Industrial Security

Integrated Security Management Platform

What Is It?

Honeywell’s Experion Industrial Security, powered by EBI, serves as the security management system and an integration platform to incorporate various technologies and subsystems. It is a highly configurable software platform that provides an efficient and reliable way of enhancing the comfort, security and safety of the people and the facility.

Experion Industrial Security provides a complete solution for information access and control needs of one or more areas and buildings in the facility. It can address the varying needs of different business units within an organization using its modular design and flexibility to combine different applications for customization.

How Does It Work?

The Command & Control capabilities of Experion Industrial Security help to remove improper procedures, deliver consistent responses and eliminate confusion under stressed conditions when concise actions and responses are required. It incorporates a security checklist based on the type of alarm for the operator to initiate actions in the order of priority.

Upon an alarm condition, without an operator action, Experion Industrial Security shall display:

  • Graphical location of the alarm within the facility

  • Video image of the alarm area and associated zone cameras of the alarm area

  • Security checklist, defining the procedures in responding to alarm conditions

  • Video pursuit, providing command and control of cameras to the operator to monitor and provide updated real-time information to the responding security force.

What Problems Does It Solve?

The Command and Control center lies at the heart of a comprehensive security solution. Honeywell’s Experion Industrial Security achieves situational awareness by integrating multiple technologies to provide users with access to event-based information. More importantly, it enhances users’ ability to understand, react, and make informed decisions based on a set of circumstances in a geographic context.

Access Management

What Is It?

Honeywell Temaline offers handling and monitoring of electronic access control, visitor/contractor management, time and attendance and mustering. Integration with security management, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems provides one-window access to and control over the cardholder database to determine who is allowed access to what places and at what time.

With its flexible interfacing and customization capabilities, the access management system is an excellent choice for a wide range of operations, especially where greater access control is a regulatory requirement such as in the marine industry with TWIC and ISPS.

How Does It Work?

Honeywell Temaline permits seamless communication and data sharing with enterprise-wide human resource databases, time and attendance files, and financial and inventory management systems. As an open environment, Enterprise Buildings Integrator allows users to employ their own company database to manage cardholder information and share this with enterprise resource planning systems such as SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft to address the broadest of enterprise management requirements.

The access management system offers easy-to-use, one-screen data acquisition and supervisory control over a wide range of devices, ranging from a basic reader to a time and attendance or mustering station complete with LCD display. Its cost-effective, flexible system architecture can be tailored to meet specific user needs and is configurable for superior fault tolerance.

What Problems Does It Solve?

Honeywell Temaline provides users with an improved ability to meet their security goals and to control the flow of personnel and vehicles in their facility. In addition, the access management system ensures increased access to actionable information and intelligence. A high degree of integration with enterprise resource planning systems further boosts security and delivers greater system reliability and lower operating costs.


Command and Control Suite

What Is It?

The Command and Control Suite comprises Command Wall and Incident Workflow.

  • Command Wall: Honeywell Command wall integrates facility-wide safety and security resources and makes them available via a collaborative, touch-screen interface, increasing overall situational awareness and improving incident response It enables users to get more value out of their existing technology investments, such as Honeywell Experion Industrial Security and Digital Video Manager, and provides an open, flexible platform for future growth and expansions.

  • Incident Workflow: When critical safety or security incidents occur, making the right decisions in a predictable and traceable way can mean the difference between a minor delay and a serious disruption of business. Incident Workflow helps guide users through the decision-making and response process during critical situations.

How Does It Work?

Command Wall provides access to real-time contextual information through seamless integration with safety, security and enterprise applications. Simple, map-based visualization and touch navigation mean it is intuitive to operate, reducing training time and enabling speedy access to information for key decision makers and non-regular system users.

Incident Workflow allows first responders, operations and facility staff to cooperatively respond to incidents using multiple devices. Seamless integration with Honeywell’s Experion Industrial Security allows intelligent automation across the facility. For example, authorized users can perform a number of actions from a single workflow, including automated/ manual control of surveillance cameras, and mass notification to affected users. It also allows users to easily link standard operating procedures (SOPs) to multiple locations within the building, providing users with relevant information regarding specific issues


What Problems Does It Solve?

Command and Control Suite helps industrial users optimize their business performance through:

  • Faster incident response and reduced facility downtime

  • Reduce risk and improved situational awareness

  • Improved collaboration and decision-making, with all relevant facility data on a common user interface

  • Easy and quick access to information for key decision makers and non-regular system users

  • Standardised incident response procedures for improved safety and compliance

  • Enabling users to demonstrate safety and security of the facility to external stakeholders.


Perimeter Intrusion Detection Solution

What Is It?

Perimeter Intrusion Detection is a suite of technologies that include :

  • Radar Video Surveillance (RVS): Integrates a number of sensors such as radar, sonar, Automatic Identification System (AIS) and GPS with configurable rules, to provide alarms and map coordinates to the video surveillance system providing the highest value of all-weather wide area surveillance systems.

  • Advanced video analytics and video motion detection

  • Physical control with fencing, turnstiles, vehicle barriers and blockers for land-based facilities, and water barriers and vessel arrest solutions for deployment offshore and on waterfront facilities

  • Fiber optic-based solutions installed on the fence line or buried in sterile areas

  • Other technologies, including electromagnetic, microwave and infrared beams.

How Does It Work?

Honeywell follows a layered approach to security that goes beyond the perimeter. The Perimeter Intrusion Detection solution is deployed after taking into account a number of variables at a specific site such as climate, topography, budget and threat that typically requires integration of multiple technologies.

RVS not only detects potential intruders but also tracks them. Before an intruder enters a region of interest at a fixed distance from the fence, a camera is automatically pointed to the specific threat and a video recording is started. The system can be configured to generate an alarm or event at that point, or just track and follow until a higher priority event occurs. As the intruder advances, the fence detection systems raise alarms, while RVS continues to record the intrusion.​

What Problems Does It Solve?

Honeywell is a leading critical infrastructure protection provider with over 40 years of experience delivering security solutions to users in diverse industrial markets. Its Perimeter Intrusion Detection solution helps users run their facilities safely, securely and efficiently. ​


Pipeline Security and Safety

What Is It?

OptaSense offers a proven mechanism for detecting any activity in the vicinity of an asset over long distances. It converts existing fiber optic cables into an array of virtual microphones to provide an early warning to users about any threatening event with sufficient accuracy for corrective action to be taken. It requires no modifications to the fiber optic cable network or new infield equipment locations.

OptaSense can intelligently distinguish between real threats and false alarms and enables users to create custom alerts to suit their unique requirements. Typical applications include oil and gas fields, transport and telecom networks, borders and perimeters, and defense installations.

How Does It Work?

​The OptaSense Interrogator Unit sends a conditioned pulse of light into the fiber to create virtual microphones. The acoustic data is received by its Processing Unit that monitors each microphone channel in real time for the presence of specific acoustic events and passes on the event data onto the User Interface (UI). The UI presents the real time event data to the user in an intuitive manner, highlighting classified alerts on a map with location coordinates.

OptaSense is built upon decades of military sonar processing expertise and can not only pick out the acoustic fingerprint of an event, but also monitor its activity over a short period of time to build up an exact picture of what it is to reduce nuisance alarms.

What Problems Does It Solve?

OptaSense helps users address the technical, implementation and financial challenges associated with monitoring large linear assets. It provides early warning to help users avoid repair costs, loss of asset use during repair and in some industries, significant environmental clean-up costs and even, loss of life.