Organizations requiring a higher security level began replacing their locks and keys with electronic card-based access control systems. The system has remained the favourite medium for employee credentials. However, as technology evolved so did these systems.
The most important problem with card-based technology is that they may not work in different facilities. A card providing employees access to a New York office may not work at corporate buildings in California. So better technology to tackle the issue is the need of the hour.
Biometrics offers a convenient, prompt and accurate solution for any facility size or type. These all are virtually impossible with a biometric attendance machine – such as an iris pattern, facial shape or fingerprint which is part of a person. These technologies are highly accurate and eliminate the need to carry a card or remember a passcode. Many mission-critical facilities already use biometric readers in conjunction with card-based systems as part of a two-factor identity authentication process.
Employees may be recognized at any company facility following a one-time enrolment into a biometric database. Accessing a door using biometrics takes a second – about the same as required for a card-based system. In addition, like card-based access control, the biometric device software may limit which doors, days and times an employee may enter.
A biometric access control system can provide a card-free, end-to-end solution that bridges an organization’s physical and logical security needs.
Biometric systems integrate with video surveillance and other security systems. Also, biometric readers serve as employee time and attendance functions. However, unlike cards, they eliminate a payroll fraud known as buddy punching in which one employee uses another person’s credentials to clock in for an absent person. With iris and facial recognition systems, employees never come into contact with readers. Identity authentication takes place at distances of a foot or more. Biometric technologies are also easily scalable. India’s national identity program, used for employment, passports, social services, banking and other activities, has more than one billion people enrolled in an iris-based system.
Biometric readers are also challenging to spoof through built-in liveness detection. This largely eliminates identity authentication based on photographs, prosthetics and even amputated digits and eyeballs.
Contactless Solutions
Smartphones are another potential card-killer as virtually all employees now carry smartphones. Use of the technology has been proven by the hospitality industry, which for years has enabled frequent hotel guests to bypass the front desk and go directly to their room using a smartphone to open the door.
On the job, workers receive an email containing an app with the data required to turn a smartphone into a virtual key. The phone communicates with the readers using an encrypted Bluetooth signal. The process also accommodates visitors, enabling them to directly enter pre-approved doors without registering at the front desk. Visitor credentials may be set to expire as the person leaves.
Smartphones offer several security safeguards. People don’t generally lend their phones, loaded with personal information, to another employee.
The costs of mobile credentialing are predictable with organizations paying only for credentials in use. Unlike plastic cards, mobile credentials may be remotely deactivated, issued, transferred and reused. This makes the technology a more sustainable choice. Adding new features and functions only require a wireless upload to the phone’s app and access readers.
The response ranges of mobile credentials are customizable. Some organizations prefer a hands-free solution that enables employees to keep their phones in a pocket or bag while entering pre-authorized doors. Other facilities may want the mobile credential to be presented near a single reader.
And there’s no reason the migration from cards has to be an all-or-nothing process. Organizations may begin adding biometric readers at doors to highly sensitive areas. New hybrid readers support mobile credentials as well as magnetic stripe, proximity and chip-based smart cards.
A new generation of access control credentials are proven and available. Options providing higher levels of contactless security, convenience and long-term cost savings are available with Screencheck, one of the trusted biometric solution providers in the Middle East. Decades ago, a better solution pushed aside key-based locks. It’s time now to do the same with the access control card.
Safe School provides Indoor Positioning System based on BlueTooth and WiFi which helps the school to monitor the attendance in the classes, which students wait most for bus or pickup, how punctual teachers are reaching in classrooms, are all the classrooms checked post-school by security staff or not. It empowers the student with “World’s First iCard with Panic Button for Schools”. Just on the press of button, the school security team is alerted with the precise location of the child within the school along with details.
Visibility Solutions
Bene – Complete RFID based tracking solution for asset, People and files. Easy to deploy web-based solution handles all your Asset Tracking, People Tracking and File Tracking requirements. Live Dashboards present you the real-time data that help you save your time in tracking and loss prevention. Specialized RFID tags combined with fixed RFID readers or handheld RFID readers makes the solution ideal for organizations, events, yards etc.,
Emergency Evacuation
RFID based Emergency Evacuation or Mustering solution provides visibility to track the location of the employees during an emergency. It helps the first responders to act efficiently and to reduce the response time. It can be implemented in all the sectors and industries. The employee wears the RFID badge or wristband which will be tracked at various checkpoints in the building using the RFID Readers. The reader at the assembly point provide the details of the people assembled and the people missed. The current location of the missed people will be alerted by the system and focused rescue actions can be performed.
Condition Monitoring
Many manufacturing and Oil & Gas facilities focus on condition monitoring or predictive maintenance solutions for motors, bearings, rollers, conveyors, water pumps, etc.. An unplanned motor failure can cause a line-down situation ranging anywhere from a couple of hours to several days. BLE based condition monitoring solution is one which predicts failure or presents the deterioration rate for any equipment that has the potential to cause downtime, in time to react. Bluvision’s advanced Condition Monitoring uses machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to predict failure on any motor or mechanical equipment, weeks or months before the failure happens.
i-Lock Container Tracking
Trackable GPS padlock is a one-stop solution for securing, monitoring and tracking containers. Padlock provides constant location and 24/7 online access to the status of your containers protected by our service. It is an independent IoT device which is able to access the internet on its own and have an accurate location on any part of the globe. Any tampering such as burning, smashing, cutting or signal jamming of the lock are reported as an alarm, with time and location of the event. The lock has an internal battery which can be charged wirelessly with a charging pad.
We provide comprehensive video surveillance solution that helps you monitor and improve productivity and also secure your premises by monitoring visitors. Our partnership with the major international camera and accessory manufacturers help us provide the most advanced and competitive solutions to our customers. Our installation & maintenance division has a strong foundation of engineers and technicians, ensuring the best service to our clients. Regular factory training by our suppliers & partners ensures that our engineers are always updated on the latest technologies and equipment.
V-Authenticate (VAMS), our visitor management solution allows you to monitor and control the visitors in office premises. The software keeps the logs of all visitors entering the premise. Their details are enrolled either by entering the data in the software or scanning their IDs. Meetings can be booked by the host along with the meeting room. The system can read most of the National ID documents in GCC countries for the visitor registration. System is already integrated with many access control systems.
TimeCheck is a powerful time and attendance management solution compatible with various input devices that use fingerprints, facial recognition, proximity cards, PIN technology etc. TimeCheck eliminates all manual inputs to calculate attendance, overtime and salary. The ease to integrate with any third party ERP, HRMS and Payroll software makes TimeCheck the leading attendance management software in the market.
Card Issuance ID card is the most simple tool today for identification. Whether it is a Driving License, Employee or Student ID, Customer Loyalty Card, Banking Card; our solution helps the customer to manage card issuance in the most efficient manner. Our system manages all the processes in card management, from capturing the data, photo and biometric information, approving/rejecting the issuance, card printing, quality control and delivery. The well defined processes in the system keep a complete audit trail and is available for any verification. The system supports most of the identification technologies like Mifare, RFID, UHF, HID, contact smart card, proximity etc. Our encoding plugins for these technologies make the printing and encoding in a single pass which eliminates human error.
Our access control solutions are designed to maximize user convenience and security, by decentralized design which provides impeccable access control at an affordable price. The solution doesn’t have space limitations, utilizing a convenient TCP/IP-based internet network, and can perfectly support diverse entry control functions, beginning from those of simple One-Door Access Control System to more complicated network type Access Control Systems
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