Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance was facing issues when users had to place their palms on the surface of the palm geometry reader they were using. 

LIKE THE ACCESS CONTROL MARKET as a whole, intercoms and entry control products are facing many changes due to the coronavirus pandemic. Controlling who enters your building is more important than ever, and the proper entry control system is what keeps employees, visitors and tenants safe, secure and healthy.

StoneLock, a designer and manufacturer of contactless and privacy-hardened biometric solutions, announced the official integration of the StoneLock GO biometric reader with Tyco Software House from Johnson Controls Access Control, together providing contactless security and event management technologies.

The new integration allows businesses to identify individuals with elevated skin temperature through a contactless solution and allow or deny entry based on this reading. 

Biometric development company BioSec Group Ltd. has revealed that the integration of its LifePass authentication platform with Siemens’ SIPORT access control and time tracking system is currently underway. 

Michael Joy, senior director for corporate strategy at IDEMIA National Security Solutions, highlighted how the industry can adapt to contactless security solutions in the education session, “Enabling Standoff Identification and Illness Detection in the Context of COVID-19.”

As part of the agreement, Open Options, a global provider of security and communication networking systems, will offer PopID's facial recognition-based system, PopEntry, to its existing customers as an add-on to their key card and mobile entry options.