Having recently expanded its global operations by making a series of major acquisitions, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics found that diverse electronic security systems were being used at the various sites making up its organisation. Since this made central management of the systems difficult and time consuming, it decided to standardise worldwide on a single system – SiPass integrated from Security Products, a business segment of the Siemens Building Technologies Division.
The system has been introduced on a rolling basis, and currently covers twelve locations in the USA, where it has more than 14,000 registered cardholders, plus two further sites in the UK, where there are another 1,000 cardholders. Further expansion, to cover sites in Ireland, South Africa and other locations around the world will take place in the near future.
