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Safe City: Harnessing Technology to Adhere to Martyn’s Law

Martyn‘s Law, more officially known as the Protect Duty legislation, is a proposed piece of legislation that is being backed by the UK government to improve the safety and security of public venues and spaces. There are estimated to be about 650,000 crowded places in the UK, of which only about 0.2% are prioritized to receive direct support from the state’s network of counter-terrorism experts. It should apply to any place or space to which the public have access. Evacuation procedures and planning are likely to form a key part of these proposals.

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Locks With a Panic Function

The ÜLock B locks from Südmetall provide security on both sides of the door – to protect human lives and valuables: there is always an escape route guaranteed by the panic function in the direction of escape. And the self-locking function ensures that the door is otherwise always locked. The lock has no parts that can be attacked from outside as the electronics are completely enclosed within the lock housing, and the lock itself has a high resistance to mechanical manipulation. The best possible encryption is used for data transmission between lock, RFID card and RFID reader – that ensures optimum protection against break-ins. Access control administration is through the license-free ÜManagement 2.0 software.

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Security for Maximizing Logistics Performance

At large, busy logistics sites, just a few dock managers control the flow of hundreds of vehicles waiting to load and unload – often causing delays and impacting performance. Hikvision have come up with a solution so that it becomes fast and simple to direct vehicles to available docks, speeding up loading and unloading, and maximizing throughput and efficiency. The Smart Dock feature utilizes video surveillance cameras and some ingenious software to smooth the loading/unloading process.

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Returning Sports Fans to Stadiums Safely with Smart Technology

The atmosphere of being in a sports stadium is often as important as the event itself, if not more. The pandemic forced fans to abandon venues and watch sports events from their sofas at home. There is now hope for a return to normality as several countries around the world have re-opened their stadiums at varied capacities. Accordingly, many fans are eager to return to the stands for upcoming football seasons. However, in many cases, significant changes are required to ensure the health and safety of fans. Smart technologies like network cameras, smartphones and analytics are helping to ensure safety and security while also improving stadium operations and enhancing fan experience.

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King Of The Castle: Security Management for Chemical Companies

From climate protection to electric mobility – the products of major chemical companies can be found everywhere. The specialist for Corporate Security in this interview with Matthias Erler of GIT SECURITY was Wolfgang Ehses, who has worked for many global chemical companies in a leading security position. We spoke with him about his responsibilities – and about the challenges of security management in the chemical industry.

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Wiley Industry Days Review

Meeting people digitally, exchanging ideas, making contacts, doing business – this was once again the experience at WIN>DAYS 2021 from 7 to 9 June.

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Saving Time and Money in a Building’s Design, Construction and Security

In the last few years, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has grown from relative infancy to a critical element in many construction projects. GIT SECURITY put five questions to Marc Ameryckx, BIM manager at Assa Abloy Opening Solutions EMEIA, about the benefits of a process which is apparently much easier than many imagine.

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More Features, Convenience and Security

SimonsVoss is entering a new era of digital locking technology with the Digital Cylinder AX. The system is setting forward-looking innovation standards in terms of security, functionality, energy efficiency and scope of services. Outstanding ease of installation and convenience make the system market-ready to exceed the expectations of both market partners and users.

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Full Focus on Excellent Hardware for Security and Medical Vision

In July, Panasonic Europe and Panasonic System Communications Company Europe announced the transfer of its European Security and Industrial Medical Vision (IMV) business into a newly founded independent company, i-PRO EMEA.

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Three Questions for Five Experts: Thermal Cameras for Fire & Safety

In this series, GIT SECURITY EMEA ask three questions to five industry experts about the issue's special focus. This time we asked five experts for their view on thermal cameras for fire and safety.

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Special Focus Safe City: Olympics and Expo 2020 Dubai

It was an eventful year and the number 2020 still stand before events that were postponed to 2021: One of them being the Tokyo Olympics, but also Expo 2020 in Dubai, both of which start and have started in 2021. As events around the world are a rare treat these days, GIT SECURITY examines the latest city surveillance projects, focusing on Tokyo, Expo Dubai and some other interesting examples.

