Martin’s Experience

WORLD TRADE CENTER, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK

The World Trade Center had one of the most advanced security systems in the world. Martin designed the SCADA system for the towers and worked closely with the Port Authority getting their direction to determine how they wanted or needed the alarms to be handled. Martin was one of two programmers who worked to make Cimplicity integrate with the card access system, CCTVs and various other alarms. The second programmer was task in making Oracle work. The system had approximately 40,000 points. Cimplicity was integrated with Oracle to make the multiple systems work.

SAUDI CHEVRON, SAUDI ARABIA

As the Cimplicity programmer, Martin integrated the perimeter fence security system with CCTV, motion detection, microwave, and fire alarms. Martin also programmed the GE Fanuc 90/30s and GE SCADA Software to accomplish the integration. GCSI was a third-tier sub consultant for this project.

KENAI YOUTH FACILITY, ALASKA

This was a new facility with a project that had never built a detention facility. Martin designed a working system that met the facility and state needs. He programmed the GE Fanuc PLC 90/30 and the HMI using GE SCADA Software. He also laid out the GE Fanuc PLC system and produced the AutoCAD drawings. Martin worked with the management staff and helped to finish on time.

MATSU YOUTH FACILITY, ALASKA

This was an existing detention facility located in Palmer, Alaska. Martin redesigned the existing system incorporating facility and state needs. Martin reprogrammed the GE Fanuc PLC 90/70 and the HMI using GE SCADA Software. He also laid out the GE Fanuc PLC system and produced the AutoCAD drawings.

WEST SPRINGFIELD POLICE STATION, VIRGINIA

This was a new facility located in West Springfield, Virginia. Martin designed a working system that met the facility and city needs. Martin programmed the GE Fanuc PLC 90/30 which integrated the CCTV, intercoms, paging, and glass breakage, and the code blue stations. All alarms were alarming into a SCADA system. He also laid out the GE Fanuc PLC system and produced the AutoCAD drawings.
In addition, Martin was instrumental in training the field technician in detention-grade security. When arriving on this job site there were no devices installed in the equipment room. The field wiring was pulled into the room and the design was not complete for the technicians on site. The city requested that Martin assemble the system and get it documented. This was a fast-track project and completed in less than a month.

BALTIMORE CORRECTIONS AND INTAKE CENTER (BCBIC), MARYLAND

While employed by Star Detention Electronics, Martin was a member of the team tasked with the installation of RIOC 2000 (aka Garyware©) in the newly-built correctional facility in Baltimore, Maryland. Martin used AutoCad to produce the floor plans used for the project. He was instrumental in the conversion of hard panels to touchscreen controls and layouts. As an on-site programmer, he was successful in trouble shooting and correcting the PLC program for a 10,000-point ladder logic program. Martin was responsible for making field devices, local area hard panels, and the SCADA system to work together. The SCADA controls the remote hard panels, CCTVs, paging system, intercoms, door controls, group unlock for the dorms, key enable and interlock override systems.

HUMBOLDT COUNTY JAIL UPGRADE, CALIFORNIA

Martin was the project manager and lead programmer for this unique project. This project involved the security system upgrade for a 409-bed facility. Martin replaced the DOS-based system with a Windows based SCADA system. Martin designed the SCADA system to control the building lighting control and control the water in the cells in addition to the standard controls for a jail. New video surveillance cameras were integrated into the new SCADA system.
With this new SCADA system, the control room officers monitor and control security doors, cameras, elevators, intercoms and inmate room assistance call system. They also monitor the fire and life safety system, control lighting, inmate telephones and plumbing. This system has nearly 8,000 HMI points.
Working with the officers, Martin was able to design a dual system in one. The facility wanted to keep the original screen and then have a modified version to help in the movement of personnel. This generated a program within a program allowing the officers two ways to track movement. The system works the way they requested. Special features were added to allow the officers to move from one screen to the other more quickly.

CLACKAMAS COUNTY JAIL UPGRADE, OREGON

This facility was upgraded from using RIOC 2000 (aka Garyware©) to a Windows based SCADA system. The system was failing and Martin reprogrammed their PLC, added new workstations and added a client station. Thirty graphic screens were redesigned using AutoCAD and condensed into 16 screens. He later installed a DVR system supporting all of the facility’s cameras. The camera call-up for their door control was integrated in the SCADA system.
Martin wrote the new program and designed the setup to provide the means for both old and new systems to coexist.
Training of operators and administrators was conducted and an O&M Manual provided for each operator.

WAHKIAKUM COUNTY JAIL UPGRADE, WASHINGTON

Martin wrote the program to remove the old RIOC 2000 System (aka Garyware©) and replace it with a Windows based SCADA system. This facility improvement included upgrading the drawings using AutoCAD, analyzing and correcting the systems design flaws, upgrading and reprogramming the 90/30 PLC, and upgrading the intercoms and amplifiers.

