The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has selected AMAG Technology and its Symmetry Homeland Access Control System to secure its headquarters building, Office of the Executive Director. Symmetry helps the FTC meet HSPD-12, which calls for a mandatory, government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification issued by the federal government, and the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 201 (FIPS 201), which specifies PIV requirements for Federal employees and contractors. The FTC plans to install the Symmetry Access Control system in all 13 offices throughout Washington D.C. and surrounding area.
Located in Santa Clara, Calif., Levi’s Stadium is the recently built $1.2 billion home of the NFL team the San Francisco 49ers. Since opening its doors on July 17, 2014, the stadium has been host to numerous football games, soccer games, concerts, and major international events, including Super Bowl 50 and the Copa América Centenario.
IDIS and partner PSX Inc. announced multiple installations of IDIS video surveillance technology for the Edna Independent School District (ISD) in support of the district’s compliance with Texas Senate Bill 507 (SB 507) requirements. The successful installations, covering multiple classrooms and school sites, demonstrate Edna ISD’s commitment to its special needs communities — including students, teachers, and family members — by providing the highest quality in video and audio monitoring in support of meeting and exceeding care and education standards.
Orchard Place, a Des Moines, Iowa-based provider of children’s mental health services, is standardizing on 3xLOGIC’s infinias access control across nearly all of its facilities.
Boon Edam Inc. announced that Pensacola Christian College has installed 12 Boon Edam waist-high turnstiles to manage entry into two of its dining halls.
SpotterRF, a leader in low-cost, compact surveillance radar (CSR), has collaborated with Milestone Systems and the NMS SpotterXP plugin that was used to secure both air and ground perimeter at the U.S. Presidential Debate held on October 19th at the UNLV Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. This was the first such debate monitored not only for ground threats but also aerial threats, by using SpotterRF’s A2000 CSR created especially for monitoring low-flying UAVs (drones). The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deems presidential debates to be National Special Security Events (NSSE), as they may be a potential target for terrorism or other criminal activity.
It is a windy business up there, 3,000 meters above sea level, in the Atacama Desert in the Andes in Chile. Digging for copper in the Radomiro Tomic mine of the state-owned mining company Coldeco is rough, rugged, and dangerous. Nearly every week, strong gusts of wind force 24/7 operations to a halt for an hour or two. Every day, clouds of dust or rock avalanches endanger the drivers of the giant trucks and excavators hauling thousands of tons of rocks out of the 3,500 meters long, 1,500 meters wide and 470 meters deep open pit mine. It is all worth it, for a daily copper yield of 800 tons.
Faraday Future has selected AMAG’s Symmetry Enterprise Access Control System and Symmetry CompleteView Video Management System to secure its headquarters building in Gardena, Calif. AMAG’s Symmetry products will also be installed in its soon-to-be-built world-class, environmentally-friendly manufacturing facility in North Las Vegas, Nev.
When the Bergen County Sheriff’s office in Paramus, N.J. wanted to amp up security in their new parking structure and renovated police services building, they selected Hanwha Techwin IP video surveillance cameras to do the job.