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security focus<br />
Who was<br />
that?<br />
In many facilities, despite significant investment<br />
in physical security, tracking of visitors<br />
is still a manual process. The registration visitors<br />
in a paper logbook and issuing nondescript<br />
VISITOR tags is often the cause of<br />
lobby inefficiencies and is a source security<br />
exposures. The visitor logbook is often inaccurate<br />
and incomplete. It does not consistently<br />
include the host’s name, location, or sign<br />
out time and therefore cannot be reliably<br />
used in cases of emergencies and forensic<br />
investigations. The problem drastically compounded<br />
for facilities with multiple entrances<br />
and with separate logs for different types of<br />
visitors. In addition, VISITOR tags issued to visitors<br />
can be easily abused by impostors. Most<br />
of all, this manual process is recognized by<br />
many companies as a missed opportunity to<br />
collect detailed and accurate information<br />
about visitors, encourage visitor pre-registration,<br />
consistently check for barred visitors,<br />
enforce mandatory visitor sign out policy, and<br />
proactively track visitors while on site.<br />
The LobbyWorks Visitor Management System<br />
New CCTV Webshop<br />
ClearView Communications launch their new<br />
CCTV web shop at www.clearview-cctv.co.uk.<br />
Over 2000 CCTV products can be purchased online.<br />
A wealth of support information is also<br />
available including free training powerpoints,<br />
PDF brochures, CCTV guides, video demos and<br />
photo libraries. Reader Reply No.: 85117<br />
Securikey expand safe range<br />
Following the success of their Euro Graded<br />
Safes (VDS Grades 1-5) offering up to Limillion<br />
in <strong>protect</strong>ion of valuables, Securikey have<br />
now expanded their range to include a smaller<br />
economic Grade 0 model.<br />
Ideal for both domestic and commercial usage,<br />
this safe is available in 2 sizes with multiple<br />
locking options offering an insurance cash rating<br />
of up to £6,000 (10 x valuables) Independently<br />
tested in Germany to standard ENI 143 these<br />
safes now provide the most comprehensive<br />
range of quality lightweight Free Standing Safes<br />
in the UK. Reader Reply No.: 85078<br />
enhances your investment in access<br />
control and perimeter security by<br />
providing simple and effective way<br />
to register, badge, track and<br />
manage your facility’s visitor<br />
traffic. Visitor registration<br />
is quick and simple,<br />
can be performed either<br />
at a guard station or<br />
using an optional selfregistration<br />
kiosk.<br />
LobbyWorks’ power and<br />
flexibility make natural<br />
fit for both simple, standalone<br />
deployments<br />
using the Professional<br />
Edition or multi-site<br />
deployments using the<br />
Standard LobbyWorks scans a<br />
photo ID, business card or<br />
passport ID of arriving visitor,<br />
then instantaneously checks<br />
whether the visitor expected,<br />
has been in the facility<br />
before and makes sure the<br />
visitor is not on a watch list.<br />
These quick and consistent<br />
checks that only the right<br />
people are allowed on site.<br />
After scanning the information,<br />
LobbyWorks takes a<br />
digital photo or captures<br />
visitor's signature.<br />
LobbyWorks can automatically contact the visitor’s<br />
host by phone, email or with real time net-<br />
Security proves a piece of<br />
cake At Laurens Patisseries<br />
UK’s largest cream cake manufacturer has<br />
installed Bewator security equipment to monitor<br />
operations.<br />
Laurens Patisseries Limited, based<br />
in Newark, Nottinghamshire, produces<br />
chilled cream cakes for<br />
many of the country’s leading<br />
supermarkets. With a 100,000<br />
square foot site, Laurens required<br />
a sophisticated IP (Internet<br />
Protocol) CCTV solution that<br />
would help them monitor and control<br />
movement across a very large<br />
area.<br />
The company also wanted<br />
to be able to use the<br />
recorded footage to<br />
