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Critical Infrastructure
Critical infrastructures impact
each and every person’s daily life and are essential to a
functioning modern society and government. From the nuclear,
coal and hydro-electric power stations that provide energy to
our neighborhoods and businesses, to the water treatment
facilities that provide us safe drinking water, to the
petroleum/natural gas industries and refineries that provide the
resources to heat our homes and fuel our vehicles, and to the
systems of roads, bridges, canals, airways, and railways that
move resources, commerce and ourselves around the country, any
disruption in these and other parts of our country’s
infrastructure can cause catastrophic consequences across
multiple sectors and cripple a nation.
In 1998 the United States set up a national program of “Critical
Infrastructure Protection” (CIP) to identify certain parts of
the national infrastructure deemed vital to national and
economic security of the United States and required steps to be
taken to protect it. In 2003 a Homeland Security directive known
as “Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and
Protection” broadened the definition of infrastructure in
accordance with the Patriot Act. Today in the United States
"Critical infrastructure" is defined by federal law as "systems
and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United
States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and
assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national
economic security, national public health or safety, or any
combination of those matters." Europe followed in 2006 with
doctrine equivalent to the CIP known as the “European Programme
for Critical Infrastructure Protection” (EPCIP). EPCIP was
created to identify infrastructure deemed critical that in case
of fault, incident or attack, could impact both the
affected/targeted country and at least one other European Member
State.
Since the United States and other nations began to implement
means to protect critical assets, MG Squared has deployed
lowering systems in all sectors of critical infrastructure
providing the most efficient means of maintaining cameras,
fixtures, and other mounted equipment. Critical infrastructures
demand a low threshold of downtime that conventional means of
maintenance, such as lifts and buck trucks, cannot provide.
Errors or lack of proper credentials from outside technicians or
equipment providers can also hinder efficient maintenance of
essential mounted equipment. Therefore design engineers and
integrators have found an extreme value and convenience from
implementing lowering devices in their designs and projects.
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Solutions & Applications
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