Why should you have Access Control?
Access control allows you to manage who has access to your building and at what times.
Locks and keys cannot be replaced by access control as these secure the perimeter of your building. However, they do work in conjunction with your access control, to open securely the building first thing. When the building is open, you don’t want to issue keys to staff to access it. Keys can easily be lost or copied and the cost of changing locks and re-issuing keys is expensive. So access control can easily and cost effectively manage the access to your building - if a card is lost, it is simply cancelled and replaced.
Whether your business is large or small, typically you have external door(s) open during the working day; this in itself is a security risk to your property, assets and staff. The provision of access control, whether it is a standalone system for a single entrance or software based, network system controlling multiple external and internal doors, is the most effective way to protect your business.
When an access system is installed, staff are issued with an access token, usually either a card or fob. When presented to a reader, it will open the door, assuming the token is permitted to open that door at that time of day. If they are allowed access, the door lock will release enabling access and will automatically lock when it closes too.
If you have a network-based system, then you can extend the system to internal doors and setup permissions on which doors and times the token can be used to gain access.
On a network-based system, all of the door access times are recorded and can be used for fire evacuation, time and attendance or tracing movement.
So which system is best for your organisation?
Standalone or Networked?
Standalone
We can provide a range of token, pin or biometric standalone access systems from IDTeck.
On a proximity token or biometric based system, the token or fingerprint is enrolled locally on each reader. You can have multiple standalone systems in your building but the token or fingerprint does need to be enrolled on each controller.
Generally, the maximum number of tokens that can be stored is 512.
Typical Uses:
- Small schools
- Sports Clubs
- Small offices / premises
- Any site where an access log is not required and will have less than 512 users.
Networked
We can provide small-scale Networked systems with the RFL200c, linking each door reader on a dedicated network or, for larger systems, the ITDC unit which can be linked via your building computer network.
RFL200c
The RFL200c is a network version of the standalone RFL200 and can have up to 512 fobs or cards. You can add time schedules and download the access data. This is ideal for smaller networks, but we would not recommend using more than six doors on the system. The system is controlled by the RFL200c software package.
ITDC
One ITDC unit can serve up to four doors in one area and links back via the computer network to the software running on your computers. You can link up to 256 ITDC units in one installation, covering over 1,000 doors.
The ITDC unit can also work with, Mifare Proximity cards, fobs, PIN Number, Finger Print and Face recognition, providing a wider range of technologies and features.