Factories, warehouses, and other industrial areas represent a security challenge due to their size, complex layout, and high-value items on-site. To keep property, people, and equipment safe, you need to know exactly who is allowed where. Industrial access control systems are cost-effective, convenient ways to protect your assets, with the ability to vary levels of access for different job roles. By prioritising security and access control, industrial businesses can safeguard their operations, protect intellectual property, prevent theft, and maintain compliance with industry regulations.
Approaches to managing access control systems have evolved. By moving from less secure local server setups to cloud-hosted systems, you can benefit from greater security and reliability, removing the need for onsite infrastructure management. Access control solutions allow you to make sense of how your premises is being used with real-time logs and reports, time and attendance integration, roll call and fire mustering. Cloud-based access control is essential for industrial organisations looking to futureproof their security infrastructure, mitigate potential risks, prevent unauthorised access, and protect valuable assets.
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Access control systems provide a vital security asset to protect sites that require 24/7 access or are utilised by a large number of people. There are many types of access control. Stand-alone access control is the simplest, whereby all the equipment required to secure your premises is within the doors. Access is granted via a predetermined code entered into a keypad, by scanning a card or fob, or providing a biometric terminal.
Card or key fob access is common as they are inexpensive and easy to use. Biometric readers require facial or fingerprint credentials to gain entry, making it virtually impossible for trespassers to gain unauthorised access. These modern entry systems (including mobile credentials) offer role-based access control, allowing different levels of access based on individual roles and responsibilities. By assigning specific access privileges, you can enforce strict security protocols and ensure access is only given to authorised personnel. This helps maintain the integrity of sensitive areas, such as production floors, research and development labs, and storage facilities.
Mobile devices have become an essential part of our day-to-day lives. Mobile credential access control is built with modern industrial businesses in mind. Connected to a secure management dashboard, you can make rapid adjustments like reworking entry privileges, from anywhere at any time, for one site or many, via one cloud-based server. This will give you site flexibility when it comes to the intake and management of large-capacity agency staff.
Mobile access control allows devices like smartphones and smartwatches to be used instead of key cards or fobs. With an access control app, like Airfob Space, users simply tap their device, with the credential required, onto the reader at the door to gain access. Mobile access credentials are more secure than physical cards as you don’t run the risk of them being lost, stolen, or borrowed.
Biometric systems offer a robust and reliable means of securing premises, managing workforce access, and enhancing operational efficiency. Cutting-edge technology utilises sophisticated, biometric identification scanners and door locks to recognise unique physical attributes such as fingerprints, palms, irises, and faces.
By using features that distinguish one individual from another, you can manage access in a simple yet highly secure way. You will eliminate the need for physical key cards that can get lost or stolen, users don’t need to remember a password, and access can be granted or revoked in a quick, reliable manner. Biometric access control is a scalable, adaptable solution that can be used either as a standalone biometric reader or in combination with other security systems.
Visitor management solutions enhance security by accurately tracking and monitoring guest access. Core Visitor and Contract Visitor management systems allow only approved guests into your industrial facility. With the ability to record who the person is, what type of visitor they are, when they arrived, when they left and how often they visit, you can manage visitors quickly and efficiently, saving your business time and money. Gone are the days of printing and filing paper documents, handwriting badges, or tracking down employees when their guests arrive. You can automatically send arrival details to the relevant people and verify or sign documents ahead of time.
Ensuring external contractors are properly checked before and when they arrive on site is a requirement for health and safety compliance. A Contract Visitor management system allows you to pre-plan contractor arrivals by issuing emails in advance that include questionnaires for completion, induction information and permit reviews.
Physical gates, barriers and turnstiles not only create a secure and intrinsically safe environment but are also a reliable solution to prevent unauthorised entry, whether placed inside or outside your building. Tripod turnstiles, full-height turnstiles, and speed gates or interlocking doors can all incorporate access cards or key fob readers, refusing entry to unauthorised personnel. Turnstiles with attendance tracking systems can record entry and exit times, helping to monitor patterns and evaluate your buildings usage.
