West 2018: A 'passing' security option
Metrasens is using this week’s West 2018 in San Diego to increase community awareness and identify new applications for its Proscreen 500 advanced ferromagnetic detector security system.
‘It's a product and a technology that we actually pioneered,’ explained Douglas Miorandi, director of federal programmes and high security at Metrasens. ‘What this does different than a walkthrough metal detector is that it just looks for the very small magnetic signature of recording devices, like phones, USB drives, SD cards – basically any kind of recording medium.’
He pointed to a graphic representation of how the narrow device could be positioned outside
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