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Contents

Monthly Magazine On Fire Safety & Electronic Security

Managing Editors Shilpa Kadam, Shirish Dongre

COVER STORY

CEO Shekhar Dongre

Global leadership in intelligent building solutions Mr. Mark Falbo – President, Mircom Group of Companies

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BUSINESS NEWS “IP technology is flourishing in the current video surveillance market“ Nidhi Nair, Marketing Engineer– Video Surveillance Solutions Matrix Comsec, Vadodara

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Substance is in the DNA of Matrix solutions”

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Mr. Subhash Bajaj, Director, Advantedge Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

TECH UPDATE FIRE INDUSTRY

SAFETY INDUSTRY 04 Marking the anniversary of the health and safety at work act 1974 – fatal and major injuries at work dramatically reduced over past 40 years FIRE INDUSTRY 08 Tyco fire protection products educates Indian building safety industry on Fire Detection 14 Ajit Raghavan joins Nohmi Bosai (India) as joint Managing Director SECURITY INDUSTRY 16 CP PLUS secures Civil Lines, Delhi 24 Dahua ITS facilitates city’s traffic in Poland 28 AUTOCOP & Samsung Techwin present unparalleled video surveillance solutions 30 Zicom quarter – I: Income grows 29% & net profit grows 15%

56 Cantilever gates from Gandhi Automations Pvt Ltd

32 IBEX GALLAGHER introducing the Z20 Disturbance Sensor

SECURITY INDUSTRY

34 HID Global debuts latest RFID transponder using 8KB FRAM technology for memory intensive applications

58 Thermal Imaging Technology for unprecedented Port Security 67 Trends in Access Control

38 Matrix to showcase its range of cutting-edge business VoIP, voice & data convergence & enterprise voice platforms at INTEROP 2014, Mumbai

74 Advanced Solutions for Effective Business Management

40 Suprema launches Fingerprint Scanner SDK for Android

76 mBank poland deploys HID Global’s multi-factor authentication solution for secure internet and mobile banking

42 More than 300 partners attend the 8 city MOBOTIXAG wake up seminar

SAFETY INDUSTRY 88 Upgrading an electrical distribution systems

46 Prairie hill school district creates safe, open learning environment with VIVOTEK network surveillance system

96 The need for (regulated) speed! – Joining hands for safer roads

EVENT PROFILE 52 Chennai witnessed India’s biggest safety & health event

PROJECT UPDATE ..................77

54 World congress on Safety & Health at work 2014

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Marking the anniversary of the health and safety at work act 1974 – fatal and major injuries at work dramatically reduced over past 40 years Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act receiving royal assent. The British Safety Council joins with many other organisations in placing on record our appreciation of this ground breaking legislation in helping to improve the regulation and management of workplace health and safety.

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he headline of the September 1974 edition of the British Safety Council’s then monthly publication, Safety & Rescue, read: “Work safety: A new era begins”. The evidence since then does indeed support this headline. The dramatic reduction in workplace injuries and ill health over the last 40 years is attributable to the creation of an independent and unified regulator, HSE, the duty placed on all employers to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all of their employees and the active involvement of employers and trade unions. This important legacy of the 1974 Act is still going strong 40 years later.

Alex Botha, Chief Executive of the British Safety Council, speaking of the improvements embedded in

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the 1974 Act’s approach over the years, commented: “This approach has been successful – we have seen an 80% plus reduction in fatal injuries in our workplaces.

“At the heart of the 1974 Act is the principle that those who create the risk of injury and ill health in the workplace must manage the risks.

The 1974 legislation has attracted admiration and emulation across the globe and provided the model for many other regulators.”

He added: “Going forward we need a legal framework that is flexible and one that can adapt to changing risks. We cannot stand still. There remains so much to do including tackling the thorny issues around health and wellbeing – the sometimes forgotten part of the health & safety equation. The British Safety Council and its members are confident that the 1974 Act can continue to play a role in meeting present and future challenges.”

To Lawrence Waterman OBE, Trustee of the British Safety Council and Director of Health and Safety at Battersea Power Station, the 1974 Act ushered in a new era: “With employers taking responsibility and later regulations embedding both worker engagement and risk

assessment. This approach has been successful, driving down accident rates and encouraging the mind-set of zero harm.”

Lawrence echoed the importance of not overlooking health issues: “About 10 times as many workers are damaged and their lives shortened by exposure to health risks than in accidents. Despite this, for too long we have shouted safety but whispered health. Now health is coming into focus, action is being taken and the necessary changes are starting to happen.

“If health and safety is seen as a mark of civilized values and community benefit, despite the current fashion for deregulation, we can look forward to the next 40 years with confidence.”

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British Safety Council signs partnership agreement with Abu Dhabi’s Environment, health and safety center (OSHAD)

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he British Safety Council has signed a partnership agreement with Abu Dhabi’s Environment, Health and Safety Center (OSHAD) to share best practice in the management of occupational health and safety and to help the Emirate to raise awareness among employers and workers of the social and business benefits of well-managed health and safety.

OSHAD was established by the government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in February 2010, to implement occupational health and safety (OHS) policies, plans and programmes through the provision of integrated OHS regulatory frameworks to ensure safe and

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healthy workplaces. OSHAD helps to secure excellent standards of health and safety management by the country’s businesses and government agencies.

Under the agreement, the British Safety Council will share its and its members’ knowledge and expertise of the systems and arrangements that lead to excellent health and safety performance.

We will also help OSHAD to raise awareness of the benefits of sensible and proportionate management of health and safety risks among Abu Dhabi’s employers.

Alex Botha, Chief Executive of the British Safety Council, said: “The British Safety Council’s vision is that no one should be injured or made ill at work, anywhere in the world, so we are delighted to be sharing our knowledge and expertise, developed over almost 60 years, on the best ways of achieving excellent health and safety performance.

“The evidence shows that taking sensible and proportionate measures to prevent workplace injuries and work-related ill health is of great social and economic value: it protects people and is good for business “We look forward to working with OSHAD to help it promote and encourage the very highest health and safety standards among Abu Dhabi’s employers.”

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BUSINESS NEWS

Tyco fire protection products educates Indian building safety industry on Fire Detection

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yco Fire Protection Products (“Tyco”) held a series of seminars in August entitled ‘SIMPLEX – Building Safety’, focusing on the latest advancements in fire detection and alarm systems, across India.

The events held in five major cities, brought together more than 700 architects, engineers and end users, such as facility managers & building owners. The seminars provided insights into the most recent updates to international fire detection codes and standards and showcased the latest innovations in fire detection fromSIMPLEX – the market-leader in helping people protect large-scale, complex projects.

The seminars were part of a broader programme of activities by Tyco and its expert distributors in supporting specifiers, design engineers and end users in India. Industry specialists from Tyco, including Peter Ryan, Senior Commercialisation Manager globally responsible for the SIMPLEX brand, and Rodger Reiswig, Director of Industry Relations,

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shared their extensive knowledge on the latest technological developments and provided practical analysis of the latest updates to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Codes and Standards.

Participants learnt about the SIMPLEX brand’ sworld-leading, integrated range of fire protection solutions that include control panels, initiating devices, system accessories, workstations and notification appliances. Highlights included “True Alert ES” addressable notification appliances, which offer revolutionary automated self-test capabilities, and the latest enhancements to “True Site Workstation”, such as its mobile client application for secure, convenient access to important life safety system data at any time, from any location.

Peter Ryan commented: “The rate of economic and commercial development in India brings with it many opportunities and some distinct challenges; ensuring facilities are safe and well equipped

to handle risk is critical. As the number of large-scale, complex construction projects increase, specifiers, engineers and end users need trusted experienced partners with technological capabilities to help them protect their people and facilities efficiently and effectively.”

“With a networkable, modular design, fault tolerant architecture and leading-edge testing and service capabilities, SIMPLEX fire detection products can handle the most challenging facilities. Cost-effective to maintain, the products are upgradable for the life of the facility and compatible with past and future SIMPLEX fire detection products.”

Rodger Reiswig added: “We are committed to helping end users, specifying engineers and members of India’s building and construction community to keep informed about international codes and standards and give them access to marketleading fire protection products. The seminars provide us with the perfect opportunity to share our knowledge and ensure our services & products continue to meet and anticipate the unique needs of the Indian market.”

The informative seminar series was part of a global educational seminar programme by the SIMPLEX brand to raise awareness and promote understanding about the importance of building safety, sharing with end users and fire system engineers Tyco’sknowledge in order to help them effectively safeguard buildings and protect occupants.

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MoU Signed between SafetySignStore.com and Fire & Security Distribution Pvt Ltd.

MoU signed by Mr. Dominic and Mr. Kulashekar, at Screen Plus, Chennai on 21 August 2014

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afetySignStore.com a unit of Screen Plus Chennai, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Fire & Security Distribution Pvt Ltd, Bangalore to promote, market and mutual exchange of product development of safety signs in India as well as in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, UAE, Qatar and Oman Mr. Kulashekar Balakrishnan of SafetySignStore.com has more than 28 years of experience in the printing industry and serving over 50 MNC clients. The company has 12000 sq.ft of Manufacturing facility for safety signs. It is an UL certied ISO 9001 company and a leading 3M authorized convertor.

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Mr. Dominic KP of Fire & Security Distribution Pvt Ltd is an expert in the Indian Fire Safety Industry with more than 30 years of experience in the same eld. He has served in leading re safety companies like Vista, Honeywell, Mircom, Aditya infotech etc in senior levels positions.

In the new role as Marketing Partner, Fire & Security Distribution Pvt Ltd shall market the safety signs of SafetySignStore.com at all segments of the safety industry like Fire Safety, Architects, Interiors, Consultants, Safety Council etc.

Through this signicant MoU, the two giants of Sign and Safety Industry, Mr. Kulashekar and Mr. Dominic feel that the dynamics of the sign industry will see a paradigm shift. They are of the view that there is a tremendous scope for quality safety signs in the Indian and International market and this new joint venture will bring in more awareness about usage and availability of safety sign, create more technically specied standards matching OSHA and ANSI to the Indian and international Market.

For more information, Web: www.safetysignstore.com www.rensecurity.com

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Ajit Raghavan joins Nohmi Bosai (India) as joint Managing Director

Mr. Ajit Raghavan, Managing Director, Nohmi Bosai (India)

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ohmi Bosai Ltd. is a 98 year old Japanese Fire Company specializing in R&D, Production, Engineering, Supply, Installation and Commissioning of Fire Systems which includes Fire Alarm Systems, Fire Suppression systems like Gas Suppression, Hydrant Systems, Sprinkler Systems & Foam Systems with revenues close to a Billion USD. Nohmi Bosai manufactures products which include Fire Alarm, Gaseous Fire Suppression and Aspirating systems which is UL listed. Nohmi Bosai (India) Pvt. Ltd. is a 100% subsidiary of Nohmi Bosai Limited, Japan.

Nohmi Bosai’s strategic objective has been to focus on the globalization of its business. Over the past couple of years, Nohmi Bosai Ltd. has made significant investments in people, processes, and it’s international business. This has strengthened its presence in India where the focus will be on expanding its core business of turnkey project execution

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installation & product sales of Fire

where he was responsible for P&L

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and growth in India. He later joined

new business opportunities.

Tyco’s Thermal Controls business,

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Commercial Business in Middle East

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& Asia where he was responsible

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of Marketing for South East Asia &

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responsible to setup the Marketing

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key accounts. From October 2012,

opportunities in this region. Ajit

he served as the Director of Business

will also be responsible for devel-

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Fire and Security. He is responsible

strategy for the India market. This

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for projects in India. Ajit will closely

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finalize the specific objectives and shape the organization in India.

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Ajit transitions into this role

& Strategic Management. Ajit has

with more than 27 years of industry

also served as the secretary for Fire &

relevant experience. He started with

Security Association of India (FSAI)

Stenco Engineering, where he was

in 2007-08 & currently serves as an

into the business of manufacturing

Executive Board member as the

of firefighting equipment & design,

Chairman for Codes & Standards.

supply & installation of fire alarm &

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suppression systems, and served as

of Bureau of Indian Standards for

the company’s Director for 11 years.

Fire Fighting Sectional Committee,

Later, Tyco Fire & Security bought

CED 22, CED 36 & member of FICCI

stakes in this company to enter the

Homeland Security Committee.

Indian market.

Ajit began his stint with Tyco’s fire & security business where he headed

the

Indian

operations,

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CP PLUS secures Civil

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ivil Lines is a subdivision of North Delhi District in Delhi NCR. Area houses Delhi’s Vidhan Sabha, Rajnivas (Lt.Governer’sofficial residence), DRDO Lab, IP College, part of Delhi’s arterial ring road, the northern ridge and many houses and apartments, historical monuments- Chauburja Mosque, Mutiny Memorial, Ashoka Pillar, etc.,and areas like Delhi University and ISBT in the vicinity.

The area observes a significant flow of traffic, goods and people.

Any security lapse could prove to be tragic and fateful. Oflate, there have been frequent incidents of eveeasing, and theft, hit and run cases, chain snatching, burglary, organized crimes were being reported. It was slur for the posh area like CIVIL lines, which is a prestigious address to own.

CP PLUS, conducted the thorougharea survey, comprehended the challenges, being faced by for local people and understood the concerns of the police& their impediments. Taking all concerns & practical aspects of the area, the design team at CPPLUS, conceived & designedan effective, impregnable surveillance solution, which ensured

that foolproof surveillance system.

The solution was complemented with community-policeparticipationand effective alert system.

Limitations of previous system Earlier, community was relying on cops in the area, barricades, private guards and personal security measures.This security system lacked community participation, public-police co-ordination, system integration and monitoring. The residents also wanted to secure their vehicles and the parking lots.

Solution and role of CP PLUS CP Plus has been a pioneer in introducing comprehensive and tailor made solutions to protect critical infrastructure and value assets across the domains with its rugged quality controls, reliable products and optimum solutions to get the best!

There was a requirement of cameras of appropriate designs at each intersection and no easier way to connect all of them together.

CP PLUS team created one local control room at each intersection for local recording and monitoring.

There were multiple local control

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rooms. All local control rooms were connectedtoa advances and state of art central control room for integrated monitoring.

The CP PLUS CMS (Central Management Software), KVMS Pro offered a complete management coordination by gathering input signals from various local control room feeds with perfect coordination of multiple cameras and recording devices, drawing conclusive evidence with optimum results.

KVMS pro from CP PLUS is a dream come true for any business or installation looking for intelligent surveillance management with due analytics and user friendly alerts.

The complex solutions need analysis of all the parameters to be monitored and various other aspects of the security before designing a viable solution. CP PLUS, with its largest range and portfolio of surveillance products, extensive experience,has been a delight to any Surveillance System Architect for their foolproof design/solution without any security compromise.

Factors considered before implementing the new solution The key factors which were considered for the solution - the resolution and HLC feature to capture registration number of the vehicles specially during night.

Besides, the secure andtamperproofhousingswere required for NVRs and Monitors.

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CP PLUS deployed a range of CP PLUS brand IP Cameras and NVRs. They provided IP camera Models: • CP-UNC – TP10L2C-V2-0600 • CP-UNC-TP13FL2CD NVR Model: • CP 8CH NVR CP-UNR-108M1 All these equipments have been installed at different locations in Civil Line.The cameras have local storage, monitoring and parallel connected with Central Control Room in Police station at Vidhan Sabha Metro Station.

Features of the system All the cameras had the resolution of 1.3 MP. EachBullet camerahasHLC features so that it can capture License plate number even when the headlight is on in the night.

It can support 8 cameras of 720P resolutions and can be networked with any CMS which supports ONVIF technology.

The NVR can support 8 cameras with 720P resolutions and can be networked with any CMS which supports ONVIF technology.

These NVRs can keep the recording up to 25 days and detect suspicious movements in the surveyed area and send timely SMS/email alerts.

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Ex A small electrical problem can have extremely far- reaching consequences if left unchecked. About 35% of all industrial fires are created by electrical problems like loose connections, weakening of isolations, obstructed cooling and mechanical damage, loose bus-bar. connection, or overloaded component in your main electrical panel.

