Tag: Security Director News
N.C. school district moves from people to tech for access control
September 11, 2014Amy Canfield
WILMINGTON, N.C.—Visitors to most schools in the New Hanover County district at the start of the new school year will be viewed on video before being allowed in. For the 42-school district, which previously “relied on people” for access control, that's a big security move, its safety director said.New Hanover County has deployed Aiphone video intercoms at all 27 elementary schools and seven of its eight middle schools. The system, which is also audio-equipped, will soon be rolled...
Booking appointments for ASIS
August 20, 2014Martha Entwistle
Going to ASIS? Interested in meeting with Security Systems News or Security Director News while you're there?
Amy Canfield (lead editor for Security Systems News' sister publication Security Director News) and I will be at the show Sept. 29 through Oct. 1 and have just started booking appointments. We get way more requests for appointments than we are able to take. Below is some information about how we set our schedules and some ideas about what we want to see and who we want to talk to at trade...
Information about our "20 under 40" awards
July 9, 2014Martha Entwistle
Now is the time for you to submit your nominations for the Security Systems News "20 under 40" Class of 2014. Click here to make your nomination.
It's the eighth year that SSN has solicited nominations of young people, ages 40 or younger, who display leadership characteristics, are tech-savvy and are dedicated to the security industry.
To be eligible, nominees must work for an installing fire or security dealer or integrator or work for a monitoring company. Sorry, employees of manufacturing companies...
Cannabis protector rolling out transport division
June 9, 2014Amy Canfield
DENVER—Securing the increasing number of legal marijuana growing sites and sales outlets in the U.S. poses a unique set of challenges, including transporting the product. Canna Security America is launching Cloverton Group to help deal with that.Still in the process of obtaining full funding for a national rollout of the new division, Canna Security, which provides security to 350 facilities, will provide armed guards and transportation vehicles with bulletproof glass, CEO Dan Williams told...
Taser, on a roll, focuses on hospital use
May 2, 2014Amy Canfield
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Taser International, coming off two banner sales years and “practically saturating” the law enforcement market, is focusing anew on hospitals.The company's stock price has risen nearly fivefold in the past two years, topping $20 earlier this month.“That's because we're not a one-trick pony. We've become a tech company, and that's what's really gotten the attention of the market,” said Steve Tuttle, vice president of communications for the company, based...
Boston hotels: Marathon safe, secure, normal
April 23, 2014Amy Canfield
BOSTON—A day after the Boston Marathon brought more than 32,500 runners, hundreds of thousands of spectators and security in full force to the city, hoteliers were basking in the normalcy of the event.“It was very orderly, it was a family event,” Mike Soper, chairman of the International Lodging Safety and Security Association Boston, told Security Director News, the sister publication of Security Systems News.Soper's ILSSA worked over the past year to ensure that marathon-weekend...
This Blog's on Fire (And Other Stuff)
What's new in the connected home and fire industry at ISC West?
March 28, 2014Tess Nacelewicz
Updated April 4
Among the exciting news I learned about on Thursday at the show was that Honeywell's new wireless LYNX 7000 won Best Intrusion and Detection Device in this year's ISC West New Product Showcase event, according to Ralph Maniscalco, Honeywell's director of marketing communications.
The company describes the LYNX 7000 as “an all new version of Honeywell's self-contained wireless touchscreen security and home automation system. The product is the first of its kind to control up...
LPR privacy concerns in hands of end users, Genetec says Video retention, access are easily customized
February 25, 2014Amy Canfield
MONTREAL—Two weeks after deploying license plate recognition technology, a Florida airport got a hit on a wanted criminal headed to the airport from its perimeter. The criminal, who had no business being at the airport, was apprehended before arriving curbside, according to Danny Peleg, director of the transportation market for Genetec.License plate recognition, or LPR, has its success stories, but, like other video surveillance products, it also has come under fire over privacy and civil liberty...
Fingerprint biometrics gives hospitals more security choices
December 13, 2013Leah Hoenen
WESTFORD, Mass.—Users of Software House's C-Cure 9000, the security and event management system popular at hospitals, can now add another layer of security with the addition of Suprema fingerprint readers.Software House, part of Tyco's Security Products, and Entertech Systems, the U.S. operating partner of Suprema, announced a new partnership Dec. 4. The biometric readers, which Software House now sells and supports, integrate with C-Cure 9000, which is in place at numerous major U.S. hospitals.While...
Security and the shutdown
October 21, 2013Leif Kothe
WASHINGTON—There's no doubt that the government shutdown has affected the security industry, and the best outcome at this juncture would be a long-term continuing resolution, Don Erickson, CEO of the Security Industry Association told Security Director News. “The sooner the deal, the better,” he said. “Hopefully it's not done incrementally, but through the fiscal year with funding levels consistent with last year.”“Through the fiscal year” is the critical...