TRL Updates & Industry Insights
TRL Updates & Industry Insights Explore the latest news, innovations, project stories and industry perspectives from TRL Systems and the partners helping shape safer, smarter environments.
Security Project Highlight: Integrated Security System
TRL Systems, in partnership with Rosendin Electric, was chosen by the State Bar of California to install a comprehensive security system which includes access control, intrusion alarm, IP video and optical turnstiles.
Security Project Highlight: SSA Terminal B63 / Port of Oakland
TRL Systems was chosen by SSA Marine to demolish the TWIC system at the SSA Howard Terminal and reinstall/expand the TWIC Access Control System and Closed Circuit Television. TRL Systems Engineering and Sales Teams assembled a CCTV, Network Video Recording and TWIC Access Control system based on thorough site inspections and bid specifications.
Security Project Highlight: Union Bank Plaza
TRL Systems will install new AMAG and Avigilon servers and provide complete integration between the systems.
Security Project Highlight: University of Laverne
University of La Verne chose TRL Systems to install emergency phones and towers in and around the campus including:
• Towers with wireless devices
• VoIP Emergency phones
• System Software
• Transformer, power charging system, wireless transceiver
Is Your Video Surveillance Doing the Job?
...TRL security experts developed a real-time, cloud-based monitoring solution that ensures customers’ system cameras are up and running at all times. TRL’s managed service, called AlertPro, monitors the health and performance of IP/network-based platforms and proactively notifies clients of potential outages. It also provides immediate feedback of system/network failures that can lead to critical problems when neglected. TRL can monitor a range of devices and systems including networks, VMS (video management system), access control, and even patient monitoring/nurse call systems.
Security Project Highlight: Activision Offices
Activision chose TRL Systems to install a security management platform in its Southern California offices and asked TRL to act as project manager working with Activision’s vendor partners in various cities around the world including London, Ireland, Australia, Spain, Germany, France, Singapore and Hong Kong. TRL System is managing the enterprise system topography and remotely assisting in installing regional servers in North America, Europe and Asia.
Security Project Highlight: Kaiser Permanente
TRL Systems, partnering with Rosendin Electric, is providing the equipment and software for the access control, intrusion alarm, IP video and optical turnstiles.
Healthcare Project Highlight: Inpatient Tower Nurse Call System
TRL Systems partnered with Morrow Meadows Corporation to supply and program the Ascom Telligence nurse call system at Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center. Patient stations with a bed connection interface will be provided by along with pillow speakers that will control the respective television sets. Each pillow speaker will have 2 customized buttons which can be activated by a patient for pain meds or toilet use along with lighting control...
Making TWIC Work: TRL Systems Sets the Standard for Maritime Access Control at Port of Long Beach
In the decade plus since 9/11, the maritime industry has fallen short in closing the gap in port security as mandated by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA). Because of costs, integration issues and limited resources, ports have been slow to adopt the technology necessary to read the biometric data contained in the now ubiquitous Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)....To begin, the TRL Systems engineers worked with 3M to decipher code and capture the data that would be needed to make it work with the 3M cogent reader.
Five Steps to Safer School Campuses
School safety and security is a priority at TRL Systems, and one of our core areas of expertise. Our approach emphasizes a multi-layer security strategy with at least five key elements: Access Control, Video Monitoring, Alarms, Visitor Management and Communication.
Healthcare Project Highlight: Nurse Call System
TRL Systems will supply and install an Ascom Telligence nurse call system in the 94-bed Glenbrook Skilled Nursing Center. The system, which will allow future expansion, will be comprised of a patient station and Curbell pillow speaker with an audio jack for each bed. The stations will allow two-way communication between nursing staff and residents as well as staff emergency or assist calls directly to the nurse call station. In addition to Code Blue buttons, each bed will include four auxiliary jacks to accommodate a variety of equipment to be
monitored by the nurse call system and will annunciate an alarm if removed from the auxiliary plug.
When Employee Longevity Makes a Difference
With a history that goes back to 1981, the average tenure of a TRL employee is 5.5 years. Those 220 or so employees are led by an impressively tenured management team with upwards of two and three decades of TRL industry experience themselves....Who benefits the most from that longevity? TRL System’s customers....In fact, facilities often call upon TRL to maintain older, obsolete systems with which other less-tenured teams have no experience....That was the case when global shipping giant SSA Marine needed someone to clean up its existing security system...
Tech Tools to Keep the Flu Out of Your Hospital This Season
Controlling the spread of influenza requires a multi-pronged infection control strategy....Increasingly, hospitals are turning to interactive patient engagement tools to manage pandemics like influenza through the use of site-wide notification.
Collect Generosity = Safer Schools
A look at the Baden-Powell Project associated with the 2015 ASIS Convention in which TRL partnered with vendors to spearhead an charitable installation project: a VMS for an elementary school in Anaheim, CA.