This effects of a fire are often underestimated. Besides the destruction of goods and machinery, the immense costs in production time, water damage, and even the loss of human life, are impossible to estimate.

Many of these problems can be avoided with the use of thermal imaging cameras. It can help you to detect invisible problems much before production goes down or a fire occurs.

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CP PLUS TeknoLogix labs launches HDCVI all-in-one TRIBRID DVR

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P PLUS TeknoLogix Labs has launched CP PLUS Coral All-in-one Tribrid DVR with HDCVI technology, offering compatibility with three signals—IP, analog and HDCVI — to render the comprehensive surveillance solution.

All-in-one CP PLUS Coral Series HDCVI DVR addresses the issues of mixed systems, where Analog, IP and HDCVI cameras have been added to the electronic surveillance system.

The solution has been long overdue since the System Integrators had been finding it unviable to integrate different types of cameras for varying design needs.

The all-in-one HDCVI CP PLUS Coral series DVR gives much required agility and flexibility to add any camera- IP, Analog and HDCVI. HDCVI technology has been very effective in delivering HD images over coaxial cables up to 500 meter cable runs without any signal loss.

CP PLUS Coral Series HDCVI DVR is a result of its resolve to introduce comprehensive and tailor made solutions which can protect critical infrastructure and value assets across domains with its rugged quality controls, reliable

products and optimum solutions to get the best.

In the scenario when HDCVI technology is spreading by giant leaps — it may be a second-to-none alternative for markets, which are willing to get high definition surveillance at lower cost; integrators and installers demand storage device which can mingle the other two signals. The mega DVR is a significant step towards increasing the interoperability of the HDCVI. The launch of all-in-one CP PLUS Coral Series HDCVI DVR is not only a key to multiple signal access, making a momentum to be compatible with legacy cameras as well as megapixel IP signals, but also an improvement in terms of its capability.

The large range and portfolio of CP PLUS gives comfort to any Surveillance System Architect to design fool-proof design/solution without any black hole/security compromise. In India, CP PLUS surveillance products and solutions are marketed by Aditya Infotech Ltd through its branches across India. CP PLUS has been adjudged one of the top 10 security brands in Asia by the latest A&S Asia report.

Aditya Infotech Ltd (AIL) is a leader in introducing video security and surveillance brands in India and has an expertise in designing need based solutions.

For more information, Web: www.adityagroup.com

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Dahua ITS facilitates city’s traffic in Poland

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ricity, in Polish Trójmiasto, is an urban area consisting of three major northern Polish cities — Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot, situated adjacent to one other on the coast of the Gdańsk Bay, Baltic Sea; covering an area of 414.81 square kilometers, accommodating nearly 1 millioncommuters each day.

These three cities aretagged with multiple identities, such as modern metropolis, busy harbor & amazing resort.

As cities keep expanding and naturally, their rising obesity leads to a major traffic concern - congestion.

Its urban inner highway, which is the transport backbone, accommodating nearly 1 millioncommuters every day and people are spending more and more time on the road. In order to better manage the city traffic needs and solve out the congestion, the local authority decided to use intelligent traffic system (ITS) to better improve traffic in the city and also people can have better efficiency of their work and life.

The project started in 2010, Dahua’s customization satisfied the end-user since it is quite suitable for the local market because of its great performance, easy installation and good price. The adopted ITS systems integrate Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPRs), red light enforcement, speed systems, green waves as a whole in order to regulate driving behaviors and fight against traffic jams. For ANPR systems, Dahua 1.4-megapixel and 11-megapixel HD traffic cameras are adopted at intersections on main roads,taking care of the snapshot of front and back side of the vehicle

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respectively. Moreover, both loops and videodetection are used to improve accuracy. As for speeding violations, speed systems are installed and approved by metrology law to make fines to control urban driving speed and improve road safety.

Additionally, to further improve traffic efficiency, green waves are adopted on lights intersection, allowing continuous traffic flow smoothly over several intersections in one main direction, which not only reduces the length and frequency of congestion, but also cuts co2 emissions & improves fuel efficiency of the vehicles, meanwhile, buying more time for pedestrians at crossings.

“We already assured different customers in Poland & neighboring countries to work on ITS projects based on Dahua cameras and detectors,”said Piotr Wisniewski from Radarsystem, a local distributor in Poland. “With Dahua’s good quality and services, all the projects we have done proven its stability and greatly facilitate cities’ traffic, leading people a better life.”

“It is a great example that a European city uses Chinese ITS deployment, we appreciate our partner’s trust andthe effort they have made,” said Bill Zhou, Senior ITS Engineer at Dahua Technology.

“Traffic problem is a common issue for many expanding cities, and our ITS is only helping the city reinforce but also giving a better, smarter and more efficient city.”

For more information, Email: li_junxia@dahuatech.com

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Dahua megapixel IP solution secures Arabian Center in Dubai

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rabian Center, located in the southeastern Dubai, is a new shopping and entertainment destination for local residents. Sprawling over a total site area in excess of 80,000 square meters, Arabian Center isa home to 200 plus renowned retail stores, ranging from fashion lines to home furnishings, electronics and etc., LuLu Hypermarket and a cinema city are also stationed in the mall.

The security of the shopping center is given to high priority as its boardintends to provide store owners a good business platformand renders costumers with a cozy and safe shopping experience, so how tofight against theft and tackle with emergencies in such a wide space remains as a question. Meanwhile, different spots have their own specific requests; for example,the condition in warehouses, entrances and exits are no way the same as other areas in the mall.

The shopping mall has basic requests of this project. First of all, the images have to be crisp and clear; second, the cameras need to be in-décor; last but not the least, the whole system shall be very stable

and reliable. Dahua’s Megapixel IP solution standouts among other brands and offers a complete video solution, including megapixel network cameras, storage devices and central management system.

342 units of Dahua 2-MegapixelEcoSavvy network cameras are applied, different models for different occasions.

Dahua’s network WDR functions uses in-house algorithm to show better image performance, especially for the weather in Dubai.

The strong sunlight is all year round which makes WDR a must for the camera installation of entrances and exits. Low light cameras enable to provide clear pictures in darkness, which is therefore a good choice for warehouse monitoring as stocking is one of the key parts in logistics where thousands of goods are unloaded and tiled up in quite dim surroundings due to the strict environment requirements.

Meanwhile, 3-Megapixel PTZ domes are adopted for a wider view to have a broader surveillance area in an efficient way. As for storage, 22 units of 32-channel network video recorders are adopted with

2TB seagatehard disks provided to guarantee large volume storage. The whole system runs on Dahua Smart PSS (CMS software) to have a central control and management.

“This is Dahua’s first high-end case in Dubai, and the mall board didn’t hold an open attitude to Chinese brand,” said Preetham Moras, Sales Manager of the Gulf Detection LLC, a local distributor. “They used to like some other Korean brands, what changed their mind is after a series and rigid testing of Dahua’s NVR. The great performance shows its stability and quality.”

“I have a faith in partnership with Dahua as their products are of very good performance and at an affordable price, which the market has a favor on,”Moras added. “I was very excited when learning the news that our brand was finally chosen for Arabian Center as it is a big step for us,” said Steve Wang, Sales Manager for the Middle East at Dahua Technology. “This shows that Dahua’s branding is based on its product performance and quality and the branding is enhancing in the region.”

“Dubai is a land of promise & we see great security demanding from many sectors, such as retail, transportation, entertaining as well as there are so many ongoing construction projects. We do believe that this is just a beginning of our penetration to this market,” added Wang.

For more information, Email: ni_sijia@dahuatech.com

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AUTOCOP & Samsung Techwin present unparalleled

video surveillance solutions

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UTOCOP has achieved yet another milestone by partnering with Samsung Techwin. This collaboration will now offer Samsungs range of unmatched Video Surveillance Solutions, an absolute necessity in these advanced times.

AUTOCOP provides technologically sound and effective security solutions and services at affordable prices. With their customer-focused approach, strategic alliances with many more international brands, AUTOCOP has a network of offices and committed technical support across India. AUTOCOP supported by Samsung Techwin will now provide you with unequalled Video Surveillance Solutions which include Analog CCTV, IP CCTV, Video Management System, Network Video Recorders.

This partnership, yet another feather in the cap of the security giant, means a broader customer base for the company. With AUTOCOP’s pan India presence and technological brilliance, paired with Samsung’s end-to-end solutions, customers across the country can now experience a greater sense of security. They can benefit from AUTOCOP’S spread out portfolio of security solutions as well as its flawless and timely Sales & Support services.

FSDs will extend support to all partners in terms of designing, training, etc. At the same time, all the SI partners of AUTOCOP will benefit from this partnership, having the entire solution offering under Samsung Techwin brand.

For more information, Web: www.autocopsecuritysolutions.com

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Zicom quarter – I: Income grows 29% & net profit grows 15%

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icom Electronic Security Systems Limited (BSE Code: 531404), India’s leading electronic security brand, announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014. At the Board Meeting held, the Company declared its Consolidated and Standalone Unaudited Financial Results.

The highlights of Consolidated Unaudited Financial Results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2014 are: • Total Consolidated Income for the quarter ended June 30, 2014 at `221 crores, shows a growth of over 29% as compared to `172 crores in the corresponding previous quarter.

• Earnings before Depreciation, Interest and Tax (EBDITA) stood at ` 30 crores as against ` 22 crores, an increase of 39% over comparative quarter in the previous year. EBIDTA margin has been at 13.67% against 12.60% in corresponding previous quarter.

• Net Profit After Tax and Minority Interest at ` 8.62 crores as against ` 7.50 crores of the corresponding previous quarter shows a quantum jump of 15%.

• The Company’s Earning Per Share (EPS) has increased to `4.90 as against `4.42 in that of

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corresponding previous quarter, which is calculated on enhanced paid-up share capital.

Commenting on the results, Mr. Manohar Bidaye, Chairman – Zicom Electronic Security Systems Limited said, “The consolidated performance of the Company has been encouraging which is reflected by the growth of 29% in Income and increase in Net Profit After Tax and Minority Interest of 15%.

With continued economic recovery in the Gulf Region backed by heavy spending on infrastructure

by Government both in U.A.E. and Qatar, Unisafe Dubai and Phoenix Qatar have reported improved performance. The Gulf fire safety business has contributed 60% to the topline of the Company.

The Indian business also continued with improved performance.

Zicom on standalone has shown an increase of 24% in the topline. Besides, performance of Zicom SaaS has been remarkable with topline showing growth of 117% and bottomline rising by 61%. With new ATM surveillance business receiving overwhelming response from Indian Bankers, performance of Zicom SaaS will continue to be better.”

For more information, www.zicom.com

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he Z20 Disturbance Sensor heightens perimeter security through intelligent detection of vibration or movement of the fence structure. Alarms are generated when disturbance meets predefined criteria.

From multi-technology, layered, security solutions which are fully integrated with Gallagher Command Centre, to simple perimeter systems requiring an uncomplicated form of detection, the Z20 Disturbance Sensor provides superior security detection.

The Z20 replaces the D21 Disturbance Sensor and Mount Kit. A new plastic body and mount clamp for the Z20 ensure robustness and compatibility with Gallagher Electric Security Fences.

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• Cost effective - sensors can retrofit

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HID Global debuts latest RFID transponder using 8KB FRAM technology for memory intensive applications

Key Highlights: • Newest version of IN Tag™ provides maximum high frequency (HF) ISO/IEC 15693 compliant storage capacity of 8KB. • IN Tag™ 300 8KB protects data integrity even under radiation exposure.

• Endures billions of readwrite cycles with fast memory access.

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ID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, announced that its Identification Technologies division is shipping the IN Tag™ 300 8KB RFID transponder, which is ideal for memory intensive applications. IN Tag™ 300 8KB incorporates ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) technology from Fujitsu Semiconductor.

This accelerates data access close to the maximum high frequency (HF) speed; endures billions of read and write cycles; and withstands gamma radiation up to 50 KGray to survive e.g. medical sterilization processes.

“The new IN Tag 300 8KB delivers the optimum in speed and memory size for the ISO/IEC 15693 protocol,” said Richard Aufreiter, director of product management, Identification Technologies with HID Global. “This and the radiation resistance make the tag ideal for demanding automation, medical or nuclear applications.”

With FRAM – providing write cycles up to 33,000-times faster than conventional EEPROM memories – the latest IN Tag transponder enables much faster accesses than EEPROM memory-based tags.

The FRAM technology also allows approximately 1,000,000 times more write cycles than EEPROM, making it ideal for applications with fast moving targets and frequent write accesses like sensoring or data logging.

The proven IN Tag housings protect the integrated chips from

exposure to high-temperature and high-pressure conditions, and the FRAM configuration shields contents from irradiation that would wipe the contents of other chips.

“We are excited that HID Global is integrating our new high-memory HF FRAM chip into the IN Tag 300 8KB,” said Jozsef Miho, product marketing manager for Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe. “The new 8KB chip is ideal for memory-hungry applications and we are pleased to see HID Global among the first vendors to produce industrial strength RFID tags utilizing our chip.”

The IN Tag 300 8KB transponder is ideal for tagging medical supplies and equipment subject to sterilization via autoclave, gamma ray and X-ray irradiation. Temperature and pressure resistance also makes the tag a perfect fit for industrial applications in harsh environments like manufacturing lines.

As with all IN Tag passive contactless RFID transponders, the IN Tag 300 8KB is highly water, chemical and shock resistant, ATEX certified for use in explosive environments, they withstand peak temperatures up to 285° F (140° C) and are UL94-HB flame resistant while they are still food contact compatible. Alternatively, FRAM products with 2KB memory are available from HID Global in IN Tag or Piccolino e-unit form-factors for less memoryintense applications.

For more information, Web: www.hidglobal.com

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HID Global provides secure mobile banking solution and Multi-Factor Authentication to Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank in Croatia News Highlights: • HID Global’sActivID Authentication Appliance and ActivID Soft Token solution selected by Hypo AlpeAdria-Bank.

• Company’s integrated, authentication platform enables bank to offer customers secure mobile and internet banking.

• Solution resulted in the bank offering their customers a higher level of security without compromising a convenient and seamless user experience. Download the case study.

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ID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, announced that its ActivID® Authentication Appliance and ActivID Soft Token identity assurance solutions have been deployed by Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank in Croatia to provide their customers secure mobile and internet banking.

Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank ranks in the top five banks in Croatia that offer financial services to individuals, sole proprietors, and corporate entities.

Since entering the Croatian market in 1994, the bank has focused on being at the forefront of innovation and offers a broad range of products and services.

To address the growing, sophisticated needs of banking customers for “anytime, anywhere” access throughout the country, Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank was seeking an integrated, authentication platform that could secure its internet and mobile banking, while also offering a flexible, future-proof framework for adding multi-factor authentication to respond to current and evolving online threats. In addition, it was critical for the bank to deploy a convenient and innovative authentication solution that could provide their customers with an exceptional experience.

“HID Global is a recognized brand and offers secure identity solutions to ensure our customers’ trust in online and mobile banking,” said Mr. Alberto Skendrovic, Executive Director Organization/IT with

Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank in Croatia.

“We do not see any authentication solution that can compete with HID Global.”

“Our goal is to deliver an exemplary experience to our customers,” said Harm Radstaak, Managing Director EMEA with HID Global. “We are delighted that HID Global’s advanced identity assurance solutions have enabled Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank to increase their customers’ loyalty and deliver on its promise to offer innovative and secure mobile and internet banking services.”

The bank implemented twofactor authentication for its innovative mobile banking solution. This deployment of HID Global’sActivID Authentication Appliance was a critical component for providing their customers peace of mind when accessing banking services from anywhere and from multiple devices. It also strengthened Hypo Alpe-AdriaBank’s multi-channel strategy by applying consistent security across multiple service channels, thus adhering to common best practices for online banking.

Based on its continued successful relationship with HID Global, the bank continues to confidently rely on Genuine HID® solutions to secure new service offerings for small- and medium-sized retail, corporate and mobile banking customers.

