CNRL expands deployment of Mobile Badge Management security solution from Enterprise Air, Inc.
ALBERTA, CANADA - December 22, 2006 - Enterprise Air today announced the successful expansion of its Mobile Badge Management deployment at Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL). The deployment included a near-doubling of the deployed mobile handhelds, as well as a complete software upgrade to the MBM version 3.0 software platform.
CNRL, a major petrochemical company with facilities concentrated in the Canadian oil sands, uses Mobile Badge Management to extend its existing Honeywell access control system with handheld card readers. The handheld card readers are used by security administrators to create new security checkpoints in locations without existing card-readers, and by roaming guards to perform spot-checks within the secure area, and as a backup for existing equipment. Mobile Badge Management's ruggedized handhelds, designed to withstand harsh physical environments, have been used successfully by CNRL in temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius, with enough battery life to sustain each security guard through the duration of their shift.
By integrating Mobile Badge Management with its existing Honeywell access control system, guards using the handhelds always have the latest information about cardholders and their access permissions. CNRL is also able to track entry and exit times for each cardholder, and review them on a central system; CNRL has already begun making significant use of this access data, recording on average more than 500 entry and exit events per handheld per day.
"The CNRL deployment is another great example of how software and mobile devices can be used to solve critical problems in physical security. Mobile Badge Management has proven very valuable to CNRL, and has greatly extended the utility of their existing Honeywell access control system," said Doug Sundheim, Director of Business Development for Enterprise Air.