by Liz Karson | Sep 20, 2018 | Automatic Barrier Gates
ECI was recently called upon to add barrier gates at Triton College in River Grove, IL. The barrier gates were needed to control unauthorized access and egress along a horseshoe road traversing around the college’s multi-purpose and football field. The challenge...
by Liz Karson | Sep 18, 2018 | Vehicle Access Control
Late last week Breitbart news in London reported that a suspect tried to attack a group of people with a white Peugeot vehicle in Nimes, France. No one was killed but two pedestrians were injured, neither seriously. The counter terrorism barriers or bollards installed...
by Liz Karson | Sep 13, 2018 | Counter Terrorism
Debate is presently taking place in the United Kingdom surrounding the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill 2017-19. This bill is in response a speech given by Queen Elizabeth on June 21, 2017. In it the Queen requested a review of the UK’s...
by Liz Karson | Sep 4, 2018 | Automatic Barrier Gates
This past March we wrote two articles about our solution to a challenge at the Oak Brook Club in Oak Brook, IL. We initially wrote a blog article entitled “Oak Brook Club Alerts Residents of Mail at Barrier Gates”. Later that month we wrote “Resident Mail Alert...
by Liz Karson | Aug 28, 2018 | Perimeter Security Vehicle Protection
The seven guidelines in designing a perimeter security system for cars and trucks from this older article still hold true. It was published in 2011 on Campus Safety Magazine – Hospital/School/University. The title is “Your Crash Course on Creating a Vehicular...
by Liz Karson | Aug 23, 2018 | Security Bollards
I viewed the video of last week’s vehicle attack at the House of Parliament outside the Palace of Westminster (England). The Telegraph News In London, England reported it last week in an article: “Westminster ‘terror attack’: Driver arrested after...
by Liz Karson | Aug 16, 2018 | Security Bollards
The Raptor retractable bollards shown above were recently installed by ECI at the Federal Reserve in Chicago. They provide crash rated, anti-ram security even when installed as a single unit and offer quiet and smooth operations. The bollards are a shallow mount...
by Liz Karson | Aug 9, 2018 | Automatic Barrier Gates
Last year ECI installed new barrier gates for Lutheran General Hospital (now part of Advocate Health Care) in Park Ridge, IL. The hospital added some floors to their parking garage which included nested parking for physicians. Nested parking is an exclusive,...
by Liz Karson | Aug 7, 2018 | Perimeter Vehicle Control
ECI specializes in perimeter vehicle control which is an important aspect of overall the outdoor perimeter security. Although dated an article “The 5 D’s of Outdoor Perimeter Security” that appeared in Security Magazine in 2012 is still relevant to many areas of ECI...
by Liz Karson | Aug 2, 2018 | Residential Gated Community
Earlier this week I wrote about repair work and new installations ECI did for the Village Green of Lincolnshire in 1917. Village Green is a residential gated community in Chicago’s northwest suburban area. I also want to to mention ECI also installed an...
