The Lobby Security Dilemma

In business, public services and the leisure industry there is an ever growing challenge to Facility and Security Managers to provide secure, efficient and user friendly buildings. The need is to provide employees with a safe environment to work in and to protect the assets and information within the building. Yet the entrance to a commercial office must be welcoming and easy for staff to use and security to manage.

Entrance Security Issues

To counter these risks an increasing number of businesses are installing access control systems to help automate the process of staff entering and leaving the building. One of the inherent weaknesses of these systems is the fact that unless integrated with the right entrance technology, it is almost impossible to either monitor or control the number of people that enter or leave through an entrance when a valid access card is presented.

One common problem suffered with all such systems is the practice of following a valid user through an open door, known as tailgating. Tailgating is easy to do. We have all been told that it is good manners to hold doors open for other people and more often than not good manners win over the good security practice of closing the door firmly behind you to stop someone else coming in. Therefore intruders may be willingly let in to a building and the access control system is beaten. Inside the building, the same issue affects the use of standard access controlled doors.

Tailgating is one of the biggest threats to the office environment, particularly in larger offices with large numbers of staff, where it becomes virtually impossible for employees to be expected to recognize each other. The problem is amplified with a large number of visitors.

The choice of technology used must take these issues into account, balancing appearance and usability, with safety, easy disabled access, and security. Often it is a visitor’s first impression of an organization and therefore the entrance control technology should give the correct impression of a professional and well-managed business. There never is a second chance to make that first impression.

Optical Turnstile Solutions

Smarter Security Systems’ Fastlane® range offers a number of options to Facility and Security Managers to perfectly balance these issues. The concept behind all these options is to create a secure perimeter just inside the building to ensure only authorized people progress further in to the building, thereby creating the secure working environment required. Additionally internal doors to sensitive areas can be monitored and controlled for maximum security by Door Detective® where it matters most.

The Fastlane design concept allows a flexible approach to providing effective access control in areas where previously security had been desirable but the associated aesthetic implications had been unwelcome or prohibitive.

Fastlane systems are designed using the latest infrared technology, either with or without the integration of physical barriers, to bring you the very latest in high tech entrance technology for the modern business or government environment.

Optical turnstiles, turnstile gates, biometric access control, and high security doors from Smarter Security Systems, experts in lobby security.

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