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Transnet Freight Rail Deploying a Multi-Million Dollar Orsus Situator Installation for its Passenger and Freight Rail Divisions
Monday, May 12, 2008
Kay Nayager, Transnet Freight Rail: "Situator was the critical missing piece that we had been looking for in the last 3 years for our comprehensive enterprise security concept."
BIRMINGHAM, England, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Orsus(R), the pioneer in the
field of Situation Management, a new holistic approach to optimizing
situation planning, response and analysis, is in the process of deploying its
Situator(TM) product suite at Transnet Freight Rail, one of the largest
international rail operators based in South Africa focusing on carrying
freight, containers and passengers throughout the country.
The project, now underway, is connecting three nerve centers in
Johannesburg, Richard's Bay and Cape Town, South Africa, with thousands of
surveillance cameras, digital video recorders, access control systems, fire
systems, and electrical fence sensors deployed across 34,000 Kilometers of
rails at more than 1,000 remote sites. Transnet sites include terminals,
depots, office buildings and other remote facilities throughout South Africa.
"This project is part of a major undertaking by Transnet to implement an
enterprise-level security and safety system that protects our passengers,
rail systems, facilities and employees," said Kay Nayager, Security
Technology Manager, Transnet Freight Rail. "Orsus and its Situator solution
is a critical component of this project, enabling Transnet to effectively
manage all security systems and provide the best response possible to
emergency situations."
An additional aspect of the project involves integrating Situator with a
Barco video wall system. Transnet's national nerve center in Johannesburg
features a 19-meters (62-foot) Barco video wall system, while Richard's Bay
and Cape Town each have a 7-meters (22-foot) system. Each section of the
video wall displays a video matrix of a sector in the region that is under
the responsibility of a specific operator. Additional information,
representing a sector's situation awareness map and incident response
procedures, are displayed when a sector is in emergency operation. In
addition, it is also possible to call up Barco pre-defined layouts
automatically or on-demand directly from Situator. These layouts represent
pre-defined scene setups that correspond to various emergency and routine
situations.
The project is being implemented by two South African-based systems
integrators, SSET and Multivid.
"High-risk facilities and transportation organizations demand the most
forward-thinking security solutions and early on Transnet Freight Rail
recognized the importance of having a Situation Management platform to
address the unique manner they were planning to manage the workflow of their
security organization," said Gilad Chitayat, Director of Sales at Orsus.
"Orsus is proud to be able to meet these demands with Situator."
Situator is a security and safety Situation Management software for
integrated control rooms. It creates an environment where all current and
future technologies, people and actionable tasks are fused into a unified
environment performing as if it were a single coordinated entity. Situator
leverages existing security investments and empowers the security personnel
to manage the overload of information in control rooms by focusing the
appropriate individuals on the precise data they require to manage the
situation. With its advanced, yet easy-to-use planning tools, Situator helps
transform routine and emergency plans into actionable, adaptive tasks and
procedures and integrates them with virtually any security and safety
devices, management systems, dynamic data sources and communication systems.
With Orsus' Situator, Transnet Freight Rail can integrate incident
reporting, simulate security related events for training purposes and deploy
system analysis tools to provide a comprehensive security approach. It
enables Transnet Freight Rail to also improve risk management and minimize
vulnerability.
Situator reduces potentially costly human error, makes it easy to
establish and maintain compliance with industry and government regulations
and dramatically improves the speed and effectiveness of incident response
and recovery while actually reducing operating costs.
Situator is available and fully supported in North America and around the
world through a network of security and safety integrators. For more
information, or to request a Situator demo, please visit http://www.orsus.com
or contact Orsus at info@orsus.com.
About Orsus
Orsus(R) is a Situation Management pioneer. Situation Management is a
new, holistic approach to optimizing situation planning, response and
analysis. Situator(TM) is the first comprehensive Situation Management
software platform to unify management of the entire Control Room Lifecycle
for security, safety and emergency services where the risk of human error can
lead to financial loss, injury and damage to public image. With successful
implementation in a variety of industries and a reputation for innovative
ideas and development Orsus possesses the knowledge, experience and
determination to shape the future of Situation Management.
About Transnet Freight Rail
The largest division of Transnet, Transnet Freight Rail (formerly known
as Spoornet) bases its core competency on the transportation of freight.
The company maintains an extensive rail network across South Africa, in
excess of 34,000 km of rail track that connects with other rail networks in
the sub-Saharan region, with its rail infrastructure representing about 80%
of Africa's total.
For Corporate PR:
Dusty Yedidia
PR Manager Orsus
+1-800-844-3665
dusty.yedidia@orsus.com
For media inquiries:
Chelsie Woods
Eclipse Media Group
+1-207-510-0029
+1-207-730-2396 (mobile)
cwoods@eclipsemediagroup.net
For Transnet Freight Rail:
Mike Asefovitz
Media and Communication, Transnet
+27-11-544-9585
Mike.Asefovitz@transnet.net
SOURCE Orsus
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