THE NEW EDGE “I see a trend towards starting to use UHF tech-
nology, which in the past we haven’t really done because it was an unsecure technology,” Adams says. “The exciting thing about it is that with new chips that are coming out we now have the ability to add security and protect the identity of the chip. “We have been using active UHF, like key fobs for the car, for quite some time, but the problem is batteries wear out. Passive UHF is no more expen- sive than a typical smart card and we can create multi-tech cards to include UHF, high frequency iCLASS and quite possibly a third prox antenna.” Another potential wireless option is the use of
Example Applications
Examples of successful perimeter applications range from high-end government to manufacturing and sports arenas.
“ We have a high-end parking system installed at a new stadium,”
says Alex Franco at Amano Cincinnati. “It starts from the standard hardware including barrier gates, ticket dispensers, pay stations and fully automated software. Everything is managed on their net- work and it is a full parking software management system.”
“ Our bioCLASS line is used in South African mines to gain access to
perimeters of sites using fingerprint technology,” says Dave Adams, at HID Global.
“ We have some cellular sites in a Western beverage facility,” says
Mark McBroom at Securitron. “They have several offsite areas where they had storage units but were unable to run cabling out there so they were really big on using cellular access along with solar panels. The biggest thing for them was accountability. They wanted to know who went through those gates and when.”
“ A big one for us is on a military base,” says Scott Hullinger at Mier
Products. “They were using several different systems including gate systems, cameras and card access,” and they wanted to put all those other companies’ systems in our enclosure to be both tamper and weather proof. They wanted to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that someone is at that gate. But the equipment used to do that is a lot more technologically advanced and needs that temperature and weather controlled environment.”
“ A large pharmaceutical plant on the East Coast was really concerned
about people getting into their facility,” says Beth Thomas at Hon- eywell. “These types of facilities have a campus environment with several buildings and they struggled with how to keep intellectual property safe.”
The town of Estes Park, Colo., uses wireless locks on perimeter doors to improve security, monitoring and key control, relates Jen- nifer Toscano at Schlage, Ingersoll Rand.
cellular phones or even the Bluetooth technology within them. “Every phone made now has a Bluetooth radio in
it,” Adams says. “It can be used at great distances and you can authenticate who is going through a door or gate using the identity placed on the phone as well as a PIN code through the phone.” Wireless has gained in popularity not only because of the convenience but also reliability. “People are more comfortable with wireless solu- tions than two years ago,” Thomas says. “I think the general attitude in the market has changed.” Another high-tech solution being implemented in the perimeter access market is biometrics. “Before, parking was pretty much a ticket with a bar code or stamp on it,” says Alex Franco, regional sales director, export, Amano Cincinnati, Palm Harbor, Fla. “Now people are using biometrics like fingerprint or palm of hand, retina or facial recognition for more security when entering those parking lots.”
Thomas comments, “We have seen cases where
just having simple card access does not suffice because it is easy to lose a card. Extra factors of authentication become important. Many places are using PIN codes, but for critical infrastructures there is a trend or drive to biometrics.” In the future there may be even more of a mar- riage between long range technology and biomet- rics, Adams adds. “We are looking at some alter- nate technology for long-range where we would actually be using a camera to identify people as well as their credential at fairly moderate distances of up to seven feet. Other companies are looking at doing iris recognition and even facial recognition at a distance.”
Sophisticated technology doesn’t come without
drawbacks, however. A lot of these systems, when used in an indoor, controlled environment are just fine, but perimeter locations pose more of a challenge. “One of the pieces of equipment we sell for such things is a temperature controlled enclosure,” says Scott Hullinger, vice president of Mier Products, Kokomo, Ind. “Lots of systems now use fiber optics which can get brittle in cold conditions. “We also provide a non-metallic enclosure because so much equipment is going wireless. Instead of using a traditional metal enclosure with an antenna on the outside they want to be able to put the entire unit on the inside.” Both for weather and vandalism protection, enclosures can be a necessary step to protect equip- ment in more remote locations, Hullinger adds.
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