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Force 5 launches new Advanced Watchlist Enforcer feature at POWERGEN

Force 5’s Advanced Watchlist Enforcer implements extensive matching methods in name, text-field identifiers, fuzzy-matching algorithms, and facial recognition.
Force 5 launches new Advanced Watchlist Enforcer feature at POWERGEN

Force 5, Inc. announced the launch of a new feature in its Gatekeeper Platform, the Advanced Watchlist Enforcer, Monday at POWERGEN International. The new feature aims to provide power utilities a more accurate method to validate contractors, employees, and visitors against their watchlists and to stop or clear physical entry at any door or gate, manned or unmanned, accordingly.

Force 5’s Advanced Watchlist Enforcer implements extensive matching methods in name, text-field identifiers, fuzzy-matching algorithms, and facial recognition. Its open architecture allows BES facilities to integrate with third-party watchlist datasets, like sex offender registries or criminal-records databases, for an added layer of physical security.

Watchlist Enforcer increases security and safety at power utilities while reducing watchlist risks with its interface within Force 5’s Gatekeeper Platform. For security oversight, it offers granular reports for administrators and auditors, including history logs of every action taken by security officers.

“Our advanced watchlist enforcement technology will help BES facilities drastically reduce the instances of watchlisted personnel slipping into a facility in which Gatekeeper is installed or a mobile Gatekeeper kiosk is used,” says James Evelyn, Vice President for Force 5, Inc. “Most people on your watchlist aren’t playing by the rules, and technologies that can’t ‘read between the lines’ won’t catch bad actors. To help, we developed our Watchlist Hit Score. Built from a multitude of facial, text, and fuzzy-matching inputs, this score arms security departments with much more detailed information as to why we believe this person is a match to your watchlist—even if they tried to misrepresent themselves.”

Gatekeeper’s watchlist technology will work at remote, unmanned, or self-service locations, which often comprise 70-90% of a large BES company’s fleet.

This Advanced Watchlist release comes on the heels of Force 5, Inc.’s facial recognition feature launch that was recently added to the Gatekeeper Platform.

For more information, visit Force 5 at booth 3637.

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