May, 2023 - securitylinkindia

Case Study

Vanderbilt Securely Managing Emergency Situations with Robust Muster Reporting

MassMediaLink India LLP SecurityLink IndiaMay 6, 2023November 14, 202406 mins

Safety has become a top priority for most organizations today, along with the importance of having an effective strategy in place to combat and manage emergencies and risks. With this in mind, modern solutions have been developed to ensure organizations are fully equipped to meet their legal and safety obligations concerning their onsite employees, visitors, and contractors. Why is Muster Reporting Needed? Increased on-site accountability is essential for a workplace with a high number of employees, and regular visitors and contractors entering their organization. In the event of a fire or emergency, having increased on-site accountability allows emergency response services to easily and quickly identify all persons in a building, whether they are staff or a visitor. This ensures that the rescue planning and management of the emergency is optimized at a high level, further ensuring the safety of all persons. Explaining the intricacies of the feature, Business Development Manager for Acre, Michael Byrden explained, “Once a roll call report has been generated, a list of all the users present in the area group selected will be displayed in the lower window of the roll call screen.” “Initially, all of these users will be given a status of ‘Missing.’ If muster readers are defined, the users will change status to ‘Safe’ as they present their user tokens to the reader to confirm that they are now in a defined muster area of the site,” he concluded. How Reports are Displayed? As personnel swipes safe at designated muster points, a missing list report is then made available on intelligent mobile devices which automatically update, offering a unique insight into the various stages of evacuation. The extensive reporting suite assists emergency services to pinpoint the last known location of missing persons or unaccounted individuals. This dramatically improves the outcome of rescue operations. “Determining where employees are located can be critical for knowing whether they are in danger,” said Michael, “That’s why a key security emergency is using access control systems for reporting employees’ locations, also used mustering.” What are the Key Benefits of Muster Reporting? Real-time on-site accountability. Optimized rescue planning. Real-time visibility for Emergency Response Teams. Regulatory compliance. Optimum on-site security. Robust reporting functionality. Availability of ‘last-known-location.’ Reaffirms your organization’s commitment to Health & Safety standards. Critically, it is essential to note that muster reports can only be successfully used if all users follow the system’s conventions. That is, all users must swipe in and out of all controlled areas. Moreover, if any person is still missing following the conduction of a muster report, cameras integrated into the access control system can be used to scan the building’s interior and exterior while simultaneously calling the missing person’s listed contact number by clicking on this information on the dashboard of the muster report. The Implementation Process Following discussions with OLS’s Founder and CEO Ollie Law, the common requirements for OLS’ clients when implementing muster reporting solutions are ‘health and safety compliance, process management, ease of access to a report, self-accounting for users for a swifter process and reduced mustering time after an evacuation.’ The time it takes to implement this solution is all dependent upon a site survey, but depending on the client’s requirements, it can take as little as a day. The beginning steps to implementing this solution with OLS involve working with end-users to define the risk assessment to ensure current measures are in place to determine the requirements of the new system. With regard to training and support options that are available upon implementation, the OLS team promises to provide training and support for the end-user during the implementation of the system with a dedicated project manager assigned to the client.

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Hikvision Solution Ensures Secure Vehicle Management for Factories and Manufacturing Facilities

MassMediaLink India LLP SecurityLink IndiaMay 6, 2023November 14, 202403 mins

The factories and manufacturing facilities are the hub of core economic and industrial activity helping to create a positive impact on the local economy, employment and manufacturing ecosystem. The security and efficiency are the key concerns for the stakeholders. There are efficient way to manage Factories by implementing security solutions. Solution Overview The factory is a synthesis of personnel, assets, equipment, and machinery. Therefore, complicated challenges arise frequently in a factory, such as personnel mobility and fire hazards. Hikvision’s Solution by Scenario for Factories provides more cost-effective ways to guarantee efficient and safe production, and property protection. Secured by our professionally selected products and subsystems, the whole solution can bring more momentum and productivity to factory operation. Vehicle Management The biggest challenge faced in factories and manufacturing facilities is the entry logs of authorized Vehicle entrance and exit. The Vehicle Management data continues to be the perpetual challenge for the Factory Management and Security Personnel. Challenges Manual identity check for drivers and vehicles can be inconvenient and time-consuming, as well as difficult to trace back when looking for specific vehicle records. In manual identity check there is always a chance for human error. Solution To replace manual identity check with Hikvision Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Cameras can enhance the security by automation of the Vehicle authorization process. Thus, adding efficiency and security for Vehicle Management via hands-free, drive-through ANPR authentication and easy-to-retrieve records. Advantages Secure and efficient vehicle egress Hands-free, non-stop, authenticated drive through. Support for block-list alarm/ VIP notification. Operational efficiency boost Easy-to-retrieve records via ‘fuzzy’ license plate match. Automated alarm push for block-list vehicle and full parking area. Simple, adaptable deployment Card and video intercom in one unit. Adaptable in scenarios with or without attendant booth. Features Authenticated vehicle access using ANPR or ID card. Support for granting access remotely via video intercom. Vehicle records and parking statistics reports. LED display of available spaces and other parking info.