assist with staff training<br />
and improve operational<br />
efficiencies.<br />
Laurens Patisseries appointed<br />
Oxford-based Chris Lewis Security<br />
to specify and install a system for them. The<br />
security company’s MD Chris Lewis says:<br />
“Because of the size of the site and the complexity<br />
of the job, we needed to install 45 analogue<br />
CCTV cameras across the perimeter<br />
fence, loading bays, car parks, production lines<br />
and offices to give us the total coverage our<br />
client wanted.<br />
“While such a comprehensive system will provide<br />
a highly detailed picture of movements<br />
into and out of the premises, it also poses its<br />
own problem: monitoring.”<br />
To handle this side of the job, Chris Lewis<br />
Security specified an Eventys Digital Video<br />
Monitoring System and an Eventys RMC (Remote<br />
Monitoring Centre) - both manufactured by<br />
Bewator.<br />
The Eventys Digital Video Monitoring System<br />
(DVMS) is an advanced digital and audio<br />
recorder/server - effectively a hard disk<br />
recorder - and this was connected to support<br />
work messaging to announce.<br />
Once the visitor is registered, an individualized<br />
badge is generated. Specific visit restrictions<br />
may be set, such as:<br />
clearance, access area or<br />
visit expiry time.<br />
At the end of the visit,<br />
LobbyWorks signs out the<br />
visitor. In case the visitor<br />
does not sign out,<br />
LobbyWorks can contact the<br />
check if the visitor has left the<br />
site.<br />
This simple yet powerful visitor<br />
registration process forms the<br />
basis for a very powerful security<br />
platform. Registering all visitors<br />
through LobbyWorks ensures that<br />
you have a centralized and complete<br />
record of your visitor traffic,<br />
strengthens visitor security<br />
improves productivity and service<br />
to your customers.<br />
Features<br />
• Pre-register expected visitors<br />
through a simple web interface<br />
• Scan arriving visitors<br />
Photo ID or business card<br />
• Automatically identify<br />
returning visitors,<br />
expected visitors and<br />
visitors on a watch list<br />
• Capture visitor’s photo and/or signature<br />
• Track assigned visitor access cards<br />
Reader Reply No.: 85090<br />
the cameras, capturing images from each of the<br />
45 installed for future reference.<br />
It has enormous storage capacity (900Gb) and<br />
offers search facilities that allow the user to<br />
graphically search events to pinpoint an incident.<br />
It is even possible to synchronise<br />
all the cameras to the time of an incident<br />
and view the relevant footage and<br />
then watch an incident unfold.<br />
The Eventys RMC (Remote Monitoring<br />
Centre) is a highly flexible and easy to<br />
operate software solution, which<br />
enables Laurens to view real time and<br />
recorded footage simultaneously.<br />
Because the Eventys DVMS is one<br />
of the most advanced digital<br />
recording solutions on the market,<br />
it supports<br />
traditional<br />
a n a -<br />
logue cameras as well as IP cameras.<br />
This enabled Laurens to create a hybrid system<br />
that utilised analogue cameras, but still provided<br />
a highly intuitive security system with superior<br />
motion detection and advanced search<br />
facilities. In effect, if motion is detected by a<br />
camera, those images are prioritised.<br />
Security staff at the factory are now able to<br />
keep close scrutiny on every part of the plant,<br />
knowing that they are recording every camera’s<br />
footage while focussing on key security areas<br />
and - if the occasion occurs - have their attention<br />
drawn immediately to any activity.<br />
“This is a very intelligent system,” concludes<br />
Chris Lewis, “that gives blanket coverage of a<br />
very large and complex site. Furthermore, it<br />
can easily be enhanced or upgraded at any time<br />
in the future - for instance allowing images to<br />
be viewed remotely through the web.<br />
“What’s more, it’s now working extremely<br />
well.”<br />
Reader Reply No.: 85104<br />
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