Products for November 2009

All-Purpose Booth

B.I.G. Enterprises of South El Monte, California, has designed a new prefabricated booth for the Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista, California. The booth is a welcoming interface for visitors while it provides a secure design for high-volume ticket sales. It features a stucco facade and a standing seam roof and comes complete with electrical power and provisions for data, communication, and security camera systems. It also offers stainless steel shelves and a high-output commercial HVAC system.

Computer Monitoring

Spector 360 from SpectorSoft Corporation of Vero Beach, Florida, monitors employees’ computer use whether they are in the office, traveling, or telecommuting. It records Web sites visited, e-mails exchanged, chats and instant messages, files transferred, documents printed, and applications run. In addition, it uses a camera recording tool to provide visual detail of employee activity. The software offers more than 50 built-in reports that detail which employees are surfing the Internet, visiting certain types of sites, using e-mail services such as Hotmail and Gmail, printing sensitive documents, and using removable media such as flash drives and DVDs. The software also includes the potential for unlimited customization and it can block certain Web sites deemed inappropriate by individual, group, or entire organization.

Delayed Egress

Detex Corporation of New Braunfels, Texas, is offering delayed egress hardware that withstands harsh weather. The hardware can be used on outside gates, as well as on interior doors that become wet when opened. Delayed egress hardware may be used in secured courtyards to prevent patients from wandering away. Locked from the outside, the devices allow egress in non­emergency situations after a 15-second delay; in an emergency they provide immediate exit. An alarm sounds at a mon­itoring station if someone attempts to leave. The hardware can be ordered as an Easy Kit, complete with everything needed for installation, including wir­ing. It is available with a stainless steel finish in the Advantex line.

Emergency Alerts

Amika Mobile Corporation of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, has developed an integrated emergency mass notification system that can alert WiFi users based on location. It also alerts groups over SMS, MMS, e-mail, Web, and voice. The Amika Mobility Server Emergency Alerting Edition is a server-based software product that is fully scalable for small and large deployments. The browser-accessible console allows authorized security personnel to target broadcast recipients by location or logical grouping. Broadcasts can be delivered as text messages to mobile phones, as pop-up windows on computers, and on any platform as an e-mail. The system allows for feedback from designated personnel.

Intelligent Video

On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc. of Pearl River, New York, has introduced a new distributed network video recorder. NetEVS is a comprehensive systemwide recording and management solution that reduces the complexity of managing edge devices, hardware, networking, and user rights by implementing a single management application. It is offered in the company’s Ocularis Physical Security Information Management product line to facilitate the monitoring, investigation, and sharing of IP video surveillance. It supports cameras from all leading manufacturers and all popular video formats including MPEG-4, M-JPEG, and H.264. The NetEVS Central Management Server application enables configuring camera definitions, output actions, and video storage locations, as well as user access rights.

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