NEWS


‘Breakthrough’ access control system


At last month’s IFSEC International 2016 event in London, UK biometric face recognition system specialist, Aurora, unveiled a claimed ‘world-first’ in access control technology – a system that allows registered users to open doors simply by looking at a sensor, with no need for additional verification such as tokens, cards, or PINs. The system integrates Aurora’s AI-powered


FaceSentinel facial recognition product with Fastlane gates and Door Detective ‘anti- tailgating’ products – the latter restrict the number of people going through a security point simultaneously – from IDL. Aurora head of Sales and Marketing, Gary


James, said: “Normally, contact-type biometrics such as fingerprint scanning start to introduce delays into the throughput, but here users can glide through gates without the delays associated with presenting cards or stopping to comply with finger or hand scanners.” FaceSentinel is reportedly the world’s first


biometric access control authentication product powered by Deep Learning. The system uses Artificial Intelligence and infrared light to achieve ‘unparalleled facial recognition speed, accuracy, and reliability’. Aurora’s facial recognition technology is


already used throughout Heathrow Airport for boarding pass verification.


Supportive design features for Ayrshire facility


Woodland View, a £46 million adult acute mental health and community facility in Irvine in Ayrshire, has opened its doors to service-users. The 206-bed new-build hospital,


designed by IBI Group, and constructed by Balfour Beatty, will deliver adult inpatient and outpatient mental health services including rehabilitation, continuing care, addictions, forensics, and intensive psychiatric care. It will also provide organic and functional services for elderly mental health – specifically dementia care – and incorporates research from the Dementia Services Development Centre at Stirling


University. Supportive design features include corridor seating areas overlooking landscaped gardens, ‘wander loops’, dementia-friendly signage, and a considered colour, artwork, and wayfinding strategy to help trigger service-user memories. Planned around service-user and staff


wellbeing, the building is described by IBI as ‘safe, spacious, and sustainable’. The architects said: “Full of natural light, the design promotes excellent observation inside and out, offers gender-flexible wards that maintain privacy and dignity, and encompasses landscaped gardens that promote exercise, rehabilitation, and recovery.”


As one door opens


Blackpool-based Primera Life, ‘known and respected’ for its anti-ligature fixtures, and offering products including an extensive range of window and door hardware and bathroom and bedroom fittings, has produced a new suite of literature covering its key door and window products and load-release fittings. The new brochures detail Primera’s


Pro-Fit service – which offers complete project management to facilities providers, and include all the latest additions to the product ranges. They are designed to be easy to use, and to provide all the essential information buyers need, including key features and suggested applications for each product, plus a clear explanation of the variants offered within each product group. Director, Jerry Smith, said: “We’re


delighted to have produced a clear, simple, and comprehensive guide to our products.”


Lightning-fast anti-barricade access


Safehinge unveiled what it claims is the market’s ‘fastest and safest anti-barricade access on a mental health doorset’ at this year’s


Design in Mental Health exhibition. Its new Symphony doorsets combine a


collapsible anti-barricade doorstop, SWIFTstop, with Primera’s Passport swipe card access control system, a combination Safehinge says gives clinical staff emergency access ‘almost instantly’. Co-founder, Philip Ross, said “We were


concerned that existing hinged stops needed unlocking in multiple locations and weren’t intuitive – especially under the stress of emergency access. We used Passport because it’s easy to use, fast to operate, and unlocks SWIFTstop’s concealed multipoint lock with a single swipe. Exhibition visitors testing the speed of access were amazed at how simple and quick it was, complimenting a design that positions staff out of the door opening path.


“SWIFTstop’s design also prevents it from jamming under pressure caused by service- users ramming the door.” Passport also operates Safehinge’s most


recent SUREview vision panel with switchable glass. With no moving parts, it offers silent operation, thanks to the use of Passport swipe cards to operate it, instead of large ‘jangling’ key chains. Philip Ross added: “These additions create a


unified, intuitive locking system on the Symphony doorset, which helps staff perform their jobs in stressful environments, while incorporating the Passport lock empowers service-users to lock and unlock their own door.”


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