Gallagher Security Management Systems - Integrated Security Systems for Utilities Organizations

Gallagher Security Management Systems (GSMS), a division of Gallagher Group Limited, develops and manufactures Cardax™ integrated access control and intruder alarm systems, and PowerFence™ perimeter security systems.

POWERFENCE™ PERIMETER SECURITY SYSTEMS

PowerFence technology has successfully secured hundreds of utilities sites around the world, including water treatment and supply facilities. The PowerFence system is relied upon to safeguard these sites and their ability to provide uninterrupted service to customers.

The PowerFence system provides perimeter fencing solutions for utilities which:

• Deter attack by sending a regulated, non-lethal, electric pulse around the fence
• Meet stringent safety criteria, providing a humane solution
• Are easy and economical to run and maintain

The PowerFence system can also detect unauthorized entry or exit into defined areas, without generating false alarms.

Through a high level integration with Cardax FT, the new advanced PowerFence Trophy FT has all the benefits of a single security management system to maintain and monitor multiple, distributed sites, providing an ideal solution for the utilities sector.

CARDAX FT: THE PLATFORM FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS CONTROL SECURITY

At its core Cardax FT is an access control and intruder alarms system. Through XML, OPC and controller application programming interfaces a range of third party systems can be interfaced to Cardax FT, providing a single user interface through which to manager and monitor site security. The core features of this flexible and scalable system can be expanded to provide a comprehensive security solution for your organisation:

• DVR interface to integrate third party DVR systems
• Cardholder challenge providing the ability for operators to visually confirm the identity of a cardholder who has badged their card at a reader by comparing the cardholder image in the system against a live image from a third party system
• Integration of biometric technologies to verify user identity
• Anti-passback configuration to prevent a cardholder gaining access to a zone, then passing the card out to another person for entry
• Anti-tailgating configuration, to prevent people from following in other cardholders without presenting their own card on entry by generating an alarm when they exit
• Zone counting to enable live counts of the number of cardholders present in specific access zones
• 'No alone zones' configuration to ensure that whenever a high security area is occupied, there are at least two people recorded as being present