Visitor management today tends to assimilate with a company’s policies and procedures. And that offers opportunities for security integrators to make it a front-and-center sale, rather than as an afterthought to an access control system.
Systems integrator Preferred Technologies Inc., Houston, has integrated the intelligent networking capabilities of LifeSafety Power’s FlexPower iSCAN (Supervision Control Access Notification) SmartPower system to Genetec’s unified security platform called Security Center. Preferred Technologies, known as Pref-Tech, has implemented the integration successfully at numerous customer sites.
Entertech Systems and Digitus Biometrics announced a new technology partnership between Entertech’s BioConnect identity management platform and the Digitus db Bus and db Cabinet Sentry for server cabinet access control. The result is a new, fully integrated solution called db BioConnect.
Connect ONE, the flagship, integrated security management platform from Connected Technologies LLC, announced its latest integration to the Bosch Security G Series intrusion panels.
Zwipe launched its new Channel Partner Program with more than 10 initial partners already established, covering the U.S., Europe, Middle East, Russia, Africa and Mexico.
Identiv Inc. released the uTrust TS ScramblePad, a significant update to the company’s scrambling keypad door reader for high-security government and commercial entryways.
Guardian vandal-resistant and Gibraltar bullet-resistant contactless proximity card readers by Farpointe Data, a DORMA Group company, are ideal for installations where more durability is required than with a standard proximity reader.
Securitron, an ASSA ABLOY group brand, launched EcoPower power supply. EcoPower reduces locks’ power supply standby power consumption to only 8.5mW, a 99 percent decrease compared with current switching power supplies. According to Securitron, it is GreenCircle Certified to dramatically lower total door power consumption by up to 99 percent, reducing it from 20W or more to 0.3W when used with a low-power lock.
ZKAccess offers a free 3-credit CEU-accredited course, “Advanced Biometric Access Control.” The class is designed to teach physical security integrators all they need to know to successfully migrate from traditional card access systems to biometrics.