To enhance its market position, Geutebrück has, over the past four years, undergone a radical and strategic transformation. Alongside investing into new sales structures for increased user proximity, Geutebrück has also developed a new, future-oriented software platform. This platform allows for cloud-based, highly scalable solutions, is extremely flexible, has state-of-the-art browser technologies and object recognition based on artificial intelligence and neural networks.
Trading in an international highly competitive market for image-based software systems, the medium-sized company based near Bonn has been continuously and 100 percent family-owned since its foundation in 1970.
Aiming to be faster and more flexible, the two CEOs Katharina Geutebrück and Christoph Hoffmann are delegating decision-making authority to a team of four. Christine Heger-Essig is Chief Technology Officer (CTO). She is responsible for Product Marketing and Product Development. Andreas Degen as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) covers all internal services. As Chief Business Officer (CBO), Burkhard Henzgen heads the Sales Europe and Global Business Support divisions. Tarek Schönfelder takes over the Sales Overseas and Global Market Development departments as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).
Katharina Geutebrück and her husband Christoph Hoffmann jointly manage the company: “The world is changing at an unprecedented speed and we must adapt to it. Digitisation and Digitalisation demand faster, more flexible and more agile businesses and companies. We all have to adapt. Our declared aim is that the company that my father established 50 years ago will continue to play a major role in shaping our international industry both now and in the future”.
The shareholder structure is also proof of this. Co-director Christoph Hoffmann has acquired the shares of a Geutebrück family member and is thus also a shareholder. “As an investor, I am interested in investing in a future-oriented company. As managing director, I want to indicate to our customers that we are personally committed to the company and thus ensure continuity. On a personal level, as the son-in-law of the founder, it is a matter close to my heart that the security control centres of world-renowned museums, authorities or industrial companies will continue to trust Geutebrück solutions for the next 50 years when it comes to protection, security and transparency”.
London, February 2020 — So often, our focus in security and access control zeroes in on the hardware. Its latest functionality or compatibility with emerging technologies grabs the headlines. Yet it is your access control software which knits a system together — and the signs are, this is finally getting the attention it deserves in security procurement.
“Today, access control software is more accessible to a wider variety of actors,” writes Bryan Montany, a research analyst at IHS Technology*, “providing end-users with broader and more comprehensive data relating to patterns in building occupancy.”
“Software has also supported integrations with other security systems, enabling security managers to respond in real time to emerging incidents and potential security breaches.”
In other words, you can escape the limiting functionality of outmoded access management with a new generation of software solutions. They can fix everyday access irritants. Below are just seven.
Freedom from the access management terminal
Multi-seat management should be a given. Your intuitive, customised dashboard could have a personalised login screen configuration for every administrator. Software should offer flexible management options, including secure system administration from anywhere and multi-timezone capability options.
An access management “terminal” should be tied to you — not the other way around.
Maximum flexibility, whatever your legacy system
Access control software puts in the hard yards when it bends your existing system or setup to new needs. It can integrate across several databases, making workflows easier and less error prone.
You may even wish to manage any existing mechanical locks from the same interface as your electronic or electromechanical locks. The right access control software handles that for you.
Tailored access for every site user and visitor
Streamlining access rights management for staff, contractors and visitors can boost business efficiency. Your access control software should filter access to specific locks according to the precise security needs of your site and users.
For any system, you should be able to create individual schedules for key-holders, doors or audit trails. In a few clicks you can require users to revalidate keys regularly, making it safer to issue a contractor with time-limited access.
Smarter, more effective building management
Smart buildings need intelligent software. Do you know who uses which doors at your site, and when? Are you are planning an office expansion and weighing up appropriate security for each type of room use?
A properly configured software control panel should accurately track user movement around your site. It feeds back the data you need to make better business decisions.
Saving security budgets with a Software as a Service (SaaS) option
Ideally, you want to spend your security budget on actually securing people and assets. Alas, in the real world, IT costs and contingency budgeting eat up much of it.
When you run access management software with a reliable SaaS provider, security infrastructure budgeting becomes more predictable. Your data enjoys complete redundancy and is therefore more secure. And your company’s software is always, automatically up to date — critical for cyber-security resilience.
