Biometric Security - Case studies

The scalability of the Morse Watchmans key management solution installed at Ohio University in Athens has enabled security management to add six KeyWatcher® cabinets to their system. The expansion allows for all of the key control cabinets to be on the school’s IT network for ease of management, efficiency and security. “I was comfortable with the user friendly interface and software of the Morse Watchmans system as well as its reliability,” said Matt Smith, Access Control...

The Musée du Quai Branly known in English as the Quai Branly Museum and nicknamed MQB, is a museum in Paris, France that features indigenous art, cultures and civilisations from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Situated close to the Eiffel Tower, the museum is located at 37, Quai Branly – Portail Debilly in Paris. The location and the museum are named for the physicist Édouard Branly. Encompasses several buildings Technology objective - The museum complex encompass...

Located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, The Promenade Condominium is a residential high-rise luxury condominium with 191 units on 38 floors. It is distinguished by spectacular views and full amenities including a health club and pool. The building offers an outdoor jogging track and a fitness centre, wrap-around roof terrace, conference room, party room, children’s playroom, billiard room, bicycle and storage room and a garage – all with controlled access. To help keep these bu...

Challenge: The ever-present concerns of crime and risk are motivating business managers across all industries to implement superior security systems. According to Security magazine’s “Security @ the Millennium” white paper presentation, …criminals annually steal $603 billion in assets while also creating an additional $1.1 trillion worth of lost productivity.” Furthermore, employee theft, property crime and access control, respectfully, are the leading threats to c...

Monmouth County Detention Center – A 24-hour juvenile detention center, providing secure care and custody for juveniles charged with crimes that require detainment or pending a court decision. Technology Objective - Provide secure custody with minimal impact on the lives of those detained, while addressing the needs of the juveniles, including medical, educational, psychological, food, clothing, and shelter. The Challenge - With 40 beds in multiple housing units and a population varying...

The New Brunswick Parking Authority (NBPA) is the organization for parking information in New Brunswick, NJ. The duties of the Authority are to construct, improve, maintain and operate offstreet parking facilities, to promote traffic improvements and the free flow of traffic. The Authority is also responsible for the management and operation of on-street parking by means of parking meters and residential permit parking. The NBPA maintains a uniformed security force to provide an adequate level...

The Euroclear group are a user-owned and governed financial services company that specialize in the settlement of security transactions. Euroclear settles domestic and international security transactions, covering bonds, equities, derivatives and investment funds. Based in Brussels, the group has divisions all over the world with offices in France, Belgium, Ireland, Finland and Sweden. Euroclear also owns EMXco the UK’s provider of investment-fund order routing and is awaiting regulatory...

Auburn University – A state university with approximately 22,000 students and 7,000 faculty and staff members located in Auburn, Alabama. Technology Objective - To provide a secure and safe environment for the students, faculty and university staff through successful key management and access control. Tremendous security concern The Challenge - Auburn University has more than 230 buildings spread out across campus and is continually put to the test keeping vulnerable areas secure (e.g.,...

The Lubbock County Detention Center (LCDC) is one of the largest direct supervision county detention facilities in Texas with a current capacity of 1500 beds. Since its opening in 2010, the facility has utilised the Morse Watchmans key control system, along with other state of the art electronic security and access control systems, to increase the safety and security of both inmates and staff. Maintaining a secure environment According to Captain Malcolm Chambliss, Day Shift Captain and Deten...

There are hundreds of specialized tools used on a daily basis at the United Airlines jet engine rebuild and test facility, a 20-acre maintenance and operations centre adjacent to San Francisco International Airport. United jets are brought to the facility, where more than 1,400 employees work, to have their engines rebuilt. Here a tool used every day might cost several thousand dollars, and test equipment can cost even more. Key control system Each mechanic is provided with the specific tools...

The HilverZorg Foundation in the Netherlands is a large organization that provides residential nursing care at seven locations as well as home nursing care for all phases of aging. One of the facilities, Zonnehoeve, is HilverZorg’s expertise center for people with dementia. Located on the Zonnestraal estate, in the middle of the beautiful Loosdrechtse forest, residents can enjoy peace and the outdoors. Zonnehoeve is comprised of multiple departments and a ward with single rooms and apartm...

The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is a research driven and design-oriented technology university with international reach which especially aims at educating young people at university level within the field of ‘engineering science & technology’. The TU/e offers its students and employees an international and academic study and work climate, which means an intellectually stimulating study and work climate, which inspires its students to achieve broad personal developm...

Casinos are cash-based industries that rely on physical controls and strict documentation procedures in order to safeguard large amounts of cash and chips. One of the most critical areas of casino security where these controls come into play is key management. Physical keys are used for access to virtually all of the most sensitive and highly secured areas of the casino, including counting rooms and drop boxes. By maintaining tight control of keys with sophisticated key control and management s...

Palmetto Health Richland is a state of the art medical facility, located in Columbia, South Carolina. It is one of the largest and most progressive hospitals in the Southeast and is designated as one of only four Level 1Trauma Centers in the State. Palmetto Health Richland provides in-patient and out-patient services at its Columbia campus, which includes Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital, Children’s Hospital and Heart Hospital. These hospitals and the other buildings on the campus are...

