Winners of International Awards for Security Products Announced

The winners of the 2005 Detektor International Award for security innovations.

Consulting-Specifying Engineer - November 2, 2005

The winners of this year's Detektor International Award were honoured recently in Stockholm, Sweden. More than three hundred guests gathered at the Stockholm Globe Arena complex for the ceremony.

In total, twelve security products were nominated in the categories of CCTV, alarm and access control products. The Detektor International Award Prize was initiated to reward and encourage research and development within the field of technical security systems.

U.S. manufacturers were well represented with five nominated products. Two products were from South Korea and the Netherlands, Israel, Germany, Sweden and Great Britain were represented with one product each.

Products were divided into three groups: alarms, camera surveillance (CCTV) and access control. The overall winner in each category received the award for "Best Product," the second received the "Highly Commended" distinction and third place was presented with the diploma for "Innovative Achievement."

The Best Access Control Products

In the Access Control category, the Innovative Achievement Award went to Swinglane, a new security gate from the Dutch Boon Edam. This award was shared with Suprema from South Korea for the BioEntry, a series of advanced biometrics readers combining finger print reading with a smart card.

The Boon Edam Swinglane combines the advantages of a swing door together with a long detection lane providing tailgating prevention and greater user comfort.

The fascinating BioEntry series of core technology advanced biometrics access control readers, from Suprema, offer superb versatility with the options of BioEntry Smart for fingerprint and smart card combined for 1-to-1 ID, or BioEntry Pass for 1- to- many ID in under 1 second.

Guardian, a portal for detection of explosives from the American Syagen was presented with the Highly Commended Access Control Product award. The Guardian is an unintrusive, exceptionally effective and fast, head to toe explosives detection portal, capable of impressively high resolution screening for over 30 different types of explosives simultaneously using the latest MS analysis technology.

The first prize, for the Best Access Control Product went to the R90, a proximity smart card reader from the American world leader in proximity cards and readers as well as in smart cards, the Assa Abloy Group company HID Corp.

The new high secure R90 from HID is the first internationally approved self contained long range contactless smart card reader, it is capable of reading distances up to an impressive 18 inches, and has auto-tuning for more consistent reading ranges.

Designed for access control installations incorporating parking and long range reading applications, the R90 combines a longer read range with enhanced security through encryption and mutual authentication standard with HID iCLASS 13.56 MHz contactless smart card products.