Integration software - Case studies

Monitoreal, a global provider of intelligent home and commercial security surveillance systems, has announced its integration with the popular intruder alarm system - Ajax. This powerful pairing allows users to create an accurate video detection perimeter around their property, that proactively deters intruders and monitors security events in real-time. Monitoreal’s AI-based object detection Monitoreal’s AI-based object detection can conveniently be armed and disarmed in tandem wi...

A chain of gyms in metro Indianapolis was opening a new location, and they had a two-part goal: (1) to ensure member safety by effectively monitoring the activity in and around the gym and (2) to visibly show members that there were cameras monitoring what went on in the gym. In anticipation of including video security cameras at the facility, the General Manager (GM) anticipated where he wanted the cameras (e.g., at the entrances, check-in), and during the design phase of the new construction,...

First opening its doors to paying guests in 1930, Athens Capital Hotel is an icon of central Athens that has played host to everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Madonna. Now a Marriott property, the former annex of the Royal Palace and Prime Minister’s residence is a five-star boutique hotel that brings a touch of opulence to every guest’s stay. While first-class service is guaranteed, guest safety also needs to be paramount. This aspect of the hotel experience has been ensured as part o...

Midwest American weather can be challenging for businesses, especially during the winter. Those that operate 24 hours a day with minimal staff, such as Jefferson, Iowa-based The Washing Well Laundromat, require dependable surveillance around the clock for a multitude of reasons and locations, no matter during sunny, warm days or at 2 am during a blizzard. Need for a day-night surveillance solution Being able to access important footage from anywhere any time of day or night had become a neces...

In February 2023, the Id-Gate solution developed by RecFaces, the Dubai-based company, became part of a major project to ensure the security of the PRONICO ferronickel industrial enterprise in El Estor, Guatemala. PRONICO Compañia Procesadora de Niquel de Izabal (Solway Investment Group) is a manufacturing plant with over 1800 employees. The project is aimed to improve the security of the enterprise and to ensure reliable reports on actual hours worked. Id-Gate solution The Id-Gate sol...

Protecht, a pioneer in risk and resilience software announced that Mansfield Building Society has selected its ERM Marketplace solution to digitalise and automate risk, compliance, and operational resilience processes. The new unified risk management system implemented in only two months delivers the desired simplification of data capture for risk foresight and a long-term positive return on investment.  Manual management challenge Before Protecht.ERM, Mansfield Building Society, and its...

QDegrees, located in Jaipur, is one of the companies offering insight into the quality of customer care solutions.  The company holds expertise in providing analysis reports of companies belonging to the domains of KPO, BPO, field operations, and market research. Monitoring quality services The company procured a project of monitoring the quality of services offered by all the call centre executives of leading mobile network operators. To avoid any discrepancies in the data, employees of...

"Range of configurability of the Matrix COSEC CENTRA software allows us to accomplish quite sophisticated logic at our high-security vault. Which we have found other software unable to match,” said Sam Patel, Managing Director. Company Profile - Sovereign Safe provides deposit facilities that truly push the global standards of the safe deposit industry. With the very latest modular high compression steel vaults constructed and installed by specialist manufacturers, state-of-the-art biomet...

The Marin Hospital of Hendaye in the French Basque Country faced common challenges posed by mechanical access control.  Challenge  Relying on mechanical lock-and-key technology made it difficult or impossible to know who had been accessing sensitive areas like treatment rooms and medicine stores.  Another source of insecurity was the keys and passes issued to employees and contractors. These often remain in circulation beyond their approved use period, if former employees and s...

imageHOLDERS are a trusted partner of Places Leisure gyms and leisure centres. They first worked with them at their Eastleigh flagship site, which went on to be the blueprint for most of their estates. At their brand new flagship Camberley site, imageHOLDERS have worked with them from concept, through building site visits, to the deployment of this new range of kiosks. Places Leisure pride themselves on offering state of the art equipment and using technology to provide incredible customer care...