Mobile solutions for the modern mobile workforce
Are your mobile workers and contractors returning to base — or the nearest credential updater — to redefine or revalidate their access rights? Access control software can (and should) be mobile. So, instead of updaters, workers update credentials on the go, wherever they are, via an app and its encrypted Bluetooth connection.
All your business process software in one place
Multiple systems create double or triple the work. Duplicating data entry increases the chance of errors. With access control powered by the CLIQ Web Manager, for example, you can integrate powerful access management features with your existing business process software. One hub for everything.
Thanks to the CLIQ Web Manager’s open architecture, you can build a single interface to control all your “live” workflows. You manage HR, support ticketing, financial reporting and more, alongside daily access control tasks like validating and revalidating credentials, cancelling lost keys and ordering automated audit trails for locks or users.
The CLIQ menu of flexible software options achieves all these — and more. To learn about CLIQ key-operated digital locking systems and software, and download a free solution guide, visit https://campaigns.assaabloyopeningsolutions.eu/cliq-webmanager
In the last week of February, Partizan Security together with partners will conduct seminars in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Lunatronik and BS Electro companies are working on the security market for many years, so they can confidently offer the best equipment to their customers and partners.
Together with them, we’ll tell you about killer features of Partizan equipment, share our experience of how to easily assemble large complex surveillance systems for any project, as well as how to earn more with Partizan.
We’ll be glad to see you:
26 February 2020 – Serbia
Best Western Hotel Sumadija
Sumadijski trg 8, 11000 Beograd
Start at 10:00 am
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29 February 2020 – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hotel Park Srebreni grad bb, Srebrenik, 75350
Start at 10:00 am
If you would like to take part in the seminar, please contact: sales@partizanstore.eu
+420 608 496 889
HOOFDDORP, the Netherlands — 6 January 2020 — Hikvision, the world’s leading supplier of innovative video surveillance products and solutions, is holding its first Innovation Summit on 12-13 March near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Under the theme “Discover. Collaborate. Expand.”, Hikvision shows its integrated solutions with various technology partners, giving visitors a taste of how combined solutions can energize their prospective markets, and to share market trend insights. There will be a full range of exhibitors present, including platinum partners Western Digital, Vemco Group and Telescopic Mast.
At the Summit, customers and other industry players will be able to see for themselves what the powerful combination of Hikvision and its technology partners can bring to markets as diverse as City, Retail, Logistics, and Healthcare. They will be able to browse partner stands to ask questions, join a full and varied speech agenda to discover latest trends, and ultimately start a dialogue with the leading minds in the industry, developing a successful future together.
With an R&D capability of 16,000 engineers across eight R&D centers, Hikvision is at the forefront of developing technology for a wide range of solutions. A cornerstone of the Hikvision partner ecosystem is the Technology Partner Program (TPP). Together, Hikvision and its technology partners combine expertise, skills, technological understanding, and industry focus to deliver optimum solutions, expand business scope, and increase profitability.
“We are excited about bringing technology partner and customers together to discuss innovation trends in their perspective markets,” says Derek Yang General Manager of Hikvision Europe. “We have a rich ecosystem of partners that complement our own portfolio of solutions. The Summit represents a new way of working together, and will lead to development of cutting-edge new solutions to meet the needs of our customers – with the valuable added bonus of being able to discuss these needs with them in person.”
Hikvision is the world’s leading provider of innovative video surveillance products and solutions. Featuring the industry’s strongest R&D workforce, Hikvision advances core technologies of audio and video encoding, video image processing, and related data storage, as well as forward-looking technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and deep learning. In addition to the video surveillance industry, Hikvision extends its reach to smart home tech, industrial automation, and automotive electronics industries to achieve its long-term vision. Always creating value for its customers, Hikvision operates 38 regional subsidiaries all over the world to achieve a truly global presence. For more information, please visit us at www.hikvision.com.
Panels from global fire systems leader, Advanced, have been selected to protect the $18.8billion Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge – the longest open-sea fixed link on earth.
A network of 31 ExGo gas extinguishant control panels have been installed as part of the active fire protection for one of South East Asia’s most ambitious infrastructure projects to date.
