GE Healthcare

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Its expertise is in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.

GE Healthcare Sweden

GE Healthcare in Sweden operates 13 different sites, six of which are production sites. The Uppsala site is the Headquarters for the Life Sciences department. At the Uppsala facility bioprocess media and equipment are developed and manufactured for use in the production of biotechnical medicine such as insulin and human growth hormone. It is also one of the world’s biggest production facilities for manufacturing of chromatography media. The production of equipment takes place in Umea, while most of the remaining sites are sales oriented. Altogether there are approximately 2,000 employees working at GE Healthcare in Sweden.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

GE Healthcare Sweden decided to renew its current security solution in order to comply with its worldwide corporate security standards. With a large number of people passing through the site, a new access control system was needed to ensure the admission was suitably restricted. Additionally a new video surveillance system was required to make sure that any undesired events were carefully documented for review. All sites needed to be managed in an efficient and cost-effective way while achieving a high level of security. UTCFS and its local partner, Trach Technology AB, proposed a solution that would meet these requirements in the best possible way.

UTCFS’s solution

GE Healthcare Sweden now operates its security system based on the Facility Commander platform. This solution provides large integration capabilities between access control, video surveillance and diverse building management systems. Currently five of GE Healthcare Sweden’s sites have been equipped with this system. Throughout these five sites, over 500 magnetic badge readers have been installed, making sure that access to sensitive areas is restricted. In addition to this, Facility Commander’s integration capabilities have made it possible to cross reference the access control and video surveillance system when reviewing events. As a result, each badge transaction can easily be viewed via the video surveillance system, enabling guards to get an efficient overview of all relevant video footage. All systems at the five sites are connected to the main site in Uppsala, where a graphic user interface allows security personnel to configure, control and monitor both the access control and video surveillance system.