Lobbies, Doorways, and Hallways: Safety Pain Points
Entrances and places where the general public, employee, or tenant walk pose two main risks: when someone who shouldn’t be there is there, or when a disaster strikes. Do you have an emergency plan to vacate in case of fire? What about when unauthorized- or even dangerous personnel are present? How will you both prevent and control these events?
With a technology boom in recent years, it is crucial to have a building not just smart enough to detect when a risk is present, but to be more intelligent than attempt to steal assets, data, or put the general safety of those present at risk. Enter: the Smart Building. A Smart Building is a crucial and relatively new surge in the security industry to tailor a building to shift security from reactive to a state of proactive sensing and deterrence.
Access Control: Enforcing Credentialing with Software
Access control is a broad term used to describe the systems that identify users and authenticate their credentials; thereby deciding whether or not the bearer of those credentials is permitted admission to either a physical or digital asset.
Access control is software that works on a verification basis, also known as credentialing. Biometrics, proximity cards, and key codes are types of verification credentialing that can be run through access control. Access control reads the credential and will compute demand-based decisions in real-time to either unlock the door, open the turnstile, or permit entry. If the entrant is not authorized, the entrance can remain closed, and even sound alarms or alert security personnel or building management to the attempted entry. Access control enables capabilities such as population counting, weapons detection, and mask enforcement when paired with entrance control hardware, like optical turnstiles. Below, you can see how such complicated access control software work in stages of protection and verification.
Entrance Control: Allowing Authorized Entrants
Entrance control is the first line of defense for physical on-site threats of any office park, apartment complex, corporate headquarters, hospital, or other building. There are security guards, metal detectors, locking doors, full height turnstiles, and optical turnstiles that are all valid and practical forms of security that start at the door. Entrance control hardware interacts with the access control software to create a physical barrier with intelligent decision making, to optimize building safety.
References
Cohen, M. (2019, March 25). How to Protect the Physical Security of Your Data . CREA Café . Retrieved from https://www.creacafe.ca/how-to-protect-the-physical-security-of-your-data/
Siemens. (n.d.). Security in Smart Buildings Overview. Youtube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSLN0ucAlK0
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