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show. And her job is to sell American ports and terminals her ISS Enterprise, comes with built-in Native Failure functionality, Mi- access control systems; either to improve the performance of the crosoft Active Directory / LDAP integration, and has an extensive ones the ports now use, or to replace legacy systems. Florida’s set of Cyber security features making it one of the most reliable ports are an early target. and secure video management platforms in the market today

And, she was ready to talk business: “We do VMS (Vehicle man- The Enterprise system manages an unlimited number of cam- agement systems). And what we do is we actually have analytics eras, servers, access control devices, and analytic modules. Se- – a lot of analytics – we have high-end analytics that run on neural curOS Enterprise has no limits and can handle any network re- networks. And one of the analytics we have is container recogni- gardless its size.

tion. We are able to even actually able to check in containers at Its most popular analytics include License Plate Recognition, ports four times as fast, with our system, than an individual person.” Facial Recognition, Container Number Recognition, Object “It will grab the license plate recognition it will grab the ‘VIN” Tracking / Unattended Object Detection, People Counting, etc. number and it will grab every number off the container. It will Project based custom analytics are available.

even do a visual inspection of what the container looked like when it came in, for liability purposes. And we also have a chas- Port Security: High Tech and Evolving sis recognition that allows us to capture the license plate and the Port security has evolved considerably since the attacks of 9/11. chassis number,” she added. Millions of dollars in federal port security grants have helped “We also are really good for weight stations, making sure that to elevate not only physical security at the nation’s ports along the weight is coordinated to the tag number and the license plate 95,000 miles of coastline, but also the sophistication of those ar- they have,” Fenner said. rangements. PORTCON was one place to see many of those se-

Asked if these analytics had been approved by FEMA for grant curity options on display.

funding she replied, “It is United States based technology. We ISS and ESI Convergent were just two of many ?rms at the have been doing this for many years. “We do actually ports glob- PORTCON event. A partial roster looked something like this: ally. We just recently have done the port in Montreal. We have

Name of FirmBusiness SectorsWEB site done ports in Brazil; all over the world.”

We then asked if the analytics can interface with other systems

Id Software

Security Softwarewww.idsoftware.us/

Security and she said, “ISS systems can be integrated with access control systems, ?re and life safety, and can be made compatible with

G4S SoftwareSecurity, Risk, System Integrationwww.g4s.com/en-us virtually any third-party security equipment.”

Vetted Solution Safety Equipment / Turnkey Solutions www.vettedsolution.com/

It turns out that the scienti?c and experimental potential of

Boon EdamTurnstyles / Entrance Securitywww.boonedam.us/ the company was based on fundamental research in neural net- works, pattern recognition, and robotic control systems, initially

AvigilonVideo Securityhttp://avigilon.com/ conducted in the aerospace industry, and in ?exible, automated

ESI ConvergentPhysical & Cyber Securitywww.esiconvergent.com/ production systems.

ISSVideo Securityhttps://www.issivs.com/

Today, over 120,000 deployments using Intelligent Security

System technology are employed in 53 countries. The products are implemented in banks, of?ce complexes, industrial and man- ufacturing sites, retail locations and supermarkets, petrochemical processing facilities, marinas, sports arenas, casinos, hospitals, schools and ports.

ISS has patented object-oriented event driven core ?rmware,

Delta Wavelet video compression, intelligent video motion de- tection and digital video recognition capabilities. It has working relationships with major global players such as IBM, Axis Com- munications, Bosch Security, Anixter, Hanwha Techwin and Dell.

The company has an ascending load of properties it sells. A top ranked one is called SecurOS Enterprise. This ISS’ global stan- dard for video management, access control and video analytics,

Rick Eyerdam

The Author

SecurOS Enterprise is suited for managing large and demanding is a Miami-based, national award-winning journalist and editor. installations.

He is a former editor of Florida Shipper Magazine and has served

The Enterprise framework can manage and monitor an unlim- as an adjunct professor of communications at Florida International ited number of cameras and devices, apply intelligent video ana-

University. Eyerdam graduated from Florida State University with lytics, and act as an integration platform for a variety of 3rd party a double major in English Literature and Government. His articles have appeared in myriad maritime publications. systems. Built to handle enterprise level deployments, SecurOS www.maritimelogisticsprofessional.com 31

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