Orsus Situator to be deployed at water supplier facilities
of its scalability, flexibility and ability to integrate with multiple subsystems without major cost and design criteria,” said Ian Francisco, chief technology officer for Unlimited Technology, the engineering and systems integration firm that selected and implemented the solution. According to the security director at the water company, it needed a high-level solution to accomplish its security goals and bring its systems and security policy and procedures together. Phase one of the project involves integrating its access control, video surveillance, and digital video recording into a single platform. The second phase of the project will integrate the water company’s perimeter based fence detection, underground seismic sensors, and thermal imaging systems.
Orsus highlights the fact that by deploying Situator, the customer gains a scalable platform that can handle its growing security infrastructure and any future regulatory compliance mandated by the government for the water industry. The company can integrate incident reporting, simulate security related events for training purposes, and deploy system analysis tools to provide a comprehensive security approach. Situator also enables the customer to train personnel on a single security platform and significantly decreases the training time needed since the system can walk an operator through the necessary steps to follow in the event of an alarm. “Orsus is excited to be working with one of the largest water producers in the United State and Unlimited Technology to provide a Situation Management solution that will meet its security needs today and in the future,” said Orsus’s Gal Oron. “Critical infrastructure facilities now demand an integrated security approach and Situator provides a scaleable, yet easy-to-use solution.”
The company describes the Situator solution as a security and safety situation management software for integrated control rooms. It creates an environment in which all current and future technologies, people, and actionable procedures are fused into a unified control and management platform. Situator ties in with legacy systems and its intelligent video allows security personnel to focus on what the company calls “exception management.” The solution comes with advanced planning tools, helping “transform routine and emergency plans into actionable, adaptive tasks and procedures and integrate them with virtually any security and safety devices, management systems, dynamic data sources and communication systems,” the company says.
More on Orsus
Since we are on the subject of Orsus, we note that a week ago the company announced a strategic partnership with Omaha, Nebraska-based Adesta, a systems integrator and project management company for communication networks and electrical security systems (for more on Adesta, see this HSDW story). The alliance between the two companies began last year and combines Orsus’s Situator with Adesta’s systems integration expertise. Adesta developed a name for itself as one of the leading systems integrators in the security market, and has completed more than 800 electronic security systems in the United States and around the world. Since the alliance began, Orsus and Adesta have implemented several projects together, including a project involving American Electric Power, a large U.S. electric utility. “Adesta is interested in working with technology partners who are going to be with us 100 percent in the foxhole, so to speak,” said Rob Hile, vice president of business development at Adesta. “We consider Orsus to be that type of partner. We recognize that command and control situational awareness is the next wave of integrated specialties.”
Here is another indication of the close cooperation between the two companies: Gal Oron, President Americas, Orsus, is giving a talk today together with Adesta’s Hile at the International Security Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas. Their presentation is titled “Managing the Overload of Information in Control Rooms.”
* In two weeks we will publish a discussion of SimGuard, developed by Lod-based Rontal.
