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Acro Announces Technology Israel's International Airport
Agreement with LSRI Selects Rontal's SimGuard for
Acro, Inc., a developer of explosive detection solutions, has announced the Security Planning
conclusion of the negotiations of a technology agreement with LSRI – Life
Science Research Israel Ltd., a subsidiary of IIBR – Israel Institute for Rontal Applications Ltd. , a developer and provider of innovative incident
Biological Research. management and business continuity systems, has announced that its
Under the terms of the agreement, LSRI will license the long-proven SimGuard 3000 system has been installed at Israel's Ben-Gurion
technology of IIBR's explosives testing kit (ETK) to Acro, for incorporation International Airport. SimGuard 3000 helps Ben-Gurion’s security
into Acro's pen-like device, allowing the detection of commercial and military department in analysing critical incident scenarios using simulations. The
explosives. The agreement is subject to minimum annual revenues to be simulations help Ben Gurion Airport estimate threats and take the
achieved by Acro and royalties to be paid to LSRI. The technical appendix of necessary measures to thwart these threats.
the agreement will be signed in the next few weeks. Ben-Gurion is one of the world's most secure airports. In 2006, it
The new device will complement Acro's ACRO-P.E.T., the company’s handled over 9 million international passengers and 405,000
peroxide explosive tester for the detection of improvised explosives. ACRO- domestic passengers.
P.E.T. is designed for rapid field detection of peroxide-based explosives, "SimGuard 3000 helps us prepare for emergency situations," said
such as triacetone triperoxide (TATP). Its main advantages include high Shmuel Zakai, Head of Security Division, Ben-Gurion Airport. "Thanks to
sensitivity, high selectivity, fast response, simple operation, small size and SimGuard, Ben Gurion’s security professionals can analyse and simulate
cost effectiveness. critical incidents.”
"The agreement with LSRI will allow Acro to provide unique, reliable and "Ben-Gurion Airport’s selection of SimGuard 3000 is a milestone in
easy-to-use explosive testers for the entire spectrum of military, commercial airport emergency planning, enabling airport officials and staff to prepare
and improvised explosives, using the company's patented pen-like tool," for any situation," said Roni Zehavi, co-founder and CEO of Rontal.
said Acro Chairman and CEO Gadi Aner. "Airports are among the world's most sensitive facilities, and they require
Acro’s Advisory Board includes Prof. K. Barry Sharpless, winner of the optimal preparedness for a large variety of human threats, technical
2001 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and Prof. Richard A. Lerner, President and malfunctions and natural emergency situations."
CEO of The Scripps Research Institute, considered one of the world’s most SimGuard 3000 can build a virtual reality model of an actual facility into
influential scientific institutes. SimGuard's database. Then, a virtual installation of sensors with real features
and characteristics such as cameras, fences, access-control devices, GPS,
fire alarm sensors and intrusion detection devices can be carried out. Once
completed, the SimGuard system assesses the vulnerability of the relevant
site (both outside and indoors), based on the simulation of different potential
scenarios for security, safety, facility management, general operations, and
business-continuity. These simulations provide information on possible future
incidents, their impact on operations and help improve security by preparing
contingency plans for different emergency situations. SimGuard 3000 can
The ACRO-P.E.T pictured with a pen save high costs by preventing procurement of unnecessary devices that are
to indicate its size identified by the system.
Sepura Steps in to Macedonia & Argentina
Sepura has won a major order to supply digital immigration and smuggling of drugs, weapons, Meanwhile, Mendoza Police, the second force
TETRA radios to the Police of the Republic of alcohol and tobacco. in Argentina to switch its critical communications
Macedonia, under a contract between its Nearly 4000 radios will be supplied including to digital TETRA radios, has placed a further order
distributor 3Tech and the country’s Ministry of the SRH3800 sGPS™ handheld radios and SRG3500 with Sepura.
Interior. This order forms part of a large-scale vehicle radios which include Gateway functionality It confirms Mendoza’s satisfaction with the large
reform of all branches of the police service in the to ensure continuous reception in blackspots of number of Sepura radios deployed last year and
Balkan state including a new TETRA network network coverage. All handheld and some of the emphasises Sepura’s growth in South America
funded by the European Union. vehicle radios will benefit from GPS to locate each after recent sales successes in Brazil, Mexico,
State police in urban and rural areas and the police officer or vehicle using the TETRA radio. Colombia, Peru, Venezuela and Panama.
Border Police will use the radios to give secure, The European Agency for Reconstruction Mendoza’s police face tough urban issues and
continuous, instant and clear communication. The funded the overall TETRA project at a cost mountainous terrain in a large land-locked region
landlocked state has encountered problems along of €9 million, where Siemens, in partnership of two million people at the west of Argentina. The
its borders where mountainous and sparsely with Rohde and Schwarz, implemented the TETRA network also allows communication with
populated terrain has made it a target for illegal TETRA network. other services including mountain rescue.
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