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Sony CCTV solution safeguards Canary Island shipyards
Machine Vision On Line, October 2008
The backbone of the Sony video surveillance system provided for ASTICAN was the installation of a total of twenty IP cameras throughout the premises, both inside and outside. Given the huge area to cover, Ralicom needed 3,000 metres of fibre optic cable to connect the whole yard.
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Hacked off by online security?
Design Product Automation, October 2008
Arla Foods in the UK perceived a potential security problem for its operations when Microsoft terminated support for Windows NT. Arla is implementing a Norman Network Protection to protect its production networks.
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Ethernet Direct deploys surveillance video over Ethernet in Metro station
- 10/27/08
OVS-400 Industrial video server is connected with EDS-231PRO and EDS-351PRO series Industrial rated IP-66 cameras to provide real time remote monitoring.
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Centralised CCTV protection
Hi-Tech Security Solutions, August 2008
Instigated to provide community support, an original CCTV system was commissioned in 1997, with 16 cameras covering Mansfield's town centreWith the system now totalling 170 cameras, the majority are relayed back to the control room via a fibre network.
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IP video secures London schools
Hi-Tech Security Solutions, June 2008
A number of schools are monitored at a central control room situated in the Borough of Bromley. The control room uses Control Center, IndigoVision's enterprise video and alarm management software to enable security staff to control and view live and recorded video from any of the cameras at any of the schools.
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Pooling Resources
Security Management, August 2008
By Teresa Anderson
The city of Ottawa was having a problem with vandalism. The city purchased a surveillance system with two-way voice communications, digital video recorder (DVR), motion detection alarms, and a loudspeaker. When someone triggers the motion detector or intrusion alarm, the cameras are activated, and images of the area are sent to the central monitoring station.
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Let the Games Begin--and End—Securely
Security Management, August 2008
By John Barham
The Chinese government has spent around $6.5 billion on security for the Olympics, according to industry estimates. This money is being used to create one of the most elaborate and technologically advanced security and surveillance systems in the world.
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Reliance Security IT team reduces testing bottleneck by 80%
- 06/27/08
Reliance Security Services, a supplier of electronic security solutions, used Original Software’s TestPlan testing solution to enable its IT team to deliver projects on time and on budget.
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Securing Redundant Communications between an ESD and a Honeywell DCS
By Eric Byres, Tofino
Describes how a petroleum refinery used the Tofino Industrial Security Solution and Modbus to provide secure communications between a Triconex Emergency Shutdown (ESD) system and a Honeywell Experion process control system. It also explains the use of the Tofino system in redundant networks, techniques for grouping large numbers of identical devices in “networks” and the management of nuisance alarms generated by unwanted multicast traffic.
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Plant Safety
Chem.Info, May 2008
By Nato Flores
Building a chemical plant, with its inherent safety and environmental requirements, can be particularly formidable. Huntsman, a global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated chemicals, and Tower General Contractors, a construction firm in Los Angeles, can attest to that.
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Safety Interlocks Protect Employees at JRI
Process & Control Today, May 2008
JRI wanted to protect a plasma torch, which could expose workers to potential danger should the plasma torch power up when the door is open for a tool change. Fortress designed a safety system using a voltage-switching unit and safety interlocks. Only when the voltage of the machine measures zero can the vacuum vessel grant access.
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Siemens tracks energy provider’s nuclear materials
Process & Control Today, April 2008
Siemens implemented a SIMATIC IT MES to track and trace all nuclear materials produced by British Energy. BE needed a new Nuclear Materials Accountancy System that would allow them to catalogue and locate nuclear material in accordance with the European Commission Safeguards Regulation No 302/2005.
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Condition monitoring system prevents downtime at nuclear plant
Process & Control Today, April 2008
A FAG VibroCheck remote condition monitoring system is helping E.ON Kernkraft’s nuclear power plant in Grafenrheinfeld, Germany, monitor more than 90 electric motors, pumps and fans, providing early warning of impending failures and helping to keep plant availability above 90 per cent.
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Biometrics Harden Passwords
Control Engineering Supplement, November 2007
By Jared Pfost, BioPassword
IT manager Jim Krochmal at Polysius Corp and his staff worried about insecurities of usernames and passwords that were standing between the bad guys and Polysius’ intellectual property. He knew that a simple case of credential sharing or password theft could compromise it all. Here’s what they did.
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Making cyber security work in the refinery
Intech, October 2007
By Eric Byres and Nicholas Sheble
The control system team at a refinery in Texas focused on the various communications pathways and networks that connected the control systems and the corporate network and based their design on the concept of “defense-in-depth” security.
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Government Security & Intelligence
By Objectivity
Northrup-Grumman had a need for a complex, mission-critical interactive analysis involving billions of objects. What’s more, there was no existing methodology for this complex analysis, so any tool developed would have to be able to change on the fly as the methodology was fine tuned.
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WiMAX mobility through on-chip security
Embedded Computer Design, March 2007
By Armin Nückel, Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe
The IEEE 802.16-2004 standard calls for powerful cryptographic algorithms and advocates hardware acceleration. A new System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture targets these algorithms for WiMAX.
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Water Security
With security assessments and implementation of appropriate measures receiving the full attention of the water industry, we have been exploring how technology can contribute to these efforts. We have consulted extensively with our users, reviewed measures they have put in place over the years and discussed their latest plans.
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