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Traka, an ASSA ABLOY company and a global leader in intelligent key management solutions, is pleased to announce its Personnel Deposit Lockers have been named the top product in the SecurityInfoWatch.com Readers’ Choice Product Awards in the Key and Asset Management category.
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The SecurityInfoWatch.com Readers’ Choice Awards recognize the most impactful products introduced in the physical security industry over the past year (April 2023 through June 2024) in 19 different categories. The program is judged and decided by the very people who use and install these products every day. Voting was open to any SecurityInfoWatch.com reader (one vote per IP address) during August and September. In all, nearly 2,200 security professionals participated in the voting.
Traka Personnel Lockers are the ultimate solution for hybrid workspaces, college campuses, and corporate facilities, offering a secure place for staff and visitors to stow personal items like backpacks, laptops, and smartphones. Their automated access system allows for easy deposit and retrieval, while also accommodating restricted items such as firearms before entering sensitive areas like courthouses or medical facilities. With strong security features and an audit trail for accountability, these lockers can operate as standalone units with up to 100 compartments or be networked via TrakaWEB, integrating seamlessly with existing access control and third-party systems. They also work in conjunction with Traka’s Equipment Management Lockers and Electronic Key Management Systems and offer integrated power options for charging devices while securely stored.
"I am thrilled to hear that our personnel deposit locker has been recognized as a top product choice in the key and asset management category by SecurityInfoWatch.com's annual poll. This recognition is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the entire locker team at Traka," said Lee Newell, Locker Engineer, Traka Americas. "Our Personnel Deposit Lockers have proven invaluable tools for corporations worldwide, the lockers not only enhance security but also foster collaboration, making them essential in today's dynamic environments."
“SecurityInfoWatch congratulates all of the award winners in our annual Reader’s Choice Awards,” said SecurityInfoWatch Editorial Director Steve Lasky. “These products represent the best of the best among the newest technologies that are helping to secure people and property.”
About Traka:
Traka is part of ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions, which provides safe and sustainable cutting-edge technology solutions for physical and digital access management control. As a full solutions provider, ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions is part of the wider ASSA ABLOY Group. Being a global leader in access solutions, the Group operates worldwide with 61,000 employees and holds leading positions in areas such as efficient door opening, trusted identities, and entrance automation.
Traka is the global leader in intelligent management solutions for keys and equipment. Their solutions help organizations better control their important assets, improving productivity and accountability, and reducing risk in critical processes. Traka continuously invests in the development of technology to provide leading, innovative, secure, and effective real-world solutions to the challenges that organizations face in managing keys and equipment. Their solutions are tailored to customer needs and requirements, providing the most value and impact on their business.
Traka is a global organization with local support working to define processes, being local when you need us and global when it counts.
Learn more about Traka and its full line of key and asset management solutions for nearly every industry sector at www.traka.com.
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The Personnel Deposit lockers can operate as standalone units with up to 100 compartments and feature advanced security features like an audit trail for accountability. (Photo: Business Wire)
Traka's Personnel Deposit Lockers offer a secure place for staff and visitors to stow personal items like backpacks, laptops, and smartphones. (Photo: Business Wire)
Traka's Personnel Deposit Lockers have been named a top product in the SecurityInfoWatch.com Readers’ Choice Product Awards. (Photo: Business Wire)
BEIRUT (AP) — A United States envoy said an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is “within our grasp” after talks in Lebanon on Tuesday.
However, there was no such optimism in the Gaza Strip, where the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks by armed men worsened an already severe food crisis.
Amos Hochstein, the Biden administration’s pointman on Israel and Lebanon, arrived as Hezbollah’s allies in the Lebanese government said it had responded positively to the proposal, which would entail both the militants and Israeli ground forces withdrawing from a U.N. buffer zone in southern Lebanon.
The buffer zone would be policed by thousands of additional U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanese troops. Israel has called for a stronger enforcement mechanism, potentially including the ability to operate against any Hezbollah threats, something Lebanon is likely to oppose.
Hochstein said he had held “very constructive talks” with Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, an ally of Hezbollah who is mediating on the group’s behalf.
“Specifically today, we have continued to significantly narrow the gaps,” the envoy told reporters after the two-hour meeting. “It’s ultimately the decisions of the parties to reach a conclusion to this conflict...It is now within our grasp.”
Berri said the "situation is good in principle,” though some unresolved technical details remain. The Lebanese side was now waiting to hear the results of Hochstein's talks with Israeli officials, he told the Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.
The theft in Gaza over the weekend of nearly 100 trucks loaded with food and other humanitarian aid sent prices soaring and caused shortages in central Gaza, where most of the population of 2.3 million people have fled and where hundreds of thousands are crammed into squalid tent camps.
