Released on: September 3, 2008, 5:01 am

Press Release Author: T.A

Industry: Electronics

Press Release Summary: The Korean national currency plant has implemented a
comprehensive solution that includes a sophisticated access control system with
fingerprint and iris biometric readers

Press Release Body: Seoul, Korea, September 2, 2008 – DDS, a leading manufacturer of
access control and alarm management solutions, announces that its solution has been
selected to monitor access control and alarm monitoring of the Komsco national
currency plant. Komsco, located in South Korea, mainly prints banknotes and coins
for its own market and for other European countries as well.

The two main security concerns of currency plants have to do with storing huge
amounts of money before their transfer to central banks, and keeping secret their
manufacturing know-how. The risks of robbery, violence and extortion of key
employees, and the evolving threat of counterfeiting have made physical security a
primary issue for currency manufacturers. Komsco sought a solution to enhance the
security and safety of its premises and employees as well as ensuring manufacturing
confidentiality.

The access control requirements of such sites are considerable. There are many
different types of control points, so that in addition to standard door controls,
the system must also control access to more specialized areas, such as highly
secured rooms containing currency moulds or trade secrets of banknotes. These
requirements made it essential to have an advanced access control system,
fingerprint and iris biometric readers, and integration with CCTV system part of the
tender issued.

Several international security companies competed for this project, but after
evaluating various enterprise solutions, Komsco decided to implement solutions from
DDS. The combination of DDS’s TPL controllers with Keico biometric readers, which
provide control over ‘who goes where’ and restrict access to non-authorized
personnel, was selected by Komsco as the most suitable.

Biometric integration is a standard feature of DDS’s Amadeus 5 software. Template
management (enrolment, download) and reader configuration are easily defined
directly from Amadeus 5. For better security, an alarm will pop up if an authorized
user put another finger (or from the other hand) than defined during the enrolment.
DDS\' software was also integrated with the Pelco CCTV system. Komsco now benefits
from access control and CCTV – but with only one piece of software to monitor, thus
eliminating the need for traditional hardware such as video matrix switches,
multiplexers and quads. On the log screen, any event with supporting video footage
is displayed with a camera icon. Clicking on the icon brings up automatically the
footage in a separate window. Every recorded video is independently saved in Amadeus
5 and can be viewed even in case of DVR failure.

In addition to substantially increasing their level of security, employees
appreciate the convenience of never having to worry about keeping a track of a card
or key. DDS reports that Komsco is pleased with the results of the new access
control system and is confident that the application is effectively controlling the
premises.





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Contact Details: Thierry Attal
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