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Matrix to showcase its range of cutting-edge business VoIP, voice & data convergence & enterprise voice platforms at INTEROP 2014, Mumbai We are looking forward to meeting System Integrators and Telecom Service Providers to demonstrate and explain our innovative telecom products and solutions.” added DhavalBhagora.

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atrix Comsec, India based leading manufacturer of Business Phone Systems and VoIP Gateways is participating in a leading technology exhibition INTEROPduring September 4-5, 2014.

During INTEROP Matrix will showcase its cutting-edge range of business VoIP solutions. This includes VoIP Gateways for POTS, GSM and ISDN PRI networks, Converged Voice & Data Solution for Small Offices and Branch Offices and Business Phone Systems.

Major highlight from Matrix will be NAVAN CNX200 – Office-ina-Box Solution. NAVAN is suitable for all small offices, start-up businesses and branch offices, offering all integrated IP-PBX, Data Router, Wi-Fi, GSM FCT, VPN and Firewallfeatures. It delivers advance business solutions such as IP telephony, highspeed internet, SIP Trunks, wireless access, data networking, Android/ iOSsmartphone mobile extension and virtual private networking from a compact and converged platform.

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“This unique all-integrated approacheliminates the need to buy racks of equipment and avoid multiple vendors lock-in. It is a futureproofinvestment which saves maintenance/repair costs and hiring expensive IT staff to support multiple devices.” said DhavalBhagora, Product Manager – VoIP/IT Products.

In addition to this, Matrix will showcase its latest range of VoIP Gateways. With the influx of SIP Trunks in Indian market, service providers such as TATA and Airtel are all geared up for the revolutionary SIP Trunking also known as IP based PSTN service. Matrix has field-proven and reliable range of VoIP Gateways for POTS (CO), GSM/3G and ISDN PRI networks interoperable with SIP trunks of these service providers and leading PBXs, Centrex, Soft switches, Hosted telephony solution providers.

“INTEROP is a major technology event in India, bringing IT professionals, System Integrators and Business prospects together.

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Suprema launches Fingerprint Scanner SDK for Android Launching Fingerprint Scanner Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android OS and Releasing Product Demonstration Mobile App on Google Play Store

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uprema, Inc., a leading global provider of technology in biometrics and identification, announced the launch of a fingerprint scanner software development kit (SDK) for Android operating system (OS).

The new SDK is specially designed for use with Suprema’s latest fingerprint scanner, the BioMini Slim. It assures the same powerful performance as the testproven SDK for desktop computers.

For instance, like the SDK for desktop computers, the SDK for Android also enables mobile devices to capture fingerprints under harsh environmental conditions as well as direct sunlight of up to 100,000 LUX. With a high speed of 15fps (Frames Per Second), the new SDK supports a ‘Live Preview’ in the verification process, designed to make BioMini Slim apply to an even wider range of applications. Suprema is the first to provide a ‘Live Preview’ function on mobile devices in the ID solutions market.

Alongside the launch of the new SDK, Suprema revealed a free of charge mobile Android app for product demonstration to BioMini Slim users. The app provides a rich and intuitive user experience in Suprema ID solutions, including product and technology information, as well as the product demo. Anyone using an Android device can download the app on Google Play Store by searching for ‘Suprema’ or ‘Suprema Fingerprint Solution’.

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“As is the case with other applications, tablets and smartphones are replacing desktops or notebooks as a platform to collect and verify biometric identity. In the near future, we expect to see even more integration of biometrics and mobility.”

Said Young S. Moon, Vice President of Suprema Inc. “Suprema expects the new SDK for Android will offer strong support in growing the biometrics and ID solutions markets.”

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standards

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both FBI-PIV and mobile ID FAP 20 certifications. It has a rugged IP65 rated dust and waterproof form factor while maintaining a sleek ergonomic design, and is equipped with Suprema’s latest 500dpi slim optical sensor and large platen for easy and reliable fingerprinting, as well as Suprema’s advanced LFD (Live Finger Detection) technology.

About Suprema Suprema Inc. is a leading global provider of technologies in biometrics and ID Solutions. The company’s range of products includes biometric access control systems, fingerprint modules, e-passport readers and live-scanners. Suprema has worldwide sales network in over 125 countries and also a listed company in stock exchange in South Korea (KOSDAQ).

For more information, Web: www.supremainc.com

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More than 300 partners attend the 8 MOBOTIX-AG wake up seminar

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OBOTIX AG has organized an 8 city drive across the country to promote and inform the partners about the latest innovations in the surveillance market. This 8 city tour called the ‘MOBOTIX-AG WakeUp Seminar’ was attended by more than 300 partners and is already creating a buzz in the surveillance market with the introduction of “Thermal Camera”, Advance Perimeter Detection “MxActivity Sensor” and “MxLeo: Camera with Low Light Performance”.

MOBOTIX-AG with Rashi Peripherals enters the Indian Surveillance market with their state of the art cameras & other reliable made in Germany products. The MOBOTIX-AG wake up seminar covered some metros like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore in addition to smaller but important cities like Pune, Ahmedabad, Secunderabad and Chennai. All the cities received a very positive response from the partner community and appreciation towards the world leader in the global market for high resolution video system.

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city

part event divided into morning and evening sessions for the partners.

The response was very positive and overwhelming where the same amount of partners came to visit the each of the sessions & participated to the fullest. The session was concluded with a Q & A which lasted for more than 2 hours due to the enthusiasm and curiosity of the partners towards the new innovative products of MOBOTIX-AG. “I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation yesterday evening. The presentation was so engaging that I lost all track of time. By any measure it was very effective speaking and educating. I found your comments regarding future camera especially intriguing.” Says Mr. M. Magesh from V J Network, Chennai Mr. Srikanth Kamath, Country Manager, MOBOTIX AG says “Perimeter Protection is market necessity and MOBOTIX AG Introduction of Thermal with Activity Sensor, provide the perfect solution for Defense & Commercial Establishments. The Partner Community is excited by the business potential with new products from MOBOTIX AG” Mr. Rajesh Goenka, VP- Sales & Marketing, Rashi Peripherals says “This initiative taken from MOBOTIX-AG & Rashi Peripherals has led to a positive outlook in the surveillance market because the direct interactions with the vendor making this wake up seminars as a constructive platform. All the partners are very appreciative towards the products look forward for more such interactions in the future.”

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VIVOTEK now offers PoE Solutions for the surveillance market

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IVOTEK is pleased to announce that the company now offers Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) solutions to the surveillance market, including a wide range of PoE switches, PoE extenders, and PoE injectors. PoE solutions enable a single cable to provide data connection as well as electrical power to network surveillance devices. By adopting PoE solutions, the cost of the entire surveillance system implementation can be significantly reduced.

With profound market experience, VIVOTEK sees a strong demand for PoE products with high quality and compatibility. To meet the market demand and maximize

the efficiency of clients’ surveillance systems, VIVOTEK has formed a professional dedicated force to source components & peripherals with outstanding performance. With stringent testing process has been implemented, a new PoE solution product line is brought out.

VIVOTEK has especially introduced IEEE 802.3af and IEEE 802.3at high power standards to its PoE switches and injectors, supporting power as high as 60 watts to be delivered over an Ethernet cable.

In addition, VIVOTEK designed PoE extender for extending the surveillance system to 300 meters without any additional power supply

required, significantly saving the implementation

manpower

and

hardware costs. The PoE extender is

especially

ideal

for

factory

applications. With the introduction of VIVOTEK PoE products, the implementation of a complete and long distance surveillance system has been transformed into a simple task.

VIVOTEK’s

Executive

Vice

President, Steve Ma, stated, “To fulfill clients’ needs with high quality & cost effective solutions is always VIVOTEK’s

top

priority.

Today,

VIVOTEK proudly announced its PoE products to offer clients with comprehensive

solutions.

This

progression enables clients to build surveillance systems without having to waste time and energy searching for components or software from other companies. With professional consultancy

from

VIVOTEK,

installing a surveillance system is now as easy as ever.”

Besides PoE extenders and PoE injectors, VIVOTEK especially developed a wide range of PoE switches,

such

as

4-channel,

8-channel, 16-channels, and 24channel form factors for industrial and commercial applications.

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BUSINESS NEWS

Prairie hill school district creates safe, open learning environment with VIVOTEK network surveillance system

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he Prairie Hill School District is a gateway community on the North East state line. The District is part suburb and 100% committed to offering the finest instructional program in the area. It believes that an effective instructional program requires a school environment where student safety is top priority.

To ensure the safety of its students, as well as staff, the Prairie Hill School District recently deployed VIVOTEK network surveillance cameras with Exacq video management software.

While student safety is a main concern at the Prairie Hill School District, it is also important to create a friendly and open learning environment. With this in mind, the district was looking for an advanced surveillance system that could deliver clear and accurate image detail with fewer cameras installed as inconspicuously as possible.

With the recommendation from Professional System, Inc., a local provider of technology

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services, including surveillance system design, installation, and services, Prairie Hill School District decided to deploy the VIVOTEK network cameras because of their superior image quality, resulting in significantly fewer cameras needed and providing overall surveillance success while maintaining a friendly school atmosphere.

“After comparing solutions from multiple manufacturers, it quickly became clear that VIVOTEK meets all the requirements,” said William A. Burton, President of Professional System, Inc. “With a mixture of indoor and outdoor VIVOTEK cameras, we were able to create a complete surveillance system that not only provides safety to students and staff, but also help the school to catch and record conflicts and interactions between students during school activity, which helped the school administration to control and maintain peaceful activity.”

A total of 196 VIVOTEK cameras ranging from 1 to 3 Megapixel resolution were installed throughout 8 campuses by Professional System Inc. in three installation phases to serve different surveillance needs.

In phase one, a total of 74 VIVOTEK cameras were installed in interior and exterior areas throughout the main 3-story building for general

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surveillance, including 41 units of FE8171V, an outdoor vandalproof fisheye camera with 360° field of view. FE8171Vs were mostly installed in the hallways and library because of their wide angle field of view which significantly reduce the amount of cameras needed for complete coverage.

“One of the security concerns was monitoring incidents during break times when there were large amount of students moving between classes. Using a VIVOTEK FE8171V wide angle camera, we were able to capture a panoramic image that normally requires 2-3 IP cameras,” said William. “This installation not only resulted in significant savings to the school district, but also provided an open and friendly learning environment due to the discreet form factor of the camera housings.”

During the 2nd installation phase, 60 VIVOTEK cameras were installed mostly on the exteriors of the remaining 7 campuses, including multiple units of SD8314E, an outdoor pan tilt camera with 18X optical zoom to monitor parking lots and other outdoor activities. With the 18X optical zoom capability, an administrator can easily zoom into a particular area of interest to record important data, for example, license plate details. After the completion of installing all the outdoor cameras, Professional System plans to kick off the final installation phase in August 2014 to install additional 62 VIVOTEK cameras in the interior areas throughout 7 campuses.

The security team at the Prairie Hill School District seamlessly manages and monitors the recorded high definition video captured by VIVOTEK cameras using Exacq management software in the security office, with the surveillance video also being accessible by selected

administrators, including the school Principal.

The combination of VIVOTEK’s cameras with Exacq management software has proven to be a reliable enterprise surveillance system.

“We were impressed with how well VIVOTEK’s cameras work with the Exacq software,” said William.

“With the user-friendly features from Exacq and superior image quality from VIVOTEK cameras, we delivered the most ideal solution for our customer.”

With student and staff safety a key priority at the Prairie Hill School District, the new VIVOTEK

surveillance system offers the ability to keep everyone safe while maintaining an open educational atmosphere.

“The VIVOTEK surveillance cameras help the school to catch and record conflicts and interactions between students during school activity; this is a very important piece to help the school to control and maintain peaceful activity,” said Julia Veazey, Director of Technology at the Prairie Hill School District.

“We are very happy with the result and look forward to deploying more VIVOTEK cameras later this year to further enhance the level of security across the board.”

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“IP technology is flourishing in the current video surveillance market“ monitoring, real time notification in the form of email and SMS, flexibility in recording along with other functions like backup management, user management leading to more security and productivity for enterprises.

Q. Which are the some of your pioneering CCTV products you introduced in the market recently or is there any plan to launch new products?

Nidhi Nair, Marketing Engineer– Video Surveillance Solutions Matrix Comsec, Vadodara

Q. CCTV business is growing now a days, how do Matrix Sense the opportunity in this segment?

The current video surveillance market is undergoing a lot of change in terms of technology as well as applications. IP technology is flourishing in the current video surveillance market.

There is growing awareness regarding the IP video surveillance. Matrix has launched a new series of Network Video Recorders (NVR), Hybrid Video Recorders (HVR) and Enterprise Video Management Software which inculcate all the new advances in technology. The video surveillance market is filled with players which provide boxed products while the customers demand an overall solution. We at Matrix strive to provide an overall solution pertaining to the customer requirement.

Q. Can you elaborate more about the CCTV range and its applications?

The Matrix video surveillance range of products includes Network Video Recorder, Hybrid Video Recorders, Digital Video Recorders, Analog and IP Cameras which are sold as an enterprise solution along with the centralized management software (CMS) and a mobile application for Android and iPhone (SATATYA SIGHT) for remote management. Our products are most suitable for enterprises who demand much more than just monitoring the area. This reliable solution provides multiple modes of remote and local

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In the near future, we are planning to launch the Enterprise Video Management Software which is license based software. This enterprise level solution is easy-to-use, scalable and provides an advanced solution for multi-site enterprises. This Recording Server, Enterprise Client, Media Client, Configuration Clientwhich communicate with each other for recording, storage, playback, PTZ control etc. purposes.

The Enterprise Video Management Software will have various addon modules which in addition to basic surveillance functions allow efficient monitoring. These modules will allow integration with Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA)like line crossing, point of sale, trip- line, missing object, foreign object and also with ACCESS control solutions.

Q. How do you foresee “India” as a potential market in terms of CCTV usage, what are the prospects?

The video surveillance market is exponentially growing due to the increasing awareness regarding the requirements of better security. Video Surveillance is a vast domain consisting of small and big players alike.

The majority of the Chinese players provide boxed products rather than overall solution which is not the need of the hour in the Indian market. Also, the current market in India is Analog driven, but awareness regarding the IP technology is also on the rise. Most of the players in the current market focus on IP products as the scope of IP is increasing. The Indian market is realizing a transition from Analog to IP which is addressed by Hybrid Video Recorders (HVRs). These

HVRs fulfill the need of the current Indian video surveillance market.

Q. What are the key technological trends that are driving the cctv surveillance industry?

The main technological trend which is driving the present video surveillance industry is the IP solution. Also, the awareness regardinghigher security with IVA technology like people counting, face recognition, missing object & other benefits like increased productivity and efficiency provided by video surveillance solution is increasing. The government has also taken steps to make sure that every public area is safe by introducing city surveillance.

Q. What is your vision for your company?

Our Vision is to build Matrix as a worldclass security and telecom solutions and services company operating all over the world.

Q. What are the issues you need to address that are related to your industry?

The video surveillance market is growing leaps & bounds every year.

But this market is dominated by Asian players who are focused on selling video surveillance as box product.

The most important initiative taken

by Matrix for this growing market is educating the customers on the benefits of the video surveillance solution. Matrix with its solution will prove that video surveillance is not only used for recording and playback of video, but also for enhancing the overall security, productivity and efficiency of any organization. Matrix will continue providing an enhanced solution to SME and LE where centralized management and a single security solution involving access control and fire safety is required.

To summarize, I would just say that Matrix is committed to providing a comprehensive video surveillance solution with latest features and functions that will help organizations get the maximum benefits out of their video surveillance solution.

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EVENT PROFILE

Chennai witnessed India’s biggest safety & health event • OSH debuts in Chennai after two successful editions in Mumbai • Participation by over 70 exhibitors and 3000 visitors

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fter the phenomenal success of OSH India 2012 and 2013, UBM brought to Chennai the third edition of the exhibition cum conference, OSH India 2014. This event brought together internationally renowned exhibitors, consultants, business experts and key government officials from both Chennai & Mumbai on one common platform, who discussed global best practices and unearthed solutions to some of the most pressing challenges in workplace safety and health.

