LAWTON – A material-and-installation agreement with Digi Security Systems for the $404,000 Jail Controls upgrade at the Comanche County jail was approved June 22 by the Facilities Authority.
The equipment will be installed in the Comanche County Detention Center by Sydaptic Inc., which is based in Waco, Texas. Digi advertises that it has designed and delivered “cutting-edge layered security solutions” for more than 20 years. The company has offices in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Dallas and Cypress, Texas, and in Springdale, Arkansas.
The Facilities Authority approved the jail equipment upgrade during its March 30 meeting.
Sydaptic describes itself as “a leader in custom-engineered jail control systems.” The company says it specializes in “designing, developing, manufacturing, and supporting cutting-edge correctional facility technology.”
As discussed with CCDC personnel, “the best engineering and ergonomic solution is to replace all of the failed/suspect controls and panels and integrate the existing endpoints (doors, intercoms, etc.) into our 1220 Control System,” the company recommended.
Sydaptic will install “all of the required power supplies, control electronics, controllers, etc.,” the agreement provides.
Administrative enhancements include “the logging of every keystroke by the operator and the operator’s unique ID, remote diagnostics, voltage and temperature logging, and ability for the county to add, delete or modify the control elements without the assistance” of Sydaptic personnel.
“Our jail control system keeps a time and date stamp on all objects controlled by our system,” Sydaptic says. “This is useful if an inmate claims his cell door was opened and he/she was abused.”
Their system will enable CCDC personnel to “access the log and see if the door was open, opened with our system or opened with a key.”
The 1220 system will control 161 doors, two sallyport/security gates, and 165 intercoms, which will entail repairing 50 intercoms with new cable and new wall plates. It also will control all IP cameras, five call/panic buttons, eight key switch operators, and 88 utilities (lights, outlets, and water, requiring installation of 16 new water valves).
Endpoints will be controlled by three computers, three LED viewscreens, three amplifiers, three master control speakers, one intercom recording server unit, eight battery backups/surge protectors, and five security control panels.
One large monitor will be installed to control the jail. “This allows the officer to see the entire layout of the facility at one time.”
Mapping the electronic systems will take a while to complete, Weber said. Installation of the equipment will take less time, he indicated.