The Tohono O’odham Nation is one of the largest tribes in Arizona, with more than 31,000 enrolled members. It owns and operates four Desert Diamond Casinos located in Glendale, Tucson, Sahuarita, and Why, Arizona. To stay competitive, the Nation continually seeks to improve their properties with new gaming and hospitality amenities. They also invest in the physical security infrastructure, including key control and key management from Morse Watchmans. Diamond Casinos needs to comply with...

Paul Brown Stadium, home of the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, offers visitors and players a state of the art playing field, ample team facilities, luxurious private suites, multiple concession and restroom facilities, large screen digital video signage and stadium seating of more than 65,500. The stadium also features the latest in physical security refinements, including the KeyWatcher key control system from Morse Watchmans. Prior to implementing the automated key control system, the stad...

Darwin International Airport (DIA) in Australia’s Northern Territory is the region’s largest airport and the 10th busiest airport in Australia. Serving in excess of two million passengers every year, DIA also shares its runways with the Royal Australian Air Force’s RAAF Base Darwin. A $60 million expansion approved for DIA will double the amount of passengers and planes it can handle and will help reinforce DIA’s reputation as an international transit point between Europ...

In 1899, the Texas Legislature authorized the formation of the Southwest Texas State Normal School, which opened in San Marcos four years later. At the time, the school’s mission was to prepare Texas public school teachers, but over the years, it has undergone several expansions and name changes to reflect its evolution into the major multi-purpose university Texas State has become. From its humble beginnings located in a single building, Texas State’s original San Marcos campus h...

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the UK’s largest institution for integrated sea level science, coastal and deep ocean research and technology development. Its more than 2,500 staff, including scientists, engineers and technologists, address key challenges such as sea level change, the oceans’ role in climate change, predicting and simulating the behavior of the oceans through computer modeling, the future of the Arctic Ocean and long-term monitoring technologies. Keeping...

Blacktown City is a bustling suburban community located approximately 22 miles west of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. Comprising 48 separate communities with a total population of 350,000, the city is the second largest city by population in NSW. The area is governed by Blacktown City Council which is responsible for all aspects of the city’s day-to-day operation, project development initiatives and legislative activities. Along with the City Council headquarters in the Civic Cent...

Bell Ambulance Company, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been in operation since 1977 and grown into the largest provider of ambulance services in the state. The company responds to around 75,000 calls per year and provides a range of services including, basic life support, advanced life support, critical care paramedics, long-distance ground transportation and more. To accommodate its vast fleet of ambulances, the company operates 9 remote stations throughout the greater Milwaukee area. Each...

Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc., a security technology company pioneering AI-based solutions designed to create safer experiences, has entered a multi-year partnership with the Philadelphia Union, a Major League Soccer team, rounding out Evolv’s partnership with all major professional sports venues in Philadelphia. Evolv Express® concealed weapons detection systems are being utilized for entry screening throughout Subaru Park, the team’s home stadium. Express uses advanced sen...

The healthcare organization based in Washington state has begun a journey of unifying its video surveillance and access control under one platform, yielding better situational awareness, streamlining investigations, and providing an additional level of safety and security to staff and patients alike. Multicare Health System in Washington State employs more than 20,000 team members across 11 hospitals and more than 300 medical clinics, laboratories, medical imaging, pharmacies and specialty serv...

The Adrian Public Schools Board of Education approved the renewal of its ZeroEyes AI-based gun detection and intelligent situational awareness platform during its April 13 meeting, continuing the use of artificial intelligence technology designed to enhance school safety by monitoring existing security camera systems for potential firearms. The deployment has been in place since 2023. ZeroEyes' AI gun detection and intelligent situational awareness software layers onto existing digital security...

Large entertainment venues offer opportunities for memorable experiences enjoyed by many attendees. With such breadth and scope of operations comes great operational complexity in managing a massive amount of foot traffic which exponentially increases risks for the safety and security of patrons. Increasingly, entertainment operators are looking to technology to help solve some of the most pressing challenges in managing these environments in real-time. Facial recognition technologies Facial...

Israel offers one of the most advanced medical systems in the world where cutting-edge treatments and patient care are provided by some of the best medical professionals using high-tech equipment in modern facilities. As such, medical tourism is growing exponentially in Israel. The country’s Ministry of Health shows that more than 50,000 medical tourists travel to Israel for treatments every year and consistently ranks in the Top Ten in the globe for health tourist destinations. Raphael H...

ZeroEyes, creators of the AI-powered visual threat intelligence platform, and High Tech High, a San Diego County, CA-based charter school network, release details of their ongoing collaboration to protect students, staff and visitors from gun-related threats. High Tech High began its integration of ZeroEyes’ proactive AI gun detection and intelligent situational awareness software in September 2023 and has since expanded its deployment, based on positive feedback from parents and law enfo...

Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc., a security technology company pioneering AI-based solutions designed to create safer experiences, announces that it has entered a multi-year subscription agreement and marketing partnership with the Athletic Department at the University of Washington. The University, which has an enrollment of more than 52,000 students at its flagship Seattle campus, fields teams in twenty men’s and women’s sports and is a perennial Big 10 and national athletic powe...

Travelers and residential renters increasingly prefer the convenience of digital access. These solutions also offer commercial benefits to businesses operating in these fast-growing sectors: it becomes faster and more cost-efficient for them to roll-out new sites and to manage access to them remotely without the need for expensive 24/7 front-desk operations. City Pop is one short-let furnished apartment rental provider operating in both these sectors. Their growing portfolio of design-led prope...