Controlling access into and around Helsinki Airport is a complex task. Around 15,000 people work there; daily pre-pandemic passenger numbers hovered around 60,000 to 70,000. Airport managers chose electronic and electromechanical locks, keyless padlocks and readers to secure the site and improve access management.
Connectivity and convenience are key themes in the latest edition of the biennial Wireless Access Control Report. Using data gathered from a new survey of 400 security, facilities management and IT professionals, the Wireless Access Control Report 2023 identifies trends which will shape this market and customers’ experience over the coming years.
Mobile Access from Bosch offers building owners, employees, and visitors easy access management thanks to certificate-based communication and an option for two-factor authentication. It is fully integrated into the Bosch access management solution.
Even in the busiest dental or doctors’ practice, there is a simple way to give patients privacy, protect medical equipment and keep personal belongings safe: a Code Handle Door Lock. This simple, secure door handle with inbuilt digital PINpad is easy to fit and straightforward to use — with no need for specialists or software. It’s the perfect security solution for waiting rooms and medicine rooms, drug stores, consulting rooms and staff rooms.
Access specialist Sesamsec presents its product and service portfolio at SicherheitsExpo 2023 in Munich.
Security doesn’t stop at the door, nor should your access control. How can you improve connectivity to manage cyber and physical security together?
For new headquarters in a Paris suburb, media giant Canal+ specified a connected smart building to enable efficient, flexible working. Choosing the right connectable access technologies can be a time-consuming task, all too often requiring compromises in the name of compatibility.
Automatic face recognition innovator, Touchbyte, is acquired by Salto Systems to accelerate the development and time-to-market of their face recognition access control solutions.
A recent Future Forum survey found that 58 % of knowledge workers already follow a hybrid work pattern: “Flexibility is the expectation – and increasingly the norm,” the report concludes. Further growth in flexible working is a certainty. These changing work patterns make flexibility in security even more critical. Choosing the right access control solution makes a big difference.
There’s an interesting confluence of trends in today’s security market, whereby security professionals are pressured to do more with less, while management pushes them for better ways to protect people, property and assets, and mitigate risks.
In our special focus, we ask three questions to four experts, Joachim Mahlstedt, Assa Abloy, Clément Menviel, STid, Borja Ganzarain, Salto Systems, and Sanjit Bardhan, HID, about mobile access control solutions, its benefits an application scenarios.
French specialist in identification solutions STid is definitely on an impressive growth curve.
In the course of the renovation of the Atlas building in Munich, a contemporary electronic locking system from Uhlmann & Zacher (U&Z) was installed.
The digitalization of building design and construction presents challenges and major opportunities. The need to manage and marshal project information is much greater than in the “analogue” world. Yet if done right, a shift to digital processes can save money and time, and end with a greener, more usable building. However, to fully realize these benefits, many projects are missing a key ingredient: expertise.
Installation, operation and expansion: electronic access control has costs attached to every stage of its lifetime. But these costs are not fixed.
Wilka's electronic lock cylinders are perfectly compatible with microchip implants to use for electronic access control.
The electronic access control system blueSmart from Winkhaus secures the government headquarters as well as municipal properties and sports facilities.
Everything on an ID Card: Security and cost reduction are prime considerations in the operation of senior citizen nursing and healthcare facilities.
When a door is equipped with a high-quality door closer, building users feel safer. They know that fire doors shut tight and sensitive openings are protected against unauthorized entry. But sometimes, door closer technology can also create barriers to genuine access-for-all. The problem is greater still for users who — for many reasons — have restricted strength or mobility.
The Marin Hospital of Hendaye in the French Basque Country faced common challenges posed by mechanical access control. Relying on mechanical lock-and-key technology made it difficult or impossible to know who had been accessing sensitive areas like treatment rooms and medicine stores.
Deliveries at night are often conducted by logistics companies and third-party providers, whose drivers must have access to the building, storage or cold rooms outside of business hours. With service providers and drivers changing more and more frequently, the risk is no longer tenable for most business owners or decision-makers.
Installation is where it all begins. Installation stage is also the largest contributor to the potential cost saving in choosing wireless. In calculations for a recent cost savings report, ASSA ABLOY experts examined likely costs of a 100-door installation. Labour cost savings for those who chose wireless versus wired locks were a staggering 82.5%*.
Assa Abloy show what modern access security can offer in a variety of scenarios to secure every door.
Invixium and IDcube have jointly announced the signing of a new technology partnership and global distribution agreement.
They offer UL294 listed trove access and power integration solutions.
Paxton’s latest innovation, Paxton10, allows installers and end-users to manage office access and video surveillance on one single platform.
Invixium introduced its latest product, IXM Vertu at Intersec 2023 (Stand S2-F18) in Dubai.
Based on the current ÜLock Battery and Inductive wireless security lock, the new ÜLock Novus has a self-locking panic lock with a 20 mm latch bolt as well as wireless and Bluetooth connectivity options.
German access specialist Sesamsec presents its high-performance products and new, pioneering services at the Intersec trade fair.
During the first half of 2023, all doors of all public schools in Gothenburg will be equipped with Iloq's S5 locking system. The order is the largest so far for Iloq in Sweden.
STid shows its high-security solutions at Intersec 2023. Bastien Castets, STid’s Regional Sales Director Middle East, answers three questions.
Smartphones with mobile credentials should not replace classic ID cards with RFID for access control altogether.
The Bucharest Transport Company (STB) provides public transit for Romania’s capital city and the surrounding area.
Securing King Engine Bearings’ manufacturing facility in Israel posed all the challenges of mixed-use sites. Their location in Kiryat-Gat is used for manufacturing, sales and distribution. To control and manage access to offices, the warehouse and a packaging facility, they needed an integrated solution with flexibility and a comprehensive device range to match.
With the ever-increasing rise in cybercrime, Genetec is cautioning organisations of all sizes to be vigilant about the cybersecurity risk posed by legacy access control systems.