Ipsotek, an Atos company and a pioneer in artificial intelligence and scenario-based video analytics, has announced the award of a contract to install its Computer Vision technology at the new Dhoho Kediri International Airport, Indonesia.  In conjunction with its accredited channel partner PT. Sinergi Teknoglobal Perkasa, Ipsotek will deliver its AI-based video analytics, face recognition, and licence plate recognition solutions across the airport, which comprises 372 hectares....

For more than five decades, developer DEMOS Wohnbau has been a provider of new residential properties in Munich. Contemporary architecture and upmarket fittings are the hallmarks of every DEMOS project, whether an owner-occupied apartment, a terraced or semi-detached house, or a detached single-family home. Their new PRISMA PASING residential project with 255 apartments is located close to Nymphenburg Palace Park in Munich, Germany. It offers proximity to both the city and natural surroundings,...

The challenge - The Painesville City Local School District was opening to students and staff in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Joshua M. Englehart, Ph.D., Superintendent and Shaun Bell, Director of Operations for the school district developed a reopening policy to ensure they could bring their staff and students back to school in a safe and effective manner. According to Bell, the 2019-20 school year has been particularly challenging, and while school has been in session since last Augus...

A mid-sized Texas city and Konica Minolta client for more than 20 years was faced with challenges regarding the gated entry to its municipal parking lot that accommodated city employee cars and trucks such as maintenance and trash removal vehicles. Challenge The gate was controlled by a key fob at car level, making it difficult for truck drivers to easily swipe to get in. Many truck drivers needed to stop, open their door to reach down and swipe, and often could not get back into the cab in ti...

A Florida county sheriff’s department has four buildings in the district and recently completed a new training centre that will be part of a new six-building complex including a helipad, training centre, garage, forensics lab, tac lab, and on-hand, field experimentation area. Video security solution Challenges - With the construction of this new complex, the IT Infrastructure Manager was looking for a complete video security solution for their initial building. With many areas to cover s...

An eight-building, a premier office park in Indiana offers 1.2 million square feet of office space. Along with a 14,000 square foot centre with amenities such as a concierge to handle tenant errands, a 6,200 square foot fitness centre, a conference/training centre for up to 100 people, and cafes, there is an on-site auto spa and walking paths & bike share. Challenges After a series of facility intrusions, General Manager (GM) and Assistant PM wanted to improve oversight across the complex...

A supplier and distributor of truck and auto supplies, travel gear and mobile electronics plus a national brands portfolio and value-imports serves the ‘on-the-go’ lifestyle (professional drivers, mobile business people, leisure travellers), and retails their products via travel centres, convenience stores, heavy duty trucking, electronics and specialty retailers. They also have supply chain and design/manufacturing/export divisions, proprietary snack foods groups and Canadian subsi...

barox Kommunikation AG, the manufacturer of professional standard switches, PoE media converters and IP extenders specifically designed for video applications, have been selected to provide secure video management and 90W PoE at the flagship retail space, The Mall at Cribbs Causeway. Located on the historic Cribbs Causeway road, just off Junction 17 of the M5 in Bristol, The Mall at Cribbs Causeway comprises 130 stores across two levels and is designed to provide shoppers with a complete retail...

ZeroEyes, creators of the only A.I.-based gun detection video analytics platform that holds the US Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act Designation, announces that its solution has been deployed by Texas’ Brazosport Independent School District (ISD) to protect students and faculty against potential gun-related threats.  Layered on top of the schools’ existing security cameras, ZeroEyes’ A.I. technology will identify illegally brandished guns and dispatch alerts to s...

imageHOLDERS bespoke kiosk technology has helped ViewPoint Feedback develop a new range of touchless self-service solutions ensuring customers, employees, patients, and students continue to leave vital real-time responses. The new touchless devices match the trademark design and functionality of ViewPoint Feedback’s iconic satisfaction survey stations complete with smiley face buttons, icons, and text but in a format that addresses user concerns about virus transmission, especially in hig...