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Special Focus: Stadium Security in 2021

We have been holding sports events for thousands of years, where dozens of competitors and thousands of spectators come together to race chariots or formula one cars, to throw spears or javelins, to wrestle or see who can run the fastest, to play some ball game like rugby, hockey, baseball, tennis or soccer, or even to hear some musicians at work. You would think that by now we would have safety and security at such events under control. Well, by and large, we have, but improvement is always possible. GIT SECURITY looks at some of the security products and solutions specifically conceived for stadiums, and others that add a lot to overall safety and security.

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Italian Trio: Made Expo, Sicurezza and Smart Building Expo run Together at Fiera Milano

Digitization and sustainability, the two pillars of the Italian Recovery Plan, are at the center of the three events that, in November, will offer a comprehensive preview of the materials, technologies and regulations for the building and urban sectors. The same starting date, one admission ticket valid for all events, but above all, the same goal: working as a team, exploiting potential synergies, and meeting the needs of companies and sector operators, and especially international buyers who these days are more interested than ever in optimizing their time and resources.

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Assa Abloy: Programmable Electronic Keys for Municipal Facilities

Running a unified locking system for multiple municipal services may bring operational efficiencies. However, if the system is based on mechanical locks, it can also create time-consuming headaches. When keys go missing, for example, or user access requirements change, mechanical security does not have the flexibility to adapt quickly.

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Assa Abloy: 21st-century Locking for Old Buildings

Retrofitting modern security to old or protected heritage buildings used to be an installer’s nightmare. Wiring could be complex; damage to ancient architecture or door hardware was a constant risk. Now wireless access control devices which match the protection and durability of wired technology have made it straightforward.

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Video security in SMB market is getting more intelligent and connected

Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) may not be as large as companies in the enterprise market, but they are equally important in contributing revenue to the economy.

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Free Online Assessment: Find out how Video Analytics can help your Company

Most organizations understand the traditional benefits of video surveillance for security purposes. The introduction of intelligent video analytics makes the video content searchable, actionable, and quantifiable for security stakeholders, as well as operations, customer experience, and business development users across an organization.

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Touchless Biometrics Help Sports Fans and Stadium Staff Play Ball with Healthy Access

Covid-19 forced many sports seasons to end abruptly. Others never had a chance to begin or were forced to play without fans, costing the industry billions of dollars in lost revenue from tickets and advertising, as well as weakening tourism to sports-centric cities. After nearly 18 months of limited in-person events, some stadiums are beginning to feel confident that fans can return to watch the sports they love in person thanks to medical innovation and infrastructure solutions for keeping fans and staff healthy.

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Electrical Safety: A prerequisite in the context of Energy Transition

FEEDS is a think-tank and a do-tank that brings together organizations aiming to improve electrical safety in dwellings.

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Fire Protection: Europe needs an Action Plan

The former Fire Chief, Elie van Strien, has seen many devastating fires and was there for many after and during fires. But now he wants to be a part in the big context of preventing fires. This is why he is the founding member of an alliance in Europe that wants to make a change in fire safety on a big scale.

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Powerful Surveillance Solutions for Hospital Security and Operation

Providing a video surveillance solution for Hospital and Healthcare facilities presents numerous and unique challenges.

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Network Connections in the City

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. These occupy 2% of the earth’s surface and produce 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The resulting sociopolitical and ecological problems call for corresponding actions to make people’s coexistence sustainable and efficient, thereby improving the overall quality of life. Intelligent networking plays a central role here, especially in the field of information and communication technologies when extracting and transmitting data flows.

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Assa Abloy: Improving Staff Health and Safety

The responsibilities of the modern facilities manager combine site security with employee health and safety. At Hydreaulys, a French water and waste management utility, a simple switch to programmable key-based access control helped them make improvements on both counts.