The first and second editions were held in Mumbai, wherein the need to hold an event of this stature in South India was felt. This year OSH India will hold a similar conference in Mumbai. With the adoption of the new OSH policy by the Government in 2009, the market has quickly grown as OSH is being implemented at a rapid pace in the companies in both the organised and unorganised sectors. Today Tamil Nadu is the country’s second largest industrial hub after Maharashtra; the state is a hub for sectors like automobiles, pharma, steel, heavy machinery and textiles. Also there is an increasing willingness by companies to implement OSH and make it a way of life.

OSH India 2014 – Chennai was held on July 17 – 18, 2014 at the Chennai Trade Centre.

Drager India, Kimberly-Clark Professional, 3M India, Acme Safetywear and Mallcom were the key sponsoring partners of OSH India 2014 Chennai. Over 50+ international and national brands like Udyogi Plastics, KARAM, Honeywell, Marvel Gloves, Rubberex amongst others participated in OSH Chennai. Over 700+ industry professionals visited the show with over 15 trade associations supporting OSH Chennai. Industry professionals

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were engaged through social media, digital media, on ground, BTL & ATL activities.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Joji George, Managing Director, UBM India said, “OSH India has been successful in creating an environment conducive for interactive discussions between policy makers, safety experts and manufacturers. With the number of visitors and exhibitors going up year after year, OSH India has confirmed its status as the largest event on Occupational Safety & Health in the country. The third edition of OSH India as promised was bigger and better with participation by over 70 exhibitors and 3000 visitors. OSH India 2014 saw power-packed conferences focusing on the need to spread the compliance of health and safety as a part of their policy among companies and stakeholders. This year saw participation from the best in the industry.”

UBM today is the leading organiser of global health and safety events. Its Safety & Health Expo UK has served the industry for the last 25 years, and is followed by OSHEXPO Africa, IFSEC & OSH Arabia and OSH India. OSH is globally supported by IOSH, nebosh, RoSPA, BSiF. Dräger, one of the exhibitors at OSH India 2014 brought in new opportunities in mobile area monitoring with Lübeck – The new

model X-zone 5500 and the GSM module X-zone Com. The system can send measuring data and warning notices by email, by text message or to the cloud. Like the original X-zone 5000, one can connect up to 25 X-zone 5500s in an alarm chain. The triggering device transfers the alarm to all other devices in the chain. One X-zone Com is enough to forward the data from up to 15 devices directly to the safety officer.

The integrated GPS module transmits the position of the X-zone Com and thus also the position of the hazard location. A data logger continually stores the measurements hence no data will be lost and all important measures can be implemented quicker, more efficiently and safer.

Organisations today are increasingly realising the value and significance of maintaining high standards in the field of Occupational Safety and Health. Lack of wellplanned and implemented OSH programme could lead to substantial costs being incurred for compensatory damages, investigation time, lost production, diminished goodwill from the workforce, customers and the community itself. Numerous industrial accidents in the past have not only served as learning experiences for the industry but have also demonstrated the need to adopt adequate safety measures in workplaces.

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World congress on

Safety & Health at work 2014:

Top-level guests at the world’s biggest safety & health convention - Programme available online - Day passes now bookable - Information for journalists

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world without serious accidents at work - this is the vision that will be discussed by politicians, scientists and experts from all over the world at the XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, which is taking place in Frankfurt am Main from 24 to 27 August 2014. The emphasis is on such themes as innovation for better occupational safety & health, the promotion of health at work, environment, safety & health, and diversity & inclusion. Companies and organisations are presenting the latest trends and findings on accident prevention. At the simultaneously held International Media Festival on Prevention, films and information products on safety & health are being presented. 4,000 participants from more than 130 countries are expected.

A number of celebrities - among them German Federal Minister of Labour Andrea Nahles - have pledged their attendance. Journalists can gain accreditation via the congress website.Safety & health at work are key elements of sustainability and economic development.

According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), more than 300,000 people worldwide lose their lives each year due to accidents at work and more than 2 million due to work-related diseases. It is estimated that about 4 per cent of world gross domestic product is lost due to occupational accidents and work-related diseases.The World Congress is being held by the ILO and the International Social Security

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Association (ISSA) together with the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) as the national host. DGUV is the umbrella association of the accident insurance institutions who insure a total of 76 million people in Germany against work- and schoolrelated and commuting accidents and occupational diseases.

Top-level politicians expected The congress will focus on prevention strategies like Vision Zero, diversity in the working world, and challenges for health at work.

The spectrum of topics ranges from the prevention of psychosocial risks, ageing workforces, job insecurity, new energy sources, materials and nanotechnology to the development of a sustainable prevention culture.

The programme can be viewed as of now on the congress website.

The dynamic congress planner enables participants to compile their personal programmes. Day passes can now be booked. Along with experts from science, safety & health, and industry, top-level politicians are expected at the congress - among them Andrea Nahles, German Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Laura Räty, Finnish Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Richard Riot Anak Jaem, Malaysian Minister of Human Resources, and Hawazi Daipi, Parliamentary Secretary of State for Education and Labour in Singapore.

New interactive event formats In addition to classical event formats,

the congress is also going new ways in presentation: at the “Forum for Prevention”, for example, the latest news from research, and proven and transferable examples of good practices and cooperation will be presented in a kind of market hall.

Another highlight is the International Media Festival for Prevention (IMFP), an international competition for the best films and digital media on occupational safety & health.

A total of 290 entries from 33 countries are competing for the International Media Award for Prevention. On the outdoor fairgrounds, the Agora, exhibits on traffic safety, among others, will be on show. Immediately after the 2014 World Congress, the trade fair “Arbeitsschutz Aktuell” is taking place at the exhibition centre.The programme for the 2014 World Congress and information on how to register can be obtained here: www. safety2014germany.com Information for journalists: The diversity of topics covered by the World Congress is not only of interest to safety & health journalists, but those investigating environmental, health, economic and development issues will also find opportunities for broader reporting and research here.

For journalists from the fields of health communication and film, the International Media Festival for Prevention offers material and occasions for reporting. Free accreditation is possible via the DGUV press office.

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FIRE INDUSTRY

TECH UPDATE

Cantilever gates from Gandhi Automations Pvt Ltd

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andhi Automations India’s No.1 Entrance Automation offers a wide range of automated sliding gates suitable to be installed at any industrial, commercial or residential premises. Gandhi Automations is the only manufacturer of gates in India certified to ISO 9001-2008 Quality Management System by TUV Nord. This has resulted in the implementation of continuous improvement in personnel training, production, inspection, equipment calibration, machinery maintenance, logistics and customer relations. Gandhi designed and fabricated gates ensure high tensile strength and durability. These gates are not only aesthetically pleasing, but sturdy and perfectly aligned.

The pre-tensioning of the gate leaf construction reduces the risk of bending. The components used to fabricate the gates enhance the efficiency and life span of the

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gate. The leaf design is available in a standard form or custom made to suit individual clients’ requirements.

Cantilevered sliding gates are available for a span of up to 30m suitable for securing commercial, industrial & public utilities.

The advantage of using cantilevered gates is that they have no ground track or foundation in the roadway hence the vehicles do not experience any bumps. Cantilevered gates offer smooth, quiet operation due to no supports at the bottom of the gate. They are ideal for road surfaces which are uneven or sloping. The gate is also not prone to getting blocked by leaves or dirt hence reduced maintenance.

Cantilevered Sliding gates require flexible automation capable of managing different frame dimensions, different types of duty and different environmental conditions, always ensuring maximum

operational safety, functioning and reliability. MPS startup of the automation at maximum power permits motor to overcome any initial friction caused by ice, dust, etc. Internal thermal switch protects motor and advance electronic control unit permits various operations like time adjustment, partial opening, automatic closing, step by step control, stop safety, reverse safety etc.

The Sliding Gate is also equipped with obstacle detection which causes the gate movement to stop if an obstacle is detected during its motion. In the event of power failure Gandhi gates can also be operated manually. A consistent quality product thus becomes the hallmark of Gandhi Automations’ manufacturing process right from installation to after sales service.

For more information, Website: www.geapl.co.in

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TECH UPDATE

Thermal Imaging Technology for unprecedented Port Security

Millions of tons of cargo. Billions of dollars in goods. The activity of a smallcity with miles of perimeter fencing, uneven infrastructure, blind spots, and ever-changing weather conditions. Port security is no small task, yet increasingly, security operators are asked to assume more responsibilities with static, if not shrinking, budgets. As drivers of a global economy, the demands placed on port security continue to grow and with them, the challenges and complexity increase exponentially.

Leveraging Existing Infrastructure Unlike traditional retail, commercial, and many industrial applications, ports present unique security issues that must be anticipated and addressed. Typically, high-security

installations rely on a variety of solutions, including video security and surveillance. The combination of legacy analog and more modern IPbased video cameras, recording and video management systems, PSIM, analytics, and more provide a digital extension of security personnel. Port security, however, is anything but typical. From miles of unguarded, unlit perimeters to ever-changing lighting and weather conditions, traditional video security has a difficult time providing the comprehensive intelligence demanded by such a high-security facility.

The Thermal Advantage Once restricted to the military due to prohibitive cost, thermal imaging

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is an increasingly relied upon technology for an ever- growing array of security — as well as process and operations management — applications. As price points have dropped, integration of thermal technology into today’s video security and surveillance camera systems has become more prevalent, providing a wealth of information and functionality previously unavailable.

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components [image sensors and lenses] necessary to build thermal cameras.In the last 18 months, forexample, we have seen a 2x cost factor reduction in the image sensors themselves. This means that thermal technology is no longer confined to high-end military and government applications.”

Because many applications that rely on video security are challenged by a number of external, uncontrollable factors, including ambient light and weather, thermal imaging has cemented its position as a must-have technology to detect and observe the persons and vehicles on and near a facility — information necessary to make immediate, informed decisions.

How it Works Whereas a visible-light camera uses light reflected off objects to build an image, thermal imaging cameras capture an object’s emitted heat to provide a high-contrast image — eliminating the need for any light source.

The thermal contrast among objects in low-light and no-light conditions provides the information necessary to quickly make informed decisions — information that standard visible light cameras cannot deliver. And thanks to this technology, thermal imaging is also

a powerful tool for applications beyond security — providing the capabilities to spot leaks, ruptures, or hot spots across bridges, dams, refineries, and power plants.

For many security applications, the ability to detect if a person or vehicle has entered the scene is critical. Thermal excels in this regard since the temperature of a person or vehicle is typically quite different than the background temperature of the scene. This makes people and vehicles easy to detect in thermal images, even from very long ranges.

The ability to accurately and reliably detect people and vehicles is also very useful for video analytics.

Even in complete darkness or in areas obscured by fog, foliage, or other obscurants, thermal cameras alert security personnel to potential threats that may not be captured by a standard visible light camera. And this is nowhere more important than port applications, where security personnel are faced with a variety of challenges, from distant, poorly lit perimeters to unguarded waterfront access. Thermal imaging is quickly becoming a common, tried, and trusted technology, independent of or complementary to visible light cameras, to ensure 24-hour protection.

Lower Installation and Operating Costs Interestingly, although thermal cameras still typically cost more per unit than a traditional visible camera, deployment of a thermal imaging

solution in a port environment can be much more cost effective than traditional video. For one, thermal cameras have longer detection ranges, necessitating the use of fewer units, overall. Additionally, because thermal cameras do not need lighting, their use can eliminate the need for installation of light poles and their associated infrastructure.

Video Analytics Since thermal imaging uses heat from objects to form its image, no illumination source is needed. This means that thermal imaging works equally well in all lighting conditions — day or night under normal light, low light, or even no light conditions.

Importantly, thermal cameras provide an optimal platform for the use of video analytics.

Since visible-light cameras are dependent upon reflected light, image quality and accuracy can degrade throughout a 24-hour period due to shadows, inconsistent lighting, glare, and other lighting effects over which neither security operators nor technology have control. But since thermal cameras capture an object’s thermal emission, it ignores common light conditions (whether too little or too much), which challenge traditional video analytics. The high-contrast image enables the predictable use of analytics with extremely low falsealarm rates at all hours of the day.

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“Matrix is SUBSTANCE brand.

Substance is in the DNA of Matrix solutions” Q. In your opinion, what is the state of security industry in India and what is the trend you see in the space?

more reliability, and more support.

Matrix positioning is based on offering more of these true inherent values which customers expect from infrastructure solutions.

Thanks to various threat perceptions, the security industry is set to grow by leaps & bounds. What we are witnessing is only a tip of the iceberg & there is tremendous potential for growth.

Q. What is your marketing and channel strategy?

Our focus is end users and we target them thru direct mailers and personal visits.

Q. Which targeting?

Mr. Subhash Bajaj, Director, Advantedge Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai

market

are

you Q. What is your support strategy?

Our focus has always been on SMBs & Corporates. Our strength is offering solutions to the BFSI & Retail industry.

After-sales-support has and will

Q. What is the advantage of Matrix products vis-à-vis the competition?

Q. What are the challenges that you are currently facing in India?

always be an integral part of our business and we ensure that the clients are serviced within 24 hours.

The biggest challenge that we face is Matrix is SUBSTANCE brand.

Substance is in the DNA of Matrix solutions. Substance in the form of technology, depth, genuineness and going beyond the mere outer façade and offer more values in all the areas. This is what differentiates Matrix from the lot. Matrix solutions are packed with More. More productivity, more applications, more flexibility, more functions, more features, more cost saving,

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new client acquisition and availability of skilled manpower. Client payment schedules also add to the challenges that most vendors face.

Q. How much of growth are you expecting this year and are you also expecting any business from the overseas market?

Our focus is the domestic market & we hope to grow by 100% this F.Y.

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Mircom:

Global leadership in intelligent building solutions

Mr. Mark Falbo – President, Mircom Group of Companies

Q. Mircom has gained remarkable positioning worldwide in the fire alarm & detection industry; please share with us how did the company achieve this position?

I’m proud to say that today the Mircom Group of Companies stands as one of the fastest growing companies not only in fire alarm & detection, but in the Intelligent Building Solutions industry. Our high growth stems from R&D and new product development, geographic

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expansion, strategic acquisitions, and increasing brand awareness.

As a privately owned company, we have the unique ability to pivot quickly and direct our teams to where we see market opportunities.

Our R&D department has more than tripled in size in the last five years, which has allowed Mircom to gain significant market share by developing an exceptional array of products that go above and beyond the expectations of our customers.

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Q. Mircom has been operational worldwide; please outline its overall business activities (tie-ups, associations, reach, network)?

The Mircom Group of Companies was founded in Canada, but our mission is to serve customers across the entire globe. To that end, we export our products and solutions to over 100 countries and support the sale and installation process.

Our global network of dedicated Sales and Service Offices, known as Mircom Engineered Systems, allows us to be a full solution provider.

Through Mircom ES, we’re able to provide & fully service our line-up of innovative & advanced solutions which are scalable to satisfy diverse user demands, from small & midsize buildings to the world’s most complex applications.

Our business model also heavily relies on servicing the needs of Engineered Systems Distributors (ESDs), who in turn are engaged by electrical contractors and other market participants to source their life safety requirements. Last but not least, under our United Export Corporation(U.E.C.)division, we also distribute a broad range of exceptional fire protection equipment to more than 70 international markets.

Q. Can you elaborate more about the product portfolio & its applications?

The Mircom Group of Companies is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of intelligent building

and life safety solutions. Our product portfolio includes: fire detection & alarm, communications & security, mass notification, nurse call, and building automation & smart technologies.

