Jun 28, 2016 | acces control, access automation, alarm panels, alarm systems, alarms, centurion systems, gate motors, office security, security, workplace security
Unless you hit it big by penning a series of novels about boy wizards or sparkly vampires, chances are you spend the greatest part of your day in an office of some sort. And, since the focus of our newsletter has predominantly been on domestic security, we reckoned...
May 23, 2016 | acces control, access automation, sector ii, sector ii traffic barrier, traffic barrier, traffic boom
But for the steady drone of traffic lazily drifting in from the invisible highway, there’s precious little indication that we’re somewhere in the heart of Johannesburg. In front of us – and seemingly stretching to the horizon which is only now, at about 6:30,...
Oct 17, 2012 | acces control, centurion, centurion systems, home security, perimeter security, security
“And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us” This iconic line forms part of the introduction to one of the most famous radio plays ever to be recorded, the Orson Welles adaptation of H.G. Wells’ unnerving sci-fi tour de force, The War of the Worlds. Of...
Jul 23, 2012 | acces control, biometric access control, biometric readers, biometrics, fingerprint authentication, fingerprint readers
Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger is perhaps best-known as the mastermind behind the set design for science fiction films like Alien and Prometheus; his trademark style can best be described as “biomechanical”, representing the interconnected relationship between man...
Apr 24, 2012 | acces control, centurion access control, centurion gswitch, centurion systems, gms access control, gsm module, gswitch22
In retrospect, it almost seems that when the celebrated sci-fi author Isaac Asimov said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, he had the G-SWITCH-22 in mind. This multi-faceted GSM-module took the world by storm when it was first...
Mar 23, 2012 | acces control, centurion access control, keypad access control
There’s no denying the fact that access control has come a long way since the days of punch cards and other, similarly archaic systems. Like most things in this modern age, the trend in access control seems to lean towards the sleek and the compact, while still...