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Access Control in the Cloud

MassMediaLink India LLP SecurityLink IndiaMay 4, 2023November 14, 202405 mins

Milind M Borkar – Consultant UnityIS, in the cloud, addresses today’s workplace requirements simply and efficiently, for any business security need. Whether you are on-site or off-site, connect to UnityIS from any Internet connected device. With UnityIS, manage not only the fundamentals of access control such as credential management, monitoring and control of all doors, custom reporting, real-time system event transactions and alerts, graphical device display, but also the advanced capabilities. These capabilities, already included within the easy-to-use UnityIS interface, include Occupancy Control, First Man In/ Last Man Out, and Granular Lockdowns. With Occupancy Control, define limits within a specified area in a facility with alerts to maintain limited capacity. The First Man In/ Last Man Out functionality provides a multitude of options that allow, for example, the unlocking of specified doors, turning on lights and HVAC upon a successful entry of designated personnel. With UnityIS, manage lockdowns/ unlocks remotely from a global level down to a single door. This granularity allows for a lockdown or unlock of a single room or multiple rooms, a department, a building, multiple buildings, the entire facility. All of which can be performed with a click of a single button within UnityIS. UnityIS works with most video management systems by allowing the operator to associate cameras to access control devices. Live and recorded video can be viewed from the live event stream, graphic maps or a video grid. Additional third-party products can be integrated with UnityIS through our REST API. UnityIS works with a variety of OSDP and Wiegand readers that support biometric, Bluetooth/ NFC, 13.56MHz, and 125kHz. Additionally, issue guest passes remotely via email straight to a visitor’s mobile device, without using physical credentials. UnityIS offers the most comprehensive access control in the cloud today. With no software to load, no maintenance to perform, and a simple subscription model, you can stay focused on your business. Founded in 1997, IMRON Corporation began developing software to some of the largest manufacturers in the security industry. In 2003, IMRON expanded its business model and began selling complete solutions of software and hardware to integrators and dealers under the IMRON brand. The UnityIS software platform has won several awards over the years and offers distinct features that are unmatched by industry competitors. We pride ourselves in staying ahead of the competition, to maintain our position at the forefront of technology and innovation. IMRON solutions integrate to non-proprietary open hardware platforms and offer support to more open access control platforms than any other solution in the market today. Because of this, customers are no longer at the mercy of hardware vendors who have gone out of business or have been affected by supply chain issues. This gives customers choices when projects must be completed in a timely manner. When customers have choices, everyone wins. IMRON Corporation’s products have been installed in and field-tested at thousands of sites worldwide, across every vertical and scale. IMRON’s prime emphasis on both customer responsiveness and product innovation are crucial to our unmatched product innovation. Our focus on the customer ensures both the highest ‘convergence’ of technology and customer acceptance, both of which are keys to our success.

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AI Driven Automated Visual Inspection & Content Analysis

