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The Swiss Army Goes 21st Century

Link:  Tom's Hardware Guide - Holiday Buyer's Guide 2004

Everyone knows about Swiss Army knives, pocket multi-tools that have everything but the kitchen sink. Well now you can add a USB memory stick onto that list of features. This pocket-sized wonder makes a perfect stocking stuffer.

In addition to a 128 MB USB memory stick, you get scissors, a knife, nail file, ball point pen and a red light. The small knife is extremely sharp, as we unfortunately found out; we cut ourselves several times, while extracting all the tools from the knife. Be careful!

This Swiss Army Knife sells for $94 and can be purchased through Swiss-Knife.com.

Fire Control Instruments - Solutions - Articles

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ECHNOLOGY, NetSOLO� BROADBAND STANDS ALONE Many fire safety products are touted by their manufacturers to be “innovative” or “unique” or “breakthrough.” But the truth of the matter is, the arrival of a real one-of-a-kind breakthrough product is a rare occurrence, an event duly heralded by awards and often followed by immediate sales. The arrival of NetSOLO� Broadband from Fire Control Instruments (FCI) was such an event. FCI, a part of Honeywell’s (NYSE: HON) Fire Systems Group, is a performance and technology leader in the life safety systems industry for commercial, industrial and educational applications worldwide.

Automated Vehicle Id - Passive vs. Active Tags

Link: AWID Home Page
by Douglas Cram

VHS vs. Beta; Windows vs. Macintosh; Thai vs. Chinese food:
It seems as though many of the choices we face in life are elusive.

Conversely, the choice between passive tags and active tags in automated vehicle identification applications is usually much better defined. It's a matter of matching the features and benefits of each technology to your particular application. The purpose of this writing is to provide you with the tools to do exactly that.

Open Security Exchange

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OPEN SECURITY EXCHANGE ANNOUNCES NEW MEMBERS

Updated Membership Structure Results in GE Infrastructure Joining as a Management Board Member, Deister Electronics Becomes a General Member PISCATAWAY, NJ — November 11, 2004 —The Open Security Exchange (OSE), a cross-industry consortium dedicated to delivering best practices guidelines in the area of security management and vendor-neutral interoperability specifications for the integration of physical and cyber security systems, today announced two new members. GE Infrastructure, Security joined the Open Security Exchange as a Board Member. “We are pleased to join and help lead an organization that will define and promote standards in our industry, which will improve the overall value and experience of security solutions for our customers,” said Jim Clark, GE Security’s Vice President, Global Marketing.

Fire Control Instruments - News - Press Releases

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FIRE CONTROL INSTRUMENTS INTRODUCES NetSOLO CLASSIC, BULK AMPLIFICATION VOICE EVACUATION SYSTEM

Fire Control Instruments (FCI), a part of Honeywell’s (NYSE: HON) Fire Group, is a performance and technology leader in the life safety systems industry for commercial, industrial and educational applications worldwide. FCI introduces NetSOLO� CLASSIC, a revolutionary development in fire detection and emergency voice evacuation system design.

NetSOLO� CLASSIC offers a powerful solution for a broad scope of commercial, industrial and institutional applications requiring high wattage amplification. Developed for both stability and flexibility, the NetSOLO� CLASSIC utilizes the technology of the 7100 Series fire alarm control panel with expanded capabilities to accomplish emergency multi-channel voice evacuation, two-way fire fighter communications, and building control applications.

Fire Control Instruments - Solutions - Articles

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BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR THE RETAIL ENVIRONMENT By Richard Aldrich There are a number of criteria to be considered when choosing a fire alarm system for a retail operation. By paying close attention to these criteria, retail building owners and managers can feel quite comfortable that their choices will translate to a level of fire detection that will effectively protect their employees, their patrons and their products.

This article is meant to provide some basic guidelines that will assist owners and managers of diverse retail operations in addressing these criteria. The “real” starting line in the fire protection race is at the point of building construction or renovation.

The iPod gets religion

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The iPod gets religion
11/5/2004 8:58:05 PM, by Hannibal

Back when I knew a few people who actually used their PDAs for more than six months after the initial purchase, I found that one of the most popular uses for the devices was reading text. Friends of mine would read e-books, news reports, and all sorts of stuff on their PDAs, and I even tried it myself before deciding that I liked dead tree better. One of the places where the PDA still puts in a regular appearance as reading device (or in any other capacity, for that matter) is in church. Bibles were one of the most popular downloads for PDAs, and every now and then when I visit a new church I'll spot somebody using a PDA to look up Bible verses. (Or, maybe they're actually playing Pong or Tetris... God only knows .)

City-Wide CCTV Coming to Chicago

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City-Wide CCTV Coming to Chicago
Oct 1, 2004 12:00 PM

The city of Chicago plans to deploy more than 2,000 surveillance cameras in public places that would be tied into sophisticated software to spot emergencies or suspicious behavior under a plan announced by Mayor Richard Daley.

“Cameras are the equivalent of hundreds of sets of eyes,” Daley told The Associated Press. “They are the next best thing to having police officers stationed at every potential trouble spot.”

Officials say the bulk of the cameras are already in use at O'Hare International Airport, on the city's transit lines and in public housing, parks and schools. An additional 250 surveillance cameras still to be bought will raise the number available to more than 2,000.

Sentinel-Prox™ CBio™ Fingerprint Reader

Link: AWID Home Page

The Sentinel-Prox CBio Fingerprint reader performs a fast and extremely accurate one-to-one optical comparison of over 40 minutiae points on an individual fingerprint. The fingerprint template is easily and quickly downloaded to a 16k secure PicoPass chip contained in either an ISO-compliant printable smart card, or the incredibly small Bio Wafer from AWID. This method gives the users the ultimate in security, privacy and convenience by allowing them to carry their own fingerprint template. Performing this one-to-one comparison eliminates concerns about privacy and data storage, eliminates template management issues, and allows for remote installations without connecting readers to a common database.

AWID Newsletter -pdf

The intuitive enrollment software allows the programming of a cardholder number as well as a primary and secondary fingerprint template to the CBio ISO16 card or Bio Wafer. After the CBio Fingerprint Reader verifies the fingerprint on the card/wafer and compares it to the finger presented to the reader, it sends the cardholder number to the access control panel via industry-standard Wiegand data format.

Mixing Different Two-Wire Smoke Detectors On the same Initiating Device Circuit

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By: Anthony J. Shalna, FCI

(FCI) Fire Control Instruments (FCI) has announced the release of their latest fire alarm product, NetSOLO � BROADBAND, the future of distributed audio.

This innovative fire alarm system consists of three main units, which are networked together to form an intelligent, feature packed, state-of–the–art emergency evacuation audio system. The units consist of the Intelligent Network Command Center (INCC), Intelligent Network 7100 Fire Alarm Control Panel (INI-7100), and the Intelligent Network [audio] Transponder (INX). The overall system can range from a minimum of two, to a maximum of sixty-four components. Any combination of these units can be used depending upon the application.