Genetec Inc. (‘Genetec’), a globally renowned technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, has helped River Cree Resort and Casino modernise security, surveillance, and compliance with a unified solution based on Genetec Security Center. The Alberta, Canada-based casino, hotel, and entertainment venue - River Cree Resort and Casino is owned and operated by the Enoch Cree Nation. It welcomes 45,000 guests each week, with all...

Project management for large building designs benefits from both collaboration and effective digitalisation. On a landmark new office development in central Brussels, ASSA ABLOY’s Openings Studio™ software helped achieve the ultimate goal: excellence in design, balancing cost, delivery time, and sustainability concerns. Quatuor Quatuor is a multi-purpose office, events, and coworking space in central Brussels, with an innovative design, certified Outstanding by BREEAM. Designed and...

Eager tourists have flocked into Japan after borders were reopened for international tourism in September 2022, and the visa-free entry programme was reinstated in October 2022. According to statistics released by the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), Japan welcomed close to a million international tourists in November 2022.  Although local shopping centres, hotels, and restaurants celebrate the recovery of tourism, the pandemic has prompted a heightened sense of awareness among...

ZeroEyes, creators of the only A.I.-based gun detection video analytics platform that holds the US Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act Designation, announces that its solution will be implemented by Klamath Falls City Schools to offer proactive protection for students and staff against gun-related threats. ZeroEyes’ A.I. technology is being layered on top of the schools’ existing security cameras, where it will identify brandished guns and dispatch alerts to safety personnel...

Boon Edam Inc.’s secured entry solutions are proving effective for risk mitigation and regulatory compliance at essential data centres around the world. Layering Boon Edam secured entry solutions at all data centre perimeter entry and exit points and critical internal access points provides the strongest possible physical security measures to mitigate against unauthorised access. Physically secure access points “Data centre managers are tasked with three critical respons...

Presbyterian High School is a 57-year-old school in Singapore and was initially known as Li Sun High School with only 150 students. Presbyterian High School is a sprawling campus of 3 hectares and has more than 1200 students and staff members. This campus stands out as a striking landmark in Ang Mo Kio and is a choice school for many.  Challenge As schools grow in size, the security risks increase. To ensure the safety of students and faculty and to prevent outsiders from entering t...

The Ministry Of Municipality And Environment (MME) in Doha Qatar has nearly 100 scheduled buses for transferring employees and officials. In recent years, transportation costs are increasing, and managers need to ensure only employees could get on the designated buses. It is also a good plan to maintain employees’ health under COVID-19.  Challenge However, although the bus driver is easy to manage, and the time of buses is simple to schedule, it is not enough to reduce the cost and...

Transport for London (TfL) announced that it will be introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA) to its Oyster and contactless users this year. Usernames and passwords, which is the authentication that TfL currently uses for users, have long been the default method of online authentication, but have been proven to be ineffective at mitigating modern cyber-attacks. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) By requiring MFA, Transport for London (TfL) is providing extra security for its users, when a...

OnPoint Electrics has fitted Mul-T-Lock’s innovative vehicle security solution, MVP2000 to its company van, following a break in that resulted in a significant loss of tools. Says Jon Dawson of On Point Electrics: “The crime was committed in less than 20 seconds, with my van in full view of obvious CCTV systems, in broad daylight, in front of a busy leisure centre. None of these elements seemed to act as a deterrent.” Meeting customer requirements  Jon Dawson adds, &ldq...

IDEMIA, the globally renowned company in identity technologies, has developed an end-to-end border control solution comprising kiosks and eGates. The Australian Department of Home Affairs has commenced the installation of IDEMIA’s technology in eight international airports, providing a completely seamless traveller journey. Self-service biometric kiosk solution In 2019, IDEMIA won the phase one contract to upgrade the major Australian airports’ old arrivals systems In 2019, IDEM...