Electronic access control - Case studies
Dome cameras, colour monitors and quad processors from Rainbow CCTV have recently been installed at a leading medical facility, the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida.Health Central offers 171 beds, a 24-hour emergency room, special delivery maternity unit, pediatric unit and helipad. Current expansion is adding an advanced cardiac care unit with 30 beds. The CCTV installation includes the QPCF quad processor. These connect up to four cameras and one VCR, offering quad and swi...
Xstrata Copper's emergency and protective services superintendent at Mount Isa Mines, Darren Bracey, says Cardax FT, as a tool, provides better control of access management health and safety systems and he wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.Tracey: "The powerful software leads itself well to integration with other third party software applications to allow better management of security, health, safety, access control and contractor management".Mines present numerous challenges when it c...
The ChallengeThe retailer was looking for a way to combat the growing problem of internal cash theft and consulted Kent-based CCTV specialists Intime Security Ltd. Tracey Boulton, sales and marketing director at Intime Security said: "This chain of twelve high street shops, one based in Croydon's busy Whitgift Shopping Centre, was losing money through staff theft." The staff would keep the till drawer open for long periods of time without ringing up. The managers were...
The Nike ExperienceYou are at the right place, but absent from view are glass-on-glass high-rises compacted together over the typical concrete and asphalt corporate terrain. But then, this is anything but typical. You are about to enter the hallowed halls of one of sport’s holiest sites. You have arrived at Nike World Headquarters (WHQ). The 185-acre campus sprawls out in front of you and the size and complexity is staggering. Everything would have to be custo...
The ChallengeThe Heartlands Hospital, a 900 bed acute teaching trust hospital in central Birmingham and Solihull Hospital, and a 400 bed operation 12 miles further south both lost their existing CCTV coverage in December last year due to system failure.Solihull and Heartlands NHS Trust had been operating a combination of a PC-based digital recorder and a number of traditional analog multiplexers and VCRs. The system was becoming less reliable, so the decision was made to upgrade to a new d...
Arizona State University is one of the premier metropolitan public research universities in the U.S. Enrolling more than 57,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on three campuses in metropolitan Phoenix, including the historic main campus in Tempe, ASU maintains a tradition of academic excellence in core disciplines, and has become an important global center for innovative interdisciplinary teaching and research.ChallengeSince 1997, ASU’s identification/access “Sun...
National Mini Storage is the largest self storage company in New Zealand, with six self storage facilities, each with up to 1 kilometre of perimeter that needs security protection. Since 1993, National Mini Storage has been a strong advocate of the PowerFence™ system to assure customers their property is safely protected. The concept of a self storage facility was relatively new to New Zealand when National Mini Storage opened their first site in Penrose in 1991. The site desi...
“We’re a compact urban area and some sections of our road network have become oversaturated. To ease congestion we want to give people travel information that allows them to make informed choices about their mode of transport and the route and timing of their journey.”Siemens Traffic Controls’ innovative traffic management and information system forms the hub of Reading’s control centre.Its principal features include a common database and co-ordination facilit...
The US TWIC (Transportation Worker Identification Credential) Program achieved Initial Operating Capability (IOC) in November 2004 at four sites in the states of Pennsylvania, California and Florida, with biometrically enabled smart card credentials.This groundbreaking program is a first of its kind because it represents common credentialing across a very large, diverse group of people working at land, sea and airports throughout the United States. Daon's flexible identity assurance platfo...
When Wellington City Council installed Cardax FT in 2001, they were one of the first sites in the world on the Cardax FT technology platform. The Council's recognition of the system's potential will continue to benefit Wellington City for many years to come.Making a positive difference in the community with Cardax FTWellington City Council Security Manager, Ian Gilbert appreciates the Cardax FT reporting capability "It's fantastic -it's easy to use and I draw on the information held i...
Cardax FT is installed in seven Shell sites in four states across Australia, including the company's head office. Every door is locked and the system requires everyone to use a card to gain access.Shell needed an extremely high level of security. Cardax FT provides that security."Shell Australia required a security system which enhances secure environments and is able to be supported from anywhere in the world," says Tony Van Noordenburg, Shell Australia's Facilities Operat...
The GNF has upgraded its security system with Avigilon HD surveillanceThe Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF), a research arm of the multi-national healthcare products company Novartis, was founded in 1999 to better understand the underlying mechanisms of human illness and help prevent and cure diseases such as the flu, malaria, and cancer. To this end, GNF researchers rely on a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure to pursue innovative drug discovery research. To p...