The Many Benefits of a Smart Access Control System
Keep Your Staff, Clients, and Assets Safe with the Latest Access Systems
As automation experts, many of our clients throughout California ask us about the latest smart technology. While automated lighting, climate, and audio-video systems continue to advance and offer a luxurious lifestyle for homeowners and easily managed spaces for businesses, smart security provides an unprecedented sense of safety.
The first line of defense in securing your business and home is the access control system. These systems are designed to keep intruders out and limit access to secure areas. Let's explore how they're securing businesses in Orange County, CA.
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Today's Access Control
What started as touch buttons has transformed into keycards, fobs, biometrics, and mobile devices. Employees and clients use fingerprints, eye scans, and smartphones to gain access to a building and controlled rooms.
Not only does this offer a solid barrier to intruders with ill intent, but it also generates activities reports, showing what time your staff arrived and left the building throughout the day. You or your security staff also receive alerts when suspicious activity occurs, such as someone trying to gain entry without the proper credentials.
Video Surveillance Integration
When integrated with your video surveillance system, you have a solid security system in place. When someone enters or leaves, your security camera ensures a visual record. Should someone without official access attempt to gain entry, cameras start recording, and your building goes into immediate lockdown.
This type of quick action can help keep employees and assets safe in a potential security event. Because today's cameras are smart, they can also detect unusual activity, such as someone loitering by the back door or crossing into an area surrounded by a digital tripwire. Again, your employees are protected by an immediate lockdown before the unthinkable occurs.
Scalable Systems
These systems protect large-scale enterprises with multiple sites, school campuses, government agencies, and small developing businesses. It's easy to add devices and enhance networks as a company's needs change. At AUDIOVISIONS, we're with our customers for life, integrating the latest technology or changing their existing systems as their needs transform.
Remote Access
Thanks to cloud-based access control systems, administrators and owners can access their control systems anytime and from anywhere in the world. All they need is an internet connection and a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. This enables them to change access privileges at a moment's notice, whether adding or removing personnel. Should a vendor arrive unexpectedly, you can unlock the door remotely and let them in and lock it back up after they leave.
When integrated with an automated system, you can control your security, lighting, climate, and audio-video equipment from the same user-friendly platform. For example, tap your touchscreen's "Closing Up" button, and the security arms, the doors lock, all lights turn off except your security lighting, and the audio-video equipment switches off for the evening.
At AUDIOVISIONS, we specialize in helping our clients integrate the latest technology that simplifies and enriches their lives. To learn more about access control and smart security or to schedule a complimentary consultation, contact AUDIOVISIONS today.