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Aerial Surveillance: Security for Complex Sites

This integration brings together Navtech Radar’s radar-based, wide-area intrusion detection with the Herotech8 ‘drone-in-a-box’ technology to deliver a whole new capability.

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Simple But Effective AccessControl: Südmetall Presents ÜManagement 2.0

Südmetall Schließsysteme focuses on the development and production of electromechanical locks and access solutions ‘Made in Germany’. An experienced and motivated team at the Leipzig site works intensively together with highly qualified partners on smart solutions for electronic access management. Because needs change over time, Südmetall strives to continuously optimize and improve its own products. All this is done with the aim of making life a little more convenient, safer, and therefore better.

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Flawless Security Within Access Control

STid designs identification products and solutions for high-security access control and automatic vehicle identification. In this interview with GIT SECURITY, Vincent Dupart, STid’s CEO, and François Gitz, STid’s Sales Manager, explain the their keys of success and users’ expectations in the access control market.

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How BIM Product Files Helped an Architects Team

A BIM (Building Information Modeling) partnership between an architect and Assa Abloy Opening Solutions has kept a complex project moving forward. Working with Assa Abloy building information modelling (BIM) consultants helped Zarhy Architects and Studio PEZ maintain the flow of up-to-date information for a complex, constantly evolving project, and left them free to focus on creativity and delivery. Collaboration was key to successful design and building specification for the Broadcom R&D Center at Tel Aviv University.

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Security for Ports 2021

Keeping up logistics, shipping on high seas and waterways is a business which needs to be carefully run on big trade ports, rivers or passages, especially on the word trading routs. We could get an impression of what happens, if sea traffic comes to a stand during the past month when Suez Canal was blocked. Logistics in Ports and waterways is a high-security topic, which is why GIT SECURITY collected some of the security technologies on the market that help keeping up the flow of logistics safe and secure.

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Access Control Solutions for Critical Infrastructure and High Security Applications

We hardly notice them, but they are there, all day and every day; the equipment installations and their control and monitoring systems that supply us all with electricity, telecommunications, gas and water. Those are perhaps the services that first come to mind without which we would all have serious difficulties very quickly – daily life would also be radically different without quite a few others. Ensuring that these installations are not accessed by unauthorized people is the job of well thought-out security systems. GIT SECURITY takes a look at some of the solutions to mitigate the risks of theft, vandalism and acts of terrorism and to protect critical infrastructure and other high security locations.

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Security Made in Italy

The Italian company Ksenia Security has managed to increase its brand awareness continuously over recent years. And this effort has not been diminished because of the international Covid crisis. Matthias Erler of GIT SECURITY spoke with Giorgio Finaurini, Marketing and Sales Director, to find out more about this innovative and design-conscious manufacturer of security and building automation products.

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Digital Access Management: Send and Save

iLoq takes care of its courier and parcel transport in a CO2-neutral manner in cooperation with UPS. Through their carbon neutral program, UPS provides companies with an easy environmental solution to neutralize CO2 emissions from transportation.

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Panel Discussion: Managing the Risks

Patrick Geldmacher, International Sales Manager, Advancis Software & Services GmbH, Roy Band, Community Manager Middle Europe, Milestone, Christofer Sauer, Sales Engineer Team Leader DACH und ECE, Genetec.

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Thermal Technology For Accurate Perimeter Defense and Fire Detection

Hikvision has launched HeatPro, a new thermal series of cameras designed to provide affordable all-weather deterrent and alerts. It is especially useful in perimeter protection and fire prevention applications.

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Are we already over the hump of this pandemic?

Where exactly do we stand globally? How should it be handled in terms of safety? And why is this more than just one country for itself? Anja Opitz talks about the evolution of the pandemic and gives valuable insights into many factors that should be considered for now and the future at Wiley Industry Days 2021.

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Gloves: Strong Duo Against Cuts

In everyday work and the working environment, cuts are among the most common accidents at work. About 30 percent of all “non-fatal injuries” are external injuries such as hand-cut wounds.

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