Often overlooked, storage for valuables, documents and personal items deserves the same protection as offices, labs or accommodation. Yet many access solutions leave these important access points poorly secured. Intelligent electronic control often stops at the door, ignoring the critical safety needs of many forgotten openings.
The creation of clear, transparent inspection protocols boosts the safety of multi-residential properties — and reassures both owners and building residents. To maximize the effectiveness of the inspection cycle, a reliable, up-to-date source of specification info is critical. As at many other stages of the building life-cycle, digitalization can be an ideal solution.
In today's dynamic business landscape, where offices, manufacturing plants, co-working spaces, and multi-use facilities co-exist, organizations face an array of challenges, including the need for agile and future-proof access control.
Østre Landsret, the High Court for Denmark’s Eastern region, handles both civil and criminal cases. At large new premises, specifiers equipped more than 650 doors and coordinated multiple project stakeholders, including Swedoor, a major Swedish supplier of doors and related technologies.
Hotel Flint in Dornbirn, Austria, is a new hotel which combines the best of contemporary and traditional hospitality. In renovating 19th-century Villa Weiss, and extending it with a 21st-century structure, developers sought an intelligent access solution which would both look good and help hotel staff to manage the site and provide guest services more effectively.
For our 20 year jubilee, we have interviewed many leaders in the industry about the past and the future and their take on industry-shaping developements.
Clement Menviel, Group Communications Director, Stid talks about how digital access badges have revolutionized security and how they prioritize the creation of a unified security ecosystem that integrates access control, surveillance, and cybersecurity measures for a proactive, real-time response to threats. For our 20 year jubilee, GIT SECURITY has asked leaders in the industry to give an outlook.
In the dynamic landscape of security solutions, STid has established itself as a trailblazer, driven by an unwavering commitment to innovation and a distinct vision of the future. Breaking free from the norm, STid’s independence has allowed it to challenge the status quo and set a new pace in the industry with its cutting-edge offerings.
Joni Lampinen, General Manager from the global-leading, battery-free smart-locking company – iLoq – will be joining Access Control Summit ACS23.
Gunnebo Entrance Control solutions have been installed at travel software and technology specialist Sabre’s remodelled office in Uruguay, to ensure the safety and well-being of its employees, clients and visitors.
Dr. Volker Brink, Head of Product Management Access Organisation at Winkhaus, speaks about microcontrollers and why efficient algorithms will make a difference in the future. For our 20 year jubilee, GIT SECURITY has asked leaders in the industry to give an outlook.
Prices reduced on best-selling Gardis products in response to Supply Chain Improvements.
Gunnebo has become the first facility worldwide to install its SpeedStile FLs Max entrance control solution at its headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Waveconn, developer and investor in Australian telecommunications infrastructure, has been an early adopter and innovator of digital locks for telecommunications infrastructure with the first solution deployed in 2017. In order to ensure continuous secure, reliable, and auditable access management across its network, Waveconn has entered into a partnership with iLoq to roll out iLoq’s battery-free and keyless mobile access sharing solution.
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.
