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Latest News
10 May 2010
Airport alert
When an airport experiences a major security breach, officials scramble to implement new, sometimes invasive technologies to keep airlines and passengers safe. One of the latest examples occurred on Christmas Day, 2009, when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab…
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10 May 2010
Sniffing out a suspect
Imagine a scene where investigators approach a suspicious person waiting in line to board a trans-Atlantic flight. He is wearing a hooded sweatshirt, oversized sunglasses and heavy gloves. Before he even says a word, the investigators have scanned th…
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10 May 2010
Smart power
It used to be so simple. You had a big power plant here, people using the power there, and power lines between them. A man in a van went round to read the meter – and that was electricity!
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10 May 2010
Environmental integration
While new, green building codes continue to sweep the globe and change the way we design and build, their impact on security hardware has remained relatively small – so far.
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25 Mar 2010
Iris recognition
The eyes have it. The use of iris recognition technology is expanding around the globe and it is being utilized in a vast array of commercial and government applications ranging from access control to time management.
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