CR80News | Hotel locks on steroids?

Monday, September 15, 2008

Previously offline access systems move closer to online via virtual networks and WiFi

By Chris Corum, Executive Editor

Controlling access to buildings and dorms is an essential component of campus safety, but administrators face a constant struggle to balance security and cost. Standalone electric door locks offer a compromise that can deliver solid security at an affordable cost. In recent years, advances in these un-wired solutions have improved the functionality moving them closer to their wired counterparts.

For more than a decade, campuses have deployed ‘hotel-style,’ card reading locks on interior dorm, lab and office doors. Electronic key codes encoded in the ID card’s magnetic stripe controlled access to an approved door or grouping of doors.

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University of Virginia puts Schlage to the test

The University of Virginia recently participated in a test deployment of Schlage modular wireless locking systems, according to SecurityInfoWatch.

The university tested Schlage’s ANSI compliant AD-4000 wireless locks with dual credentialing, which allows students to use their campus issued ID card and a unique PIN to access residence halls and rooms. And because the locks are online and wireless, school officials have the ability to update access control permissions and create immediate lockdowns.

Safe Card ID now offers Evolis Printer and ID card software

Safe Card ID, an online retailer of security card printing systems and identity kits, is expanding its ID card software and printer line. The Evolis Printer joins Zebra printers to help Safe Card’s customers meet their in-house ID printing needs.

Holiday Inn to pilot mobile phone room keys

InterContinental Hotels Group is planning to pilot a new technology that allows guests to unlock their hotel-room door via smart phone, according to USA Today.

Kaba's wireless locks enable secure, low-cost security

Mark Allen, marketing manager at Kaba, discusses the advantages of the company’s wireless locks for physical access control. “It’s the ability to give the customer the same functionality you have in an online system without having to run any wires to the door saving time and money and giving the end user the same functionality,” Allen says.

ASSA ABLOY details evolution of off-line locks

Bret Tobey, product manager for Intelligent Openings Business Development at ASSA ABLOY Americas, talks about a new set of locks he calls “near online.” These locks are similar to off-line locks of the past except they include some network components that remove some of the manual tasks associated with some older off-line locks.

Biometric locks foiled by hacker team

At the Def Con Hacking Conference in Las Vegas, a team of three physical lock hackers successfully cracked fingerprint-based locks among some other high-tech door and safe locks, according to a Wired article.

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