The benefits of Intelli-M

source: infinias.com

Intelli-M Access from infinias – Simple. Secure.

Intelli-M Access delivers a highly scalable, browser based interface with a server that can be virtualized and fit easily into any IT infrastructure. Manage multiple locations and access your system from anywhere on your network, including over a VPN.

Let’s look at the benefits of an Intelli-M system:

Today’s organizations depend heavily on their networks. As a result, considerable planning and investment is made in ensuring that the infrastructure is secure, reliable and well managed. By moving as many applications to that infrastructure, an organization can leverage the investment cost across those applications. Security should be no exception.

To that end, door controllers should be installed out near the door to minimize customer door wiring and they should communicate seamlessly across the corporate network.

Software solutions that are browser based allow an organization to run the solution from any workstation on the network without the headache of installing, managing updates or worrying about which computers it should be installed on. Particularly for security, being able to access the system immediately from anywhere can be very important.

With a highly capable single door power over Ethernet (PoE) door controller, custom wiring for the door hardware is kept as short as possible, and network cable runs from the controller to the nearest switch minimizing the cost of installation and complexity of management.

Intelli-M Access delivers a highly scalable, browser based interface with a server that can be virtualized and fit easily into any IT infrastructure. Manage multiple location and access your system from anywhere on your network, including over a VPN.

- Intelli-M Access is available wherever and whenever you need it via web-browser with no client installation. Manage Intelli-M Access from anywhere you can run a standard browser that supports JavaScript, e.g., most computers and smart-phones, such as Apple’s iPhone.

- View events and alarms, generate reports and monitor the status of devices using the simple yet powerful user interface from within most popular web browsers.

- Configuring doors is a snap with templates and pre-installed defaults that simplify the process, helping get an installation up and running in minutes.

- The People tab makes finding users simple with its visual formatting and search field that allows you to type in one place, but be searching on all important fields at once. This makes dinding one cardholder in a large system a breeze.

- Print Badges from the people page or in bulk from the reports page.

- Design and build badges and reports using Microsoft’s Report Builder: a free design tool.

- Use advanced features such as Lock all Doors and Momentary Unlock to safely and easily manage a site. All these functions can be performed remotely using a smart-phone or lap-top for convenience and peace of mind.

- Create as many Schedules as you like with an easy click and drag interface. Holiday sets are quickly and easily built with a point and click. Associate them together and your system knows when to unlock the door and when not to.

- Intelli-M Access uses a highly scalable architecture to deliver access control for installations of any size.

- The Intelli-M Access Import Utility provides a simple interface to import Supervisor Plus cardholder information or read a .CSV or .XML file to bulk load card-holders and their badge images into the system.

- Multiple security roles allow you to decide if a card-holder should be able to log on to the system and what they will be allowed to do.

Putting it all Together

1. Start with a base kit, S-BASE-KIT includes the software DVD, five clamshell cards and the security key.
2. Add doors using door kits. We have two great door kits to offer. Both include standard Wiegand 26 bit readers. The S-DOOR-KIT-WX includes an XceedID XF1050 Mini-Mullion reader. The S-DOOR-KIT-WH includes an HID 6005 ProxPoint Plus reader.
3. If you do not have PoE, use the S-PCON-PS at each door to inject power. The new PCON includes the DC adapter.
4. Choose between clamshell or printable PVC cards that work with the readers in either door kit. Clamshell: P-XCID-7410 Printable: P-XCID-7510
5. Add a printer for professional looking badges. Choose from great quality low or high volume printers by Magicard. MC-200 Single/Double sided Low Volume Printer: A-BDG-3633-0003 Rio 2e Single Sided with Feeder for high volume: A-BDG-M9006-749E

A Quick Summary:

- Fully intelligent, all decisions are made at the door for quick response and full redundancy.

- Four inputs are provided for door contacts, PIR, exit buttons, Alarm panel inputs and other sensors.

- Web mode for complete control of a single door makes a small installation a snap. Just browse to the controller.

- AES 128-bit encryption from controller to server.

- One CAT5 cable from the nearest switch to the door power the controller and door hardware.

- Supports one door with one or two wiegand readers or readers with keypads.

- Form C Relay for Mag-Locks and other locks requiring more power than the eIDC can provide directly.

- Two open collectors powered via PoE for the strike.

- Buffering of up to 16,000 events when disconnected from the host so events are never lost.

- UL 294 Approved (when installed according to directions).

A new experiment in using human waste as fuel.

source: dailyfinance.com

Frank Sinton thinks human waste is highly underrated -- and highly profitable. A tech entrepreneur and the founder of PMC BioTec, Sinton pounds the table for the benefits of better processing of biowastes as not only environmentally sound but also good business. And he has the technology to prove it. His company and others are on the leading edge of a new generation of companies trying to improve the way society deals with biosolids, also known as sludge.

