Access Control

Access Control provides the ability to control, monitor and restrict the movement of people or assets in, out and around a building or site. Access control is now an accepted part of business and it is designed to protect both personal and physical assets by sorting those who do belong from those who do not.

Many different types of technology are currently available to allow different forms of identification to be used. Products range from swipe cards, digital keypads, through to biometric technology.

Biometric (fingerprint and retina pattern) scanners have now fallen in to an affordable bracket and provide the ultimate in identification security, whilst conventional “swipe” and proximity cards are still the most popular means of entry. The system is computerised using a standard PC and different levels of management can be given to different users. These systems also provide time stamping so that the operator can retrieve a log of who came in at what time of day.