WideQuick PSIM
- a superior security system

Mälarenergi AB supplies water, sewage, district heating, and electricity to Västerås and the surrounding area. Working in conjunction with certified partners, Kentima has provided a superior security system that uses WideQuick PSIM for access/alarm and camera surveillance.

Gaslysningsbolaget was formed on 3 April 1861 in Västerås. At that time, Märlarenergi had full responsibility for keeping the 40 new gas lamps in Västerås burning. Some 160 years later, almost 150,000 people use electricity from Mälarenergi to light their homes. Mälarenergi AB of Västerås supplies electricity, water, sewage, district heating, and fibre services in the area. In 2014, the biggest solar cell installation for the production of electricity in Sweden was inaugurated.

Newsafe is a forward-thinking, entrepreneur-driven knowledge company that is challenging the precepts of the security industry. Most of its staff are qualified, experienced engineers in the fields of intruder alarms, fire alarms, camera systems and locks via certification body Svensk Brand- & Säkerhetscertifiering AB. Newsafe is a winner of the Stora Näringslivspriset award and has been named a DI Gasell company two years in a row.

Mälarenergi’s facilities are undergoing continual expansion as the result of the addition of new service areas, which means that the company has needed to invest in a superordinate security system. WideQuick PSIM and Ethiris VMS had already been installed as part of the base delivery carried out by Certego, which is also a Kentima partner. Kentima’s WideQuick PSIM solution is a superordinate security system, which can be configured to the customer’s exact requirements. Camera monitoring using Ethiris VMS is structured around a redundant server solution and 7 different operator positions. WideQuick PSIM acts as a superordinate system that is integrated with an ARX security system for alarms and access control, as well as Ethiris VMS.


”We now have a superordinate security system that ties access control, alarm, and camera systems together in accordance with our needs and requirements,” says Martin Göransson, Head of Security, Mälarenergi AB.


WideQuick PSIM gives you full control via a superordinate system function for IP cameras, door environments, and alarms in the system.

Via the graphical user interface, users can open and check the status of doors and alarms in the installation. Being able to work with a powerful and intuitive interface is important for building maintenance staff. The system affords a quick and simple overview, showing that the doors in facility perimeter security are closed and locked. In addition to a graphical display that helps manage the control and operation of doors/vehicle access gates, the system also enables the door environment to be monitored by video in real time.

Kentima’s Ethiris VMS software is a professional grade, scalable video monitoring system that features integrated functions such as clusters and redundancy, affording an extremely high level of operational reliability. Ethiris is an open platform that is ONVIF Conformant (www.onvif.org) and supports several different protocols from leading camera manufacturers. Because Ethiris can also communicate with a large number of different systems within security, automation, and other areas via OPC Server/Client, Modbus, and MS SQL, Ethiris VMS is a future-proof investment.


”WideQuick PSIM really has given us what we need, the only limit for how much the system can be developed is our imagination,” says John Engström, Project Manager, Newsafe Sweden AB.


The seamless way in which WideQuick PSIM and Ethiris VMS work together makes it easy to integrate a camera system into the PSIM solution. WideQuick PSIM can collect and monitor data from a number of different sources. This data is presented in a common user interface that gives users an excellent overview of the constituent systems.

Newsafe’s engineers have been given basic and advanced training at Kentima, which focused on how to configure the PSIM system and carry out script programming.