Highly visible, advanced CCTV systems are a deterrent to even the most persistent criminals. Industrial CCTV can be wireless, detect body temperature via infra-red technology, and be installed as fixed or hard-wired solutions at critical points around your premises to maintain 24/7 surveillance. Integrated video surveillance and electronic security systems allow you to monitor and respond to potential threats in real time, as do alarm activation notifications that are instantly sent to your management dashboard.
Cloud access control provides an advanced level of physical security, allowing you to remotely control and manage your industrial premises with a single off-site server. Easily configure access permissions, track employee movement, generate reports, control doors, and set up different security parameters to allow multiple levels of access, via an Internet connected device.
Zonal control can be used to ensure only authorised individuals have access to sensitive areas. Incidents such as failed authentication attempts, door forced/ajar, or entry into restricted zones will trigger alerts to your management dashboard in real time. Custom triggers can be put in place to disable access to your site if a strict set of criteria is not met, this includes site inductions and insurance or certification laps. This will ensure anyone onsite has the correct training, certificates, or inductions, saving you from potential financial and legal repercussions linked to health and safety and data breaches.
If you already have a legacy door entry system in place, we can integrate and migrate your solution to the cloud. OLS Connect, our custom-built cloud-based integration platform, works with existing management systems, is fully customisable to your individual requirements, and works with both API and flat file integrations, allowing integration with time and attendance applications, staff records and roll call fire mustering.
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Create a safer, more efficient environment that ensures compliance with health and safety and industry regulations.
No longer pay for physical servers, associated upgrades or a dedicated IT team. New features, security measures and updates are applied automatically.
Integrate seamlessly with existing management solutions that allow you to manage everything from one integrated platform.
Keep track of who comes and goes with real-time data and insights about building and room usage, visitor management, health and safety monitoring, time and attendance management, roll call and fire mustering.
Protect against unwanted visitors and prevent against data breaches and theft.
Cloud-hosted, flexible, scalable, and fully customisable software that works with both API and flat file integrations to seamlessly integrate with one site or across multiple.
Keypad access provides a streamlined check-in process that allows users quick access to a facility, without the need for manual verification. With a code, entry and exit times can be tracked, providing valuable data on building and room usage patterns, roll call and fire mustering.
Intercoms provide a convenient way to grant authorised access, by allowing a means of two-way communication prior to entry. Flexible and cost-effective, intercoms can provide 24-hour access without using physical security. The system can be used both externally and internally. Unlike a key card or fob, intercoms allow you to vet a person before choosing whether to grant access.
A key card or key fob is a security credential that you tap, swipe, or insert into a reader to grant or restrict access. Each card or fob holds unique user credentials that must align with permissions logged in the database before access is granted.
A mobile-first access control solution utilises employee devices – their smartphone or smartwatch – to hold a digital credential. When accessing the facility, users simply show their smart device to the reader. Mobile credentials provide convenience as they are stored on one’s phone which is always carried with them. It also reduces the risk of having lost and stolen key cards.
There are many benefits of industrial access control systems, the main being increased security. Other benefits include increased ease of access, the ability to track and monitor who enters and leaves your premises, and the prevention of unauthorised personnel from entering.
Industrial access control systems give you complete control over who enters your premises and/or specific areas within your building. A preconfigured door lock system is attached to your door that only allows entry when someone enters or scans the predetermined credentials (code, tag, ID card, biometric profile). They can also provide detailed reports on how users move about your building at the touch of a button.
Simple and easy to manage with training provided, our management systems provide ongoing cost savings on administration, due to its automated processes and single interface. You no longer need to manually input data onto multiple systems or spend time correcting errors. Everything will be available to you from anywhere at any time via the cloud, including time and attendance and roll call fire mustering. Having the ability to access your muster register via an app on your phone is much easier than registering thousands of people on a piece of paper. ID cards are scanned at specified muster points, automatically marking them as safe and out of the building.
Yes, cloud-based access control allows you to easily scale your business each time you expand to a new location, or your facilities and staff numbers increase. These systems can support you with potentially global growth, processing large numbers of users without having to install server boxes in every building like you would with traditional access control.
No, we provide an infrastructure survey to determine what needs upgrading and oftentimes, we can integrate our solutions with your current systems. Bespoke integrations can be built with your existing systems via an API or flat file integration. By integrating your solution with existing workflows and applications, you can enable automatic processes and delegate tasks across your organisation with ease.
