by Liz Karson | Nov 21, 2017 | Wedge Vehicle Barriers
HySecurity, a regular ECI supplier, posted this video last year showing the effectiveness of one of their vehicle wedge barriers in stopping a truck. It is worth a second look following our discussions about the effectiveness of vehicle wedge barriers. Watch through...
by Liz Karson | Nov 16, 2017 | Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems
I have written prior about two of the components of a parking access and revenue control system (PARCS). These were the Entry Terminals as well as the Exit Terminals. Another component of a complete parking and access control system is the parking lot’s Pay on...
by Liz Karson | Nov 14, 2017 | Vehicle Gate Maintenance
Entrapment is a derivative of the verb entrap, which means to be caught in a trap. Vehicular gate systems have areas where people can possibly be trapped and injured by a gate moving to either an open or a closed position. These are called entrapment areas. For...
by Liz Karson | Nov 9, 2017 | Counter Terrorism
I had a brief discussion just last week with a retired local electronic security expert. We discussed how difficult it is to convince people and businesses to be pro-active in security matters to try to mitigate disasters. Their attention, and dollars, is more easily...
by Liz Karson | Nov 2, 2017 | Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems
Hertz Rent A Car on north State Street in Chicago had a problem with their vehicle traffic control spikes earlier this year. The site is on a lower floor in a parking garage where they store about 20-30 vehicles. Their existing manual and automated spike units were...
by Liz Karson | Oct 31, 2017 | Automatic Swing Gates
I recently watched this video supplied by HySecurity, a manufacturer we use here at ECI. It shows three sets of swing gates installed for the United Nations building in New York for their entry and exit gates. There are a number of interesting take aways for this...
by Liz Karson | Oct 19, 2017 | Wedge Vehicle Barriers
Wedge vehicle barriers are one of several types of barriers and components of a well designed active vehicle barrier system. They pivot up from the pavement surface to form a wedge shaped barrier to block traffic flow. (See photo above compliments of Nasatka...
by Liz Karson | Oct 17, 2017 | Parking Access and Revenue Control Systems
Exit terminals (as shown to the left) are an integral part to a PARCS (Parking Access and Revenue Control System). They are almost always combined with automatic barrier gates and vehicle detection loops (or other sensors) and found near the exit lane(s) from the...
by Liz Karson | Oct 12, 2017 | Automatic Barrier Gates
This video from Thailand’s Zenith Security Solution Company, Ltd. shows the basics of how a vehicle barrier gate system operates. The car rolls up to the red reader and is stopped by the automated barrier gate. Note: The reader is shown on the left side since...
by Liz Karson | Oct 10, 2017 | Vehicle Access Control
Active vehicle barriers (AVB) are generally used at critical access control or entry locations. These active barriers have moveable parts, some of which, or most all of the parts, are power assisted. The systems are manually or mechanically operated to allow or...
