CR80News | Visitor management crucial to physical security

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Systems catching on from Fortune 500s to Major League Baseball

By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, AVISIAN Publications

Security checks have become a fact of life for entrance to public buildings. As government agencies, corporations and schools struggle to keep track of individuals within their facilities at any point in time, a new breed of visitor management systems has risen to the top.

Though it may be more apparent today, visitor management is not a new function. For as long as organizations have sought to control access to facilities, there has been a need to manage visitors, vendors and other non-recurring guests. In the past, paper-based logs were managed by lobby attendants to ensure visitors had a legitimate reason to enter. Today’s electronic solutions automate these functions adding convenience and robust new security features to the process.

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HID and Interlogix form security partnership

HID Global and Interlogix have teamed up to provide integrated security products for residential and commercial use.

The companies have combined Interlogix’s Security Commander system hardware with HID’s EasyLobby Secure Visitor Management (SVM) software for security and visitor management. Security Commander can support up to 128 Challenger panels, over 6,000 intelligent doors and 32,000 alarm points. The integrated product can now provide visitor registration, Web-based pre-registration, tracking and reporting, badge printing, asset and package management and time and attendance functions.

Drents Museum adopts RFID to boost visitor experience

Drents Museum, based in Assen, in the Netherlands has implemented an RFID system from Motorola Solutions designed to keep track of visitors during their visit and give them detailed personalized information to boost visitor experience.

Evolis, Viscount partner on visitor management

Evolis has partnered with Viscount Systems Inc. to introduce Hello Visitors a visitor management solution based on rewritable cards.

To meet different requirements in welcoming and managing visitors, Evolis and Viscount Systems Inc. developed Hello Visitors solution. This solution is made up of the Facility Friends software, published by Viscount Systems Inc., an Evolis Tattoo-RW rewritable card printer, rewritable cards and badge-holders.

Quantum Secure unveils CIV software

Quantum Secure introduced “SAFE for CIV,” a software solution that aims to close the physical identity management gap between PIV and non-PIV badge holders for government agencies. This solution will create one system to manage all identities while maintaining the security standards of PIV credentials.

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