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ARE INTEGRATIONS THE KEY TO PREVENTING CONGESTION AND INFECTION AT
WORKPLACE ENTRANCES? Until recently, unless you suffered from a severe case of contamination OCD, having to touch something to gain access to your workplace wasn’t a huge concern. Over the past six months, this has changed. But, the security threats to buildings and their users remain. So how can facilities managers balance infection control with threat prevention?
As employees gradually return to the workplace, much thought has been given to how working practices and site operating procedures can be adapted to ensure the protection of their workforce.
Monitoring and controlling building entrance points, especially during peak times, is crucial to ensuring social distancing guidelines are respected, and that employees are as safe as possible from the moment they enter the premises.
Security must also remain a top concern during this time and, now more than ever, it’s vital to know exactly who is in your building or on site at any given moment.
Tony Smith, Major Accounts and Marketing Manager at Integrated Design Limited, said: “Some of the advice being shared has stated that entrance control systems – such as turnstiles – should be set to open to avoid bottlenecks at peak times. Another concern is hygiene, and further advice has suggested that access control systems requiring skin contact, such as fingerprint scanners, should be disabled. These steps, whilst helping with infection control,
will compromise security unless other measures are put in place.”
If your organisation’s security relies on entrance control systems to monitor and manage the movement of people in, out or within your buildings, simply disabling them could leave your people and assets exposed to other threats.
Nicolas Raffin, VP Marketing Biometric Devices at IDEMIA, added: “Key to ensuring a frictionless and contactless entry for your employees, whilst also maintaining a high level of security, is integration between leading technologies. Queues of people forming as they wait to enter the workplace is out of the question. When integrated with Fastlane turnstiles, the MorphoWave Compact allows authorised users to gain access with a simple wave of the hand. There is no need to touch anything and there is virtually no dwell time. The system is capable of processing up to 50 users per minute, avoiding the issue of bottlenecks forming.”
The patented touchless sensor technology of the MorphoWave Compact scans four fingers in 3D in less than one second, ensuring the most accurate and reliable fingerprint matching for maximum security.
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“We’ve worked with a number of third-party vendors over the years and, for me, IDL’s method of integration really stands out as their technical and design teams go to the effort of incorporating our product into the pedestal of the turnstile itself, rather than treating it as a bolt- on,” added Raffin.
Whilst IDL has been successfully integrating touchless access control systems like IDEMIA’s MorphoWave Compact with its Fastlane turnstiles range for many years, now hygiene is crucial there has been a marked increase in the number of customers asking about contactless access control solutions.
Smith added: “For existing Fastlane customers we can provide a retrofit kit to attach a replacement end panel to seamlessly integrate the MorphoWave Compact retrospectively. IDEMIA also offer a freestanding mount as an alternative option. This means that existing systems may be able to be upgraded to help companies abide by the Government’s stipulations, removing the need to start entirely from scratch and saving time and money.”
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