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BROUGHTON HIGH SECURITY LAUNCHES SECURITY RATED TURNSTILE

Broughton Control’s rapidly expanding High Security Division has launched a new high security turnstile, the Defender 970, aimed at customers requiring unsupervised control of pedestrian access within a site perimeter.

The Defender 970 High Security Turnstile is the latest addition to a range of products from Broughton High Security aimed at front line security locations including ports, airports, prisons, police stations and government buildings as well as high risk commercial and industrial facilities such as banks and oil refineries.

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Ninestiles leads the way for UK schools and colleges

Morning and afternoon registration, key elements of school routine since the first formal schools were founded, has now become a thing of the past at Ninestiles School in Birmingham.

Since its opening, the college has used a new computerised registration system linked to turnstiles at each of the three school entrances. The system was supplied by Broughton Controls of Oldham and linked up with swipecard technology developed by Hertfordshire based Grosvenor Technology.

Dexter Hutt, Headmaster of Ninestiles School explains how the system works. " Each student has his or her own swipecard which they use at the turnstiles to enter the college. This process replaces the traditional classroom registration process and frees teaching staff from administrational tasks, providing at least an extra 20 minutes per day for tuition. The students also use the card to pay for meals in the refectory and we hope to extend the system to cover photocopying and library lending services. We are finding that this card based system is also proving to be a great lesson in personal responsibility and accountability for the students, valuable education for life outside the school environment".

The turnstile units are based on Broughton's highly successful 640 Series, designed to withstand the heavy use and abuse metered out in public access areas such as sports centres and entertainment venues. Each entrance to the college has both turnstiles and a wide opening gate for disabled access and emergency use. In an emergency the turnstiles freewheel and the gates unlock automatically, whilst in normal operation each installation also includes an intruder alarm activated by an infrared 'jump over' beam.

"As one of the country's new, cutting edge technology colleges, Ninestiles really is leading the way with this system and it has already attracted interest from a large number of other education establishments looking to improve security and streamline administration procedures". Comments Laurence Goode, managing director of Broughton Controls. "With the increased linking of electronic management to access control systems we are seeing huge changes coming into our industry and the work of our design team and engineers is focussed on keeping Broughton at the forefront of these developments".