Part of Rosatom, the national atomic energy corporation, the ISTC provides advanced security training for managers and specialist staff working in the atomic field, and acts as the standards and certification authority for physical safety and security equipment used there. In 2010 GVS ZAO, Geutebruck’s Russian subsidiary, took the unprecedented step of submitting practically the whole of the Geutebruck video security product range for certification.

Thanks to co-operation with American partners, the ISTC is a world class training centre. “We have a large range of technical teaching resources and our own training sites where dozens of the latest monitoring systems operate under realistic conditions,” reports its principal Yury Barabanov. The laboratories and testing grounds have recently been expanded and equipped with the latest equipment for electromagnetic, functional, climatic and mechanical testing. Here new products and systems are checked under conditions which are as close as possible to those found on nuclear sites, and investigations include examining responses to power failures and other technical problems. “This is a special focus of ours and what sets our approach apart from other certification systems,” comments Evgeny Taranov, head of the standards and certification department at ISTC. With multiple workstations for climatic, mechanical, functional and electromagnetic testing, the testing labs and proving grounds have the capacity to put up to ten products of a similar type through the certification process at once.

The centre’s clients are leading Russian and foreign security equipment manufacturers who usually submit small numbers of devices for certification. However in 2010 GVS ZAO submitted practically the whole Geutebruck video security product range for testing and certification by the ISTC. Besides Russian language documentation for all individual components and complete CCTV systems, GVS ZAO also backed this up with large volumes of operational data and evidence of the rigorous production quality control measures implemented by Geutebruck to ensure its consistent high quality.

With high profile customers including Gasprom, government departments and the Russian Federation Central Bank, GVS ZAO is well-established in the Russian security market. Not only are Geutebruck system solutions already standard at Rosatom sites associated with the international programmes for the EU and USA atomic security, but some of their equipment is already installed by a number of Russian systems integrators in companies in the atomic energy industry and in Rosatom scientific research sites and nuclear weapons complexes.

“Certification gives us an important competitive advantage,” explains Konstantin Arbuzov, GVS ZAO’s marketing manager for Russia and CIS countries. “It opens up new sales opportunities and helps to promote new developments. For customers who don’t necessarily operate in the atomic field, this ‘OIT’ certificate represents the ultimate confirmation of security and functional capabilities and that gives Geutebruck the edge over other video security systems.”