Pipe II, designed to withstand abuse, has been ruggedised against impact, immersion, high voltage and microwaves.
The product, which is used to audit security patrols, reads durable touch memory buttons but can also be used for safety inspections, fire equipment inspections and facility inspections to prevent slip-and-fall accidents.
In addition, managers can define additional buttons with specific meanings like ‘spill detected’ or ‘fire extinguisher requires recharging’ and place these in an incident wallet. These can be carried by the officer and used to record observations during patrols.
TimeKeeping Systems engineer Blair Hamilton said durability was key in tour products and that this had been built on from Pipe II’s predecessor: “People outside the industry don’t realise the extraordinary amount of abuse that a guard tour device is subjected to,” he said.
“We’ve seen Pipes that were thrown from a third story window, spent the winter in a snow bank, been submerged in the Atlantic Ocean – and worse. Despite the abuse, the Pipe still worked. What’s new with Pipe II is that we record and log most of those events.”
