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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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Boon Edam Entrances Now Available on BSD SpecLink

Boon Edam announced that its most in-demand entrance products are now available on SpecLink, an online specification platform to help architects, engineers, specifiers, building owners and designers simplify and improve their approach to creating and collaborating on building project specifications.

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Perimeter Security for Distribution Centres

Distribution centres are a critical part of the supply chain and of any company’s business operation. Their security is paramount to protect not only the items stored, but also the fleet of vehicles parked within their sites.

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Prosegur and Security & Safety Things announce Strategic Collaboration

Security and Safety Things GmbH and Prosegur have announced their collaboration on the development of a new Security Operations Center (SOC) environment, leveraging the intelligence of innovative Artificial Intelligence infused video analytics and the expertise of Prosegur human operators to improve security services for customers around the globe.

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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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Securitas acquires leading electronic security company in Germany

Securitas has agreed to acquire Protection One, the German market leader specializing in remote technology-driven security solutions and electronic security. The acquisition will enhance Securitas’ protective services capabilities in Germany and is in line with the Group’s strategy of doubling its security solutions and electronic security sales by 2023. The purchase price is approximately MEUR 72 (MSEK 735) on a debt-free basis.

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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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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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Onvif Profile D Release: Access Control Peripherals

Onvif has released Profile D, a new profile that addresses interfaces for access control peripheral devices, providing the market with an additional tool for building modern and secure IP-based integrated video and access control systems using Onvif.

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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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Assa Abloy: Entrance Design meets Door Security

Entrance design is about making a great first impression. Yet the journey from architect’s vision to the front face of a building can demand compromises, especially where heavy doors need closing aids for safe, barrier-free operation. Floor Springs make use comfortable and compliant, for any door, without clutter or unsightly furniture.

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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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​​​​​​​BIM Partnership Between Architect and Assa Abloy

Working with Assa Abloy building information modelling 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 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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Assa Abloy: Wireless Access Solutions for Healthcare Security

Security stakes are high at healthcare premises. Patients expect and deserve privacy and safety. Yet most medical buildings must remain welcoming spaces, many open around the clock. The protection of drugs and confidential data is critical — and every breach demands thorough investigation. Such needs go way beyond what the mechanical security was designed to meet.

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Assa Abloy: Switching to Mobile Access Control Fast

​​​​​​​The smartphone is changing access control and security management at every scale and level, from global corporations to small companies. Making the switch to mobile access control, however, can seem daunting. Questions may arise around cost, practicality and the potential need for new door hardware. Yet going mobile is actually a lot simpler and quicker than many think, as one new guide explains.

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No Touch, No Problem: How QR Codes Add Benefits to Access Control

While QR codes aren’t new, it’s fair to say that 2020 became the comeback year for this technology. Be it the replacement of paper menus with QR codes on tables, which guests could scan to get a virtual menu on their mobile device, touchless payment options, or access control solutions that allow contactless visitor management – the global pandemic put contactless technology back in the spotlight. What also came into focus was the healthcare industry, that had to suddenly adjust to the new situation – probably more than any other industry. In the attempt of keeping people healthy and safe that’s when these two sectors crossed – because access control (specifically with QR code systems) played an interesting role for healthcare establishments.

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Axis products conform to ONVIF Profile M

Axis Communications announces that a selection of its cameras is now ONVIF Profile M conformant, enabling standardized streaming of metadata and event sending from edge-based analytics applications in a best-of-breed multi-vendor surveillance system.

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Pierre Racz: "Real Artificial Intelligence Does Not Exist"
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Pierre Racz: "Real Artificial Intelligence Does Not Exist"

In part one Pierre Racz, President of Genetec, is addressing why IP network video systems were the game changer in the industry and why he does not like the term AI.