At the recent Skydd-exhibition in Stockholm, the nominees for the 2008 Detektor International Awards were presented to the banquet dinner audience of professionals from the security industry.

The banquet had a record attendance of more than 900 guests, a significant number not only in a Swedish or Nordic perspective. Lennart Alexandrie, editor-in-chief for Detektor and managing director for the security publishing company AR Media, named the event "The security world's largest prize nomination dinner".

The new Smarti Diadem unit is one of only four nominees in the Access control category. The other three nominees are iLoq, HID and Siemens Building Technology. The Detektor International Award is presumably the only internationally established product prize that is solely nominated and evaluated by a panel of experts made up of security journalists and general security experts. Suppliers, distributors or partial parties can not nominate their own products. As such, TAB Systems is honored to be one of those considered.

The new Diadem unit received its first international acknowledgement soon after it was launched. In April 2008 it was short-listed by BSIA (British Security Industry Association) as one of six best new access control products for the IFSEC 2008 Security Industry Awards.

The second recognition for the new unit came at the end of July 2008 when it was nominated to be one of the six finalists in the category "Security Innovation of the Year" at the Security Excellence Awards 2008. These awards are organized by Security Management Today, Security Installer and info4security.

About Smarti Diadem:

Access control is increasingly moving toward identification by who you are rather than by what key or card you may carry or PIN you might know. Smarti is set to meet this challenge. It identifies people by who they are (face and voice recognition) and not by what ID card or key they carry. The biometric information about an individual is saved as part of a swift enrolment process. Smarti uses this information to recognize a person and then acts according to pre-defined instructions that the system controller sets up. These might include saving a photo of the person in the event log, and then opening a door, turning on a light, sending an e-mail or SMS etc, or a combination of such actions.

An additional advantage of this product is the integration of multiple additional features (video intercom, video & IP phone, video messaging, video surveillance) into one compact device for a reasonable price. Smarti is also completely protocol independent and can therefore be used to control almost any kind of electronic device (different sensors, electronic locks, lights, alarm systems, finger print scanners, RF ID readers).

Designed with flexibility in mind, Smarti can be used for many applications within: business/corporate and high security environments, for home/building automation etc.
The new Diadem unit is fan-less for quiet operation. It has an aluminium front casing which is IP 65 compliant and is meant for indoor and outdoor use. It is in-wall or on-wall mountable. The inbuilt IR CCTV camera and IR LED lights provide highly reliable identification in all lighting conditions. The unit is also equipped with an 8" colour touch screen, motion detector, microphone, speakers, Intel Centrino processor, built in storage and internal memory. The integrated communication ports and relay I/O controller can be used to control lights, electronic locks, alarms, sensors and other electrical devices.