Experts say famine may already have set in in the north, where Israel has been waging a weekslong offensive that has killed hundreds of people and driven tens of thousands from their homes.
On Monday, a crowd of people waited outside a shuttered bakery in the central city of Deir al-Balah. A woman who had been displaced from Gaza City, identifying herself as Umm Shadi, said the price of flour had climbed to 400 shekels (over $100) a bag, if it can even be found.
Nora Muhanna, also displaced from Gaza City, said she was leaving empty-handed after waiting five hours for a bag of bread for her children. “From the beginning, there are no goods, and even if they are available, there is no money,” she said.
The United Nations said armed men stole food and other aid from 98 trucks over the weekend, the largest single incident of its kind since the war began. It did not say who was behind the theft.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the convoy of 109 trucks was instructed by the Israeli military to take an “alternative, unfamiliar route” after the aid was brought through the Kerem Shalom crossing, and that the trucks were robbed near the crossing itself.
Israel accuses criminal gangs and Hamas of stealing aid, allegations denied by the militant group.
Al-Aqsa TV, operated by the militants, said Hamas-run security forces in Gaza had launched an operation against looters, killing 20 of them.
Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official based abroad, said the looters were young men from local Bedouin tribes, emphasizing that they do not necessarily represent the tribes. He said they operate east of Rafah near Israeli military positions.
The Hamas-run government had a police force of tens of thousands that maintained public security before the war, but they have vanished in many areas after being targeted by Israeli strikes. Hamas says it has taken measures to prevent looting and price-gouging in markets.
But the biggest problem is not theft – it’s the low amount of aid Israel allows into Gaza, said Tamara Alrifai, communications director for UNRWA, the U.N. agency with the biggest role in the humanitarian operation.
“Take aid into a war zone a few trucks at a time, what do we expect a displaced, hungry and traumatized population to do?” she said of the theft.
The flow of aid is at nearly the lowest level of the entire 13-month war. So far this month, Israel says it let into Gaza an average of 88 trucks a day – less than half the highest rate of the war, in April, which aid groups say was still too low.
From the aid that does enter, UNRWA says only about half actually reaches Palestinians because Israeli military restrictions and fears of theft often prevent the agency from collecting truck cargos at the border.
Israel says it puts no restrictions on the quantity of aid entering Gaza and that it is working to increase the amount. This month, it opened a new crossing into central Gaza. So far it has reported a few dozen trucks entering through it.
Hamas ignited the war in Gaza when its fighters stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250. Around 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third of them believed to be dead.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed almost 44,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to local health authorities, who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants in their toll. The war has left much of the territory in ruins and forced around 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million to flee, often multiple times.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after the Hamas attack in what it said was solidarity with the Palestinians and Hamas, a fellow Iran-backed militant group. Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes, and all-out war erupted in September.
Israeli bombardment has killed more than 3,500 people in Lebanon and wounded almost 15,000, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. It also displaced nearly 1.2 million, or a quarter of Lebanon’s population. On the Israeli side, 87 soldiers and 50 civilians have been killed by rockets, drones and missiles, and tens of thousands of Israelis have been evacuated from homes near the border.
The Biden administration has spent months trying to broker cease-fires on both fronts, though talks for a deal in the Gaza war have stalled.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end the wars in the Middle East without saying how. He was a staunch supporter of Israel and its hawkish government during his first term.
Shurafa reported from Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip and Khaled from Cairo.
Find more of AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war
Amos Hochstein, center, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, is received ahead of a meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Amos Hochstein, center, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, is received ahead of a meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, speaks with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri during their meeting, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Amos Hochstein, center, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, arrives for his meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Amos Hochstein, right, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, and US Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa A. Johnson, left, gesture during their meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Amos Hochstein, center, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, and US Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa A. Johnson, left, meet with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Palestinians queue for food in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A man looks from a damaged building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Amos Hochstein, center, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, is received ahead of a meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A man looks from a damaged building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A man passes in front of a destroyed building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A man clears broken glass from his damaged shop near a building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A destroyed building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike is seen in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A destroyed building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike is seen in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People inspect a destroyed building that was hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A destroyed building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike is seen in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
A destroyed building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike is seen in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Women react as they pass through debris of a building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People stand next to a destroyed building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
People inspect a destroyed building hit on Monday evening by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Palestinians gather near a closed bakery, amid a shortage in flour and the closure of a main bakery in central Gaza have exacerbated an already dire humanitarian situation, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A Palestinian woman queues for food in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians queue for food in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians gather near a closed bakery amid a shortage in flour and the closure of a main bakery in central Gaza have exacerbated an already dire humanitarian situation, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians queue for food in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A Palestinian child queues for food in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
