General Electric

General Electric is a global infrastructure, finance, and media company taking on the world’s toughest challenges. GE is a company with a great heritage. Founded in 1878 by Thomas Edison, it is the only company on the Dow Jones Index that was in the original list in 1896. Over 100 years of GE global research has earned two Nobel prizes and thousands of patents. GE is imagination at work. From jet engines to power generation, financial services to water processing, and medical imaging to media content, GE employees worldwide are dedicated to turning imaginative ideas into leading products and services that help solve some of the world’s toughest problems.

Tip Trailer Services

GE Tip Trailer Services provides transportation and logistics, leasing, rental, maintenance and other added-value solutions that keep their freight on the move all over Western and Eastern Europe. With almost 80,000 units on the road, it is considered the industry leader with one of the largest and most diverse fleets in Europe. At the beginning of 2007, TIP Trailer Services organised its businesses into four solution focused groups: FleetOption, FleetCare, Fleet Intelligence and FleetProtect. TIP Trailer Services France, can supply all products and services logically under these four service areas with a total fleet of almost 7000 units, ten branches and ten logistics depots.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

GE Tip Trailer Services previously had basic access control and intrusion detection systems installed. However, since the company has been expanding its market coverage, the value of its business had considerably increased. This new market coverage required a revised and tighter security approach. The new system would first be rolled out at the GE Tip Trailer HQ, located South of Paris, followed by sites in Marseille and Le Havre and more to follow. The main requirements set out by GE Tip Trailer were that the system should consist of fire and intrusion detection, access control and video surveillance. Additionally, an efficient way of managing the complete system was of vital importance. UTCFS approached GE Tip Trailer Services with its solution, offering a total and integrated security package at a competitive price. GE

UTCFS’s solution

UTCFS was able to offer a complete security solution consisting of fire and intrusion detection, access control and video surveillance. The system is based on UTCFS’s ATS Master panel, which integrates both access control and intrusion detection. Secondly, on each site there are a number of high-speed dome cameras installed, securing the perimeter. To ensure fire detection, close to 30 fire detectors are installed on every site throughout the office and warehouse areas. To enable full integration of the security system, UTCFS provided Tip Trailer Services with the Alliance software, a powerful and efficient management tool at the service of security personnel. An advantage of this integrated system is that it allows flexible macro programming to couple events. This allows for customisation, such as visual verification or automatic door opening when an alarm is reported. Having this security solution in place, Tip Trailer Services reaches a suitable level of security for their warehouses and fleet.