“This is a strong fit for us because wire and cable plays an integral role in so many Honeywell systems,” said Ben Cornett, president of Honeywell Security. “It’s also the glue behind the connected home, so this nicely complements our recent acquisition of FutureSmart Systems. In its industry segment, Genesis is recognized as an innovator and has an exceptional reputation for providing quality and value.”
Genesis Cable has 270 employees at its office and factory in Pleasant Prairie, WI. The organization will be part of the Honeywell Security & Custom Electronics unit, which is a leading manufacturer of professional alarm systems and structured wiring products.
“We’re very excited to be part of Honeywell,” said Jim Coleman, president of Genesis Cable. “Our products provide the bandwidth that makes integration possible in homes and businesses. This will advance Honeywell’s strategy of bringing together security, fire, sound, home theatre, voice, data and energy management.”
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Pauline Norstrom, Marketing Manager at DM, said: “We are delighted to have been acknowledged in this way, particularly as the companies who receive the awards are both nominated and voted for by security installers – the people who really know about the level of service on offer. DM’s products already enjoy an unrivalled reputation for reliability and user-friendliness in the UK. Having made significant levels of investment into market-leading customer service, it is gratifying to see that installers are also appreciative of the technical advice and expertise we share with our customers.”
Andover Controls is a US market leader in providing building
controls and security services. The sale includes Andover
Controls, the core building automation business based in
Andover, Massachusetts, as well as Andover Controls’ security
division consisting of Security International and Integral
Technologies, in addition to Andover’s international subsidiaries
and affiliates. Andover Controls generated approximately
$US169 million of revenue and $US28 million of EBIT for the
year ended December 31, 2003.
Dave Wathen, President and CEO of the $US8 billion Balfour Beatty said: “The sale of Andover Controls is part of a process of focusing on, and of generating growth from, our core engineering and construction businesses. By repositioning our portfolio of businesses in the USA, Balfour Beatty will be able to more effectively target strategic sectors to our core business, improve our costs, effectiveness and overall ability to compete.”
“There has been significant consolidation in the US building management controls market in recent years, and the business requires a specialist owner in order to continue to compete successfully under the new market structure which is emerging.”
A member of the judging panel said, “…what iOmniscient has to offer is years ahead of anything else we have seen to date.” He went on to say that “…organizations should consider it their Duty of Care if they decide not to implement technology like this that could avert a disaster. People would tend to ask why an inexpensive but effective technology has not been deployed especially where innocent lives or major assets are at risk”.
The award was presented for the uniqueness and innovation of iOmniscient’s “Genius” product range. These products can detect if objects are placed in or removed from very crowded scenes (even when they are significantly obscured – hidden for a period of time) and can provide timely information to security officers, directly preventing disasters and major thefts from occurring.
iOmniscient was founded in 2001 to develop intelligent surveillance technologies and it has several patented detection algorithms. According to iOmniscient, it is the only company in the world that can offer a wide range of “high IQ” surveillance software including motion detection, object tracking, counting, behaviour tracking as well as left object detection in busy scenes, theft prevention in busy scenes, and graffiti and vandalism detection in busy scenes.
The preliminary annual report is based upon information from law enforcement agencies that provided the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program with 6 to 12 months of data in both 2002 and 2003. In total, 11,921 agencies met the criteria to be included in the preliminary report. Showing US crime falls in the period.
In order to gauge the level and types of violent acts occurring across the Nation, the UCR Program tracks the offenses of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault; collectively, these offenses form the violent crime category.
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A comparison of current data to those from 2002 indicates a decline in such crimes nationally. Among the violent offenses, only murder showed an increase during 2003, rising 1.3 percent from the previous year. Of those violent crimes that showed declines, aggravated assault had the largest drop at 4.1 percent; forcible rape and robbery each declined 1.9 percent from the prior year’s data.
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As US Crime falls and the national trend toward fewer violent crimes was reflected in the Nation’s cities, particularly those cities with more than 1 million inhabitants, which had a 6.5-percent reduction in violent crime compared to the 2002 statistics. Among all cities, only those with populations in the range of 50,000 to 99,999 reported any increase (0.7 percent).
Despite the decline in violent offenses overall, all city population groupings reported increases in the offense of murder. The rise was led by a 15.7-percent increase in homicides occurring in the smallest U.S. cities (those with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants) and a 10.8-percent rise in cities with populations in the 10,000–24,999 range. Cities with 1 million or more inhabitants had an increase in murder of 0.2 percent during the time period.
The UCR Program also collects data on the crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft to measure the level of crimes occurring in the Nation that involve loss of property; taken together, these offenses comprise the property crime category.
For 2003, the data indicated a slight decline, 0.1 percent, in overall property crime offenses compared to the prior year’s data. The decreases seen in larceny-theft (0.5 percent) were offset by increases in burglary (0.4 percent) and motor vehicle theft (1.4 percent). Go on a date with Ukrainian woman.
Total robbery (not street crime) is down by 12 per cent – includes robbery of personal property down by 11 per cent, and business property down by 25 per cent for April and May 2004 compared with the same period last year. Date a woman in dating tips. Meanwhile, residential burglary is down 9 per cent – that means 908 less household burglary victims.
The report says the global RFID market is being restrained by lack of established industry standards; however, the market generated revenue totaling $1.7 billion in 2003, with projected revenues of $11.7 billion by 2010.
“A more structured standards framework is necessary to enable better innovations in technology and product development,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Karthik Nagarajan.
“With the exception of electronic product codes (EPC), the industry is still fragmented in its choice of standards for emerging applications.”
Frost and Sullivan says that there’s strong demand in established applications such as toll collection, security and access control, and automobile immobilization. Meanwhile, RFID-based solutions are also being promoted by the initiative shown by the Department of Defense, Wal-Mart Stores, and others in adopting the technology and making tagging mandatory for their numerous suppliers. In Australia, Coles is also looking at RFID.
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