We’re proud of our flagship projects in:

• Commercial /Mixed-Use / MultiBuilding Centres • Mega Resorts in Holiday Destinations • Regional Transit Systems • Airports • Hospitals/Healthcare • Retail • Residential/Condo • Corporate • Government • Prisons • Industrial • Sports/Entertainment • Oil/Gas/Petro Chemical • Campus/University Applications • And many more

Q. What are your plans to position these products in India & as well as in global market?

We’re in a construction driven market, so anywhere there’s population growth, infrastructure development, building, migration – those are ready-made markets for Mircom to participate in. India is a perfect example. With a regional base in Bangalore, Mircom has been

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a growing player in India for over 5 years. The Bangalore Mircom ES branch location boasts a full-fledged technical support & training center and has numerous highly successful project installations under its belt.

Operating within an industry that’s controlled by strict safety regulations and standards forces Mircom to focus our innovation and export endeavours within the confines of those parameters. We don’t market to countries where we’re going to be competing against local providers with local products for local approvals. Instead, we focus our efforts on markets that value North American regulatory approved goods, and there are lots of them.

Q. Please brief us about Mircom’s corporate governance & corporate responsibility missions.

As a family-run business, it’s not only our company’s reputation on the line with every product and solution delivered – it’s our family name as well. When it comes to companywide strategy and operational execution we follow a best practices approach to corporate governance and corporate responsibility. Our team is dedicated to delivering on the company’s commitments in an ethical manner while consistently working to achieve the company’s highest potential.

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Mircom leaders and managers are empowered to make decisions and contribute to the success of the organization. With that, they are held accountable for the performance of their business units and teams.

Reporting structures are clear, organizational goals are broadly communicated, and decisions are made in a transparent and unbiased manner for the best interests of the company and its long-term viability.

Q. How do you foresee “India” as a potential market, what are the prospects?

We see incredible potential in the India market, which is experiencing remarkable growth across all verticals, especially in the life safety and security industry. We are excited about a number of fantastic opportunities in the ever-growing hospitality and entertainment sector. We also see business prospects with the development of the industrial sector.

As we continue to operate in India, we’re finding that the values of this region are perfectly aligned with the values of our company. The people of India have responded to Mircom and our brands with great enthusiasm and support. In particular, I would like to thank the Indian consulting community, system integrators, and our valued business partners. We offer excellent products and service at a fair price, and as India continues to prosper economically, it’s significantly contributing to growth in our business as well.

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Q. According to you, how is the global fire detection & alarm industry performing?

With steady economic recovery across North America and industrialization of developing countries, the global fire detection & alarm industry is thriving. Globally, we’re also seeing an improvement in enforcement of fire safety regulations.

The fire detection & alarm market is highly fragmented, with fierce price point competition.

Organic growth with existing clients is an essential aspect of the market; however, acquisitions are the fastest way to accelerate growth.

Q. Can you elaborate more about the factors that are affecting the fire detection & alarm business?

To summarize, I would say that tightening regulations, shortening lifecycles and increasing variety of products, new trends in technology, and increased outsourcing are the major factors affecting our business.

One of the biggest challenges facing our industry is the difficulty of regulatory bodies to keep pace with ever-changing technologies.

Q. Lastly, being the prudent leader of the company where do you want to take Mircom in near future?

Q. What are some technology trends that are driving the fire detection & alarm business?

Codes and public pressures aside, a number of new technology trends are surfacing to make new fire detection & alarm project installations and retrofits easier, and more cost and environmentally conscious. In recent years, Mircom has adopted technologies that have differentiated us from the competition, including: 3D building monitoring, ZigBee™ communication protocols, and networking and monitoring capabilities to name a few.

The technology industry in general, is preparing for the “Internet of Things”, a type of computing characterized by small and simple computers attached to objects.

These devices sense and transmit data about the environment or offer new means of controlling it.

Mircom is well on its way to becoming a leading global brand in the Intelligent Building Solutions space.

Over the past five years, our focus has been building on our traditional fire detection and alarm solutions and expanding on complementary and related “smart technologies.”

Our ultimate goal is to provide a fully integrated, customized, and scalable building solution. Utilizing our focused R&D, strong culture and values, unparalleled commitment to customer support, and finally, the honesty & integrity of our business practices, I have no doubt that we can and will scale our business to a billion dollar firm.

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Trends in Access

Control

About Author

Mr. Kiron Kunte Kiron Kunte has over 35 years of design and solutions experience, in Security, Telephony and Networking infrastructure. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers and has a post-graduate diploma, from Bombay University, in Systems Management. He is professionally certified in the design and engineering of Data Centres, IP Telephony, Video surveillance and Structured Cabling solutions. He heads Norik Konsult, a practice that offers advisory, design and system planning help to upgrade or build a new Telephony, Security and Networking infrastructure.

For more information contact: www.norikkonsult.com

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s the security landscape continues to evolve in new and complex ways, organisations are viewing this as an opportunity for improvement and value rather than an interruption or distraction.

Open Architecture Customers are increasingly moving towards more open and secure architectures. They want to ensure that the organisation’s access control solution can adapt to future threats and take advantage of opportunities and applications beyond mere access control.

The goal is to deploy a fully interoperable, multilayered security solution across company systems & facilities. By using solutions that are based on industry standards such as OSDP bidirectional communications, and incorporating dynamic rather than static technologies, security becomes independent of hardware and media and the infrastructure can more easily evolve beyond

current abilities and also have the adaptability to combat continuously changing threats.

Security Integration The momentum of security integration is unlikely to slow down in 2014. It will continue to be a key market driver. The benefits are unquestionable, with the drive for efficiency being the core proposition.

It enhances security reaction times – for instance if a door is forced the combined system will sound an alarm, lock-down key areas and direct the security team to the location of the potential incursion.

Integration makes installation and upgrades easier and more costeffective and it makes full use of legacy and existing systems. There is a massive growth in the use of BACnet protocols as well, which are adding a new level of software integration which is helping to move away from the remaining proprietary software that was once commonplace in the

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security industry.

Integrated security systems allow authorised users to minimise the security details they have to memorise and this is a major advantage. The ability of integrated systems to intelligently provide access also means that workforce management is much easier using integrated security. From managing working hours to activating buildings services only when they are needed (and thus saving energy and resources), integration is providing intelligent solutions that will save money.

Integrating Physical Access Control with IT Security

across many different applications on both smart cards and smart-phones.

Users will soon be able to carry many types of access control credentials as well as one-time password (OTP) tokens on a single microprocessorbased smart card or smart-phone.

Such integration will improve efficiency through centralisation of credential management for multiple logical and physical access control identities across IT resources and facilities.

Organisations will be able to achieve true convergence through a single solution that can be used to access IT resources, while also enabling many other physical security applications. There will be a single process for provisioning and enrolling both IT and PACS identities, and it will be possible to apply a unified set of workflows to a single set of managed identities for organisational convergence.

Smarter Smart Cards with Multilayered security.

Historically, physical and logical access control functions were mutually exclusive within an organisation. These systems were also managed by different groups.

The boundaries between these groups are beginning to blur.

Organisations find the need to provide physical access control system (PACS) and IT identities on a single card that can be used to open doors and log on to computers.

This will create a seamless user experience. Individuals will be able to create, use and manage identities

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Card technology continues to evolve from proximity cards to magnetic stripe cards and on to smart cards. Today’s gold standard for access control applications is contactless smart cards that are based on open standards, featuring a universal card edge, also known as a card command interface, which

improves interoperability with a broad ecosystem of products within a trusted boundary.

The latest cards improve security, privacy and portability to mobile credentials. Users are increasingly enhancing their cards and badges with more and more layers of additional visual and digital security. Visual elements include higher-resolution images, holographic card over-laminates and permanent and unalterable, laserengraved personalization attributes.

Cards also increasingly incorporate expanded digital storage capacity so they can include biometric and other multi-factor authentication information to enhance identity validation. Printing technology also continues to advance in support of these trends, simplifying how cards are produced and distributed while making them more secure.

Migrating to smart cards offers stronger security. They also enable multiple applications on a single card. Both physical and logical access control can reside on NFCenabled smart phones.

Although migration does involve change, the combination of multi-technology cards and readers plus field-programmable cards and systems minimizes disruption to the day-to-day workflow. Employees and the organization can benefit

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from a more secure and userfriendly environment that provides the scalable foundation for future capabilities and applications.

can then be validated using a cloud application and granted access via a trusted message over secure communication to the door.

With this, mobile devices (rath-

Biometrics

er than an access control system)

Biometrics will find even greater acceptance in 2014. The quality and accuracy of biometrics have rapidly improved in recent years. Fingerprint readers and facial recognition systems are now widely accepted.

Advances in biometrics will result in the deployment of more complicated systems such as palm vein and heartbeat recognition readers.

make the access decisions and doors

Use of Smart phones as access cards Smart-phones will function similarly to how a card transacts today, depending on technology and business ecosystems already in place. In future the phone’s onboard computing power and multimedia capabilities will be leveraged to overcome limitations and provide a more functional and rich user transaction and experience. Looking forward further, the connectivity of smart-phones will be used to perform most tasks that today are jointly executed by card readers and servers or panels in traditional access control systems.

This will include verifying identity with rules such as whether the access request is within a permitted time and, using the phone’s GPS capability, whether the person is actually in the vicinity of the door. The user

(rather than cards) present their identity. This role reversal, sometimes called duality, changes how access control solutions are offered.

Organisations will be less dependent on the expensive infrastructure required for connecting servers, panels and readers - just electronic locks that respond to a mobile device’s encrypted ‘open’ command. This simplified and more economical model will enable the industry to secure more assets: interior doors, filing cabinets, storage units and other areas that have been prohibitively expensive or complex to secure in the past. However mobile devices, by their highly portable nature, also pose a potential risk of unauthorised misuse. Accordingly though, mobile device manufacturers have beefed up handset security and this has offset many of the potential concerns – in some ways echoing developments in the security industry itself. Fingerprint readers are now available on iPhones.

NFC authentication Near field communications (NFC)

ing from authenticating items and documents and securely managing

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tached to many items in public places, to establish their unique identity veniently verified using contactless readers or any NFC-enabled smartphone or tablet. This authentication model will enable a variety of new transactions and services, rang-

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Visitor management technology being integrated with access control systems.

Visitor management will increasingly be integrated with access control systems to provide complete security solutions that protect employees and temporary visitors from intruders and unwanted guests. Integration of visitor management with access control systems enables lobby attendants to easily and safely provide temporary proximity credentials to

RFID tags will increasingly be at-

so that authenticity can later be con-

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chain-of-custody, warranty and other transaction data, proof of presence (electronic visitor verification - EVV) and authorising a phone to operate in an organisation’s virtual telecom system.

Security levels of NFC tags will increase by a combination of NFC tags containing cryptographically signed data elements that cannot be copied or modified without detection, plus secure cloudbased authentication services that are backed by a proven server infrastructure. With this ecosystem in place, it will be possible to develop applications that allow an NFCenabled smart-phone or reader to communicate tag information to a secure, cloud-based server, which validates whether the tag is authentic and asks for a proof of presence, then transmits this information back to the smart-phone or reader.

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the

ment system, rather than the access

authentication,

control system. The information en-

strong authentication, especially for

tered into the visitor management

IT security. The industry is quickly

system during check-in is seamlessly

moving beyond simple passwords

passed to the access control system

(something the users knows) to

so that a proximity card for the visi-

additional authentication factors

tor can be activated.

of

including something the user has

also

known

as

When the visitor leaves and is

(such as a mobile or web token) and

checked out by the visitor lobby sys-

something the user is (ascertained

tem, the card is automatically deac-

through a biometric or behaviour-

tivated, and the expiration date and

metric

time are automatically passed to the

technology have made it possible

access system, ensuring that a lost or stolen card can no longer be used.

The industry is quickly moving beyond simple passwords (something the users knows) to additional authentication factors including something the user has (such as a mobile or web token) and something the user is (ascertained through a biometric or behaviour-metric solution).

importance

multifactor

guests through the visitor manage-

Integrating visitor management with access control also eliminates the problems of having a supply of live cards at the reception desk for those who have forgotten their employee badges. The visitor system also has a record of all visitors who have been provided an access card, so there is a complete audit trail, including information about the dates and times when cards were active.

Cloud-based Security The adoption of cloud-based security is another area that has gained enormous ground in recent years and looks set to continue. Security concerns over using cloud based services have been largely quashed by a wider acceptance of online use

for

solution).

Advances

multi-application

in

credentials

that use a data model which can represent

any

type

of

identity

information to be carried on smart cards or smart-phones. Users will simply take the same card (or phone) they use for building access and tap it to a personal tablet or laptop for authenticating to a VPN, wireless network, corporate intranet, cloud and web-based applications, singlesign-on (SSO) clients and other IT resources. There will be no need for a separate card reader or additional devices to issue and manage, nor will they need to enter a password on touch-screen devices.

Security Legislation As well as the technology, legislation is moving forward to meet the

of services such as banking or retail,

demands of the security industry.

which have demonstrated that using

IEC 60839, entitled, “Alarm and elec-

IP needn’t compromise vital secu-

tronic security systems- Electronic

rity. As well as ease of use and in-

access control systems - System and

stallation, cloud-based services also

components requirements� aims to

rapidly roll out updates. Besides this

update the standard to take into ac-

eliminates the need for large servers

count the latest integrated systems.

onsite - freeing space and resources.

It is being published at the IEC level

(Refer pages 66-68 of the January is-

(World standard) and also published

sue).

by BSI as aN EN (European) standard. IEC 60839 will have a pro-

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Strong user authentication

found impact on the security indus-

Security professionals understand

try in 2014.

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Advanced Solutions for Effective Business Management

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ith the landscape for security changing rapidly, access control must continually become more integrated and scalable, providing users with new functionality that will improve overall security.

Solus security and time management solutions benefits any business, providing solutions for improving workforce productivity, Employee and asset management, time management, human resource planning and Canteen activities.As Security Personnel, you are not limited to controlling your main building entrance. It can extend to any department, branch or sensitive area in your business or organization.

Solutions from Solus help you keep an eye on everything that is going on in your premises, even if it is remotely off key.

• Instant alert notifications about any transgressions, via the Video Management Integration software.

• Additionally, because the Video Management Integration plugs in neatly with other systems such as Biometric Attendance Systems, Visitor Management System, Fire Systems, etc, you are ensured round-the-clock surveillance.

• The Visitor Management System that checks visitor IDs and intruders will monitor everyone who is not part of your organization.

• The Attendance Management software will register the time and date of arrival and departure.

Being an administrative head means coordinating and not just

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one department for you, but the entire organization. From canteen management and vehicle parking, to handling security and maintenance of equipment, you have to oversee everything.

Solus offers a range of automated solutions for managing parking and canteen facilities, access control and fire integration, canteen management, visitor management and surveillance that give you a 100% efficiency in function. As a HR Directors / Managers, you handle the most precious resources of your company: Employees. Know that when people don’t function at peak levels, productivity suffers costs increase, attrition goes up.

Solus provides products that will ease up your burden. Even better, reduce your company’s costs.

• Solus’ Attendance Management Software will regularize attendance and reduce absenteeism.

• Attendance rules & regularities to avoid penalties.

• Additionally, the Contract Work Management module will reduce the headache of managing 3rd party temporary employees.

• Anytime, anywhere Manager/ HR can view and approve their attendance related requests from Employees, Employees can mark their manual punches, raise requests.

As an IT Admin…keeping system conversations alive is the toughest job.You also have to participate in the planning and implementation of system monitoring, maintenance and support of all networked software and operating systems. Wherever applicable, you also provide enduser support and troubleshooting of applications and software.

Solus’ security products come with a promise of full-proof customization as per your needs and

that are guaranteed to satisfy costefficiency and organizational needs.

What’s more?

• 100% integration with the existing DB systems.

• An Annual Maintenance Contract and Warranty that ensure excellent post-installation services.

• Availability of cloud solutions for more effective usage.

• Guaranteed quality products at almost 20% lower prices compared to multinational companies.

As an expert who both plans and executes large commercial projects, one of your concerns would be security and surveillance of the facilities that you are building for your client.

