The partnership – orchestrated through CNL’s Technology Alliance Programme (TAP) – will ensure that Geoquip products such as Defensor are certified to work with IPSecurityCenter. Certification will facilitate bi-directional communication of rich alarm information directly with IPSecurityCenter, allowing intelligence from other systems such as video surveillance and access control to be used to verify alarms.
Once an alarm has been verified, these systems can work intelligently using workflow technology through a Common Operating Picture (COP) to manage and resolve an incident for the best outcome to any situation.
For its part, Geoquip boasts a suite of industry-leading products in key security areas including detection, detection/prevention, system management, instant and portable and permanent systems.
Most significant security barrier
Speaking about this latest move, Darren Chalmers-Stevens (vice-president of professional services at CNL) explained: “The perimeter is the first and arguably the most significant barrier to protecting any security facility, and one of the biggest challenges to managing any perimeter is the dynamic nature of its environments.”
Chalmers-Stevens continued: “Numerous genuine alarm triggers such as authorised personnel, maintenance contractors and security patrols are continuously passed to the Control Room operators. Responding to all of these events isn’t feasible at times, so a method of quickly aggregating intelligence from all security systems is required to verify and prioritise each incident.”
He concluded: “The ability to filter and prioritise different alarms significantly increases operational efficiency, providing better response times and leading to increased levels of protection that are required by today’s end users. Our partnership will enable security Control Room staff to receive comprehensive alarm information, allowing the intelligent management of all perimeter alarms.”
Creating a forward-looking protection strategy
Martin Scott, the managing director of Geoquip, added: “Security managers are constantly balancing the day-to-day activities of security operations with the need to create a forward-looking security strategy. One of the biggest hurdles for them is often the siloed nature of all of their security systems. Our relationship with CNL will enable them to select these two leading technologies, knowing that they will give them a seamless solution that increases day-to-day effectiveness while at the same time providing ongoing opportunities to drive down security risk and reduce costs.”
Scott went on to say: “We will now work together to market this joint solution to a range of potential customers including defence establishments, prisons and secure hospitals, ports, Government institutions, retail and distribution depots, oil, gas and nuclear installations, airports and cross-country border posts as well as numerous blue chip companies.”
The TAP program was initiated by CNL to allow interoperability between disparate security technologies, giving end users the ability to create optimised solutions for risk reduction within their organisations. It provides TAP partners with a Device Driver Kit (DDK) to allow faster and deeper integration within the CNL Partner Ecosystem.
