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Summit Academy Chooses Cloud-Based Access Control System

By ADT Security - Sep 15, 2011 12:00:00 AM

School system chooses a hosted, cloud-based access control system to fit its security, regulatory and budgetary requirements.

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Chemical Companys Maintenance Program Standardized by ADT Security Services, Inc.

By ADT Security - Jun 1, 2011 12:00:00 AM

After years of adding new chemical plant locations under a decentralized structure, the Company decided to take a centralized approach to their security system maintenance and equipment requirements.

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Petrochemical Company Proactively Prepares for Transportation Workers Identification Credential (TWIC) Implementation

By ADT Security - Jun 1, 2011 12:00:00 AM

In anticipation of U.S. government Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) regulations, the Company took a proactive approach and engaged ADT to help customize a solution that would integrate the new government-issued Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWICTM ) card .

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Video Auditing for Specialty Retailers

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As a retailer, reducing shrinkage from shoplifting, employee theft, vendor fraud and administrative errors is a constant struggle. Find out more about ADT's Select View® — a video auditing program that can help serve as a deterrent, increase compliance and identify events in a more cost-effective and manageable way.

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Citizens Bank Case Study

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ADT was presented with legacy (and often incompatible) security systems inherited through Citizen's growth and acquisitions. Find out more about how ADT developed a client-managed security command center, in addition to standardizing incompatible alarm panels and installing a new network access control system.

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Enhancing Hospital Efficiencies, Business Processes With Physical Security

By ADT Security - Sep 19, 2011 12:00:00 PM

This medical facility integrated its new access control system to automate its credentialing while ensuring appropriate access levels. Here's an example of one hospital that identified an opportunity and is reaping the rewards.

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V.A. Healthcare Facility Turns to PSIM for an Integrated Security Solution

By ADT Security - Sep 19, 2011 12:00:00 PM

A U.S. Veterans Administration healthcare facility's need to comply with HSPD-12 requirements led to concerns over its lack of centralized, integrated control.

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ADT brings The O2 Arena to center stage

By ADT Security - Aug 1, 2011 8:30:00 PM

O2 Arena

Situated on London's Greenwich Peninsula, The O2 is London's state-of-the-art music and entertainment destination. The venue can hold up to 23,000 people and is surrounded by an Entertainment Avenue which boasts a myriad of leisure attractions that include an 11-screen cinema, exhibition spaces, a additional music venue, restaurants, bars and cafes.

The O2 is the first destination of its kind in the UK and is equivalent in size to 12 football pitches. In a space so vast, with the potential to be densely occupied, first class security and fire protection is vital.

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Park'n'Ride Made Easy, and Safe

By Rodney Bosch - Security Sales & Integration - Aug 1, 2009 8:30:00 PM

ADT Security Services and two subcontractors took on an IP-based video surveillance solution at a new $27 million rail transit parking facility in Irvine, California. Under a tight deadline, a supremely coordinated effort was necessary to overcome obstacles before achieving success.

In California, a new four-level parking garage at the Irvine Transportation Center, located about 40 miles south of Los Angeles, is providing thousands of daily commuter train and Amtrak passengers with a newfound creature comfort: convenience.

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Custom Physical Security

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Because of ADT's reputation in the security industry as a reliable provider for electronic security and monitoring, the Bank's facilities and new construction department called on ADT when their rapidly growing bank required branch expansions. Hundreds of branch installations later, ADT supports full-branch equipment for the Bank, including drive-in and drive-up banking systems, teller line under-counter steel cabinets, vaults and safes, safe deposit box systems and night depositories. Related service contracts for branch monitoring and alarm and digital video systems are also included.

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Digital Video Surveillance

By ADT Security - Aug 1, 2011 8:30:00 PM

A fast-growing regional financial institution, referred to in this case study as the Bank, was interested in improving security performance and reducing security-equipment related service costs. To accomplish these goals, the Bank turned to ADT to implement scalable, common standards of security technologies throughout their facility network.

"When ADT first began supporting the Bank's security requirements, it was apparent that ADT's performance in helping other top tier institutions apply security technology standards was a key factor to this customer," said Sal Panarello, ADT Banking national account manager for the Bank.