America spends $5 billion a year dealing with sludge. Biosolids producers pay hundreds of dollars a ton to remove it, quickly filling landfills or other means of disposal, Sinton said on Sept. 15 at the AlwaysOn Going Green Conference in Sausalito, California. The scope of the globe's sludge problem is mindboggling. Every year, cattle feedlots produce more than 150 million tons of animal waste; the U.S. and Europe together generate 40 million tons of sludge from sewage treatment; and food production waste weighs in at a staggering billion tons per year.

Companies working on these types of technologiesBeyond being socially unpalateable, sludge often contains elevated levels of toxic heavy metals such as lead, nickel, and cadmium, which cause serious health problems even at low levels of absorption into groundwater or farm soil. The technology used to extract the metals from sludge lets companies create "organic fertilizer" from biosolids, but environmentalists vehemently oppose such efforts. (When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, she sparked a political brouhaha when the soil showed detectable levels of lead, attributed to contaminated sludge fertilizer.)

Other, harder-to-destroy substances found in common sludge include the prions believed to cause "mad cow disease," and endocrine-disrupter compounds: complex chemicals that interfere with human hormones. Europe has instituted a ban on putting organic waste in landfills.

That's where Sinton and PMC hope to step in. His $2 million machine is like a giant Port-a-Potty that takes in sludge, mixes it with bacteria, or renders the organic matter into methane gas, an energy source that can offset the high power requirements of many biosolid treatment facilities. Such facilities are among the largest consumers of electricity in many large cities.

Another process, AquaCritox, cooks sludge in a special pressurized vapor chamber at temperatures above 705 degrees Farenheit. The process provides enough heat to produce 2 megawatts of power, using heat-transfer devices and other standard power-generation equipment. The process's byproducts are carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water; heavy metals are collected in a fine ash and can be recycled for industrial use.

While not as sexy as solar-energy power companies like Ausra or electric-vehicle darlings like Tesla Motors, companies looking into waste-energy technologies. But the mandate to deal with sludge in a more ecofriendly and economical fashion may be more potent than the mandate to move to green power. "Thames Water, which produces 25 percent of the biosolids in the U.K., has been instructed to run their operations as energy neutral within 10 years," says John O'Regan, the founder and CEO of SCFI group, the parent company of AquaCritox. "That means they have to look at biosolids as a source of energy."

The ban on biosolids in landfills in Europe adds pressure to figure out what to do with this ugly form of garbage. And in the U.S., as landfills continue to fill up, cities and large corporations are realizing they'll need to figure out alternative means for disposing of their sludge. A key to the adoption process, Sinton and O'Regan believe, will be that the new generation of biosolids treatment technologies can quickly turn into money-saving measures for cash-strapped sewage-plant and feed-lot operators, among others. "Company's have a budget right now," says O'Regan. "It's difficult to get a new technology adopted if you are asking a customer to pay a lot more for it. It's not going to take."

For his part, Sinton's dream is to put a PMC bioreactor in every backyard. "The technology scales down to fit inside a portable toilet," he says. "I'd like to make it so easy and cheap that we can sell them in Home Depot and give everyone a good source of power as well as a better way to get rid of their waste than flushing it down the toilet. That's like washing money right down the pipes."

And just as the technology scales down, it also can scale up. "There is no reason we should not have giant biosolids power plants that can do the same thing as solar power plants and the like," Sinton says. "All the sludge we bury or throw away is wasted energy."

A Green Certification on the Horizon for the White House?

source: greenerbuildings.com

Going far beyond the organic vegetable garden and playground made from recycled materials, President Barack Obama intends to get the White House LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.

That's the word from an article on Sierra Club's Green Home website. From the article:

White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) spokesperson, Christine Glunz, says the effort to get the White House to LEED certification includes energy and water systems as well as waste. She believes it is vital to consider toxicity and life-cycle when making purchases for facilities. CEQ is looking to reduce the carbon footprint of the White House by implementing computerized energy management systems, automatic light sensors that turn off in unoccupied rooms and low-flow water valves. Paints and sealers with low or no volatile organic compounds (VOCs), biodegradable cleaners and recycled equipment will all be used by White House groundskeepers and engineers, according to a White House spokesperson. Window films that will lower UV rays and save energy will also be added.

According to an article on the National Geographic website, any leftover materials from White House renovations and demolitions will be donated to local reuse organizations. If President Obama continues to enforce such eco-friendly changes throughout his term, he will be on the right track to making the White House more of a "green house," proving with a LEED certification that he can lead Americans to a greener world.

LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO₂ emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions.

LEED is flexible enough to apply to all building types – commercial as well as residential. It works throughout the building lifecycle – design and construction, operations and maintenance, tenant fitout, and significant retrofit. And LEED for Neighborhood Development extends the benefits of LEED beyond the building footprint into the neighborhood it serves.