MassMediaLink India LLP SecurityLink IndiaMay 3, 2023November 14, 2024015 mins

Prakash Prabhu – Chief Business Officer & Co-Founder, VisionBot In the past few articles, we have discussed about Computer Vision and how it can address the challenges faced by many diverse processes across multiple Industries. With the staggering amount of video content generated by billions of video sensors across the globe, the capabilities of CCTV video surveillance systems are now being transformed by fundamental shifts in how video data is gathered, stored, accessed, and analysed. VIDEO Cloud is enabling a massive transformation in the ease of monitoring and analysis for data driven Digital Enterprises Visionbot™ – Enabling the Convergence of the VIDEO Cloud and AI/ ML for Computer Vision applications VisionBot was incorporated, with a focus to address the demand for VIDEO driven digital enterprise. VisionBot AI enabled Computer Vision, helps augment performance of workflow processes and enables improvement of overall Operational efficiency of an Enterprise. It cost-effectively manages distributed visual sensors at scale, analyses the massive volumes of visual data with artificial intelligence and distributes personalized, actionable information to decision makers. The AI enabled VisionBot VIDEO cloud computer vision platform was built for accessibility, affordability and availability. Bringing the benefit of cognitive Video AI for ALL is the most important part of our journey to address the Video driven roadmap for any organization. Generative AI will probably be the singularly adopted tool for generating adaptive video content to boost engagement and drive collaboration across enterprises and social engagement. What excites us is the reality of VIDEO becoming the primary driver of the creator economy. It is inevitable that video will remain an important tool whether for work, entertainment, and learning. VisionBot will be synonymous for all things related to the AI driven VIDEO cloud. This journey of VIDEO based transformation, has opened a lot of conversations around the technology, its challenges, and the benefits for the early adopters of the AI driven VIDEO cloud. What are the industry problems that are being addressed? Among all the workflow processes within any enterprise today – visual inspection and monitoring is still heavily dependent on human reporting. Human assessment and reporting are however subjective and is prone to errors due to fatigue and inconsistency/ non repeatability. It also slows down the overall process throughput which are otherwise completely automated. VisionBot AI driven computer vision helps companies to reduce operational costs and mitigate safety and operational gaps through custom object and event detection. Automates visual monitoring. Workflow automation and reporting. Improved accuracy of actionable object data. Our Generative AI models will be assistive for attainable goals to drive long-term video adoption. Recruiting early adopters, setting content strategy, and making sure enterprises have the right technology to support goals for a more effective use of video. Increase employee-created content. Drive content diversity. Choose the right generative AI Tools. Ready to scale. A. How does this compare with traditional technique/s? 1.Traditional Rule-based automation systems are rigid Traditional rule based video content analysis has been incorporated in cameras (Edge) and server-based analytics server on the premise. Rule-based automation is a system that applies manmade rules to store, sort, and manipulate data. To work, rulebased systems need a set of facts or sources of data and a set of rules for manipulating. We sometimes refer this rule to as an ‘If-else statement’ because it must follow instructions. 2. Rule-based automation need humans to identify all scenarios in advance If you want to create a rule-based system capable of handling 100 different actions, we must write 100 different ‘if-else’ rules. Any need to update the system and add more event alerts, then we need to write a new rule. The system does not work on its own or make intelligent decisions. Rules-based systems will also not change or update, and will not ‘learn’ from mistakes, so accuracy levels do not improve. 3. Cognitive analysis based intelligent automation can accommodate wide scopes In comparison with rule based systems, VisionBot AI driven computer vision which is intelligent automation that with the help of artificial intelligence, helps to automate more activities. Artificial Intelligence includes three broad areas of computer-vision/ image-recognition, (NLP) natural-language processing and (ML) machine learning (to predict outcomes). With a combination of these capabilities, we can build automation that is more human-like with model training. Companies today face several challenges: increasing efficiency, improving decision-making, staying competitive, ensuring customer loyalty and compliance are just some of many obstacles that businesses face, cognitive automation is effective in overcoming these key challenges by supporting companies in optimizing their day-to-day activities and their entire business. The benefits that result from cognitive automation also include improved compliance and overall business quality, greater operational scalability, reduced turnover, and lower error rates. All of this has a positive impact on business flexibility and employee efficiency. Based on our experience, we believe that a company can expect savings of over 50% on its production activities and a reduction in the relevant costs. B. This is relevant for large corporates, not for MSMEs? While large-scale enterprises have long begun using new technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their business processes, SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) are still lagging behind in their effort to embrace the digital data driven enterprise. Primary Reasons for slow adoption: How VisionBot mitigates this for MSME High cost of deployment: CAPEX: VisionBot subscription model allows all companies to adopt Video based AI in to their organization processes at near zero costs. On the contrary, their existing investment in Video surveillance devices are used more effectively for organizational effectiveness apart from pure surveillance and safety. Fast changing technology landscape: VisionBot AI driven video cloud which is hosted on AWS/ AZURE, ensures companies get the best of computing hardware, data security and scalability without the need to hire a technical expert for cloud or AI technologies. Fear of getting locked in: VisionBot AI driven video cloud is ready with a wide model set of object detection behaviours and user configured event alerts. Users can flexibly select and change between different…

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Matrix Comsec Announces GDPR Compliance for its Access Control and Time-Attendance Solution

