Telenor: A System To Withstand Extreme Weather Conditions
Telenor: A System To Withstand Extreme Weather Conditions
Telenor: A System To Withstand Extreme Weather Conditions
For several years now, primion Technology GmbH, The cooperation started in August 2005 with a pilot
together with its System Integrator Partner JONIK, project that provided Time & Attendance and small
has been responsible for supplying Time & Attendance, scale Access Control to the main server rooms. Inside
Access Control and Integrated security technology less than a year, the primion system became the centre
solutions to Telenor in Serbia, a telecommunications of an integrated security solution for securing two main
supplier with some 1200 employees and over 3.1 million HQ buildings and over 50 retail stores, growing from
customers. Starting from a small initial installation, a a low-level Access Control and Time & Attendance
comprehensive, complete system for over 150 loca- administration for just a few employees, to an overall
tions has been implemented using primion software and integrated security solution for over 1,000 employees in
hardware for Time & Attendance, Access Control and more than 80 buildings. Soon Telenor was confronted
Integrated security technology, as well as customised with new challenges when it came to security, with
hardware modules developed and built by JONIK. the emphasis shifting from securing administrative
Because of the positive experiences in Serbia, the and retail facilities to industry-specific sites, such as
decision was made 3 years ago to implement the same containers serving as network transmission points.
solution with the Telenor Group Company, Uninor, in Because of its geographical position, Serbia faces
India and more recently to expand the Serbian system extreme weather conditions, ranging from -30 °C
to include Telenor Montenegro. Overall, Telenor is during the winter to +40 °C during the summer.
one of the most significant users of primion products
with over 1,500 readers, nearly 200 IDT controllers The challenge was to come up with a unique solution
and the integration of many third party systems with for protecting remote sites that combined a customised
thousands of datapoints, spread over two continents. approach to the principle of failsafe Access Control
with CCTV, fire protection and other environmental more accurately and much more efficiently to an alarm,
monitoring, such as water leak detection, temperature as all the relevant information is at their disposal,
alarms, etc. And at the heart of this was primion’s IDT in a structured, tailored and professional format.
32 Intelligent Controller, serving as the central point
for Access Control, CCTV, fire alarm and the rest of Staff-outsourcing has become an inevitable factor of
the monitored systems. modern business strategies and Telenor is no different.
From a security point of view, the Access Control
Inspired by the success of this application, primion, administration for outsourced personnel and “off-rolls”
together with its System Integrator Partner JONIK was has become an extremely difficult task. And Telenor has
presented with a new challenge, to provide controlled mastered the complexity by integrating the primion user
access to IT racks in the newly opened state-of-the-art database with the HR employee database through a
data centre in Belgrade, built and operated by Telenor. Sun Microsystems Identity Management application
By presenting their card to a primion RFID reader and using primion’s Import/Export Generator to automate
entering a personal PIN, users are granted access the assignment of access rights as staff leave and join.
only to those racks for which they are authorised.
Aleksandar Jakovljevic, one of the key players in
Following their tradition of continuously improving all Telenor’s security activities in Serbia, sums up
and extending their security system, Telenor decided the three-way partnership between Telenor, primion
to enhance the primeWeb core of the system by the and JONIK in this way: “Until now, our experience
addition of primion’s new Security Command Centre gained from this partnership has proved one thing
solution, psm2200. This provided a new interface, – that with hard work and commitment, a solution
a new approach and a new seamless integration of can be found even for the unique and specific
different building management systems such as CCTV, security challenges presented by a company like
Intrusion detection and Fire detection with primion Telenor. 100% success is always difficult to guar-
Access Control. Operators at the Telenor National antee, but so far the solution provided by primion
Operations Centre can now respond more quickly, and JONIK has certainly met or exceeded our
expectations.”
Time & Security Division
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