Specifically, systems such as access control, visitor management, vehicle parking and Video Management Integration, for your projects. When you manage large projects, there are enough things to worry about, and you’re looking for a trusted partner that can take some of this load off you. Your project needs a smooth roll-out, right? Call Solus for your Project’s Facilities Security & Surveillance Needs.

Solus have been designing and implementing the newest and most innovative technologies for Access Control, Visitor Management, Time Attendance & Canteen, Vehicle Parking and Video Management Integration Systems. With over 3000+ clients, 10+ years of commitment, proven systems and the industry’s best after-sales service, partnering with Solus will be a good choice.

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mBank poland deploys HID Global’s multi-factor authentication solution for secure internet and mobile banking News Highlights: • HID Global’s ActivID® Display Card Tokens offer mBank’s corporate banking customers an advanced, multi-factor authentication solution for secure access to their Internet and mobile banking accounts.

• mBank is looking to further collaborate with HID Global to extend its corporate banking offering to include new, advanced solutions for its retail banking customers.

• The token includes a touchpad for secure PIN entry that can fit in customers’ wallets easily, making it highly portable and allowing access to their Internet bank accounts anytime, anywhere

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ID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, announced that mBank, a leading Polish Bank (owned by Commerzbank), has successfully deployed HID Global’s ActivID® Display Card Tokens. The tokens provide mBank’s corporate banking customers with an advanced, multi-factor authentication solution to securely access their Internet and mobile banking accounts. Headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, mBank is amongst the pioneers for corporate banking services in the country. It was also recognized in 2013 by Efma and Accenture as “The Most Disruptive Innovation” for projects and initiatives in the retail financial services arena that radically change and redefine the way it does business. mBank was seeking a highly secure, convenient and innovative Internet and mobile banking authentication solution that was easy to deploy. HID Global’s Activ ID Display Card Tokens were selected by mBank based on these stringent

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requirements and HID Global’s unique, patented algorithm that was interoperable with mBank’s backend system. Further, HID Global was recognized by the bank as a reputable brand that offered strong authentication and advanced fraud protection based on its long-standing relationship and successful implementations over the last 10 years.

“HID Global is a trusted and recognized brand that offers the best solutions in the market. The company’s ActivID® Display Card Tokens were easy to integrate into mBank’s banking solutions,” said Aleksander Gawronski, Electronic Banking Director with mBank. “Thanks to HID Global, we are able to offer our corporate banking customers an improved, convenient and higher security multi-factor authentication method when accessing their accounts on the Internet and on their mobile phones.”

“We are very proud to have supported mBank, one of the most credible Polish banks, with an

advanced and innovative authentication solution that enhances their corporate customers’ Internet banking experience. HID Global’s identity assurance offering has consistently proven to be the most reliable and trusted in the marketplace,” said Harm Radstaak, Managing Director, EMEA with HID Global.

The ActivID Display Card Token has enabled mBank to offer its corporate banking customers a customized, credit card style authentication solution. The token includes a touchpad for secure PIN entry that can fit in customers’ wallets easily, making it highly portable and allowing access to their Internet bank accounts anytime, anywhere.

Providing this enhanced customer satisfaction has resulted in mBank continuing to retain its customer loyalty. The ActivID Display Card also eliminates the need for special readers and is an all-in-one solution that delivers a cost-effective solution to mBank.

Based on its continued successful relationship with HID Global, mBank is looking to further collaborate with the company to extend its corporate banking offering to include new, advanced solutions for its retail banking customers.

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Gandhi Bhawan, Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi, 110003, T: 011 24610358, F: 011 24602397, E: secy.moca@nic.in

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lans to install additional 50 CCTV cameras at Nagpur City’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport.

With another 50 CCTV cameras in place, the security will be boosted in areas like the vehicle parking bays, the parking kiosk etc.

Location: Nagpur Maharashtra MIHAN India Ltd (MIL) Suraj Shinde, Airport Planing & Commercial Manager, 1st Floor, Old Terminal Building, Nagpur – 440005, T: 0712- 6650106, 6650100, F: 6650101, (P Anil Kumar -Senior Airport Director)

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lans to construct a new integrated terminal building at VSI Airport, Port Blair.

Location: Port Blair Andaman & Nicobar Airport Authority of India Ashok Kumar, General Manager (Project), AAI, VSI Airport, Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands-744103.

T: 03192-235619, 211225, F: 03192-233390, E: apdportblair@aai.aero

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lans to undertake replacement & construction of watch towers (phase-iv) inside operational area at NSCBI airport, Kolkata.

Location: Kolkata West Bengal Airports Authority Of India V K Monga, Airport Director, EasternRegion, NSCBI Airport, Kolkata - 700028.

T: 033-25119600, 25118787, F: 25119266

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AI has a plan for the development of Jharsuguda airport subject to handing over of the required land by State Government free of cost and free from all encumbrances.

Location: Jharsuguda Odisha Airports Authority of India (AAI) P.R Beuria, Deputy General Manager (Engineer Civil), Biju Patnaik Airport, Bhubaneswar-751020, Orissa.

T: 0674-2596300, 2596322, M: 9040022036

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lans to increase the runway length of the Jaipur International Airport to 3505 M from 2797 for code `E` type of aircraft (B-747-400) with Cat-II approach lighting system.

Location: Jaipur Rajasthan Airports Authority of India (AAI) D.K Gautam, Deputy General Manager, Civil Airport, Sanganer, Jaipur, Rajasthan.

T: 0141-2550623, F: 2721585, M: 9571936666, E: apdjpr@aai.aero

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he ministry has identified 24 airports for developing dedicated domestic air cargo terminals and has directed AAI to draw up plans for creating such cargo terminals across the country.

Location: Ahmedabad Gujarat Ministry of Civil Aviation Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Rajiv

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AI maintains the civil enclave of Jodhpur Airport which belongs to the Indian Air Force (IAF). AAI seeks allocation of 80 acre of land from IAF to expand and upgrade infrastructure of the civil enclave. IAF is likely to

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Health, A.C. Guards, Hyderabad 500004 Andhra Pradesh.

T: 040- 23316841, 23313530 F: 233 933 71, E: enc_pubhealth@ap.gov.in

hand over 37 acre of land for expansion.

Location: Jodhpur Rajasthan Airports Authority of India (AAI) O.P Sharma, Assistant General Manager Civil Airport, Jodhpur -342011, Rajasthan.

T: 0291-2512934, F: 2512946, 2512934, M: 9928082154, E: apcvijo@aai.aero, opsharma@aai.aero

PORT & SHIPPING

HEALTHCARE

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he port trust is planning to build super speciality hospital as part of its plan to utilise and monetise the surplus land. The private sector player will be roped in to run the hospital.

Location: Chennai Tamil Nadu Chennai Port Trust Bala Gangadharan, S.Engr, No-1, Rajaji Salai, Chennai-600001, T: 044-25361139, 25362201, Ext: 2311, (M Shanmugam, Dy Chief Engineer, E: mshanmugam00@gmail.com)

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he Centre has agreed to set up an AIIMS-like super speciality hospitalcum- teaching institute in Telangana. The centre has asked to propose three-four locations where about 200 acre is available in each site.

Location: Telangana Government of Telangana Farukh Kaur - Superintendent, Public

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lans to ramp up its container handling capacity involving replacement of a crane with a more powerful one and constructing a new yard, which will help in increasing the overall capacity. Necessary permissions are in place project financial closure is achieved.

Location: Pipavav Gujarat Budget: 600 Crore Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd Arun Ram, Senior Manager, Liner Business and Communications, 301, Trade Centre, BKC, Bandra (E), Mumbai - 400 051.

T: 022-30011300, 30011316, M: 9619022196, arun.ram@apmterminals.com (Prakash Tulsiani, MD)

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he port trust plans to undertake modernisation of coal handling in Cochin Port. Bids are invited for this project on design, build, finance, operate and transfer basis for a concession period of 30 years.The project capacity will be 4.23 MTPA. Location: Cochin Kerala Cochin Port Trust Unnikrishnan Nair, Traffic Engineer,

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Willingdon Island, Cochin.

T: 0484-2666418, 2666414,2666418, ce@cochinport. gov.in (Paul Antony, IAS,Chairman, Satish Kumar, Deputy Chief Engineer)

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he Port Trust has floated a tender to select onshore dry bulk cargo handling agents for Haldia Dock.

Around 17 companies and major handling agent group at Haldia attended the pre-bid meeting. Bid submission date is August 19, 2014.

Location: Kolkata West Bengal

lans to take up development of dry dock in Mumbai Port/Harbour. The port has invited consultancy bids for conducting feasibility studies and preparation of detailed project report.

Location: Mumbai Maharashtra

Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) S.K. Saha Roy, GM (Traffic), I/C, 15, Strand Road, Kolkata - 700001.

T: 033-24093037, 03224-252208, 252246, M: 9434063719, E: sksaharoy@kopt.in, cme@ kopt.in (RPS Kahlon, Chairman)

Mumbai Port Trust Satish Kharche, Executive Engineer, Mumbai Port Trust, Port House, Mumbai.

T: 022-66566501, 66564521, Ext:66566508, F: 23730611, 23744277, (Rajeev Gupta,Chairman), E: sskharche@mbptmail.com

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ids are invited for maintenance dredging of Mumbai Harbour Channel and JN Port Channel for the year 2014 on assured depth basis.

Location: Mumbai Maharashtra Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust V G Gharat, Dy Manager, (Project), Administration Building, Sheva, Navi Mumbai-400707, T: 022-27242233, 27244022, E: vggharat@gmail.com

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he Centre has recently approved the Sassoon Docks redevelopment plan which was built in 1875.The dock infrastructure will be revamped soon modernising the fishing activities and making it an attractive tourist destination. The plan includes a marine food park, sea food restaurant and an art gallery at a later stage.

Location: Mumbai Maharashtra Budget: 25.50 Crore Mumbai Port Trust A.S Gharde, Deputy Chief Engineer, Port House, Mumbai.

T: 022- 66566501, 66564521, F: 23730611, 23744277, M: 09869060008 (RajeevGupta,Chairman)

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lans to set up diesel locomotive factory at Marhowra in the state of Bihar. US based companies GE and EMD have been shortlisted for this project. EMD is acquired by Caterpillar’s arm, Progress Rail Services in 2010. It is likely that the Railways would call in for the financial bids. The selected bidder will have to manufacture and supply 700 units of 4,500 horse power diesel electric locomotives and 300 units of 6,000 horse power diesel electric locomotives over a period of 11-years.

Location: Marhowra Bihar Indian Railways Atul Rane, Senior Public Relations Officer, NM Joshi Marg, Byculla West, Jacob Circle, Mumbai - 400011.

T: 022-22621309, Ext: 22635448, E: cpro@cr.railnet.gov.in, spro@cr.railnet.gov.in

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lans to undertake construction of station building, passenger platform with passenger amenities like platform, cover shed, toilet block, water huts etc at Bhortek.

Location: Jalgaon Maharashtra Western Railway Dy. Chief Engineer (Construction) Western Railway, Dudh Federation Road, Railway Colony, Jalgaon-425 001.

T: 0257- 2233544.

of Bogibeel rail-cum-road bridge over river Brahmaputra have been completed. In main bridge, 36 out of 42 well foundations and 28 out of 40 piers have been completed.

2 out of 41 girders have been launched. The project is targeted to complete by March 2017.

Location: Dibrugarh district Assam Budget: 4996 Crore North East Frontier Railway R.K Singh, GM (Construction), Northeast Frontier Railway, Headquarter Office. Maligaon, Guwahati-781011, Assam.

T: 0361-2671617

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ine corridors are identified by the Indian Railways for running 160-200 kmph semi-high speed trains.

These corridors are 1. Delhi-Agra 2.Delhi- Chandigarh 3.Delhi-Kanpur 4.Nagpur -Bilaspur 5.Mysore-BengaluruChennai 6.Mumbai-Goa (vii) Mumbai- Ahmedabad (viii) Chennai-Hyderabad & (ix) Nagpur-Secunderabad.

Location: Multiple Ministry of Railways Anil Kumar Saxena, Addl. DG(PR), 302, Rail Bhavan, Raisina Road, New Delhi -110001, T: 011-23381332, F: 23385215, E: dpr@rb.railnet.gov.in

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ajor railway projects in Odisha are facing land acquisition issues. To put such projects on fast track, the state government has targeted to complete the land acquisition process of projects like Khurda Road-Bolangir, Paradeep- Haridsapur and AngulDuburi-Sukinda Road by the end of 2015. The Centre has announced Rs 100 crore each for Khurda Road-Bolangir, Angul-Duburi- Sukinda Road and Talcher-Bimalagarh rail links while the Paradip-Haridaspur project has been allocated Rs 187 crore in the Railway Budget 2014-15.

Location: Paradip Odisha

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lans to set up 45 MW grid connected solar power unit in Telangana by May 2015. The electricity generated will be supplied to the Southern Power Distribution Co.of Telangana, at a levelised tariff of Rs. 6.49p/kwh for 20 years. The project encompasses construction of solar units at two different sites in the Mahabubnagar district.

Location: Mahubnagar District Telangana

Indian Railways Anil Saxena, Addl Director GeneralPublic Relations, Railway Board, Delhi, T: 011-23381332, E: dpr.rly@gmail.com.

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he Bogibeel Rail-Cum-Road Bridge project in the Dibrugarh district was sanctioned in 1997-98. The physical works of both North and South guide bunds, 44 km long rail link from Chaulkhowa - Moranhat, 14 km long north bank rail link and 8 km long south bank rail link

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First Solar Inc 350 W Washington St #600, Tempe, AZ 85281, United States.

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he corporation has recently awarded an order to BHEL for setting up of a 10 MW grid-connected solar power plant at Belakavadi villagem. The scope of work includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the plant.

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Location: Mandya District Karnataka Budget: 68 Crore

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etting up a 25.6 MW wind energy project in Ananthapur district. This will be completed by September, 2014.

Location: Ananthapur Andhra Pradesh

Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd Mruthunjay, Chief Engineer, 82, Shakthi Bhavan, Race Course Road, Bangalore-560 001, T: 080-22201636, 22258431

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agged order from SAIL to build a 1-MW solar power plant over 4 acre at the Rourkela Steel Plant.The construction is likely to begin in October and complete in less than four months.

Location: Rourkela Odisha Budget: 7 Crore

Atria Power Corporation Ltd (APCL) Prasad, Project Incharge, No.1, Near Vidhana Soudha, Palace Road, Bangalore - 560001 T: 080-49411411, 22257022, 22205205, F: 22257023

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PCL is constructing two wind energy projects with 50 MW each in Betul district. The commissioning is targeted in December 2014 and June 2015.

Location: Betul District Madhya Pradesh

Rays Power Infra Pvt Ltd Ketan Mehta, Director, D-43 , 2nd Floor , Janpath, Shyam Nagar, Sodala Jaipur, Rajasthan- 302019.

T:0141-4038767, M: 9587133999

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,000 MW Subansiri hydel project is coming up in the state of Assam. The project is facing opposition from the locals on issues pertaining to environment. As of now, the Government of India is trying to find a way out to remove all the hurdles in the project execution.

Location: Subansiri District Assam NHPC Ltd Rakesh Kumar, Executive Director, Gerukamukh, Via Gogamukh, Distt. Dhemaji, Assam- 787035, T: 03752- 269261, 269245

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HEL commissions fifth 68 MW hydro power generating unit at SJVN Ltd’s 412 MW Rampur Hydroelectric project (HEP). The earlier four units were commissioned between March 2014 and June 2014. The sixth unit is in advanced stage of commissioning. The construction of this project started in 2007.

Location: Rampur Himachal Pradesh Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd S K Shrivastava, Sr DGM (MM Hydro), Material Management – Hydro Block-I, Central Annex, Piplani, Bhopal – 462022.

T: 0755-2502737 / 2503264, F: 2500930, E: skshrivastava@bhelbpl.co.in

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Atria Power Corporation Ltd (APCL) Prasad, Project Incharge, No.1, Near Vidhana Soudha, Palace Road, Bangalore - 560001 T: 080-49411411, 22257022, 22205205, F: 22257023

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HPC subsidiary has identified about 120 acre land at Manmunda in Boudh district for establishment of 20 MW solar power plant. EPC bids were invited in this regard.

