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.
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.