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Integrated Alarms

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Shortly after several major mergers the Bank's Global Security and Loss Prevention organization determined that new technology standards could help improve security conditions and support cost reduction measures. The Bank's mixed facility alarm systems featured outdated technologies along with costly communication protocols. Still, other branches relied on serial routers communicating alarm signals to the Bank's corporate security operations center via dedicated telephone lines.

Bank officials also recognized that major efficiencies could take place if the alarm systems were capable of communicating with the company's IT network.

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Fortune 500 Logistics Company Secures Rapid, Cost-Effective Protection for Vacant Terminals

By ADT Security - Aug 1, 2011 8:30:00 PM

IP - or Internet Protocol - technology is probably the hot issue in the security industry today. By using the power of the Internet and Intranet, IP-based cameras can take video surveillance to a new level.

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SkyTrain Leverages Existing Infrastructure and Implements Hybrid IP Video Solution

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TransLink's existing, proprietary video surveillance system was in need of an upgrade to allow it to meet operational and security goals. As an automated light rapid transit system, many of SkyTrain's cost efficiencies are gained through unmanned stations that are monitored by video from its OMC. As its existing video surveillance system became more time intensive to manage, the efficiencies gained through automation had declined they had to send personnel to the stations to retrieve video or resolve maintenance issues.

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Express Transportation/Delivery

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A large global transportation company wanted to be proactive by implementing security solutions that would comply with impending Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regulations. So, of course, it turned to North America's largest security company - ADT. Relying on our expertise in transportation security, we developed a comprehensive solution that helped the company meet the TSA's requirements and make it a much more secure operation.

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IP-enabled Network Alarms

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As a part of its significant growth pattern, the Bank completed scores of acquisitions over the past twenty years. Often, merger and acquisition activities create challenges for bank operation managers tasked with making acquired security systems work together effectively. Such was the case with the Bank, when an audit of its security operations determined that multiple facility alarm technologies, vendors and monitoring methods were no longer meeting the Bank's longer-term objectives. After weighing their options, the Bank turned to ADT to help implement a multi-phase program of new security standards, including an integrated alarm network, outsourced central station and important new alarm reporting services.

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RFID Technology - Impact and Effect on your Enterprise

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Three years ago RFID appeared to be suffering an identity crisis. Its role in the supply chain (versus bar code) seemed largely undefined. Competing and conflicting technologies such as Wireless LANs and less-expensive Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) systems continued to be deployed to automate processes and provide greater in-transit visibility. During this time many vendors, channel organizations, and end users interested in RFID seemed to be lying in wait for a breakthrough implementation to establish RFID as a viable, mainstream technology in the supply chain.

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Secure Bus Infrastructure and Homeland Security: A Case for Informed Response

By ADT Security - Aug 1, 2011 8:30:00 PM

On a cool, sunny Saturday afternoon, the Daily Metro pulls up to the Caroline Street stop and boards its passengers. After the doors close and the passengers take their seats, the bus pulls into traffic. The newly installed mobile video surveillance cameras and microphones record every movement and sound on a recording device, located securely in a compartment above the windshield. One of the passengers, wearing a grey full-length coat, gets up and proceeds to the seat directly behind the driver. He informs the driver that he has a sawed-off shotgun beneath his coat, and that if his demands are not met, he will open fire on the passengers, one by one.

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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

By ADT Security - Aug 1, 2011 8:30:00 PM

The Washington, D.C., Metrorail can't afford interruptions. Not when it's responsible for transporting commuters to and from some of the nation's most important government facilities, including the Pentagon. So when a federal grant was made available to help fund necessary security upgrades, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) turned to ADT. Drawing on our unique resources and proven experience, we were able to offer a solution that integrates intrusion detection, access control and fire alarm into one system. And by helping streamline the Metrorail's security system, we did the same for their entire operation.

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American Water Cutting-Edge Security System from ADT Helps Secure Water Facility Sites Across the United States

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O2 Arena

After September 11th, the U.S. water industry was forced to re-assess their risks. Realizing that the threat of an attack on U.S. soil had potentially increased, water service companies began to evaluate their security solutions. According to Bill Glover, ADT Security Services' national accounts systems sales manager, water supply operations have three major vulnerabilities. First, chemicals used in the plant could be stolen and used for attacks on citizens. Second, terrorists could interrupt the water supply to towns and cities, and then set fires to buildings. And third, drinking water could be contaminated.

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