Access Control | Identification

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is planning to award a sole source contract to Siemens Building Technologies, Inc., of Buffalo Grove, IL, to update, repair and maintain the HVAC control system and the fire suppression control system at CBP’s facility in Hammond, LA.

DHS marked the sixth anniversary of the issuance of the 9/11 Commission Report by patting itself on the back for the progress it says it has made in a wide range of counterterrorism arenas, but most especially in aviation security.

In a press release issued on July 22, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano hailed her department’s progress in protecting against – and responding to – acts of terrorism, “including a series of unprecedented steps to bolster aviation security in the United States and around the world.”

ATG Access Inc., based in Lillington, NC, has announced that it has acquired the vehicle barrier and gate division of the Canadian group Allen-Vanguard Corp. ATG Access engineers and produces high impact vehicle security barriers (HIVB), traffic bollard systems and manual bollard ram raid deterrent bollards which can be seen in situ in most major cities and venues globally. 

Celebrating its 10^th anniversary, Evolis, a European supplier of solutions for plastic card personalization, has unveiled a new edition of its single-sided color printer, the Pebble Black Edition.

The Pebble Black edition, available in a basic version, is a limited edition that is shipped with eMedia-Cards CS, an advanced badge design software, as well as consumables (cards and ribbon), ready to personalize 200 cards.

Keri Systems, Inc. has released its V-Track Vehicle ID System, an RFID product designed to automatically identify vehicles for such applications as gated community access control, parking lot access and fleet management.

LRT-10 Transponders are placed in the vehicle's windshield and can be activated at distances up to 30 feet by the EX-10 Exciter antenna and read by the RXR-10 receiver from up to 100 feet away, allowing for simple and flexible installation that in most cases does not require trenching.

IndigoVision’s IP Video technology is at the heart of a new “Data Warehousing” and surveillance system for the City of Calgary, Canada. Data streams from different city operations are integrated into a centralized Oracle database. This powerful tool allows the city authority to analyze an amazing array of data.

Each year, more than 1,100 commercial airlines spend more than 307,000 hours compiling and transmitting to U.S. Customs and Border Protection biographical information about more than 184 million airline passengers and crew members, at a total cost to the airlines of nearly $68.4 million.

In addition, an estimated 460,000 private aircraft pilots provide similar biographical information – including full name, date of birth, gender, citizenship, passport number, expiration date, country of issuance, etc. – to CBP, a huge paperwork burden that consumes about 115,000 hours each year.

Time-expiring visitor badges change color to prevent reuse and to eliminate the need for employees to collect them from visitors who have left a facility.

 Since their invention almost 30 years ago, these expiring badges have always required multiple pieces to activate the color-changing process. This is a problem because the person issuing the badge doesn’t always assemble all the pieces properly (too little time or training). As a result, a  visitor’s badge sometimes is activated, and sometimes it is not.