ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 19, 2024--
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 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)
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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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Visit www.securityinfowatch.com/readerschoice for the full list of the winning products, or print subscribers can check them out in the annual Winter Big Book product guide, a special December 2024 bonus publication to Security Business, Security Technology Executive (STE) and Locksmith Ledger magazines.
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)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has affixed partisan plaques to the portraits of all U.S. commanders in chief, himself included, on his Presidential Walk of Fame at the White House, describing Joe Biden as “sleepy,” Barack Obama as “divisive” and Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump.
The additions, first seen publicly Wednesday, mark Trump's latest effort to remake the White House in his own image, while flouting the protocols of how presidents treat their predecessors and doubling down on his determination to reshape how U.S. history is told.
“The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement describing the installation in the colonnade that runs from the West Wing to the residence. “As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”
Indeed, the Trumpian flourishes include the president’s typical bombastic language and haphazard capitalization. They also highlight Trump's fraught relationships with his more recent predecessors.
An introductory plaque tells passersby that the exhibit was “conceived, built, and dedicated by President Donald J. Trump as a tribute to past Presidents, good, bad, and somewhere in the middle.”
Besides the Walk of Fame and its new plaques, Trump has adorned the Oval Office in gold and razed the East Wing in preparation for a massive ballroom. Separately, his administration has pushed for an examination of how Smithsonian exhibits present the nation’s history, and he is playing a strong hand in how the federal government will recognize the nation's 250th anniversary in 2026.
Here's a look at how Trump's colonnade exhibit tells the presidential story.
Joe Biden is still the only president in the display not to be recognized with a gilded portrait. Instead, Trump chose an autopen, reflecting his mockery of Biden’s age and assertions that Biden was not up to the job.
Biden, who defeated Trump in the 2020 election and dropped out of the 2024 election before their pending rematch, is introduced as “Sleepy Joe” and “by far, the worst President in American History” who “brought our Nation to the brink of destruction.”
Two plaques blast Biden for inflation and his energy and immigration policy, among other things. The text also blames Biden for Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and asserts falsely that Biden was elected fraudulently.
Biden’s post-White House office had no comment on his plaque.
The 44th president is described as “a community organizer, one term Senator from Illinois, and one of the most divisive political figures in American History."
The plaque calls Obama's signature domestic achievement “the highly ineffective ‘Unaffordable Care Act."
And it notes that Trump nixed other major Obama achievements: “the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal ... and ”the one-side Paris Climate Accords."
An aide to Obama also declined comment.
George W. Bush, who notably did not speak to Trump when they were last together at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral, appears to win approval for creating the Department of Homeland Security and leading the nation after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
But the plaque decries that Bush “started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which should not have happened.”
An aide to Bush didn’t return a message seeking comment.
The 42nd president, once a friend of Trump's, gets faint praise for major crime legislation, an overhaul of the social safety net and balanced budgets.
But his plaque notes Clinton secured those achievements with a Republican Congress, the help of the 1990s “tech boom” and “despite the scandals that plagued his Presidency.”
Clinton's recognition describes the North American Free Trade Agreement, another of his major achievements, as “bad for the United States” and something Trump would “terminate” during his first presidency. (Trump actually renegotiated some terms with Mexico and Canada but did not scrap the fundamental deal.)
His plaque ends with the line: “In 2016, President Clinton's wife, Hillary, lost the Presidency to President Donald J. Trump!”
An aide to Clinton did not return a message seeking comment.
The broadsides dissipate the further back into history the plaques go.
Republican George H.W. Bush, who died during Trump's first term, is recognized for his lengthy resume before becoming president, along with legislation including the Clean Air Act and Americans With Disabilities Act — despite Trump's administration relaxing enforcement of both. The elder Bush's plaque does not note that he, not Clinton, first pushed the major trade law that became NAFTA.
Lyndon Johnson’s plaque credits the Texas Democrat for securing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 (seminal laws that Trump’s administration interprets differently than previous administrations). It correctly notes that discontent over Vietnam led to LBJ not seeking reelection in 1968.
Democrat John F. Kennedy, the uncle of Trump's health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is credited as a World War II “war hero” who later used “stirring rhetoric” as president in opposition to communism.
Republican Richard Nixon’s plaque states plainly that the Watergate scandal led to his resignation.
While Trump spared most deceased presidents of harsh criticism, he jabbed at one of his regular targets, the media — this time across multiple centuries: Andrew Jackson’s plaque says the seventh president was “unjustifiably treated unfairly by the Press, but not as viciously and unfairly as President Abraham Lincoln and President Donald J. Trump would, in the future, be.”
With two presidencies, Trump gets two displays. Each is full of praise and superlatives — “the Greatest Economy in the History of the World.” He calls his 2016 Electoral College margin of 304-227 a “landslide.”
Trump's second-term plaque notes his popular vote victory — something he did not achieve in 2016 — and concludes with “THE BEST IS YET TO COME.”
Meanwhile, the introductory plaque presumes Trump’s addition will be a White House fixture once he is no longer president: “The Presidential Walk of Fame will long live as a testament and tribute to the Greatness of America.”
Barrow reported from Atlanta.
New plaques of explanatory text have been placed underneath presidential portraits on the Colonnade at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
New plaques of explanatory text have been placed underneath presidential portraits on the Colonnade at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
New plaques of explanatory text have been placed underneath presidential portraits on the Colonnade at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
New plaques of explanatory text are seen beneath a framed portrait in the space for former President Joe Biden on the Presidential Walk of Fame on the Colonnade of the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
New plaques of explanatory text have been placed underneath presidential portraits on the Colonnade at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
