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Identiv and SiteWatch Safety Deliver Cloud-Based Emergency Electronic Mustering to Enhance Personnel Safety for a Major Oil and Gas Infrastructure Project in Canada
IT-Based Freedom Access Control Protects Individuals at One of the Largest Pipeline Projects in Canada FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
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[{"type":"text","content":"IT-Based Freedom Access Control Protects Individuals at One of the Largest Pipeline Projects in Canada\nFREMONT, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Identiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE) today announced its partnership with SiteWatch Safety Inc. to provide cloud-based emergency electronic mustering (eMustering) via Freedom Access Control for a large Canadian pipeline project, significant in the oil and gas industry.\n “For the unique conditions of its remote locations in Canada, all equipment must function properly at -35°C,” said Scott Sieracki, Identiv VP Sales. “Identiv’s Freedom Access Control is the only platform on the market that can support these requirements without requiring the expense and complexity of a conventional physical access control system (PACS). Freedom enables the most efficient and cost-effective method of e-mustering.” Accounting for employees, contractors, and visitors during the construction of this massive Canadian pipeline project is paramount. Lives can be saved through rapid search implementation. In the past, counting people during and after an emergency was conducted by a time-consuming manual roll-call process at a central assembly location or muster station. If a person did not say “here,” a search began. To ensure accuracy, team leaders had to constantly keep track of who should be on-site; a complicated task in large industrial sites where people enter and exit indiscriminately. eMustering provides significant advantages: it is accomplished by automatically monitoring who is on a site or in a facility, and then, upon an emergency, all personnel swipe a card at any available muster station. Identiv’s IT-centric, cyber-secure Freedom Access Control system uses encryption bridges at the network edge to communicate with onsite and geo-distributed software. It’s based on a software-defined architecture (SDA) that advances and leverages powerful web-scale-based applications. SDA makes it possible to change the underlying software easily and supports the migration to software-driven architectures and the trend to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and cloud applications. SiteWatch Safety Sentry SKIDs are rapidly deployable, self-powered eMustering and entry/exit stations. The muster readers and Freedom Encryption Bridges communicate via cellular via the cloud a...