Gravity Lid Lock

Wheelie bins are the modern method used by waste and trash collection companies for hauling garbage away from many residential neighborhoods.

Many homeowners like the style and use of roller garbage/trash recepticles because they occupy a small footprint, are usually pleasant to look at and operate, can be easily manouvered by all manners of people.

Lock Focus, a well known Australian manufacturer of specialty locking products, recently released a unique Gravity Lid Lock, purposely designed to secure the lids on wheelie bins.

Aside from the obvious, locking the lid of your wheelie bin can protect your children from accessing the trash you throw away and also prevent unwanted wild animals from being able to spread your garbage all over the street. The lid becomes key lockable. The waste collector, using the modern waste collection vehicles, does not require to exit the vehicle to unlock the lid with the unique and especially designed release mechanism. The waste collection vehicle can pick up the bin, empty the contents, automatically unlocking the lid with the gravity sensor and return it to ground, all while remaining in the cab of the truck.

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Iris Recognition Technology - The Future Of Access Control

There is absolutely no doubt that advancing technology is influencing many significant parts of our daily lives and with new products from Aoptix Technologies like the one pictured here, we will soon be seeing this advanced wizardry in everyday use.

The AOptix InSight™ VM iris recognition system takes the qualities that make the original InSight system so extraordinary and wraps them up in a new form factor that is compact and visually appealing.

It is functionally the same as the original InSight system and delivers the same unprecedented capture volume, 2 meter standoff distance, and advanced imaging and image quality metrics for outstanding ease-of-use, throughput, and matching accuracy. The VM also relies on the same deployment-tested communications interfaces, maintaining a focus on ease-of-integration and standards compliance for biometrics and ID management, IT infrastructure, and physical access control.

Form and Function

The InSight VM’s new shape isn’t just about looks. At less than 9 inches wide and deep, the VM is uniquely well suited to applications where footprint space is at a premium. We've created a system for end users, integrators, and architects that is purpose-designed for applications including:

• Immigration control programs, especially sleek installations at immigration counters
• eGates or expedited, automated immigration programs
• Checkpoint booths
• Government and corporate access control including turnstile, revolving door and standard door installations

Now, the power of the InSight iris recognition system is available to open up a new range of applications.

View the source below to visit the company's site and see a video of just how the unit works.

I suggest that the reality of total secure access control, using iris recognition technology is upon us. Perhaps the Star Trek future is becoming a reality?

I can see many positives in this kind of system, especially for companies requiring secure access to controlled locations, like vaults, computer rooms, drug storage facilities, hospital bacteria free zones, even the presidents office.

What do you think?

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Biometric iPhone Security App - Coming Soon

With new software on board, iPhone has turned into iCop that would detect whether a handset has been stolen by comparing heartbeats. Apple is developing a hi-tech gizmo, which would learn the "heart signature of the owner" and compare it to whoever was using the handset. The service would also include 007-style face and voice recognition. Software would listen to voices using the phone and compare them to records of the owner talking.

Pictures taken using the in-built camera could also identify unauthorised users.

If the owner is not recognized, the handset would be shut down and sensitive information such as address books, email, passwords and text messages would be deleted automatically.

It could also go into spy mode, recording and reporting the rogue user's activities to snare the culprit.

However, the technology can be switched off if you want to lend the phone to a pal.

"It may deter thieves from stealing these expensive handsets," News of the World quoted Jim Clark, of Mintel as saying.

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The Bullet Test - Which Padlock Is The Toughest?

A rather interesting test performed recently on behalf of Popular Mechanics, tested the quality of four brands of padlock in use across America. These four different brands of padlock are simply a selection of commonly found products in use today.

In the test, The Master branded padlocks were found to be the better quality of the four tested.

The full results of the test can be viewed in the source link below.

Do people still use Medeco these days?

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iPhone App Allows Homeowner To Witness Break In

An iPhone application helped a Dallas man, while visiting relatives hundreds of miles away in suburban Hartford, Conn., watch as two burglars broke into his home.

Vincent Hunter told WFAA-TV that he called 911 at the same time his home security system also contacted authorities.

