ASSA ABLOY
ASSA ABLOY (SA) is Southern Africa's largest supplier of quality locking systems and associated products. The company has two large manufacturing units in southern Africa and boasts six agencies and branches situated in Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Free State and Namibia. Other manufacturing and distribution sites have been established in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Whilst ASSA ABLOY is renowned for its traditional lines such as pin tumbler locks, lever locks, domestic locks, OEM products, architectural ironmongery and gearlocks, which it has supplied to the market for over a century, the company is also leading the trend towards higher security products which now include electric locks and electronic keys with audit trail capabilities, in-room safes, magnetic locks, mechanical locks, access control, revolving, sliding and stacking door systems, window latches, aluminium products and emergency escape hardware. More recently, ASSA ABLOY launched its EIS Division which offers keypad, card, biocard and asset tracking access readers which allow clients to track assets such as laptops, products, people and livestock. The keyless entry lockset is also an exciting product that works off remote control. Other products on offer are fingerprint locks and biometric locks. Its brands include Besam, Chubb Locks, Esco, effeff, Elsafe, HID, Inhova, MAB, Mul-T-Lock, Tesa, Timelox, Trimec, UNION, VingCard and YALE.
Bewator
The Bewator Group develops and markets products and systems within access and video control security. According to leading market analysts, Frost & Sullivan, Bewator is ranked as one of the top three European access control suppliers. With some 330 employees with the group headquarters located in Solna, Sweden and subsidiaries in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the UK, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Bewator has an international network of more than 10 000 security installers who actively support the product range in more than 45 countries. Bewator International is a division of the Bewator Group with dedicated responsibility for sales and support of all access control products and security management systems in all international territories. Products include Bewator 2010, Granta Systems, Cotag technology cards and readers, Bewator access control products, door entry systems and CCTV products.
GE Infrastructure Security
GE Infrastructure Security is a global technology leader dedicated to supporting the needs of the Security rapidly growing electronic security industry. In South Africa, GE Security South Africa security business has expertise in all areas of electronic security, including intrusion and fire protection (Aritech, Caddx, ITI, Sentrol, Tecom, Cosmotron, ESL), electronic access and facility management (Aritech, Casi-Rusco, Origin Data Systems, Tecom), key management and remote access systems and services (Supra), fibre optic transmission and reception equipment (Fiber Options), CCTV, digital video, and surveillance equipment (Aritech, GBC-USA, GBC-Europe, Kalatel) and video multiplexing and digital storage (Aritech, Kalatel) among others.
Kaba
With some 5900 employees the Kaba Group is one of the world's leading players in the security industry. Its access control product portfolio, Kaba's largest business segment by sales, includes mechanical and mechatronic locks and cylinders, masterkey systems, and the control software of integrated access systems for general commercial applications. It also contains market-specific products such as pushbutton locks, which are popular in the USA and in Asia-Pacific. Kaba's electronic PowerLever locks have gained global fame; they require neither batteries nor wiring to a power source. The ability to combine masterkey systems with access control has resulted in interesting innovations that have created a significant competitive edge for Kaba. With its 'Total Access' strategy, the Kaba Group is specialised in integrated solutions for security, organisation and convenience at building and information access points.
Middleware Associates
Middleware Associates launched its first facility access control and security software solution, built on 100% Open Source Architecture, at the recent ASIS 2005 Annual Seminar and Exhibit in Orlando, Florida. Proviso-IP is the next generation access control system designed for enterprise interoperability, scalability and a completely open systems architecture that allows corporations and institutions to easily customise the system to meet their security and IT policies and procedures. Middleware Associates is positioning Proviso-IP as an extremely cost effective system based on its free source licence and native IP devices that eliminate significant wiring, additional controller hardware and maintenance costs. Because of its open systems design, Proviso-IP meets the requirements of the Open Security Infrastructure, an initiative that promotes non-proprietary security systems design and enterprise interoperability. Is this a pointer towards the future of integrated security solutions?
S2 Security Corporation
In another indication of the influence that IT is having on the development of and architecture underpinning modern security managements solutions, a new entrant into the market, S2 Security Corporation, has introduced a unique line of network-ready products for the physical security industry that integrate access control, alarm monitoring, video and temperature monitoring. Its flagship product, the S2 NetBox, is a network appliance that implements a complete, integrated, solid state security management system that can be operated securely from a Web browser over a LAN, WAN, or via the Internet. S2 began operation in March 2003 formed by a team of seven founders led by John L. Moss, former CEO and founder of Software House (currently a unit of Tyco Fire and Security). The S2 NetBox is the first physical security management system to integrate access control, alarm monitoring, video, intercom and temperature monitoring applications in a small-form factor network appliance. It utilises a new system architecture that moves advanced physical security capabilities to the network edge, eliminating the need for a separate PC-based server. This architecture makes it possible to deploy systems that scale from single facilities to multisite organisations - all over an IP network. Has the future arrived?
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