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Camsecure adds X-ray scanners to its portfolio

Having completed a number of projects for large mines where full body X-ray scanners were required, Camsecure has added X-ray technology to its product portfolio.

“While security and risk alleviation is a high priority, we cannot ignore the health and safety of the people required to pass through these scanners,” says Francois Malan, MD of Camsecure. “Before aligning ourselves with any specific product, we first undertook an extensive market survey to find a scanner that would meet our stringent OHS requirements.”

Adani places emphasis on developing products that carefully consider the effects of ionising radiation on the environment and humans. “All Adani scanners have undergone extensive R&D to ensure that there is a significant reduction in the dose of radiation used, while at the same time maintaining the high scanning quality demanded by the applications,” says Malan. The decrease in dosage can be as much as tenfold, which places the Adani scanners firmly in the desired limits of safe scanning devices.

Camsecure recently sent four people to the Adani Headquarters for certified training on their X-ray platforms and will be sending another two later this year. “There are too many companies dropping boxes in our industry and then disappearing after payment. We have made a commitment to have our own staff trained to be able to commision, maintain and service these systems in a certified manner in order to retain manufacturer warranties and radiation safety standards,” adds Malan.

Since 1996, Adani has successfully developed a number of innovative scanning technologies in the field of digital X-ray equipment, both for medical and special purposes, including personal security inspection; inspection of hand and other luggage; inspection of aviation containers; and inspection of trucks and cars. It has used its experience in developing medical systems and by working with clinicians and physicists, has developed its range of products to meet the imaging needs of the customers while using the lowest possible radiation dose.

The Conpass meets the high standards set by The American National Standards Institute for Full Body Scanners for General Use (ANSI 43-17 2009) and as a result the system can be used for scanning staff members or visitors multiple times over a year. It has also been successfully integrated with a wide range of access control systems to record the dosage levels received by staff over time. A standard single Conpass scan will be the equivalent radiation dose as one hour of natural radiation or three minutes in an international flight.

Adani X-Ray scanners are ideal for use at airports, seaports, railway and bus stations; border crossings control for police or customs; control of inmates, visitors and staff in prisons; sensitive sites such as diamond and gold mines, nuclear power plants, military premises and embassies; as well as security of VIPs.

“Using only walk-through metal detectors for personnel inspection no longer meets all the security requirements for high risk areas,” explains Malan. “The full body X-ray scanner is gaining popularity for ruling out coercion between guards and suspects as this is a contactless search that can be audited, as well as giving the ability to quickly display well hidden objects externally or internally in the human body.”

A specially developed imaging technology is employed in the Adani Conpass system. This technology is based on digital X-ray ‘slot-scan method’ imaging that produces full body images of the person being inspected. Conpass produces a life size projected X-ray image of the inspected person and enables the operator to see what is hidden underneath clothing.

The DTP CargoScan is a digital X-ray system for inspection of trucks, cars and containers. The patented DTP CargoScan system is utilised to control the inspection of cargo without full or partial unloading, while identifying and tracking the cargo within the system for acceleration of the throughput of any inspection point.

“We have full confidence in the Adani X-ray scanners as a safe, cost effective and high-tech way of detecting hidden items as well as Adani being the de facto standard for body scanning,” Malan concludes.

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