Hunter says "we could see it unfolding."

Hunter says an iCam app, which he bought for less than $5, sent him a text message Friday afternoon alerting him that motion detectors sensed movement in his supposedly empty residence.

Hunter, who has webcams in his home, watched as two men are seen trying to break into the place. They eventually throw a brick through a glass door. The webcams, minutes later, show two police officers entering the house.

Both suspects remain at large.

This article shows that whilst electronic home security systems can be useful, they do nothing to actually protect your property. Many existing alarm companies market their products as security protection products, yet alarms have never and can never actually protect your property. Alarms are specifically designed to inform rather than protect. If you still feel the need to be informed that your property is being burglarized, then perhaps an alarm is for you. Personally I would rather install devices and products that prevent my property from being unlawfully opened in the first instance.

The only products that can prevent break ins are locks and related security protection devices. It is nice to be informed isnt it?

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2010 St. Louis Award - Press Release

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Master Key Systems America, LLC Receives 2010 St. Louis Award

U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement

WASHINGTON D.C., September 10, 2010 -- For the third consecutive year, Master Key Systems America, LLC has been selected for the 2010 St. Louis Award in the Locksmiths & Keys category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).

The USLBA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USLBA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.

Nationwide, only 1 in 120 (less than 1%) 2010 Award recipients qualified as three-time Award Winners. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2010 USLBA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USLBA and data provided by third parties.

About U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA)

U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USLBA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.

The USLBA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.

SOURCE: U.S. Local Business Association

CONTACT:
U.S. Local Business Association
Email: PublicRelations@uslbaaward.com
URL: http://www.uslbaaward.com

Top 20 Under 20 - St Louis Small Business Monthly Award

We are pleased to announce we recently were awarded by St Louis Small Business Monthly an award for being one of the regions top 20 businesses with under 20 employees. The following article appeared in the Creve Coeur Olivette Chamber of Commerce newsletter...

On August 19th Small Business Monthly held a luncheon to

recognize the area’s top entrepreneurs with fewer than 20

employees. Danny Gurvis from Master Key Systems America

was honored as one of the “Top 20 Under Twenty”. Reprinted

below, with permission, is an article written by Small Business

Monthly.

In July 2006, when Danny Gurvis was challenged by a

colleague at BiLock, a distributor of a high-tech security product

line, to work on a business plan and start his own company, he

took the challenge seriously. He spent six months writing the plan

for Master Key Systems America LLC, a residential and

commercial locksmith business, and by December was off and

running. "The first nine months were spent procuring machinery,

tools, equipment, inventory, developing a marketing plan, and

advertising, all on a shoestring budget," says Gurvis.

A native of Melbourne, Australia, Gurvis worked as an

apprentice in the locksmith industry, learning from the best and

mastering his trade. Today he has used his experience to train

two part-time employees and increase Master Key Systems’

revenue by around 500%. "From the humble beginnings of one

job each week, we are now attending to approximately three to

five job requests per day," he says. “Our inventory has certainly

grown, and we are installing biometric access control systems

and closed-circuit television systems. We are also installing key

control systems for banks, schools and office-based companies

seeking greater control of their inter- and intra-office mechanical

physical security systems."

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More and More Satisfied Bilock customers

More and more demand for simpler control of key systems is increasingly leading people to the intelligent purchase of our Bilock product line.
The Australian designed Bilock Extreme Security locking system.
Now manufactured under license in the United States, this competitively priced product CANNOT be picked or bumped.
The unique key design is available in your choice of almost 9000 colour combinations.
The key system can be used in most lock hardware products in the market.

New Generation BiLock offers the security concious an innovative new look, twin bladed key which operates a 12-pin program of tumbler pins, six on either side. These pins, in turn, activate two side-bars to provide the end user with up to 16.7 million possible lock combinations. In addition to a space age moving element within the key an extraordinarily shaped, horizontally postitioned security rod has been built into the cylinder core to activate the 13th locking dimension. Without the moving element, this 13th dimension cannot be activated, this adds yet another feature to BiLock's already exceptional level of security.