GE Security, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) announces the release of its new Facility CommanderTM Wnx platform. The expandable, open solution integrates and unifies mission-critical physical security applications. Access control, video surveillance, alarm monitoring, intrusion detection, and photo ID are all incorporated into one single security management system.

"Facility Commander Wnx provides complete end-to-end security management," says Dan Smytka, President, GE Security's Engineered Systems. "Customers have the ability of deploying security throughout the organization with this new integrated platform that provides a single interface for all operations, and offers expandable architecture and feature-rich capabilities."

System administration, monitoring and video surveillance can be performed from any workstation on the network. Operators can manage security from a single application, providing immediate access to information, reducing reaction time through event-driven system automation, and increasing response effectiveness.

Built on standard Microsoft technology, Facility Commander Wnx harnesses the power and availability of the Windows operating environment and provides a flexible solution that is easy to deploy and support.

Operators can monitor and control a facility's security system with point-and-click mouse navigation. The multi-tasking capabilities of the platform provide independent window management of all primary monitoring applications. A single operator can simultaneously view more real time data, assess the relevance of an event, and execute appropriate responses with intuitive navigation.

The open database and Application Program Interface (API) provide flexibility to integrate with existing infrastructures and to adapt to customer specific applications and business systems. There are three scalable configurations of Facility Commander Wnx-Professional, Enterprise, and Global, one for every business need. All three versions will be available at early next year