MassMediaLink India LLP SecurityLink IndiaMay 2, 2023November 14, 202404 mins

For more than thirty years, Matrix has been an esteemed and influential player in Telecom and Security domains across the globe. They have built a reputation as a dependable provider of enterprise-grade comprehensive solutions that cater to organizations of all sizes. Their portfolio includes products such as Video Surveillance, Access Control, Time-Attendance, and Telecom, all designed to help their customers meet their security and communication needs. Matrix is dedicated to putting its customers at the center of everything they do. With cutting-edge technology, indigenous research, and development efforts based in India, their commitment is reflected in their approach to product development. With a highly skilled and dedicated workforce, 40% of whom are R&D professionals, Matrix has developed over 60 advanced products across its four domains. They strive to provide innovative and reliable solutions to their customers. In its recent development, Matrix announced that its access control and time-attendance solution has become GDPR compliant. This compliance enables Matrix to offer its customers a secure and reliable solution that adheres to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guidelines. The GDPR is a comprehensive set of regulations that aim to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens. Matrix’s access control and time-attendance solution are designed to ensure that the data collected and processed by the system is in compliance with the GDPR guidelines. This includes features such as data encryption, data access control, framing a user consent management system, and more. “Matrix is committed to providing our customers with the highest level of security and privacy,” said Kaushal Kadakia, Marketing Head – Matrix Comsec, “By becoming GDPR compliant, we are ensuring that our access control and time-attendance solutions meet the strict requirements of the GDPR. That’s one small step for Matrix, but one giant leap towards launching Matrix products on the global stage.” The Matrix Access Control and Time-Attendance solution is a comprehensive solution that includes solutions such as access control, time-attendance, visitor management, cafeteria management, and more. With the addition of GDPR compliance, Matrix is providing its customers with an even greater level of security and privacy protection. To learn more about their commitment to privacy and security, be sure to check out their newly established GDPR Privacy Policy on their website.

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InfoVision – IIT Hyderabad Collaborate to Foster Synergy Between Industry & Academia

MassMediaLink India LLP SecurityLink IndiaMay 2, 2023November 14, 202405 mins

The MoU is designed to offer a range of opportunities to students and InfoVision engineers including access to projects, internships, training programs and technology enablement to drive innovation and economic growth InfoVision Inc, a leading global digital services company headquartered in the United States, has signed an MoU with IIT-Hyderabad to establish collaboration areas specifically to create closer ties and greater collaboration between industry and academia. On February 23, 2023, Sean Yalamanchi, President of InfoVision, visited the IIT Hyderabad campus to formalize the partnership with IITH officials and launch two new Hybrid classrooms as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. “It is heartening to witness a prestigious educational institution such as IIT take a decisive and impactful move towards digitization,” said Sean Yalamanchi, Co-Founder, President and Member of the Board, InfoVision. “This convergence of our strengths will help in bridging the gap between industry and academia which will in turn ensure that academic research and education will align with the needs of the industry leading to development of innovative solutions to solve real-world problems. I am confident that this will play a significant role in preparing students for the workforce by providing them with hands-on experience, industry insights, and career opportunities,” added Sean. “Academia welcomes and appreciates the industry’s interest in creating substantial value using their best capabilities. We are grateful to InfoVision for their proactive approach and initiative, which will augment to the existing system to help us in delivering high-quality education to students, both nationally and internationally,” said Dr. Murty, Director, IIT Hyderabad. As a part of the agreement, InfoVision engineers and technology subject matter experts (SMEs) express their commitment to collaborate with the learned faculty and promising students of IIT-Hyderabad on edge technologies. The aim is to share expertise for mutual benefit and growth in areas such as technology lab visits, research & development programs, guest lectures, mini projects, internships and so on. InfoVision is a US-based leading IT Services and Solutions company with the vision to empower business organisations and transform them into intelligent data-driven digital enterprises by placing intuitive tech in their control. They specialize in Data engineering, AI/ ML, 5G, Cloud, Blockchain, IoT, Metaverse, Mobility & Robotics, Enterprise cyber security & Risk, Social media analytics to help client reimagine their business, discover new ideas, and ensure their future readiness. They are building tomorrow by pushing digital transformation at all levels – strategy and roadmap advisory services, proof of concepts, full-scale implementation, integration, and post-transformation enablement. Their 26+ years of industry experience have reinforced our Agile and SAFe implementation practises to re-engineer business outcomes for a broad range of clients including the Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, Global 2000, venture-backed firms, and ISVs. They are certified GPTW® (Great Place to Work®) for the year 2022, thanks to our world-class employee infrastructure and people-centric practises. Additionally, they also feature as one of the highest-rated digital services companies in Glassdoor ratings.