The Advanced network protects the artificial island gateway in Hong Kong that serves as an entry and exit point to the new 34-mile bridge-tunnel system, used by over a 10 million passengers in its first eight months.
The ExGo panels were selected to protect critical server rooms in more than 10 different buildings on the purpose-built island, including police and fire stations as well as customs and different administrative buildings. Each gas extinguishant control panel is connected to at least one remote status indicator unit located at the protected area entryway. Each extinguishing system was designed, configured and commissioned by Peak Trade International Limited.
Alan Wong, Sales Director at Peak Trade International Limited, said: “To protect such critical infrastructure, we knew we required a gas and suppression control system that was both cutting-edge in its capabilities and also highly reliable and adaptable for the future. ExGo panels have a proven track record in complex installations of this type and we had no hesitation in recommending them.”
Constructed using around 420,000 tonnes of steel – enough to build 60 Eiffel Towers – the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge has been designed to last for the next 120 years, and is set to deliver significant economic advantages to the region.
Thanh Tin, Regional Sales and Business Development Manager for Advanced, said: “Advanced panels are trusted to protect transport and infrastructure projects around the globe. As the world’s longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge is a fantastic example of this.
“Equipment that offers the highest levels of protection and reliability is essential for providing complete peace of mind to the client, combined with the flexibility to easily expand and upgrade the system in future.”
ExGo has been developed specifically for sensitive and strategic assets such as server rooms and data centres, control rooms, as well as historic and cultural attractions. It is suitable for almost all single-flooding area applications and includes a range of control options and devices. It is approved to EN54 parts 2, 4 and 13 as well as EN12094-1 and is among the first systems to combine these with EN12094 in a single solution. (EN12094-3 relates to the integrated manual release on the front of the panel). ExGo can be integrated into Advanced’s Axis EN fire system or any third-party alarm system.
Advanced, owned by FTSE 100 PLC Halma, has an impressive history of protecting critical transport and infrastructure sites across the globe, including the London Underground and the Istanbul Metro.
Halma is a global group of life-saving technology companies with a clear purpose to grow a safer, cleaner, healthier future for everyone, every day.
Advanced is a world leader in the development and manufacture of intelligent fire systems. The legendary performance, quality and ease of use of its products sees Advanced specified in locations all over the world, from single-panel installations to large multi-site networks. Advanced’s products include complete fire detection systems, multi-protocol fire panels, extinguishing control, fire paging and false alarm management systems. More details can be found on the website at www.advancedco.com
IFSEC International 2020 is Europe’s largest and most comprehensive event for the global integrated security industry. It connects over 34,000 visitors from 113 countries with 450+ exhibitors showcasing some of the most innovative products and solutions on the market, as well as a full seminar programme, legislation updates, guidance and best practice.
You can source everything from access control, video surveillance and intruder alarms to cybersecurity solutions, perimeter protection and integrated security products from global industry leaders such as Abloy, Dahua, Avigilon, CLD Fencing Systems, IDIS and many more security exhibitors. You can even get hands-on experience of the products in on-stand demonstrations and see perimeter defences put to the test at the LPCB Attack Testing Zone, so you can make informed purchasing decisions.
Access an extensive programme of free seminars, presentations and keynote speeches designed to help you increase your knowledge, boost your career, stay aligned with legislation and embrace best practice. You will hear from some of the industry’s top thinkers and business leaders at the Keynote Arena, about the growing convergence of physical and cybersecurity at the Converged Security Theatre and get education on the most transformative ideas in the sector at the Future of Security Theatre brought to you by Tavcom.
You can also keep up to date with key industry developments, trends and technologies by meeting security associations and organisations such as the BSIA, NSI, Texecom, and SIA, and see the future of the industry at the Engineers of Tomorrow competition, where young engineers compete in live installation tests.
With all these solutions and expertise under one roof, IFSEC International has become an essential venue for networking and building relationships. Each year, the show attracts installers, integrators, distributors, government officials, consultants, end-users from across the industry, giving you an unrivalled opportunity to grow your network and meet potential clients in on-stand meetings, at dedicated networking areas or across the venue.
