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ASSETTRACKING/ANTI THEFT
IRNAPRIL-MAY 2014
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With technologyonasset trackinghavingdeveloped
over decades, companies likeCtrackareable tooffer
a wide range of products, including asset tracking,
immobilisation systems, RFID technology and, most
recently, a smart card systems that can integrate
witha company’s existingemployee cards.
The company’s enhanced Driver ID system allows
companies to take advantage of their existing
workforce identification systems – employee or
building entry cards – to determine which driver is
operating a vehicle. With Driver ID, it is possible to
separatedriverandvehicledata tobetterunderstand
UK renters push access control
Powered aerial platforms requirewell trainedoperators, which is perhapswhy it is the access rental sector
that has been leading the way in developing systems to prevent unqualified or unauthorised people from
usingmachines.
Major access rental specialists in the UK including Nationwide Platforms and AFI are both marketing
access control systems, andothers are starting to follow suit.
Nationwide has adopted technology developed by Irish anti-theft specialist Kosran – the Kosran Safety
Access control System (SAC) – that preventsnon-qualifiedoperators fromusing lifts.
Under thesystem,whichhasevolved from theKosranECVelectroniccodedvalve, anti-theft immobilisation
system, operators are given a PIN code that relates to their IPAF Powered Access Licence (PAL card). The
rental company can add or delete PIN codes – up to 100 on eachmachine - providing authorisation for a
specific operator on specificmachines. Authorisation can be done on site or via a remote laptop or PC or
usingKosran’sApp.
It canalsobeused tocontrol access for specific timeperiods, and thesystemwill automaticallydetermine
if a PAL card is out of date. An optional ‘plug and play’ telematics system provides a rental company with
additional informationonmachineuse.
The system has been adopted on certain sites by
NationwidePlatforms– rebadgedasSkySentry -and
was last year rolled out to the wider rental sector
by Kosran, and not just in access. For example, the
system has been adopted by BAM Nuttall for its
crawler crane fleet.
AFI, one of the biggest UK access rental firms,
hasmeanwhile implemented its SmartZone system,
which is very similar in concept, relying on a smart
card and PIN codes. AFI says the latest version of
the system has completed trials with BAE Systems
at thePortsmouthNaval Base.
Itwillprompt if familiarisation training isrequired,
and will highlight the need for pre-use checks if a
machine isused for the first time in24hours.
AFI’s SmartZone access control system.
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