utilities
Reducing costs, meeting new security threats, and answering increased demand for high-touch customer service - these are some of the biggest challenges facing utilities and the energy industry. Interface's IP technologies are powerful tools to overcome these challenges.
Interface's IP Security and Surveillance applications can protect remote assets from vandalism or terrorism. Our loss prevention tools can also improve safety for your employees and insure your ability to provide service to your customers.
As importantly - adopting the internet protocol as a common platform for security, communications and data provides exceptional efficiencies. One data network can now integrate voice, video and data applications, distributing access easily across locations, and providing a central point of administration. Here is an example showing how integrated, networked applications work.
A security officer for a water authority receives a page of an alarm event at a remote pump station and reservoir. He logs into the nearest PC and sees the perimeter intrusion noted in a log. Clicking on the event lets him take control of an IP, Pan, Tilt, Zoom (PTZ) camera mounted on the aboveground reservoir tank. He pans to the north and confirms the problem. A 120 pound, white-tail deer, not a 120 pound terrorist, has run into the fence and lies stunned nearby.
The security officer picks up his IP enabled telephone and dispatches a field engineer to investigate. The field engineer uses a soft phone application on his wireless handheld device to take the call. Arriving at the reservoir he opens an IP video application on his handheld, and sees for himself, the deer is still down but coming around. As he approaches the perimeter fence, an RFID sensor in his truck signals a proximity reader to open the gate. As he drives through, the same PTZ camera that showed him the deer, now zooms in on his license plate and snaps a still picture for the record. The gate automatically closes and locks behind him.
By the time the field engineer gets out of his truck, the deer is on its feet and walking away, apparently fully recovered. He uses his employee ID, access control badge to enter the pump house. He looks around, finds everything OK, then pauses to connect his handheld to the wide-area-network, report his visit, and what happened to the deer.
In this scenario, one IP network provided multiple applications across distant locations, including, intrusion detection, alarms, paging, camera control, telephony, proximity detection, access control, wireless network access and the blending and logging of text and video data. Early detection and verification of threats is essential to secure facilities. Interface's networks make IT possible.
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