mph.

• Fakta discount and warehouse clubs in Denmark have been fitted with fingerprint scanners from Zvetco Biometrics, Orlando, Fla., in 350 of its stores. The biometric point-of-sale solution provides secure employee access to every cash register for login with just the touch of a finger.

• Aspiag Service, which manages large retail chains in Italy's Triveneto and Emilia Romagna regions, has chosen Sensormatic electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems from ADT Security Services, Boca Raton, Fla., a unit of Tyco Fire and Security, for deployment in 30 of the group's retail outlets, supermarkets and hypermarkets.

• The London Underground, which sees more than 1 billion passenger journeys per year, has chosen a train communication system from Opticomm, San Diego, to handle the optical transport of signals to and from the trains within the framework of its automated train control system.

• France's city of Rouen has deployed a networked video system from Verint Systems Inc., Melville, N.Y., across a portion of its network of buses and trams to ensure a safe and secure travel environment for tourists and local residents. Rouen's city-wide system of buses and trams transports more than 58 million passengers each year.

• Angel Flight South Central, which transports hospital patients who do not have access to conventional transport or who are too ill to be driven or fly on a commercial service, has installed vandal-proof dome camera units from Rainbow Technologies, Irvine, Calif. The cameras, which were donated, will be used at hangars in Houston Hobby Airport and in a new facility where patients wait in privacy for transportation.

• First Premier Bank of South Dakota has deployed an end-to-end biometric authentication system from id-Confirm Inc., Denver, as a pilot test to survey the enhancements to the security of their network and applications that four-factor biometric fingerprint authentication offers.

• The Port of Turku, Finland's second-largest seaport, has invested in an IP Video solution from IndigoVision, Edinburgh, U.K., which includes numerous dome cameras that span an approximately six-mile area around the port. More than four million tons of cargo and more than four million passengers pass through the port every year.

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