GWINNET COUNTY, GEORGIA

Martin analyzed the existing PLC systems (Omron) and upgraded the PLC program adding a redundant SCADA system. This involved integrating SCADA to Omron PLC. GCSI was asked to come back and replace the existing PLC system to GE Fanuc PLC network solutions. This project is still continuing due facility expansion. The facility started with 400 beds and, when the construction is completed, they will have added 1,200 new beds.

BALTIMORE CENTRAL BOOKING AND INTAKE CENTER (BCBIC), MARYLAND

Graphic Control Systems, Inc. (GCSI) provided a Y2K compliance assessment to the State of Maryland to determine whether would hold up to the date change on January 1, 2000. Once the system was determined to be able to handle the date change, the decision was made to convert the system from RIOC 2000 to a Windows based SCADA system. This consisted of integrating the DOS system and reprogramming the GE Fanuc PLCs.
Martin Eggiman wrote the program and designed the setup to provide the means for both the RIOC 2000 (aka Garyware© ) and a Windows based SCADA system to coexist. This setup is a collapsing system that allows one client to transfer controls to another client. In addition to the software upgrades, the State of Maryland requested that Martin summarize and then make the necessary repairs to the security system.
A DVR system was installed that supported 210 cameras and added another 187 to the facility. Martin managed a crew that installed the additional cameras, coax, fiber and core drilled through the floors of the building. This project was expected to take six months but was completed in four months.

DAVIS COUNTY JAIL ADDITION AND UPGRADE, NEVADA

The expansion of the jail added 400 beds to the current facility. A new SCADA system was designed and PLC network added to support the building addition. Once the addition was completed, the following year Martin was hired to upgrade the old facility.
This upgrade included editing the current PLC program and installing a Windows based SCADA system. Martin was tasked with integrating the building expansion and the existing system combining them into the central redundant server system.

SUMMIT COUNTY JAIL, UTAH

This facility was upgraded from using RIOC 2000 (aka Garyware©) a Windows based SCADA system. Prior to the upgrade, the system was failing. Martin provided the system upgrade and reprogrammed the PLC while adding new client stations.

GLENDALE POLICE DEPARTMENT, CALIFORNIA

This new facility’s security system was installed by a large national integrator but they were not able to complete it. Martin was contracted to analyze what had been done, make the corrections to the Omron PLC and generate a new SCADA system. This needed customized drivers for a Harding digital intercom system, inmate video visitation and video recording. Once the programming and installation were complete, the staff went from a totally key jail to a modern facility with minimum effort.

MIRAMAR NAVAL BASE, CALIFORNIA

Graphic Control Systems, Inc. was contracted to design the PLC and SCADA system. Per the contract, Martin designed the door controls for the SCADA system. The firm that contracted Martin was to design and install the Commend USA digital intercom system. Martin developed a driver for the Commend digital intercom and completed the system as well as redesigning the paging system. As the installation and integration evolved, Martin produced precise drawings showing point to point terminations for the equipment.

HUMBOLDT REGIONAL JUVENILE FACILITY, CALIFORNIA

This was an upgrade to an older hard-panel system. The youth facility’s system had very little documentation and the SCADA was designed around the old control panel. The intercom was rebuilt and a new video matrix switch was installed. They had a lighting control panel that interfaced with a GE lighting panel. Martin designed the lighting controls into the SCADA system and generated drawings to have the lighting controller rewired.

SPECIAL PROJECT

Martin was tasked with building a laser interface system to control alarms from a laser to a control center. The end user provides Martin with the functionality that they would like to see and that determines how the system is programmed.
The laser interface system included designing a custom back panel that consists of circuit boards, 24vdc power supplies, circuit breakers, terminals, 120vac line conditioner, and a PLC to fit into a pre-determined-sized cabinet. The control cabinet has indication circuit boards allowing maintenance the tools to see problems within the system with the exception of the PLC. Using the Siemens PLC, the system was designed to indicate the following:

  • Wire break
  • Wire short to ground
  • Breaker trip or breaker off to laser interface board
  • 6 base outputs of the laser
  • When the laser heater comes on
  • Normal power for the laser and heater at the laser interface board

The system also alarms into a card access system which sends predetermined alarms to their control center.
This system is totally self-redundant in 24vdc power in the control cabinet and out to the laser interface board. The laser interface board was designed to carry the redundancy to the laser, the laser heater and the laser I/O. This system is also designed for expansion. Our SCADA system design can handle thousands of IP addresses. Martin has submitted his design to Siemens’ engineers and it was approved by them.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

  • Cimplicity HMI software development & programming
  • Siemens WinCC
  • PLC programming
  • Systems integration
  • Factory testing
  • Cymax
  • Omron PLC
  • GE PLC
  • Siemens PLC
  • Commend USA Intercom
  • Harding Intercom
  • AutoCAD

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Software designer for seven Cimplicity applications of 5,000 or more points
  • Programmer for GE Fanuc PLCs on more than dozen projects
  • 22 years detention facility experience and other security fields
  • Certified Cimplicity developer and GE Fanuc PLC programmer
  • Design custom control
  • Circuit boards and interface with Siemens
  • PLC
  • Project management
  • Documentation