Many of these new contacts can come from free-to-attend co-located shows. This family of events give you the opportunity to learn from experts and generate new business across the fire safety, health and safety, facilities management, smart buildings, workplace wellbeing, forensics, counterterrorism and emergency services sectors entirely for free with your IFSEC International 2020 event badge.
Get your free ticket today to seize this valuable opportunity to learn from experts, share best practice and enhance your ability to protect people and assets from the security challenges of the new decade.
IFSEC International will be taking place on 19-21 May 2020 at ExCeL London. For more details, please visit www.ifsec.events/international
London, February 2020 – Student accommodation is a fast-growing sector. Student numbers across France have grown around 10 percent in a decade. Around $1 billion was invested in France’s purpose-built student accommodation just between 2016 and 2018*. Efficient solutions to help manage security for these student properties are always welcome.
For new premises in Rennes, France, specialist provider Easy Student sought reliable, key-free locking. They wanted their new residence to run efficiently — “like a hotel” — and without the unnecessary workload that comes with managing and keeping track of physical keys.
Following a positive experience with the same technology in Nantes, Easy Student chose SMARTair Update on Card wireless access control. Wireless Electronic Escutcheons with inbuilt RFID readers control access through 83 doors at Easy Student Rennes. SMARTair Wall Readers secure non-standard entrances.
SMARTair’s TS1000 software was one major reason for Easy Student’s choice. The intuitive interface and time-saving functionality make it easy for administrators to manage their access system. “SMARTair does not require any technical knowledge. I trained quickly and found the software very easy,” says Cyril Verger, Managing Director at Easy Student Rennes. “The solution corresponds perfectly to our needs… Installation was simple.”
If someone loses a credential, the TS1000 interface makes cancelling it fast and easy — a major change from the old days of physical keys, mechanical locks and key organization charts. “A lost key can still be used,” M. Verger adds. “A lost credential can be cancelled easily.”
Flexible, key-free door entry
SMARTair provides secure, flexible access control for every student, service provider and facilities manager who uses the residence. Around 100 access credentials are active at any one time. It gives Easy Student managers the ability to change a user’s access permissions anytime, without visiting the doors. If an incident occurs, they act quickly and decisively.
Security managers program every student credential to open multiple doors: the student’s own room, the main door and bike park around the clock; a common relaxation area and the laundry room between 6.30am and 11.30pm only. “Managing this way avoids comings and goings by people who don’t live here,” M. Verger says.
“Our students are very happy with the solution,” he adds. “They got used to it quickly, because this type of access control is found in lots of hotels and private homes.”
Security at airports has become indispensable and entails continuously increasing requirements. The only way to keep satisfy the most demanding standards day after day, is to constantly further develop the technology in use. Video surveillance is a crucial contribution to airport security; this technology has a great deal of potential, as long as the current configuration is not taken as the final goal in terms of development. “Since the technological developments and the need to increase the security level were clearly evident, we could no longer put off considering a flexible video surveillance system, one that would be ready to meet the security and analysis requirements and guarantee a high level of performance,” says Ettore Pizzaballa, Manager of Information Systems at SACBO S.p.A. The important expansion phase at the Il Caravaggio International Airport terminal, which involved building a long gallery of shops and expanding the passenger boarding area, made the situation even more complex and challenging. This added another piece to the puzzle, alongside the usual airport security scenarios.
Safety And Security: The Winning Combination For A Project With More Than 300 Video Surveillance Cameras
Il Caravaggio International Airport is the third-largest airport in Italy in terms of traffic, with a volume of over 11 million passengers. Security is crucial when it comes to an airport infrastructure of this size, and a great deal of attention is required to maintain the necessary level of surveillance. Introducing MOBOTIX technology enhanced the quality and resolution of the surveillance images. In turn, this further improved the activities carried out together with the constantly present police forces operating at the Il Caravaggio International Airport terminal, thereby providing suitable support for investigations. “Inside the airport, not all the halls are homogeneous in terms of height and lighting; thanks to MOBOTIX, we were able to achieve excellent image quality under all conditions.” Video surveillance has also turned out to be a valuable additional tool for improving operating procedures related to safety: “We can analyze aircraft and vehicle movements in the maneuvering areas to help train operating personnel. Even the luggage is constantly under surveillance: If a piece of luggage stops or is stuck where employees can’t see it, the system immediately sends a notification to employees”. Over 300 MOBOTIX video cameras have been installed, both indoors and outdoors. Several different models were used in keeping with respective needs, including the c25, i25, M24/25, Q24/25, S15, S15 SurroundMount, M15/16 and T25. Each one of these cameras is active 24/7. The new VoIP infrastructure and NAS recording allow the different control rooms to share the images.