Location: Boudh District Odisha Green Energy Development Corporation Ltd (Gedcol) Sanjeev Tripathi, DGM (Electrical), OHPC Corporate Office, OSPH&W Corporation Building. Janpath, Bhoinagar, Bhubaneswar-751022.

T:0674-2542922, 9438310783, F: 2542102, E: info@gedcol.com

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he subsidiary of the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) has obtained sanction from the government to start eight small hydroelectric power stations across the state. The units will varies 21 MW unit at Kakakdampoyil and a 3 MW unit at Arippara in Kozhikode district and a 10 MW unit at Kaithakkolli in Wayanad district.

Location: Kerala CIAL Infrastructure Jose Thomas, General Manager (Project), Kochi Airport P.O., Nedumbassery, - 683111, T: 0484-2610115, 3053000, 3053300, 2610115, E: pro@cial.aero, josethomasp@cial.aero

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lans to undertake construction of 75 m span through type steel girder bridge from Chassana to Kalaban road, block Mahore. The completion will take nine months.

Location: Mahore Jammu and Kashmir Budget: 1.57 Crore

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he Hyderabad Outer Ring Road (ORR) growth corridor project envisages strengthening of hundreds of grid roads connecting 32 mandals and the outer ring road covering 746-km. The work per km is estimated to cost Rs 10 crore which includes ducting, levelling, patch work, storm water drains, pathways, pedestrian crossing and bus station.

Location: Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority Anand Mohan, CGM, Block ‘A’, District Commercial Complex, Tarnaka, Secunderabad - 500017.

Andhra Pradesh.

T: 040-27002745, 46, 27003313, F: 27001880, E: samuelanand09@gmail.

(Samuel Anand Kumar, Project Director)

Jammu and Kashmir Rural Roads Development Agency (JKRRDA) Bimal Tickoo, Chief Engineer, PMGSY, 4th Floor, JK PCC House, Rail Head Complex, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, T: 0194-2311814, 2135936, Ext:2310652, E: ce@pwdrbjammu.com

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lans to undertake construction of 23 m span bridge over Papriya Nallah in Km 8th on Sawani Karma road. The completion will take nine months.

Location: Sawani Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir Rural Roads Development Agency (JKRRDA) Bimal Tickoo, Chief Engineer, PMGSY, 4th Floor, JK PCC House, Rail Head Complex, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, T: 0194-2311814, 2135936, Ext:2310652, E: ce@pwdrbjammu.com

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lans to undertake construction of 37 m span through type motorable bridge in Km 20th of Angralla to Gulabgarh road.The completion will take nine months.

Location: Gulabgarh Jammu and Kashmir Budget: 0.98 Crore

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he ministry is scouting for consultants to conduct feasibility study and preparation of detailed project report for the two laning of Joram Koloriang Road covering length of 68 km in Arunachal Pradesh.

Location: Joram Arunachal Pradesh Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Vikram Singh Meena, Asst Executive Engineer, Room 321, Transport Bhavan, 1, Parliament Street New Delhi-110001.

T: 011-23739074, M: 08802115760.

(Sunil Kumar Verma, Chief Engineer)

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Jammu and Kashmir Rural Roads Development Agency (JKRRDA) Bimal Tickoo, Chief Engineer, PMGSY, 4th Floor, JK PCC House, Rail Head Complex, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, T: 0194-2311814, 2135936, Ext:2310652, ce@pwdrbjammu.com

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lans to undertake construction of 34 m span bridge in Km 2nd RD 800 - 825 Khawas to Gunda road. The completion will take nine months.

Location: Rajouri District Jammu & Kashmir Budget: 0.81 Crore

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Engineer, J L B Road, Mysore- 570001.

T: 0821-2420624, F: 2426360, M: 9448050584 (S Palaiah, Commissioner)

Jammu and Kashmir Rural Roads Development Agency (JKRRDA) Bimal Tickoo, Chief Engineer, PMGSY, 4th Floor, JK PCC House, Rail Head Complex, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, T: 0194-2311814, 2135936, Ext:2310652, E: ce@pwdrbjammu.com

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lans to undertake construction of 70 m span steel girder through type motorable bridge in Km 5th of Bhall to Shibrass road Phase VI. The completion will take nine months.

Location: Shibrass Jammu and Kashmir Budget:1.57 Crore Jammu and Kashmir Rural Roads Development Agency (JKRRDA) Bimal Tickoo, Chief Engineer, PMGSY, 4th Floor, JK PCC House, Rail Head Complex, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, T: 0194-2311814, 2135936, Ext:2310652, E: ce@pwdrbjammu.com

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lans to undertake construction of 50 m span single lane through type bridge in Km 19th RD 625-700 (Puranakadal) over River Mursudar on Mulwarwan Novapachi road.The completion will take nine months.

Location: Novapachi Jammu and Kashmir Budget:1.26 Crore Jammu and Kashmir Rural Roads Development Agency (JKRRDA) Bimal Tickoo, Chief Engineer, PMGSY, 4th Floor, JK PCC House, Rail Head Complex, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, T: 0194-2311814, 2135936, Ext:2310652, E: ce@pwdrbjammu.com

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he outer ring road (ORR) of Mysore is under construction. The total width of the ORR will be 45 metre. The project is taken up under the the JNNURM. It is estimated that the work on this project will complete

by March 2015 except for a 900 metre stretch that passes through the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) at Bandipalya.

Location: Mysore Karnataka Budget: 239.59 Crore Mysore Urban Development Authority Shiv Kumar, Superintendent

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lans to undertake construction of bus station with commercial complex at Ausa in Latur division. So far administration approval is not received.

Location: Latur Maharashtra Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation Gajanan Malgundkar, Asst Engr, Mah arashtra Vahatuk Bhavan, Dr. A. N Marg, Mumbai Central, Mumbai - 400008, T: 022-23023984

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he company is implementing Hyderabad Metro Rail project. The project aims to decongest three traffic corridors in Hyderabad and Secunderabad. The work is underway including the metro stations and depot construction as part of Phase-I of the project. The first stretch comprising 8-km out of the total 72-km metro project will be ready by March 2015. The trial tests have started from Uppal depot to Secunderabad section. The metro rail coaches are procured from Hyundai-Rotem consortium.

Location: Hyderabad Telangana Budget: 16000 Crore L&T Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd K M Manoj, Head of Project Control, 5-10, 173, Fatehmaidan Road, Hyderabad- 500004.

T: 040- 67295500, (V B Gadgil, Chief Executive and MD)

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HID Global provides credential management system for PIV-I managed service offered by Eid Passport, Inc

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Key Highlights: • U.S. Navy recently awarded Eid Passport, Inc. a contract to provide credentialing support for the Navy Commercial Access Control System (NCACS) for PIV-I credentials to its contractors, vendors, suppliers and service providers who seek entry to naval facilities.

• Eid Passport will use the company’s ActivID Credential Management System (CMS) for its PIV-I managed service.

• ActivID CMS provides Eid Passport with the management system backbone for securely provisioning PKI-based credentials to smart cards, tokens, smartphones and other devices.

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ID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, announced that it has teamed with Eid Passport®, Inc., a market leader in high-assurance identity management solutions and the largest commercial provider of vendor credentials at military facilities, to supply Eid Passport with its ActivID® Credential Management System (CMS) for Eid Passport’s new Personal Identity Verification – Interoperable (PIV-I) managed service.

Eid Passport’s service is targeted at commercial, government and military organizations that require the highest levels of identity assurance to secure sensitive physical and logical assets. Recently, the U.S. Navy awarded a contract to provide credentialing support for the Navy Commercial Access Control System (NCACS) its contractors, vendors, suppliers and service providers who seek entry to naval facilities. To meet the needs of the U.S. Navy and other customers for its PIV-I service, Eid Passport has worked with HID Advantage Partner Axiad IDS to integrate ActivID CMS into its service for secure provisioning of the cards.

“We look forward to working with Eid Passport, which is a Level 4 PIV-I issuer – the highest level of identity assurance possible,” said Eric Widlitz, managing director of Identity and Access Management, North America with HID Global.

“With the integration of HID Global’s piv CLASS credentials and ActivID CMS with the Eid Passport’s RAPIDGate Premier solution, Eid Passport is able to ensure that third parties working at high-security

government installations have been thoroughly screened, vetted and issued a PIV-I credential before they arrive on site.”

Provisioning the cards using HID Global’sActivID CMS makes it easy to define and apply policies to manage data, applets, and digital certificates across the entire lifecycle of a card. ActivID CMS is easily integrated into an existing security infrastructure, and can scale to millions of credentials in complex, distributed environments with multiple user groups.

About HID Global HID Global is the trusted source for innovative products, services, solutions, and know-how related to the creation, management, and use of secure identities for millions of customers around the world. The company’s served markets include physical and logical access control, including strong authentication and credential management; card printing and personalization; visitor management systems; highly secure government & citizen ID; and identification RFID technologies used in animal ID and industry and logistics applications. The company’s primary brands include ActivID®, EasyLobby®, FARGO®, IdenTrust®, LaserCard®, Lumidigm®, and HID®.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 2,200 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand.

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Submitted by Mr. Ravi Kumar, Associate General Manager - Field Services (Execution), Schneider Electric India

ndia faces endemic electrical energy and peaking shortage of power. The Indian power sector is plagued with mounting commercial losses due to various inefficiencies, commercial and technical losses and increasing subsidy burden on the states. A large share of India‘s current installed thermal capacity is more than 20 years old.

These shortages have had a very detrimental effect on the overall economic growth of the country.

Renovation and maintenance activities in existing power plants would become a major source of demand in the coming years. In order to re-vitalize the sector and improve the technical economic performance, the Indian government initiated the reform process in 1991.

One of the key issue and initiative surfaced in the power reform is to fully utilize the capacity of Generation and Distribution units including revamping of old, sick and low performing units. Power sector, especially the generation segment, needs to upgrade and modernize its infrastructure so that it becomes more efficient in terms of environmental emissions and usage of fossil fuels.

There is dire need to identify the existing infrastructure that is in need of renovation and maintenance activities. Periodic upgradation of generation, transmission and distribution equipment reduces the total economic and environmental costs. This paper analyses the need of distribution system revamp and the key components involved in modernization. It also explains the

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decision making criteria and various value drivers involved.

Criteria for deciding upgrading of an electrical distribution system India’s electrical equipment industry is highly diverse and manufactures a wide range of high and low technology products. Breakdown of electrical distribution equipment is inevitable; it is only a matter of time before we need to deal with it. After installation, all electrical equipment begin to deteriorate due to absorption of moisture, daily temperature cycles, usage, accumulation of dust, condensation, mechanical wear of contacts, weakening of operating springs, weakening of insulating materials, rusting of metal enclosures or drying out of capacitor dielectric.

Aging electrical components are potential hazards in any electrical system, particularly in modern automated systems. After the expected useful life cycle, the failure of electrical equipment is unpredictable. Electric equipment failures have been the most common cause of fire and short circuit in buildings and facilities. Therefore, renovation of electrical distribution systems is essential to deliver reliable power to the loads.

Lifetime assessment and review of operation strategies are important inputs to the decision process. To calculate the economics on investment, end user shall consider following possible options at the end of electrical equipment • Refurbishment • Retrofit • Use-up with maintenance cost

• Revamp or Upgrade • Complete new replacement

Life assessment Lifetime assessment and review of operation strategies are important inputs to the decision process.

Moisture and dust are very harmful for electrical equipment.

Various types of electrical equipment are installed outdoors, in unconditioned spaces without any control of temperature, pressure and humidity. Even in the case of equipment installed in weather conditioned environment, there is a gradual but definite deterioration making it unreliable.Age of equipment depends on its usage, maintenance and the subjected environment. While planning renovation of an electrical distribution system, general life expectancy is the basic criteria.

Availability of Spare parts or repair support If the type of equipment is quite old and necessary spare parts or critical maintenance support are not available any more. Under such conditions, it is extremely risky to run the installation with such outdated product which could lead to very long mean time to repair (MTTR) Continue on page no.90

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Continued from page no.88 Electrical insulation One of the weakest degrading elements of an electrical system is its level of insulation. In wires, transformers, motors, circuit breakers, generators, solenoids, capacitors and contactors, synthetic, paper and epoxy insulation is widely used. Gradually it deteriorates with ageing and the maximum applied temperature. Insulation is classified as per the maximum temperature to which it can be exposed. A thumb rule is that the insulation life is halved with every 10 deg C rise in operating temperature above the maximum permissible temperature limit.

Critical Electrical Equipments to be consider for upgrade: Condenser / Capacitors - Various types of capacitors are in use in low voltage (LV) and medium voltage (MV) distribution networks, such as surge capacitors in motor windings to start, capacitors for power factor correction, commutating capacitors in variable frequency drives (VFDs), active and passive filter capacitors and pole-mounted capacitors in overhead distribution lines for compensating the voltage drop.

The most common application is in various electronics circuits like amplifiers, oscillators and rectifiers.

Single and three-phase capacitors in hermetically sealed units are available with rectangular and cylindrical metal enclosures.

There is a continuous power loss internally called hysteresis losses of approximately 0.5 W/kVAR. These losses cause internal heating and drying of resin insulation resulting in a reduction of the kVAR compensation gradually. OEMs claim the expected life is approximately 20 Years of continuous operation.

Actually useful life goes further shorter as capacitors are constantly exposed to system high voltages and

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voltage spikes/surges. The operating environment is more severe than lab testing environment. Internal shortcircuits in the dielectric and hence reduction in the kVAR compensation due to aging can be detected by current measurement using a clampon ammeter.

Oil transformers - Oil transformers are usually installed outdoors in weatherproof enclosures on concrete pads or on poles. In the transformer, the insulating fluid/Oil degrades due to ingress of moisture, corona (phenomenon of internal arcing at the windings generating gases that get dissolved in the oil), loss of dielectric strength due to moisture content, impurities, and regular heating and cooling. With routine maintenance, testing, and replacement of the insulating oil when necessary, the liquid filled transformer can provide reliable service above 30 years.

LV Miniature & molded case circuit breakers - While upgrading a low voltage installation, first attention should be made to replace fuses with Miniature Circuit Breakers and Switch dis connectors with Molded Case Breakers.

With usage, the operating mechanism gets sluggish, resulting in delayed operating times beyond that given in the manufacturer’s published trip curves. Life of an MCCB is claimed to be upto 25K mechanical operations and 10K electrical operation at nominal current.

Electrical life goes lower with higher fault current & brings up the concept of breaking capacity of MCCBs which varies from 10KA to 65KA. LV circuit breakers - Low Voltage power circuit breakers are available in continuous current range from 800 - 6300 A at 600 V while Medium

Voltage circuit breakers are available for up to 66 kV rating. These breakers are available as Fixed type or the draw out type versions. In Low voltage, the current-carrying contacts separate in air and the arc is quenched by the de-ion effect. The moving contacts are the part of mechanism which can be spring charged either manual or motor operated. Mechanism of breaker consists of closing & trip coils which is controlled by an electronic trip release meant for over-current and instantaneous short circuit protection. Trip release offers adjustable current & time settings as per fault current application.

The main components in breaker from maintenance perspective are mechanism, charging motor, trip release & the power contacts.

Mechanism and the charging motors require regular lubrication and spring adjustments with gradual aging whereas the life of contacts depends upon number of electrical operations. Power contacts consist of main and the arcing contacts. Arcing contacts help arc quenching process by splitting the arc. Condition of the contacts can be assessed by measuring contact resistance with the help of milli-volt drop test. Generally its value is in micro-ohms under healthy conditions. Another crude way of contact inspection is through carbon impression test on paper inserted between fixed & moving contacts.

The spring charged operating mechanism needs greater monitoring and maintenance. Like other typical devices, the useful life of power circuit breakers can be extended significantly upto 30 years with preventive maintenance and testing. One of the main reasons to replace the power circuit breakers during revamping is for upgrade to superior technology - oil based to air break, thermal magnetic trip unit to

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micro-processor based and current capacity enhancements.

