Visitor management systems today are much more than just a name tag or a phone call. The most sophisticated ones can integrate with police databases, along with a host of other security systems, and automatically time out at a user-specified date or time of day. But even the “simple” systems do more than just token security. By cross-checking with departments and having someone actually greet and take information from the visitor, incidents can be averted and crimes of opportunity cut way down.
Such was the case at two end users’ facilities SDM spoke with recently. One system is high-tech and the other low-tech, but both had real-life, practical successes using their visitor management systems.