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Integrator skills and contracts
June 2013, News & Events
Training and retaining employees is a never-ending problem for integrators. We asked how they do it and how they support client post installation.
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A closer look at PSIM
June 2013, News & Events
CNL Software’s Adlan Hussain gives Hi-Tech Security Solutions a closer look at what PSIM is and how it is being used in the real world.
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Ambling to Abu Dhabi
June 2013, News & Events
I spent a few days in Abu Dhabi last month at a Milestone partner conference. There is a quick note about it in this issue and I will follow it up with a more in-depth article next month as there was ...
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iLegal Conference 2013
May 2013, Conferences & Events
Hosted by Hi-Tech Security Solutions, the recent iLegal Conference 2013 highlighted current critical issues in CCTV security surveillance in this country and launched the updated Consumer Goods Council (CGCSA) CCTV Industry Guidelines.
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Keeping cash safe
May 2013, Security Services & Risk Management, Retail (Industry)
Biometrics, interlocks, cash degradation systems, time delay lockers and safes, remote opening, better physical armouring protection, tracking, CCTV, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR), DNA sprinklers and smoke cloaks are all technologies that have played a large role in the reduction in cash-in-transit incidents.
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Local is lekker the world over
May 2013, News & Events
Despite facing many problems, South African manufacturers of security products manage to produce goods that are not only successfully deployed in the country, but also throughout Africa and the developed world. Hi-Tech Security Solutions spoke to four successful local manufacturers.
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If you build a BMS, will they install?
May 2013, Integrated Solutions
After many years and unhappy customers, most BMS systems today are open and support a variety of communications protocols. With this in hand, we should expect to see more vendors extending their BMS systems into the cloud.
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Surveillance culture, good and bad
May 2013, News & Events
News of the bomb attack in Boston was all over the news last month, complete with some really mindless and careless speculation among TV and print journalists about who did it, who was arrested and ...
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Securing large commercial facilities
April 2013, Integrated Solutions
How do large commercial facilities secure their premises without hindering the passage of legitimate visitors and employees? What role do the technological and human elements play in the equation?
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Visitor management central to security
April 2013, Access Control & Identity Management
At the end of the day, while visitor management is often seen as a separate component of the security process, it cannot be if the company concerned is to have comprehensive control over its environment. It is, first and foremost, an element of access control and identity management that controls the access and permissions of staff, strangers or infrequent visitors to a site.
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