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Farpointe Data Extending Mobile Access Control Platform
Farpointe Data will show that access control system manufacturers, integrators and dealers will be able to provide their customers with a broadened line of Conekt smart phone mobile access control products with multiple new customer-requested reader models. On display for attendees to use at the ISC Show will be a reader that combines BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) radio capability with support for 125 KHz proximity technology, Conekt compatible keyboard readers.
Swiftlane Partners with Altronix to offer Access Control Kits
Altronix continues to expand the company?s popular line of Trove Access and Power Integration Solutions. Altronix Trove now seamlessly integrates with Swiftlane DCU 5 Door Controllers, simplifying board layout and wire management. Systems integrators can now easily configure and deploy Swiftlane access control for up to 12 door systems. Companies are rapidly moving to cloud-based access control solutions in the remote first post COVID world.
PDK Announces Integration with Microsoft Active Directory
ProdataKey now offers integration between its Pdk io software and Microsoft Azure Active Directory. IT departments that rely on Active Directory to simplify user and rights management across their corporate network may now use that same interface to seamlessly manage permissions within Pdk io software. System administrators can fully control the physical access of people and groups, as well as issue mobile and touch credentials.
HID Adds Biometrics to Its HID Signo Readers
The reader is the latest addition to the company?s signature line of HID Signo Readers and adds an API for integration with access control software solutions from HID partners. This enables a single point of biometric template enrollment through an access control system, these templates can then be pushed to all connected devices simultaneously. The new solution brings HID?s award-winning biometrics technology to the HID Signo Reader platform.
Videoloft Ramps up Activities Across the U.S. with VSaaS
Videoloft is bolstering its presence in the United States by hiring new U.S. based sales staff and integrating with established brands in the US market, including Digital Watchdog, exacqVision, Vivotek and Lorex. Videoloft focuses on transforming traditional professional surveillance systems into cloud connected solutions via the Videoloft Cloud Adapter. The company was born from the innovative technology created for the Manything app in 2012, which turned old smartphones and tablets into ad-hoc DIY home-monitoring cloud cameras.
Invixium Biometrics For Elegant, Touchless Access Control
Invixium has been selected by LightEdge Solutions as the standard for their access control solution. The system has been implemented in multiple LightEdge data centers in the Midwestern United States to manage access for hundreds of people including data center employees, tenants and visitors at each location. Before modernizing their access control, LightEdge had been using a hand geometry-based system to activate visitor cards.
Iris ID Showcase Biometric Solutions at Sheriff?s Conference
Iris ID will showcase its biometric technology at the National Sheriff?s Association?s Annual Conference and Exhibition later this month, the company has announced. The company aims to capitalize on the law enforcement sector?s intensifying interest in biometric identification solutions. The company already has a strong footing in the law enforcement sector. Its OU7S-AK camera module, for example, was embraced by the County of Los Angeles for its prisoner release process last year.
Invixium Temperature Screening At PPG Chemical Plant
Invixium has been chosen to provide PPG an automated touchless solution to accurately measure employee temperatures at staff entry doors. When faces with the overwhelming cost of screening employee temperatures during the COVID-19 pandemic, PPG sought to invest in a solution that achieved high accuracy without breaking their budget. When the COVID-19 outbreak took hold in the United States in March of 2020, PPG took swift action by hiring additional security professionals to screen employee temperatures before entering their chemical plant.
Security Sector Welcomes Cruising?s Return & Seeks to Hire 300 Security Pro?s in Ft. Lauderdale
Carnival Cruise Lines welcomes Mardi Gras, its first ship powered by liquid natural gas, to Port Canaveral this Friday morning, every business sector that supports the cruise industry, as well as eager passengers, welcome the resumption of cruising in the United States this summer. Celebrity Cruises will offer the first cruise ship conducting passenger operations since the shut-down, with Celebrity EDGE set to sail on June 26th 2021 from Port Everglades.
Openpath, Allegion Expand Mobile & Cloud Based Access Control Capabilities to All Doors with Schlage Wireless Locks Integration
Openpath announces a new cloud-to-cloud integration with
Schlage NDE and LE mobile enabled wireless locks from Allegion. This new integration provides a greater selection of cost-effective security solutions across an organization?s entire deployment and makes Openpath one of the only physical access control providers in the commercial space to natively support a Bluetooth credential with Schlage locks.
