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Keena Wiegert
Are you looking to install the best access control system to protect your business or commercial property? Would you like to control who has access to your building, when they have access to your building, and even allow entry into the building using your smartphone?
Access control systems come in various configurations, sizes, integration capabilities, and use cases. Some door entry systems only need to cover four doors in a relatively smaller building. Others need to access to more than 20 doors in a large office and require both fingerprint scan and prox card authentication.
In access control installation, integrating the video surveillance system will deny access to unauthorized personnel entering the essential spaces in your building and record video footage of anyone attempting to exchange credentials.
With modern technology, access control companies can help you keep track of who comes in and out of your building, enabling you to keep records and logs of every employee or visitor who comes through those doors. It can be convenient when something goes missing or a breach of business security systems occurs, as all visitors, employees, and other personnel who have come and gone can be tracked and verified. Want to find out who came in first? Who came in in the middle of the night? Easy and done.
Building off their nearly infinite customization options, access systems allow you to choose from various authentication factors and credential types and even mix and match them within systems. Many systems (especially cloud-based) now let users use their smartphones to control and unlock doors, like any other access card.
Cloud-based access systems are becoming increasingly popular and make controlling and monitoring the comings and goings of your business easy as they allow for easy, convenient mobile access and control on your phone or tablet. Mobile apps such as Brivo OnAir integrate seamlessly with their respective cloud-based systems, allowing you to control various functions such as setting up and eliminating user permissions, adding or removing roles, changing credentials, and even viewing access logs, all from virtually anywhere in the world.
Keypads might be the easiest of the bunch. Instead of necessitating that employees carry around a physical key or keycard, keypads allow businesses to use a single keycode or PIN code to unlock the door. Employees only need to memorize it. More advanced systems can even give employees a unique keycode for extra security.
The drawbacks to keypad systems include that they are usually much less high-tech than their counterparts, and most cannot be remotely accessed or managed. Only the most advanced and expensive keypads allow much customization, too, and setting up individual codes, rules, and valid and invalid credentials can be limited.
Keycard entry systems are often a step up from keypads regarding customizing, features, and other capabilities. Key card door entry systems will have more smart features and are almost always a part of a more extensive, integrated access control system that lets you set rules and other critical access info.
Many forms of access control readers and credentials exist, but few are as convenient for business security systems as PIN coder readers. Simple and affordable to install, PIN code access control readers are one of the easiest ways to take your access control to another level. Please keep reading to see how they could help you do the same.
Standalone locks will usually contain access control hardware and software necessary to lock and unlock the door when the PIN code is punched in; once the code is entered, a small electrical current will trigger the actuator, which controls the door lock via a small motor, either locking or unlocking it as necessary.
Access control companies make proximity cards out of several different materials. Still, they all work similarly: by being held near the door card reader without physically contacting the reader. This sets them apart from swipe cards or other contact-style cards, which need to make physical contact with the reader.
Proximity Cards can be Active or Passive, running off 125 kHz radio frequencies. Passive Cards are powered by radio frequency (RF) signals from the reader that reads the encoded number embedded on the card. These are the much more common forms of proximity cards used in access solutions.
On the other hand, Active Proximity Cards are powered by internal lithium batteries, sending out their 125khz frequencies to contact the card reader. They generally have a better range (up to 5 or 6 feet), but the battery must eventually be replaced. When it comes to access control, however, they are used less often.
Proximity cards almost always use some form of the Wiegand protocol to communicate with the card reader. Basic Proximity Cards are usually thin, the same size as a credit card, and made from PVC with a wireless antenna embedded in the plastic. Clamshell proximity cards use two different layers of PVC glued together, with the antenna between them, while composite proximity cards use a blend of PVC and polyester.
Swipe cards, sometimes called magnetic stripe cards, function using none other than a magnetic stripe, almost exactly like those found on credit cards. At the most technical of levels, swipe cards work first by modifying the magnetism of the particles in the magnetic stripe on the card, which is then picked up and read by the magnetic reading head found in the card reader at the access point.
Smart Cards are the latest access control card technology for commercial security systems and, as the name implies, the most advanced. Contactless smart cards are like proximity cards but further, build and improve on the original technology.
They are also capable of writing data, in addition to just reading it, which allows them to store much more information and makes them useful in a whole host of different applications, in addition to standard access control uses.
Furthermore, smart cards can be combined with other card technologies, such as proximity cards or magnetic stripes, allowing for a whole range of customizable credentials, information storage, and enhanced security within a card access system.
Another term you will see frequently being discussed, as it relates to card access control, is RFID Card. While RFID cards might sound like another technology, RFID merely refers to the technology that proximity cards already use: Radio Frequency. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification and is used when necessary to identify an object, whether a package in transit or a car in production.
At its most basic level, an IP Access Control system is very similar to traditional Access Control; they identify users and grant or deny them access to specific entry points according to the permissions and protocols specified in the local server. They usually do this via an Ethernet connection to a specific network created for the access control system.
However, IP Access Control differs from traditional access control; systems are connected directly to your existing Local Area Network (LAN) and get power over Ethernet. This makes them more accessible, more straightforward to set up and allows them to track all data necessary to control and monitor access points and locks.
It is an inexpensive, quick, easy-to-install solution for operating a low number of doors and access points. Embedded IP Access stores valid and invalid credentials and data on a single control panel directly connected to the browser and is usually hosted on a single site.
It can operate more access points and websites than Embedded IP Access, allowing for more scalability and advanced security. It stores all the necessary information on the server, which manages multiple control panels and is linked to by the browser.
It can control and access thousands of websites in various locations with multiple control panels. It features its own backups and security features on its server, with redundant and dispersed backups. Hosted IP Access allows for the most excellent scalability of all IP Access systems and the most secure and adequate backups.
Most telephone entry systems work simply by communicating via phone lines and allowing visitors outside to speak with people inside the building. In such cases, the entry system uses the existing phone line already running within the interior of the building and the property.
PINs can be discovered, cards can be copied, and keys can be pickpocketed. No security system is perfect, but biometric scanner identification factors are hard to forge when it comes to identity verification.
This practice originated in the 70s when keycards were embedded with special magnetic wires invented by John Wiegand. The arrangement of these wires created a specific number sequence that identified the card.
An electronic door lock is critical to your commercial access control system. Your card readers or fingerprint scanners are only worth a little if your doors unlock when your credentials are approved.
We can now do almost everything with our smartphones, so it seems only fitting that they can now be used as credentials. Mobile access control credentials provide an easy, convenient, and cost-efficient alternative to access cards and biometric credentials.
They utilize the device the user already carries with them, and considering how ubiquitous smartphones are, they make access control accessible to virtually everyone. They also provide a range of features that traditional access control options do not and work with control systems of all sizes and configurations.
Almost all mobile control systems are compatible with iPhone and Android, the most popular smartphone operating systems, and many will work with lesser-known platforms with access control options as well. They can function through a variety of technologies, such as:
Mobile Access Control systems use Bluetooth to communicate between the smartphone (or other device) as well as the credential reader. They often do this through Bluetooth Low Energy. Bluetooth Low Energy uses much less external power supply and data than regular Bluetooth and can stay on in the background and immediately initialize when within range of the access control reader (usually a few feet), transferring signals and information instantaneously. To unlock the door, you can simply press a button on the appropriate app, or even unlock using a twisting motion of your phone that imitates a key turning and unlocks the door.
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