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Article: Eye on your enterprise: how PSIM is enabling executives to manage operations, events, response and metrics.(physical security information systems)(Cover story)
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- Security
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- June 1, 2009
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Say hello to a new buzz phrase. Don't be afraid. This one's all business, but comes with brains, brawn and a dash of cost savings after an initial investment.
Physical security information systems (PSIM) are in a new security technology class that combines diverse physical security sensors and devices and completely manages them from a single platform.
The concept is evolutionary.
What's happening is that, as physical security infrastructures continue to grow, the need to manage these infrastructures becomes even greater and more complex. First view the traditional security environment: There are a host of ...