Tag: Physical Security Interoperability Alliance

SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Peter Boriskin, chief technology officer at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions, as the new chair of SIA’s Standards Committee. Boriskin takes over as SIA Standards Committee Chair from Steve Van Till – co-founder, president, and CEO of Brivo – who served as chair for 11 years. In this role, Boriskin will lead and work with committee members to develop, promote and advocate industry standards...

MUNICH, Germany—As one of the eight Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) partner companies to participate in the Virtual PLAI Experience, Siemens is excited to demonstrate how their SiPass integrated physical access control system (PACS) can safely and reliably share identity data in a multi-PACS environment. “The goal of the Virtual PLAI Experience is to show that PLAI does function as described and to demonstrate how these disparate systems can share the same data, without...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) on July 16 announced it has elected Mohammad Soleimani, CTO and EVP of Kastle Systems, as its chairman; and Joshua Jackson, director, global product integration for Stanley Security, as its vice chairman. The PSIA membership develops specifications for enabling standards-based sharing of digital data and intelligence throughout the physical security and enterprise ecosystems. As PSIA chairman, Soleimani will work closely...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) recently released its Area Control v1.0 spec to standardize communication with access control and intrusion products.The area control spec is the fourth system-oriented specification released by the PSIA, following standards for video, storage and analytics. It is the product of a collaboration among several major companies, said PSIA Executive Director David Bunzel.“If you look at the companies that are involved...