Perfect Synergy Between Hardware And Software
When it comes to ensuring state-of-the-art security, though, even the most advanced hardware technology does not suffice to cover all of the related tasks. A less visible component plays an important role in ensuring the efficiency of MOBOTIX solutions. “In addition to the image quality, we were also impressed by the option to receive thoroughly customizable software based on our specific requirements – not to mention the video analysis functionality.”
Video Analysis Takes Top Priority
At this point, it is actually easy to spontaneously develop ideas for the future, expanding the field of application of a system that boasts continuously developing potential, and utilizing the video surveillance infrastructure and its video analysis applications in order to obtain immediate and concrete results. The benefits are numerous: “The video analysis software allows us to immediately detect abandoned objects, locate the optimum route for vehicles in the maneuvering area and better understand how the flow of passengers moves inside the terminal (which we need to plan optimal routes), studying which type of traveler goes directly to the gate and which one stops instead to make purchases at the shops. The software also allows us to constantly monitor the lines at security checks and check-in and boarding areas in real time,” summarizes Pizzaballa.
The fire industry has experimented with touch screen technology for many years as ever sophisticated and human friendly solutions are sought to tackle fire situations which can be particularly problematic in cases involving large, complex sites and high-rise buildings.
Protecting these buildings and often hundreds, if not thousands, of people from the danger and damage of fire requires ease of control and monitoring with touch screen technology providing this at the user’s fingertips.
In expansive buildings with complex designs, irreplaceable or valuable contents and large numbers of people to protect, the ability to quickly identify and monitor a potential fire can make a significant difference to avoiding life threatening situations.
Touch screen technology provides ease of use allowing fires to be located down to both a zone within a site and individual devices facilitating speedy evacuations, if appropriate, and focused action to isolate and minimise the spread and potential damage of the fire.
These intuitive systems are easily configured and can include dynamic graphics and maps allowing for a fast response which is essential in these emergency situations. Providing information about a possible fire at a glance, touch screen technologies also provide the benefit of ease of management and monitoring from one location saving valuable time and prompt preventative action.
Not all situations are as a result of an actual fire. Avoiding large scale evacuations to minimise disruption is another benefit of installing touch screen technology with this innovation also identifying faults and disablement issues.
Where touch screen technology is particularly invaluable
The innovative technology is particularly beneficial in settings such as hospitals for example, where evacuating patients requires care and time, with touch screen technology delivering the earliest possible warning and specific details of the location of the fire enabling the affected zones to be isolated.
Large buildings can be monitored from one location with touch screen technology facilitating a fast response to the specific area in question, maximising both time and efforts to tackle the problem before it escalates.
Buildings in remote areas are also particularly vulnerable and can also benefit from installing touch screen technology where assistance with controlling and extinguishing a fire may not be as accessible as in less remote locations.
Evacuations in these incidents, involving hundreds and possibly thousands of people, require speed, careful management and calm with fire systems that include touch screen technology delivering immediate and specific warnings that are paramount to the process to help avoid life threatening situations from escalating out of control.
Factors to consider when selecting touch screen technology
There are a number of factors to consider before choosing the right touch screen technology for a site including:
– Can it be networked to cover a large site without compromising reliability and performance? Some systems’ effectiveness can be significantly reduced if large areas need to be covered
– Is it easy to install and configure to your specific requirements? The ability to easily install and configure the system to the individual specification of a site is key, improving performance and heightening protection of the building
– Does it provide an effective and easy user interface? Ease of use should be paramount as it may be some years from initial installation before a response to a potential fire is required. Does it provide sufficient detail allowing monitoring and control of each location and device?
