As technology continues to advance, portable security devices have become an increasingly important and useful tool in executive protection and general security.
A bill introduced by the New York City Council will force every taxi and livery car in New York City to have a panic button that riders could use to hail police.
This line of IP-based “panic” solutions can be used to instantly and discreetly summon police or security via a wide variety of methods – IP phones, auto-calls to mobile devices and handheld radios, desktop pop-ups, base stations and software.
The Transportation Security Administration recommended that armed law enforcement officers be posted at airport security checkpoints and ticket counters during peak hours after a review of nearly 450 airports nationwide after last year’s fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport.
Mass notification has become a key element of campus safety and security. John Dellacontrada, assistant vice president of media relations at the University of Buffalo, New York, says he sought a “solution that we could deploy quickly and consistently, one that would work on desktop and mobile devices to get a message broadcast via various ways and that could work with our existing emergency public address system.”
In long-term or assisted living facilities, patients often spend time in the facilities’ courtyards or gardens, and this life safety and security hardware system is designed specifically for those applications.
Operators of the biggest hotels in New York City have agreed to a long-term contract that will give hotel housekeepers and other employees personal panic buttons.
