ADI focuses on outdoor perimeter protection

Photo courtesy of Deborah O'Mara, SD&I editor
Bob Donovan (left), who reps ProTech, explains business opportunities of the ProTech technology to ADI Elk Grove Village inside sales reps Juan Garcia (seated, background) and Bill Behrens (seated, foreground) during the Outdoor Perimeter Protection Week.

Photo courtesy Peter Harlick, Security Dealer & Integrator magazine
Alan Mitchell (kneeling) demonstrates the DeWalt MobileLock system at the Charlotte, N.C., branch location during ADI's Outdoor Perimeter Protection Week.

ADI'S Outdoor Perimeter Protection Week, July 28-Aug. 1, wraps up today after an apparently successful week that saw training at all ADI branches. The week saw systems integrators and security dealers come to the retail branches of security products distributor ADI to learn about current intrusion detection technologies being applied for outdoor perimeter security.

On Monday, at the ADI branch in Elk Grove Village, Ill., training was being held that was being similarly replicated by other vendors across the ADI map. At the Elk Grove Village branch, Bob Donovan, corporate representative for ProTech, provided training on the company's Piramid XL2 outdoor motion sensor.

This unit from Nevada-based ProTech (www.protechusa.com) uses a proprietary dual technology format that combines a stereo doppler microwave sensor with a dual-element passive infrared sensor to prevent false alarms. This configuration is designed to limit false alarms, a concern that is critical to end users and which is necessary for reliable detection in an outdoor environment. Donovan demonstrated various functions of the system, including an internal sensitivity switch which allows the installer to select the distance an intruder must move to initiate an alarm, and a range control switch that can be used to adjust the overall size of the sensor's detection area. In addition, the unit can be configured with video surveillance for visual verification, with the device acting as an activation point for event-driven CCTV systems.

Charles Slaybough, ADI'S assistant branch manager in Elk Grove, also demonstrated the new Tattletale portable alarm, which lends itself to construction sites and copper and wire spools and other portable valuables.

Besides ProTech and Tattletale, ADI had a number of other vendors' products on hand to showcase the multitude of solutions for outdoor perimeter protection. They included DeWalt, Stealth Laboratories, Optex, ElkGuard, Aleph, SunWize, Crow Electronic Engineering, Takex, Terminus and Risco Group, and the event was being held

Security Dealer & Integrator's Peter Harlick said that, like the Elk Grove Village location, the Charlotte, N.C., branch of ADI was also part of the ADI Outdoor Perimeter Detection Week program.

According to Harlick, the branch, which is located on the southwest of Charlotte, saw a steady flow of dealers and integrators during the week. On Thursday, reported Harlick, Alan Mitchell, area manager for manufacturer's representative firm Security Solutions Inc., was on hand to provide perimeter detection training.