Energy and utility industries encounter a range of threats that target their facilities. In order to safeguard and secure these critical sites while ensuring operational continuity, facility managers require a solution enabling them to identify and control emergency situations that occur throughout the organization, even at remote, often unmanned sites.

SimGuard is the leading holistic physical security information management (PSIM) system. Bringing safety, security and facility management under one umbrella, SimGuard provides situational awareness and a decision-support tool to ensure operational continuity. SimGuard's open architecture enables integration with all key safety and security functionalities (e.g. alert management, video management and surveillance, e-Logging, reporting, information distribution) via a single, unified platform featuring 3D virtual reality for optimal situational awareness.

SimGuard is the only end-to-end solution covering all phases of incident management including planning, training, real time monitoring and debriefing.

• Geospatial 3D display of all critical infrastructure – both indoor and outdoor – to provide optimal situational awareness
• Virtual 3D planning for optimized device and sensor deployment (e.g. determining number of CCTV cameras for optimal coverage) based on line-of-sight (LOS) limitations
• Analysis of potential scenarios and forecasted results via diverse simulations (e.g. fire and gas propagation, "dirty" cloud materials, radiation, blast mitigation, crowd behavior) for preparing evacuation and emergency plans
• Real-time event monitoring that can affect production levels
• Routine operation management (e.g. monitoring coal tanker traffic)
• Synthesis of information from all sensor and data sources (e.g. CCTV, alarms, intrusion detectors, air quality sensors) to quickly generate a 3D-situational awareness picture of the monitored area
• Display of safety and security field teams' location via RFID and GPS systems to enable rapid response to emergencies
• Superimposition of suspect track (indoor and outdoor) on 3D-situational awareness screens for interception and pattern recognition
• Automated, advanced rules engine that drives pre-defined responses based on specific incident (e.g. automatic shutdown of valves due to gas leak)
• Smart CCTV management via the display of only essential information, thereby eliminating the need to continuously monitor multiple video walls
• Resilience, seamless hot backup and full redundancy among all sites for crisis recovery
• Coordination of all safety and security efforts via a single, unified command-and-control center that manages multiple sites, whether manned or unmanned
• Simple, effective coordination with field teams and other emergency forces
• Interactive, smart information distribution to laptops and PDAs for providing managers at all levels with data identical to that displayed in the control center

• Optimized understanding of local events that can affect the organization globally
• Comprehensive incident management life cycle – planning, training, real-time monitoring and debriefing
• Real-time, multi-site situational awareness to enable control and improve response time
• Open architecture enabling integration with all sensor and device types
• Effective decision-making cycle
• Assessment of a facility's vulnerability based on relevant threat scenarios
• Improved ROI

To learn more about SimGuard's solution for energy and utility facilities, please contact: info@rontal.com