Homeland Security Capital Corp. Subsidiary Launches New Automated Security Control Program

ARLINGTON, Va. - SecurityInc, a subsidiary of Homeland Security Capital, launched a new automated security monitoring and control system with applications for public building security. The company's Managed Automated Security Controls (MASC) software and MASC-Series controllers are able to automate tasks without a host computer or a person initiating the response. This includes actions such as triggering alarms, shutting down elevators, and locking designated areas when a security breach is detected. The technology has applications for police stations, prisons, and hospitals. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Department of Homeland Security developed the Security Survivability Interoperability Master Plan (SSIMP), a process whose requirements are provided by MASC. MASC also is capable of handling ladder logic and peer-to-peer (distributed) processes and can be integrated with building control systems and current Department of Defense initiatives. The system integrates access control, intrusion detection, alarm monitoring, CCTV, DVR, video compare, text-to-speech audio annunciation, and badging functions in a application. It has a touch screen, graphical control interface.