BEI Security announces Secure Corrections Mesh™
Cost effective wireless mesh surveillance system for correctional facilities focused on significantly reducing operating costs, ROI achieved in 6 to 8 months for most facilities.
July 7, 2010, Houston-based BEI Security (www.BEISecurity.com) announced today the availability of SecureCorrectionsMesh™, a secure wireless detection and surveillance system capable of streaming data and video to command stations and mobile rapid response units for correctional facilities. Correctional facilities can convert 50% to 75% of manned guard towers to unmanned towers by installing the system, providing significant measurable annual budget savings. The installed system also benefits correctional facilities struggling to hire enough correctional officers by reallocating resources to other higher priority needs.
SecureCorrectionsMesh™ system allows surveillance in areas previously impossible to cover due to either distance or line of sight issues. The system can be deployed quickly due to its wireless communications architecture. The wireless communications architecture also means it can be expanded and reconfigured quickly. The mesh architecture of the network naturally provides for maximum up-time through network redundancy.
SecureCorrectionsMesh™ system runs on a private wireless 4.9GHz network unseen to outsiders/public devices, ensuring high security. Data, alerts, and video are routed on the wireless mesh network to the Command Station or to Mobile Rapid Response Units. Mobile Rapid Response officers can look at video from any camera at any time. In case of detection, a vehicle can be quickly deployed to the area and the officer can be further directed through the use of video. The command station can also manage the detection situation, while continuously utilizing live video, as the rapid response unit moves to the location. The command station can also provide an additional layer of deterrence in a detection situation through video monitoring and, where equipped, two-way audio.
BEI Security (www.beisecurity.com), founded in 1982, is a business security product and services company with three focused divisions:
- BEI Interactive Remote Surveillance - Nationwide business security video monitoring service featuring real-time video with two-way audio and staffed with off-duty police officers.
- BEI Products - Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems. High Security Perimeters for Commercial, Industrial, Homeland Security, Military, and Marine Environments.
- VUGate™ Is the founder and proven leader of video visitation solutions and services for the corrections industry. VUGate™ has over 5000 visitation stations installed across the nation at all levels - federal, state, county and municipal/city.
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BEI's IRS uses off-duty police to monitor video
New dealer program offers video monitoring with 'zero false alarms'
By Daniel Gelinas - 04.01.2010
STAFFORD, Texas—BEI Security, based here, on March 9 announced the formation of a new division and the launch of an attendant dealer network. The new division, BEI Interactive Remote Surveillance, a nationwide video monitoring service featuring real-time video with two-way audio and staffed with off-duty police officers as intervention specialists in official police uniform, promises on its website to deliver “zero false alarms.”
BEI president David Iffergan said he felt BEI’s IRS offering was unique in the industry and would give dealers the value of free training and RMR, and end users the value of eliminated false alarms. “We just put the dealer program together this year and put it on the web, so dealers who want to join can, and we offer them training for free on how to sell this,” Iffergan said. “If we see somebody—a kid who’s not supposed to be there—we can come over the speaker and say, ‘Hey you with the blue shirt and the short pants, what are you doing?’ And they usually disappear. If we see someone there who obviously has bad intent, we don’t come over the speaker, we just dispatch the police and guide them to the exact location of the invader and get them caught.”
An IRS employee who wished to be cited only as Officer Thomas, a sergeant from an area police department, said IRS employs officers—some off-duty and some retired—from several different police departments. Further, he said his desire for semi-anonymity stems from an unofficial policy called “no tell, no smell.” Thomas said it was important for officers to work off-duty jobs they want—not always official, police chief-approved extra jobs. “The chief wants to set policies on what they call EJs—extra jobs. The guys have a thing—officers in Texas and elsewhere—you just don’t tell where you’re working in off hours and that way you don’t fall under their policy one way or the other because they haven’t signed off on it. So what happens is—everybody’s getting paid $35 an hour for EJs and the chief says, ‘If everybody’s getting paid $35 an hour, I want you to work my EJs.’ So we say, ‘I’ll work for BEI and I just don’t tell anybody else.’”
Iffergan said intervention by IRS agents was a real differentiator. “In some situations, we can do two-way video—like in a convenience store or a bank—behind the teller or cashier we have a 40- or 50-inch plasma screen. All the staff at our center are police officers who know how to handle situations like this, and they’ll throw their image up on the screen and will talk to the robber.” Iffergan said the “presence” of a live, untouchable authority figure dressed in official police uniform, observing and talking the perpetrator down is often enough to diffuse the situation.
Asked if there were any legal issues that could spring from off-duty officers wearing their uniforms and representing themselves as police through interactive audio and video as part of a private enterprise, industry attorney Les Gold of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp said, possibly. “There’s nothing wrong with an off-duty police officer working in private enterprise as long as he’s allowed to do it by his municipality. The issue is, are they working in any way in conjunction with their city or holding themselves out to be police officers of their city?” Gold said. “If they wear their own uniforms, it could be an issue because it could be misrepresentation.” Thomas said there should be no issue since IRS uniforms, while real police issue, are generic and do not affiliate IRS intervention specialists with any particular police department.
BEI has two other divisions: BEI Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems for commercial, industrial, homeland security, military, and marine environments, and VUGate, a provider of video visitation solutions and services for the corrections industry.
Single Mode Fiber Optic to Protect up to 36 Miles Perimeter Security
Coming Soon!
These are some of the inventions BEI Security has pat
We not only distribute products, we have the patent, we invented our products. Some our patents are:
- Fiber Optic Security Fence US 7,123,785 B2
- Fiber Optic Cable Fastener US 7,245,810 B2
- Marine Gate Fiber Optic Security Fence US 8,182,175 B2
- Reinforced Marine Fiber Optic Fence US 8,928,480 B2 and UK GB 2478861
- Marine Fiber Optic Security Fence US 8,537,011 B2
- Among many more
For years BEI Security has developed numerous
patents to further improve the security of our clients:
Products such as:
Single Mode Fiber Optic to Protect up to 36
The following describes the operation of a single mode fiber sensor cable to locate instruction attempts along a perimeter of a fence or oil or gas pipe line.
The laser light is sent from both ends of fiber one at 1550nm and the other end at 1310nm to their respective receivers. When the fiber is either struck or vibrated the resulting disturbance is received by both receiver except the time when at which each receiver responds is the propagation delay of the fiber. This results in a time difference between the two receivers that represents the location on the fiber where the attempt occurred.
The following is a diagram of the fiber and controllers.
Fiber Sensor ZPU controller Interconnects
RLTD Reflected Light Time Differential
