Sample Project Description

System

Faced with the need to simplify and reduce the long-term operating costs associated with securing a complex infrastructure of facilities for its wastewater and reclamation plant infrastructure, the City of San Diego asked CEI to provide an integrated system of closed-circuit television monitoring, access control and fire alarm/life-safety systems. These systems allow a small local group of security personnel to monitor and respond quickly to a variety of emergent situations arising from any point in the county-wide network.

CCTV, Intercom, Fire/Life Safety, Access Control

South Bay Regional Courts

KPBS Studios

This is a large, campus style security/access control system covering a large portion of Point Loma, California.  This design/build project integrated new and existing access and security systems from over 30 different high-security areas comprising the SPAWAR group. Each system reports to a central command center via hardwire or dial-up/leased phone lines, or over a WAN connected with fiber optic cable and/or a microwave ATM circuits.  Closed-circuit television and intercom signals are also carried over this communications network.  The system is software integrated via custom software (designed and written by CEI) with an Intergraph Response/Dispatch system. Card user and badging data from the resident SPAWAR mainframe computer is downloaded and incorporated into the Westinghouse mini-computer via custom CEI software drivers.  The database includes over 30,000 card users and undergoes hundreds of user changes every month.

San Diego Police Department

CEI designed and installed the access control system for the SDPD. All citywide substations were networked back to the downtown Main Command Center.

This facility is another of several in San Diego's Wastewater plans. CEI installed several systems in the facility including Westinghouse access control, a Notifier networked fire alarm system, perimeter fence security, as well as Gaitronics industrial intercom system.

CEI integrated the alarm and reporting information from the access control, fire alarm and fence security system into the facility's campus wide digital control system (DCS). This information allows the display of all critical events and triggers automated responses reducing the level of personnel required while increasing the ability to monitor risk and regulatory compliance related activity.