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SHIELD Certification: Enhancing Security And Stakeholder Collaboration
SHIELD Certification: Enhancing Security And Stakeholder Collaboration

In today's complex security landscape, ensuring the safety of building occupants and assets requires more than just cutting-edge technology. Holistic approach The SHIELD certification, introduced b...

Healing Through Innovation: Securing Healthcare In The Cloud
Healing Through Innovation: Securing Healthcare In The Cloud

As the backbone of community welfare, healthcare facilities cater to crucial public needs from emergency care to specialized medical treatments, and due to its position as a significant facet of the world's critical infrastructure, the healthcare sector faces a multitude of challenges in ensuring patient and visitor security, managing high traffic, and safeguarding sensitive data. Medical sites, such as large hospitals and urgent care clinics, see a wide variety of patients, medical staff, adm...

How Can Organizations Integrate Physical Security With Other Systems, Such As IT And HR?
How Can Organizations Integrate Physical Security With Other Systems, Such As IT And HR?

By linking human resource (HR) systems to physical security, access control systems can automatically update permissions based on employee changes, such as promotions, terminations, or department transfers. In fact, connecting HR and information technology (IT) systems to physical security can provide many significant benefits in terms of access control, incident response, compliance, cost savings, and employee experience. We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: How can organizations...

Unlocking New Potential In Video Security Through AI
Unlocking New Potential In Video Security Through AI

Rapid technological advancement, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are revolutionizing traditional on-premises video security systems. These next-level tools are not just enhancing video data capabilities; they're transforming how businesses approach security, operational efficiency, and information analysis. Video analytics have been a part of security systems for many years, but the arrival of deep learning in 2009 marked a turning point. By training neural networks, basi...

Round table discussions

How Is The Internet Of Things (IoT) Impacting Physical Security?
How Is The Internet Of Things (IoT) Impacting Physical Security?

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized many industries, including physical security. By connecting physical devices to the internet, IoT technology offers significant enhancements to security systems. Benefits include real-time monitoring, remote acce...

What’s New In Command-And-Control Systems For Security?
What’s New In Command-And-Control Systems For Security?

A software platform designed to centralize and manage various physical security systems within an organization used to be called a PSIM (physical security information management) system. Generally speaking, however, the PSIM term has fallen out of favor becaus...

How Should Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Impact Security Decisions?
How Should Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Impact Security Decisions?

Direct costs such as purchase price and maintenance are important elements in the total cost of ownership (TCO). However, there are others. Elements such as opportunity costs of lost revenue or hidden costs of energy consumption and environmental consequences...

Case studies

SBB Secures Perimeters With Hanwha Vision Cameras
SBB Secures Perimeters With Hanwha Vision Cameras

The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is the largest rail and transport company in Switzerland with 1.2 million passengers and 180,000 tonnes of freight transported every day. SBB is a pioneering rail system in Europe due to its quality of service, safety, and reliability. It operates passenger, cargo, and freight services, with large real estate holdings across Switzerland that it needs to keep secure and protect from crime, anti-social behavior, and trespassing.  High-performance cameras SBB video team needed to replace an existing video surveillance system across its rail network The SBB video team needed to replace an existing video surveillance system across its rail network. Hanwha Vision cameras were chosen due to their high performance, intelligent analytics, and attractive pricing.  Hanwha Vision cameras from its X and P series, including a vandal-resistant network dome camera, plus PTZ cameras and network boxes, have been installed and used continuously since 2021. Video analytics for greater awareness The cameras have a wide range of beneficial functions and analytics such as audio detection, automatic lens distortion correction, and WDR (Wide Dynamic Range). If an event occurs, the dome cameras can switch to PTZ cameras. The cameras also feature tamper detection, fog detection, and day and night functions. Cost optimization in the project and in operation SBB is using dome and multi-directional cameras from the X and P series SBB is increasingly using dome and multi-directional cameras from the X and P series with the option of remote lens alignment. These help to optimize costs in the project and during operation, as the alignment and the lens can be adjusted and corrected remotely at any time, eliminating the need for on-site adjustment. Securing perimeters With intelligent video analytics, such as loitering detection and virtual line-crossing and area detection, carried out on the device, the cameras deliver accurate motion detection, allowing operators to quickly understand if there is unauthorized entry to any restricted areas. The integrated AI supports the differentiation between people and different vehicles, increasing the accuracy of the analysis and minimizing false alarms. "We are very satisfied with the performance of the Hanwha Vision cameras. They help us to secure our stations and buildings, optimize processes in rail operations, improve public safety and ensure that our trains run on time,” said Chei Seung-Kyoo, responsible for Technology Video at SBB.

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