SCIENCE

Inovonics announced that its innovative location and situational awareness system, Radius, was awarded Security Products magazine's 2011 "New Product of the Year" award in the mass notification category. This year, the third year of the contest, 86 product submissions were received. Awards were distributed among 15 different product categories.

"It's an honor to receive the Product of the Year Award for Radius," said Mark Jarman, president of Inovonics. "This award is a testament to our commitment to providing the most effective and reliable end-to-end IP-enabled wireless system in the security market today. At Inovonics, we strive not only to protect an organization's physical structure, but ensure the safety of its most critical assets - human lives."

Radius monitors any of Inovonics' security sensors or end devices and interfaces to fire, access control and environmental monitoring systems, providing instant notification to mass communication alert devices. When a security or life threatening event occurs, the alert is automatically transmitted to Radius. Once the signal is received, the system processes and locates the position of the event and alerts the appropriate authorities. Radius can work alone or be integrated with other safety/security systems. The key features and benefits of Radius include:

Location: Radius allows for mobile duress applications by accurately determining where an alarm is coming from within a building or campus setting. It allows users to locate employees, faculty, or students immediately when they signal for help.

Monitoring: Radius works with the complete line of Inovonics end devices, including pendant transmitters, universal transmitters, and motion detectors. It also supports integration with Inovonics' extensive list of system partners who provide fire extinguisher monitoring, wireless perimeter beams, fence tilt sensors, man hole cover monitoring, water sensors, and a host of many other types of solutions. Radius also can alert users even when people are not present, such as after-hours. The sooner users are notified of an issue, the faster they can take action.

Notification: Radius coordinates event monitoring and mass notification. It communicates information from in-building systems and routes them to alert devices, such as pagers, emails and mobile phones using text messaging or voice mail. Radius also packages multiple in-building systems into a single notification solution allowing for more efficient and quicker responses.

In addition to being honored during the Security Products Virtual Event, an online physical security conference, all of the winners - including Inovonics - will be presented with their awards at ASIS 2011 in Orlando, FL, September 19-21, 2011. Inovonics' Radius will be featured in its booth #3801 at ASIS.