Oct 9, 2017 | access automation
It was an ambitious undertaking, to be sure – bringing together ten regional distributors for a technology showcase unlike anything the local security industry has ever seen – and, in the days leading up to the expo, emotions are running high. At CENTURION’s head...
Oct 6, 2017 | garage door, garage door automation, garage door motor, garage door motors
I speak from (painful) experience when I say that a garage door that is not automated has the potential to really do a number on one’s back. It was not too long ago that I, in perhaps the most misguided display of machismo ever, stood facing a friend’s manual roll-up...
Sep 4, 2017 | beams, Uncategorized
It’s a debate as old as technology itself: can tech be sexy? Good-looking hardware like Apple’s delectable iPhone range has proven that the answer is a resounding “yes” and, with a new and improved version of CENTURION’s Photon infrared beams on the horizon, there’s...
Sep 4, 2017 | acces control, access automation, access control, bollards, faac, faac centurion, faac group
In the middle of some unnamed desert, a truck is barrelling down the sole stretch of road visible in this arid, desolate landscape. As the lumbering behemoth picks up speed, text on the screen informs us that the truck weighs 6,800 kilograms and is travelling at 50...
Aug 15, 2017 | 2017, access automation, centurion, centurion d5 evo, d5-evo, ekasi
On the southern outskirts of Johannesburg lies Soweto, South Africa’s biggest township and home to more than 800 thousand inhabitants. Established in 1963 as part of one of the apartheid regime’s policies of racial segregation, Soweto has become a cultural...