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SIA announces Peter Boriskin as Chair of SIA Standards Committee

October 17, 2022SSN Staff

SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Peter Boriskin, chief technology officer at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions, as the new chair of SIA’s Standards Committee. Boriskin takes over as SIA Standards Committee Chair from Steve Van Till – co-founder, president, and CEO of Brivo – who served as chair for 11 years. In this role, Boriskin will lead and work with committee members to develop, promote and advocate industry standards...

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PSIA introduces secure credential interoperability initiative

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PSIA introduces secure credential interoperability initiative

April 23, 2021SSN Staff

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) this week announced its Secure Credential Interoperability (SCI) initiative and a working group to advance its development. “The physical access control industry has demonstrated a need for a universally compatible secure credential, and we believe we have found a simple, yet elegant solution to address this with SCI,” said Mohammad Soleimani, CTO of Kastle Systems and chairman of the SCI Work Group. “The...

Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA), Secure Credential Interoperability (SCI)


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Suppliers

Siemens’ PACS grants access to interoperability

May 19, 2020SSN Staff

MUNICH, Germany—As one of the eight Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) partner companies to participate in the Virtual PLAI Experience, Siemens is excited to demonstrate how their SiPass integrated physical access control system (PACS) can safely and reliably share identity data in a multi-PACS environment.  “The goal of the Virtual PLAI Experience is to show that PLAI does function as described and to demonstrate how these disparate systems can share the...

Physical Access Control, Physical Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI), Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA), Siemens, Virtual PLAI Experience


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Commercial

PSIA hosting live demo on May 20

May 13, 2020Paul Ragusa

YARMOUTH, Maine—Recognizing that travel will be limited for most industry professionals for the coming months, the Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) has decided to host a Virtual PLAI Experience webinar to demonstrate the value of its Physical Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI) specification.On Wednesday, May 20, at 2:00 P.M. ET, eight PSIA partner companies in access control and biometrics will showcase a cloud-based PLAI agent connecting five PACS systems (from Johnson...

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On The Editor's Desk

PSIA elects execs from Convergint, JCI

January 24, 2018Paul Ragusa

The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) announced it has elected Mike Mathes, EVP of Convergint Technologies, as its chairman, and Jason Ouellette, product general manager-access control for Johnson Controls, as its vice chairman. The PSIA membership develops specifications for enabling standards-based sharing of digital data and intelligence throughout the physical security and enterprise ecosystems. � "Mike and Jason bring us strong technology, commercial and industry leadership...

Convergint Technologies, Johnson Controls (JCI), Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA)


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PSIA has new officers

July 22, 2014SSN Staff

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) on July 16 announced it has elected Mohammad Soleimani, CTO and EVP of Kastle Systems, as its chairman; and Joshua Jackson, director, global product integration for Stanley Security, as its vice chairman. The PSIA membership develops specifications for enabling standards-based sharing of digital data and intelligence throughout the physical security and enterprise ecosystems. As PSIA chairman, Soleimani will work...

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PSIA launches access control and intrusion detection profiles

March 20, 2013SSN Staff

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance is introducing access control and intrusion detection profiles for the physical security industry, according to a statement from the organization. “These profiles will enable a very wide range of vendors to quickly and affordably comply with PSIA specifications and expand plug-and-play compatibility across the security ecosystem,” David Bunzel, executive director, PSIA, said in the statement. By using a smaller...

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PSIA releases specification for access control, intrusion products

December 1, 2011Rich Miller

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) recently released its Area Control v1.0 spec to standardize communication with access control and intrusion products. The area control spec is the fourth system-oriented specification released by the PSIA, following standards for video, storage and analytics. It is the product of a collaboration among several major companies, said PSIA Executive Director David Bunzel. “If you look at the companies that are...

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PSIA elects Lien and Drive as officers

September 13, 2011SSN Staff

SANTA CLARA—The Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA), a global consortium of physical security providers focused on promoting the interoperability of IP-enabled devices, on Aug. 30 announced it has elected Larry Lien of Proximex as its new chairman and Marine Drive of Honeywell as vice chairman. "We are pleased to have two extremely strong individuals help lead our initiatives and serve as advocates for interoperability in the security industry," said David Bunzel, executive...

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Standards bodies making progress

June 21, 2011Daniel Gelinas

YARMOUTH, Maine—The security industry bodies that have stepped forward to advocate for a standardized future for physical security have all made moves and issued press releases recently that tout progress being made. SIA, PSIA and ONVIF all say that in the short time since ISC West, more and more compliant products have been released and have been demonstrated to work seamlessly together. At ISC West, PSIA hosted a number of "successful demonstrations of interoperable products from Honeywell,...

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