Axxon Next 4.5 is Released!
AxxonSoft has launched version 4.5 of the Axxon Next intelligent VMS. This version introduces new GPU acceleration capabilities and AI video analytics, self-diagnostics service, support for licensing server, enhanced web client, and new server and GUI features. Axxon Next now supports hardware-accelerated video decoding on integrated Intel? GPUs (Intel Quick Sync Video technology) and NVIDIA graphics cards. The decoded video can be analyzed with any standard or AI video analytics.
LenelS2 Extends Touchless Visitor Management Experience
LenelS2 announced a North America distribution agreement with its OpenAccess Alliance Program (OAAP) partner, Splan, a next-generation visitor check-in software solutions company. The agreement enables LenelS2 and its value-added reseller network to provide a more comprehensive touchless building access experience that includes visitor management. Splan?s visitor management solution integrates with LenelS2?s market-leading OnGuard and NetBox systems as well as BlueDiamond mobile credentials to more fully realize Carrier?s Healthy Buildings Program.
The Best Contactless Solution for Realtors
The revolutionary Schlage Encode Smart WiFi Deadbolt connects to your home from anywhere with built-in WiFi. Pair with either the Schlage Home app or the Key by Amazon app to grant access to trusted friends and family with customized access codes, and know when your lock has been accessed. It?s total control and peace of mind at your fingertips. Use the Schlage Home app on your smartphone to lock/unlock your door from anywhere, no additional accessory or hub required.
IrisTime iT100 Adds Manusonic Time and Attendance Software
Iris ID announced Ontario, Canada-based Manusonic has integrated its time and attendance software with the IrisTime iT100, Iris ID’s customizable and contactless biometric time and attendance terminal. Manusonic provides time and attendance solutions to a wide variety of markets throughout North America. Manusonic’s software adds a broad selection of functions and features to the iT100 through integration with payroll, human resources, accounting, job costing and other customized end-user systems.
DHS S&T Calls for Submissions to Biometric Tech Rally
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) invites biometric technology developers to apply to participate in the 2021 Biometric Technology Rally. Started in 2018, the Biometric Technology Rally challenges industry to deliver fast, accurate, and easy-to-use biometric recognition capabilities to improve security and user facilitation at checkpoint processing.
SAFR Partners with Convergint
SAFR announced a partnership with Convergint Technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, Convergint will add the SAFR computer vision platform to their portfolio of integrated security solutions to offer its US customers the industry?s foremost facial recognition platform for live video intelligence. Convergint is a $1.4 billion global systems integrator with over 150 locations spanning the globe.
Vanderbilt Proves Access Control Belongs in the Cloud
Cloud-based access control solutions are able to deliver remote access and instant management to protect the premise. As access control and video management are already key security systems, the shift to an open platform model is only growing. For example, Vanderbilt?s solution allows access to the system from any device, allowing flexibility for staff working remotely. Currently, the majority of Enterprises and many SMBs have either already made or are making the process of shifting resources to the cloud.
Suprema?s New X-Station 2 Supports Mobile Access, QR Codes and RFID Cards
Suprema announced the new product launch of the X-Station 2, a versatile intelligent terminal with credential options of mobile access, QR and barcodes as well as RFID cards and PIN. X-Station 2 enables flexible access control system design by supporting multiple credential options. The terminal is compatible with most types of existing RFID cards including EM, MIFARE, iCLASS, DESFire and FeliCa, but also lets users go card-less by offering mobile credential options including QR codes and barcodes.
Johnson Controls Adds Cloud-based Access Control to Cloudvue Platform
Johnson Controls is introducing Cloudvue with access control, with the Tyco Kantech KT-1 one-door controller. This powerful technology collaboration enables centrally managed cloud video surveillance and access control across an entire organization from a single browser, part of the Johnson Controls commitment to providing technology so customers can maintain safe building environments, healthy business operations and seamless occupant experiences.
Essence Group Launches New WeR@Home+ Smart Home Security Solution
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