Security system helps utility stay competitive
Journal Article
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· Electric Light and Power
OSTI ID:81815
Atlantic Electric is saving more than $750,000 annually in security costs by using an innovative closed-circuit television (CCTV) system to guard its remote sites electronically. Today, a single guard in the central security control room at Atlantic Electric`s headquarters electronically surveys and controls some 20 remote sites such as combustion turbine sites, material storage, administrative facilities and operating centers. Protecting these sites are CCTV cameras mounted around each yard, floodlighting, and a motion detection and signal transmission system called Adpro SiteWatch by vsion Systems Inc. The SiteWatch system automatically displays to the central guard any intrusion at a site, and captures and replays the intrusion events similar to an instant replay in a televised sporting event. Over the five year transition, Atlantic Electric saved nearly $2 million in security costs.
- OSTI ID:
- 81815
- Journal Information:
- Electric Light and Power, Journal Name: Electric Light and Power Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 73; ISSN ELLPAJ; ISSN 0013-4120
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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