Entertech Systems and Digitus Biometrics announced a new technology partnership between Entertech’s BioConnect identity management platform and the Digitus db Bus and db Cabinet Sentry for server cabinet access control. The result is a new, fully integrated solution called db BioConnect.
Connect ONE, the flagship, integrated security management platform from Connected Technologies LLC, announced its latest integration to the Bosch Security G Series intrusion panels.
Zwipe launched its new Channel Partner Program with more than 10 initial partners already established, covering the U.S., Europe, Middle East, Russia, Africa and Mexico.
Identiv Inc. released the uTrust TS ScramblePad, a significant update to the company’s scrambling keypad door reader for high-security government and commercial entryways.
Guardian vandal-resistant and Gibraltar bullet-resistant contactless proximity card readers by Farpointe Data, a DORMA Group company, are ideal for installations where more durability is required than with a standard proximity reader.
Securitron, an ASSA ABLOY group brand, launched EcoPower power supply. EcoPower reduces locks’ power supply standby power consumption to only 8.5mW, a 99 percent decrease compared with current switching power supplies. According to Securitron, it is GreenCircle Certified to dramatically lower total door power consumption by up to 99 percent, reducing it from 20W or more to 0.3W when used with a low-power lock.
ZKAccess offers a free 3-credit CEU-accredited course, “Advanced Biometric Access Control.” The class is designed to teach physical security integrators all they need to know to successfully migrate from traditional card access systems to biometrics.
CCTV.Net is a new distribution partner of ZKAccess, a provider of biometric and RFID security solutions. CCTV.Net has been serving the industry as a CCTV distributor since 2001. Inventory includes analog cameras and standalone DVRs, HD-TVI/CVI equipment, NVRs, megapixel network cameras, video analysts, access control systems and more.
It’s a tough sell to get clients to spend money on new access control credentials when the current ones still work. The key to generating interest in newer credential technologies is marrying security with convenience.
When it comes to access control cards and credentials it is difficult to have a discussion about technology without considering some of the seemingly contradictory trends in the marketplace. For example, the largest installed base of cards is proximity — a 20-year-old technology with known security issues. Yet in an industry that often seems to move at a glacial pace, the credential space is filled with some of the hottest buzzwords inside and out of the security industry, including Near Field Communications (NFC), Bluetooth, biometrics and even wearables such as the Apple Watch.