Vision Systems creates fire and security division

Apr 1, 2001 12:00 PM

Vision Systems Ltd., Hingham, Mass., has created Vision Fire and Security, a new division that will be responsible for the VESDA (Aspirating Smoke Detection) and ADPRO (Security and Surveillance) businesses. The merger of VESDA and ADPRO will enable Vision to maintain its recent growth in fire and security.

Automated Identification Technologies (AIT), Irvine, Calif., has changed its name to Wavetrend. The renaming was based on the company's use of wireless identification platform that uses radio waves to transmit data from a card or tag to a reader or receiver.

Buzz VC, Tirat Hacarmel, Israel, a software and hardware solutions company for remote monitoring management, surveillance and CCTV planned to make its American debut at the ISC Expo in Las Vegas, April 4-6.

Securion Protection Network, Dallas, has launched a new security dealer program. The long-term partnership program is designed to increase security system dealer profitability.

ELPAS Local Positioning Systems, Southlake, Texas, and CIAC have signed a partnership that will allow CIAC to integrate ELPAS' EIRIS LPS into CIAC's security and access control based product line, Global Security Pack. CIAC (Industrial Company for Telecom Applications) develops and manufactures access control, time and attendance, and burglary alarms around an open architecture of infranet, intranet and Internet.

Iridian Technologies Inc., Marlton, N.J., has announced a multi-year alliance with Matsushita Communications Industrial Co. Ltd., Yokohama, Japan, which is best known for its Panasonic brand products. The agreement establishes a strategic alliance for the manufacture, distribution, marketing and further development of Authenticam and other iris recognition products. In addition to manufacturing the Authenticam hardware, Matsushita Communication was granted licensing rights to Iridian's patented PrivateID software, along with Iridian's supporting technologies

The biometric identification systems unit of Polaroid Corp., Cambridge, Mass., will offer a new patented fingerprint algorithm from Biometric Identification Inc., Sherman Oaks, Calif. The algorithm will be offered through Polaroid's PFS-100 finger image scanner. The scanner is built into keyboards by manufacturers or used as a stand-alone security device for network and physical access control. Polaroid will offer Biometric Identification Inc.'s fingerprint extraction and matching software as a component of the software developer's kit that ships with the PFS-100 finger image scanner.

Bosch Security Systems Corp., Stuttgart, Germany, has finalized its acquisition of Detection Systems Inc, Fairport, N.Y., which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH.

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