Patrick J Hemphill News

CG Approves Siemens SiteIQ

Recently, Port of Wilmington (POW) security officials received the U.S. Coast Guard's permission to leverage its Siveillance(TM) SiteIQ video surveillance system to monitor truckers and port visitors not carrying Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (TWIC). Because POW can provide 24/7 monitoring of designated secure areas via its SiteIQ video analytics platform, the port can comply with TWIC mandates without having to physically escort non-credentialed individuals traversing the busy Wilmington, Del. port facility. According to Patrick J. Hemphill, Manager, Port Security, "The Coast Guard advised us that if we were able to ensure 24/7 monitoring of certain 'secure areas' that we use for vehicle staging and other operational reasons…