– Is it an independent terminal, saving significant costs? Touch screen technology on fire panels add significant cost, compromise performance and add complications
– Does it provide high quality, dynamic and easy navigation maps and site plans providing at a glance information on the location of a potential problem? Detailed maps, the ability to zoom into high definition images and ease of navigation can significantly improve the response to a potential fire situation
– Does the touch screen respond to gloved hands enabling fire fighters to monitor and control the situation? This is an important factor as fire fighters need to be able to operate the touch screen technology in situations where it may not be safe nor time efficient, to take gloves off
Advanced TouchControl
Leader in fire systems technology, Advanced, manufacture one of the market’s largest touch screens, TouchControl, with a 10-inch screen providing more detailed at a glance information.
Designed as a remote terminal rather than being part of a fire panel, the stand alone innovative technology means that users save on cost, complication and the independent network node means performance isn’t compromised.
One of the unique features of TouchControl is Active Maps which enable live zone status information in high definition delivering incredible detail. Users can easily navigate a site/panel and network via Active Maps.
TouchControl is easy to install and is a fully functional Remote Control Panel, often installed in receptions, lobbies and public areas providing full fire panel and network control and reporting. When not in fire-use the touch screen repeater can be configured to display corporate, advertising or health and safety messages to the public.
Designed with intuitive ease of use, quality, detailed reporting and monitoring, TouchControl has been the preferred touch screen technology for a number of buildings of all sizes within diverse sectors, chosen for its reliability and high performance.
Examples of TouchControl installations:
– Lidl – the popular European discount supermarket
– One of Bulgaria’s largest banking groups DSK Bank chose TouchControl for its high level of protection and reliability
– The world class chemical plant Victrex in Lancashire which delivers high performance polymer solutions to a range of sectors
– The 610,000 sq ft Leadenhall Building in London which comprises 45 floors of office space
– The Atlantic Islands Centre on the 5.5 sq mile Isle of Luing.
Advanced products include complete fire detection systems, multi-protocol fire panels, extinguishing control and fire paging systems. More details on TouchControl and Advanced’s wider product range can be found on the website at www.advancedco.com.
We dedicated the central themes of February issue of a&s Adria Magazine to conditions of the regional security market and to technological and cyber security trends in the World. 18 renowned security managares, appreciated for their professionalism and many other works in multiple verticals, spoke for us about what was achieved in 2019 and what we can expect in the next period in the Adriatic region. Considering their longtime work in security sector, almost since its first appearance in this region to implementation of advanced technologies nowadays, we can say that their opinion is very relevant and that the one related to the practical examples of their work, can substitute the lack of statistics of the security sector in seven countries of the Southeast Europe. It is interesting to notice that all of them share the opinion that the local markets are growing. Some of them noticed a smaller stagnation in growth, which wasn’t there in 2018. World Bank confirm this in it’s report „Growing Uncertainties“, stating that the economic activity in Western Balkans is slowing down.
Our speakers think that increasing awareness of quality security products and services, digitalization and the investments from the European funds are the main initiatiors of market development. The main brakes, especially in countries like Bosnia and Herzegovina or Kosovo, are political turmoils and tensions, lower purchasing power and the lack of state infrastructure projects. Research will show that, although separate and with unique political systems and regulations, our seven countries truly make one region, which can be best seen from the shared deficiencies.
Content
Adriatic Region’s Security Market in 2019
Unlike the last year’s research, in which sales, marketing and business development managers of our region participated, this year we asked company leaders from it. What, according to them, marked 2019. read in this issue of a&s Adria Magazine.
INTERVIEW
– Katharina Geutebrück, Director, Geutebrück GmbH
IN FOCUS
– Adriatic Region’s Security Market in 2019
MARKETS
– Technological Trends in 2020.
PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS
– Cameras as a Skeleton of the Licence Plate Recognition System – Aperio locks in practice: Wireless access control in five universities – Network for the entire home: McAfee Protection in D-Link’s Wi-Fi System – ExGo Fire Alarm Center: Advanced Protects the Longest Bridge in the World – Project of MOBOTIX Company in Italy: Video Surveillance at the International Airport
TOPICS
– IT security and the Incoming Trends: What Can We Expect in 2020?
