Unlike office spaces and employee-only premises, venues face unique challenges with their access control due to the large amount of visitor traffic they experience during an event. With hundreds, thousands, or even more visitors attending your premises at any one time, every event your venue holds will have varying requirements for security and visitor management, making access control difficult to manage.
In order to effectively manage the security and visitor experience of your venue’s events, you need a comprehensive venue access control platform which allows for full surveillance of when and where attendees and employees are within your premises. This system not only helps to maintain proper management of your venue’s access control points but also helps to facilitate a positive visitor experience, streamlining their entry to various areas without the need for multiple staff members at every entry point.
A fully integrated cloud-based venue access control system from OLS can help to enhance security, visitor experience, and the overall safety of your premises when hosting large attendee events, all from a single cloud-based dashboard.
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For high-traffic premises, robust access control entry points are essential to prevent unauthorised access from non-permitted or non-ticket-holding individuals. Door entry systems provide a first line of action for access control to your premises, only allowing individuals with a qualifying ticket, QR code or pin code to enter.
Identifying the level of access the user is granted based on their presented credentials, door entry systems either allow or deny entry, mitigating repeat use of tickets and codes to minimise lost revenue and helping to prevent multiple individuals from accessing the premises with a single ticket.
Physical gates, barriers and turnstiles not only help to ensure safety with single-file venue entry but also work as a reliable solution to prevent unauthorised entry to your premises. Tripod turnstiles, full-height turnstiles, and speed gates or interlocking doors can all incorporate access control credentials such as QR codes and ticket codes to refuse entry to nonpaying or unauthorised visitors.
Additionally, turnstiles equipped with attendance tracking systems can record entry times, ensuring that visitors only enter when permitted. This not only helps manage your events more effectively but also allows you to assess their success based on the number of attendees.
Modern entry systems can utilise mobile phones to provide credentials, reducing the need for physical tickets and eliminating the potential for a ticket to be lost or stolen. Before your event, qualifying ticket holders can be sent credentials in the form of a scannable QR code prior to the event, eliminating the ability for tickets to be sold, copied, or lost.
Alongside visitor access control, mobile access control apps like Airfob Space & ACT365 facilitate employee management, allowing you to permit and deny access to zones and equipment all from a single cloud-based dashboard, without the need to travel across the venue to manually allow an employee access to a specific area.
Ensuring proper surveillance before, during, and after your venue’s events is imperative. Due to the large number of attendees an event can have, proper monitoring systems are important to ensure the security of those on your premises and the venue itself.
Providing high-resolution and real-time monitoring, VSS systems are a deterrent to even the most persistent criminals. It can be wireless, detect body temperature via infra-red technology, and be installed as a fixed or hard-wired solution at critical points around your premises, maintaining 24/7 surveillance for when your venue is most vulnerable. Integrated video surveillance and electronic security systems allow you to monitor and respond to potential incidents in real-time, with alarm notifications that are instantly sent to your management dashboard so you can take action as quickly as possible.
Due to the sheer volume of visitors venues can experience during an event, robust and comprehensive access control management is vital for both site security and visitor satisfaction. Cloud access control provides all-encompassing security and access control for venues, enabling access control managers to configure and manage permissions for various entry points through a single remote platform, accessible from any Wi-Fi-enabled device. This level of venue access control is essential in an event setting, with so many attendees and staff members to organise, a robust access control system can help to ensure the safety of those on your premises with roll call fire mustering, incident detection alerts, and more.
If you already have existing access control systems in place, a custom-built cloud-based integration platform like OLS Connect can work alongside your current management systems. OLS Connect allows you to create a fully customisable dashboard tailored to your venue’s unique requirements. By utilising both API and flat file integrations, OLS Connect enables seamless integration with your existing systems, enhancing and streamlining your access control management.
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Integrates seamlessly with existing third-party management solutions, allowing you to manage everything from one integrated platform.
Fully customisable to your premise's requirements, working with both API and flat file integrations hosted in the cloud.
Reduces staffing and operational costs. With only one system to update and automated access into your facilities, less administration and maintenance is required.
Flexible and scalable software can be seamlessly integrated for one site or across multiple sites.
Customer service will be improved with streamlined processes. Staff can spend more time doing other jobs, rather than policing who is entering and leaving the facility.
Real-time data and insights about visitor usage will allow you to forward plan for peak and off-peak times.
Venue access control systems have many benefits, the main being the increased security they offer your premises. Other benefits include increased ease of access, the ability to track and monitor your event attendees and employees who enter and leave your premises, and the prevention of unauthorised personnel from entering certain areas.
Access control systems give you complete control over who enters your venue premises and the various 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, QR code, ticket, etc). They can also provide detailed reports on how employees and visitors move about your building at the touch of a button.
Simple and easy to manage with training provided, our venue access management systems provide ongoing cost savings on administration time, due to its automated processes and single interface. Visitors and contractors will no longer need to wait at reception for a physical printed pass or to sign policy documents and records.
Additionally, lost or fake tickets can be costly and hold up visitor entry, causing loss of revenue and impacting visitor experience. Proper access control can mitigate these events and help your processes to get up and running again as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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 or zone like you would with traditional access control.
No, we provide a 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 the existing workflows and applications your business already uses, you can permit automatic processes and delegate tasks across the whole organisation with ease.
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