 INTREPID
Tips For Smooth Operation
Sometimes people get too close
to their work to see the big picture.
Solving a particular technical
problem can be difficult, but if
you step back and look at it from
a different perspective, the solution
becomes obvious.
Mickey Bellot is someone who has
looked at industrial security from
a variety of perspectives. Working
as the industrial security manager
for Royal Services of Broussard,
Louisiana, Bellot has been a security
systems integrator for 17 years.
“We specialize in homeland
security projects around chemical
plants and refineries,” Bellot
says. “We’ve done work
with a variety of facilities, including
Dow, BASF and DuPont.”
Bellot
has used Southwest Microwave perimeter
security products for more than
14 years. He has quite a bit of
experience installing Southwest
Microwave’s INTREPID™ outdoor
perimeter security system. The
INTREPID MicroPoint system is a
fence-mounted intrusion detection
system that can pinpoint a disturbance
on the perimeter within 10 feet
(3 meters). Bellot integrates the
INTREPID system with CCTV cameras
so they automatically point to
an alarm disturbance.
“We can also do that with
external alarm devices, wireless
devices and some of the other microwave
sensors that are tied into the
INTREPID system,” Bellot
adds. “So this gives our
customers precise location of an
alarm and the camera automatically
points there immediately.”
Bellot has found several shortcuts
and best practices that he implements
for his customers with the INTREPID
system. Here are a few of his tips:
1.
Install your processor module
inside a building or guardhouse:
This simple method eliminates
having to run excess power or
data. It
also provides a nice controlled
environment to tie in your
relay modules, and it’s
easier to achieve proper grounding.
In
some cases, just moving the
processor module a few feet into
the guardhouse
will make installation a whole
lot easier.
2. Use USB ports with DB9 connectors:
Using these connectors makes
it easier to connect the processor
modules into the computer.
This is especially useful because
computers are now being manufactured
with more and more USB ports
and less serial ports.
3. Use pcAnywhere™ for
remote access with multiple
sites: Southwest Microwave’s
com port boxes work great with
one site. However, when monitoring
multiple locations, pcAnywhere
software makes remote access
simple and efficient.
4. Backup your data: This may
seem obvious, but making sure
your data is backed up is crucial
to a successful system. Making
sure computers have CD burners
is key, but memory sticks and
other portable memory devices
also work well.
These
tips are meant to help security
consultants
and security
systems integrators get the
most out of the INTREPID
MicroPoint system. If you have
any questions
about this article, please
e-mail Mickey Bellot at mickey@royalservices or call Southwest Microwave
at 1-800-587-5995.
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of Symantec.
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