MV vacuum circuit breakers - In vacuum circuit breakers, the current interruption is carried out in encased vacuum interrupters. Since vacuum is used as arc quenching medium, these breakers are known as vacuum circuit breakers. Practically, quenching i.e. zero current occurs in two to three current cycles.

Due to reduced arcing in vacuum, the current-carrying contacts of the vacuum breaker last longer than those in the air-break circuit breaker.

Vacuum interrupters/ bottles are heretically sealed hence need replacement once the contact life is over.

Like air-break circuit breaker, VCB mechanism is manual spring or electrical motor charged. It requires routine visual checks & lubrication.

Therefore, the life of the vacuum circuit breaker is approximately the same as that of an air circuit breaker in terms of mechanical endurance.

Dry-type transformers and reactors - Dry-type or cast resin type transformers are used widely to supply lighting loads and other LV/MV loads. Reactors are used for limiting short-circuit current in situations where short-circuit current exceeds the rating of the existing equipment.

Reactors also work as chokes in harmonic filters and as dc links in variable frequency drives.

The initial symptoms of degradation of insulation can be seen as discoloration of the insulation due to heating in the coils. As a result, insulation becomes brittle and cracks, permitting moisture ingress on cooling which results into further deterioration.

The expected life of a dry type transformer is approx 20 to 30 years.

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of determining the residual life of an old dry type transformer or a reactor. Therefore, standard industrial practice is to replace the equipment only after its failure. As per new safe electric work practices, electrical boards has made use of dry type transformers mandatory in commercial complexes particularly in basement. Another major reason of increased dry type technology is to replace the oil type concept which requires more maintenance and operational safety.

Low and medium voltage cables It is stranded aluminum or copper enameled conductor wrapped with insulation and weather-resistance jacket to provide mechanical strength.

The performance assessment of a cable’s electrical integrity and the estimation of its residual life are quite complex. A cable is a piece of equipment whose electrical characteristics degrades rapidly and progressively while in service primarily due to the development of air and gas pockets or voids inside the insulation due to thermal expansion and contraction. It is very common failure as underground cables are often laid inside water submerged pockets.

Mechanical properties of plastic jacket, dielectric insulator, metallic shield such as vulcanization, plasticity, elongation & conductivity are key characteristics of cable for its usage. Electrical integrity of the cable is verified by Hipot test and insulation resistance test. Residual life of the cable based upon these measurements is questionable. The conclusion drawn is that, in case the results are satisfactory, the cable is acceptable for immediate usage but with no guarantee of future satisfactory performance.

Recent trend is to replace the cables by insulated Bus trunking

or bus duct which offers good aesthetic lay-out, flexibility to make tap connections and electrical protection with MCBs/MCCBs. Electromagnetic protective relays In any electrical distribution system, over load, short circuit, over and under voltage, reverse power, over and under frequency and other protections are required. The useful life of electro-mechanical relay is upto 30 years and they are quite reliable. The major disadvantage is these relays lack communication & data storage capabilities which are very essential with the advancement in the field of electrical automation & communication. Microprocessor application specific integrated circuitry made advance relays are used widely these days which offer numerous smart features including SCADA compatibility & event recording memories.

Variable Frequency Drives & Uninterrupted Power Supplies- Variable frequency drives and uninterrupted power supplies comprise of various discrete components like Capacitors, IGBTs, Diode assemblies etc.

Life of the VFDs & UPS depends upon the least aged component out of them. With the modular type construction, it is feasible to repair the drives/power supplies by replacing the affected component only.

In the past many years, power electronics technology has advanced considerably.

Older version VFDs used to have silicon diodes, thyristors as the power devices and analog controls. These days, VFDs use IGBTs and similar power devices that have very rapid switching and low losses. Control circuits are smart based on microprocessor.

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unavailability of the replacement components determines the life cycle of VFDs and hence the criteria to replace during system renovation.

Electric motors - In a new motor, the strength of the insulation between turns is quite good which deteriorate due to high electrical stress developed particularly on starting.

Over time this strength reduces due to abrasion & contamination upto a level that can cause a inter turn failure. Life of an electrical motor can be upto 25years depending upon its duty cycle. High voltage spike travelling to motor circuit can be another strong reason of its winding failure.

Performance of a motor can be predicted by measuring its Polarization Index, Insulation resistance & high voltage test. Most common mechanical failures are due to rotor shaft misalignment which is triggered by end bearing failures.

Performance against mechanical faults can be enhanced by regular lubrication with Oil, grease & petroleum gel. Mechanical faults if not attended generates the circulated currents called Hysteresis & eddy currents in stator body.

Another type of mechanical failures are due to carbon brushes abrasion.

Electrical equipments to add during distribution network revamp While renovating an existing system, there is always some scope for improvement. The following items are worth to consider investigating.

Power monitoring systems (PMS)The energy saving is one of the key performance parameter across industry. The PMS being always ON, provides valuable information 24x7 on the energy usage pattern in the various areas of the facility as well

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as inadvertent outages, machine shut down, and trip alarms. PMS also provides information remotely from locations that are either not accessible or unsafe for the personnel to visit.

A monitoring system continuously surveys the reliability of the electrical equipment, ensures to keep the right level of power supply availability and slightly improves it.

At the same time it reduces the corrective maintenance cost because• It may prevent device failure by detecting abnormal trends of key performance indicators • It reduces the failure rates of the electrical devices, by adapting the level and the frequency of preventive maintenance to the level of stress of the real operating conditions Numerical relays - Even if the existing electromechanical relays are in working conditions, it is worthwhile to consider the feasibility of replacing them with numerical/electronics relays for greater reliability, flexibility of control, communications and monitoring, as well as specifically customized protection for specific equipment. Some of the problems posed by the electromagnetic relays may disappear with the numerical relays. Numerical relays have negligible burden on the current & Voltage transformers. High end protection & communication features are available in numerical relays including SCADA communication & event stamping.

Logical Discrimination (ZSI) ZSI is the characteristic of a wellcoordinated power system, where the protective devices are set to trip after increasing time delays in order to allow the downstream devices to trip first. In a zone selective electrical scheme, all protection

devices like relays, circuit breakers are set to operate at minimum time delay setting. The relay nearest to fault zone that detects the fault sends a hold/delay signal to the next upstream relay. In the absence of this restraining signal, all devices would trip at the end of the minimum time delay. This tripping characteristic is particularly desired for sensitive ground - leakage fault protection.

Arc detecting relay and arc resistant switchgear - As per OSHA & NFPA 70E Safety regulations, employee safety is most important while working and Electrical Safety auditing shall be conducted. Some numerical relays are now available that can detect arcing faults optically and open the breaker immediately. Optical sensing is done by an optical diffuser appropriately placed inside the switchgear or by a bare plastic fiber-optic cable laid in the switchgear. The sensing system is continually monitored by injecting light pulses created by a LED transmitter internal to protection relay.

Many manufacturers now a day offer internal arc-resistant LV and MV metal-clad switchgear. In this class of switchgear the expanding hot gases created by an arcing inside the switchgear are routed through vents and openings to the top of the switchgear, away from front doors, the side openings, and rear of the switchgear. The internal pressure is released by the vents and the flaps reducing chances of doors/ sides to blow.

Remote Control Panel - In many high voltage installations, the arc flash hazard cannot be limit to safe levels. For such applications, remote operations are made by mimic displays. Remote rack in and out of breakers is possible by the motorized Continue on page no.94

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charging mechanism. Remote ON/ OFF of the breaker is possible by locating the breaker control switch in the mimic display. Panel meters, load managers, power monitoring equipment, ON/OFF indicating LEDs, and lockout relays can be located in the mimic. The control panel can be located remotely either in the switchgear room or in the control room.

Investment Decision Making Criteria: Decision making process is based upon following factors – • Total Investment cost • Minimum cost of Long term ownership • Net Present Value • Return on Investment • Operation and maintenance cost existing installation

maintenance cost is highest in Useup option, investment cost is the least.

Value of availability: Maintenance intervals decide the cost involved with it. Mean time between failures & Mean time to repair are two parameters to determine the value of availability.

If not maintained at proper interval, electrical breakdowns may cause heavy losses to operations.

Value of allocation: Inventory management cost for spare parts and its holding cost can be as high as 25% of equipment cost.

So this shall be considered while making the option selection.

Value of Safety Health and Environment (EHS):

While working on above mentioned five scenarios, one must consider all the relevant cost factors involved Below are the key value drivers to calculate in decision making.

Value of depreciation: Different options have different life times & hence different periods for depreciations. Options like complete replacement offer highest rest value while retrofit & refurbishment has rest value only upto 25-50%.

References:

Average Cost variation with Aging

Value of maintenance cost:

Like unplanned availability, lack of EHS strategy may impose heavy penalties and uncompensated Human life losses. These factors bring additional cost of insurance in scenario.

Maintenance cost highly depends upon application, maintenance strategy & the option opted. Whereas

Conclusion: For electrical infrastructure equipment, the Net

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Present Value (NPV) is rarely positive. With the usage and handling, performance reliability of electrical drives and switchgears like Capacitors, Circuit breakers, Protection relays, Transformers, Motors and Batteries etc comes down. Within different replacement scenarios opportunities can be found to optimize present value. Refurbishment and retrofit techniques provide a range of options for economically improving safety and extending the life of switchgear. The best option depends on several parameters like cost of maintenance, breakdown losses, operational safety and initial investment. Analytical comparison of given options allow grid managers to identify the most suitable way of improving the performance of their electrical assets.

As a thumb rule, installations having majority of old equipments based on older technology giving issues like spares availability, high maintenance cost & down time shall be completely upgraded. Installations having partial old & partial new equipments shall be managed by retrofit or refurbishment. Regular attention need to be paid on preventive and predictive maintenance of a new installation.

1. Syed M. Peeran – Top ConsultingSpecifying Engineer Article, “Renovating electrical distribution systems”, May 2011 2. Mark Haarman & Guy Delahaye, “Value Driven Maintenance”, 2004, the Netherlands 3. J. Janssen - KEMA, “Life Management of Circuit breakers” ,CIGRE, 13-104, Paris, 2000 4. IEEE Goldbook, 1997

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TECH UPDATE

The need for (regulated) speed! – Joining hands for safer roads

I

ndia accounts for the highest

accidents is considerably higher. A

number of road deaths in the

study claims that there were 2153

world. The death rate for road

road-accident

traffic accidents per 100,000 people

Delhi – much higher than Bangalore

increased from 16.8 to 18.9 between

(832) which had the second highest

2009 and 2011, making it worse

number of deaths in 2010. Likewise,

than most high income countries,

in Mumbai, in 2010 alone, there

even higher than Pakistan, Nepal

were more than 2 deaths per day in

and Bangladesh.

in

At this rate, it

2010. Given a high number of working professionals in these regions,

would become fifth largest cause of

a collaborative effort between the

deaths in India by 2030,

Government, ensuring safe roads,

overtaking Diabetes and

and Corporate, ensuring safe driving

HIV.

is required.

50%

Number of road deaths in most

victims of the road acci-

of the developing countries has seen

dents belonged to the age

a decline or have stabilized, even

group of 25 to 65 years

as the sales of cars have jumped.

in 2011, which generally

Therefore, the rising number of

comprises the working

deaths in road accidents in India

population.

is a matter of serious concern. This

than

Therefore,

the financial loss, in ad-

brings us to an important question:

ditional to the personal

What causes Road accidents?

grief to the family, is also

A MoRTH (Ministry of Road

Estimates

Transport and Highways) report of

suggest that loss due to

2012 claims that about 78% of road

Road Accidents is more

accidents are due to drivers’ faults.

than 3% of the GDP,

Drunk driving, using mobile phones

much more than the total

while driving and over-speeding

spending on healthcare.

are among the major lapses which

substantial.

exponential

happen during driving. Seatbelts

increase in number of

and other precautionary measures

vehicles has made situ-

installed within a vehicle could

ation much worse. The

be extremely helpful in case of an

situation is even more

accident. It is estimated that wearing

critical in the metros. For

a seatbelt can reduce the chance of

example, in Delhi, given

death by as much as 50% in case of

a high automobile usage,

an accident. Among other minor

the casualties in road

causes of road accidents are faults

An

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is estimated, that Road accidents

More

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TECH UPDATE

in vehicles and weather conditions.

but has also laid down procedures in

including Training, Event Security,

Defect in vehicles cause about 1.6%

case of an accident to minimize any

Facilities Management, Port and

road accidents (2011), while adverse

subsequent loss. Under the initiative,

Aviation Security, Security Consul-

weather conditions contributed to

the focus would be on encouraging

tancy and Risk Management, Fire

1% of total road accidents.

use of seatbelts and helmets while

Audit, Central Monitoring Services,

An audit conducted by WHO in

driving. It also highlights the risks of

Garment/Uniform

2006 pointed to poor enforcement of

over-speeding, using mobile while

Recruitment & Placement, IT Ser-

laws regarding seatbelts and drunk

driving and drunk driving, not just to

vices and Asset Tracking.

driving. The audit rated India 2/10 in

the driver, but to other users of roads

enforcement of seatbelt while 3/10

and fellow passengers.

Manufacturing,

G4S is proud to have an impressive clientele in various sectors in-

for enforcement of drunken driving

To ensure the Road Worthiness

cluding business process outsourc-

law, lesser than that of Nepal, and not

of vehicles, a checklist for different

ing, retail, healthcare, infrastructure,

better than Pakistan and Bangladesh.

types of vehicles would be provided

IT, banking, diplomatic missions &

A more recent study, published in

to drivers to ensure that the risks of

embassies, residential, hospitality,

2011 claims that only 27% of drivers

malfunctioning are minimized. A

communication, port and aviation.

in India wear seatbelts.

standardized

Accident

Reporting

This is alarming for a country

format could provide valuable feed-

G4S WORLDWIDE:

which already has the dubious

back in terms of further customiza-

G4S Plc, largest employer quoted

distinction of having the highest

tion of program and identification of

on the London Stock Exchange

number of road deaths in the world.

room for further improvement. Such

with more than 618,000 employees

Training of drivers, especially for

initiatives are likely to help in raising

is a British multinational security

safety and precautions to be taken,

the awareness level of the drivers,

Services Company headquartered

is therefore extremely important,

and eventually mitigating the risks of

in Crawley, United Kingdom. It is

especially in large cities, which have

road-accidents and related deaths.

the world’s largest security company

While improving safety stan-

measured by revenues and has

While laws exist which make

dards of roads is important, any sig-

operations in around 125 countries.

wearing seatbelts/helmets manda-

nificant reduction in accidents can

G4S is the leading global integrated

tory, poor enforcement severely im-

only be achieved with concerted and

security company specializing in

pairs their capabilities in preventing

collaborative efforts from Govern-

the provision of security products,

such accidents and consequent ca-

ment (providing better roads), Cor-

services and solutions. The group is

sualties. Driving under influence of a

porate (better training for drivers)

active in more than 120 countries,

substance or without recommended

and individuals (greater awareness).

and has a secondary stock exchange

precautions does not only put driver,

Initiatives like Driving Force are like-

listing in Copenhagen.

but passengers and other street us-

ly to play a constructive role in mini-

ers at a significant risk. Similarly, en-

mizing the number road accidents.

a higher number of vehicles.

suring road worthiness of a vehicle before driving is critical in prevent-

About G4S:

ing accidents due to malfunctions in

Founded in 1989, G4S India is the

vehicles.

leading security solutions group in largest

the country. The company today has

security firm operating a fleet of

G4S,

more than 130,000 employees with a

approximately

vehicles

strong network of over 200 branches

worldwide, has taken the lead in

and regional offices spread through-

addressing Road safety concerns. Its

out India. Besides its core business

new initiative ‘Driving Force’ not only

of Secure Solutions, Security Sys-

For more inormation,

addresses key reasons for accidents,

tems, G4S offers a range of services

Web: www.g4s.com

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