New generation integrated solutions are an important answer to labor shortage problems, writes Phil Campbell, Sales Director The evidence of staff shortages is obvious to anyone planning a flight just now – with constant news of flights cancelled, and reports of stressed-out queues at airports, it can feel like a gamble. At the same time [...]
Last October, we reported on ground-breaking innovations in the public sector, with proof-of-concepts linking – and streamlining - physical access and visitor management processes with wider corporate data systems. We highlighted one project that has particular promise: a major healthcare trust undertaking a proof-of-concept (POC) trial to test the potential of full physical and digital [...]
Adam Foster, Technical Director, Data Installation & Supplies (DIS) As organisations look to become more agile they are turning to innovative software that lets them manage everything from a single pane of glass, without the cost or complexity of a PSIM In doing so, they are taking advantage of an exciting new generation of enterprise-class, [...]
One thing that we’ve notice changing during 2020 – with all its stresses – is that questions around workspace optimisation have risen up the corporate agenda. When we talk to facilities managers and clients, there is now much more awareness that buildings need to be used as efficiently as possible. Pressure to reduce property costs [...]
Today’s business landscape is changing rapidly. In almost every part of the economy, even sectors which once seemed relatively slow moving and predictable, we are seeing major challenges and disruptions.Each business faces its own sector-specific pressures: retailers, most obviously, adapting to the challenges of e-commerce, oil giants facing hefty carbon taxes, the education sector shifting to [...]
They both sound good – and they both are – but there’s a big difference between contactless access solutions and frictionless. ‘Contactless’ describes the latest generation of technologies that let authorised users get through a secured entrance without having to physically touch anything. In our newly hygiene-conscious age, these technologies have become more valued, and [...]
Business planners should look beyond the coming winter: multi-function access control and visitor management solutions can solve many of the operational challenges they are facing. As we head towards the predicted challenges of winter, many streets in our city centres remain eerily quiet, and many offices blocks are still deserted. City planners are wondering what [...]
Every part of your security system - including the cameras the access control, the NVRs, servers, and other components - is essential for protecting your site. But the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. That is to say, when you integrate your security devices into a unified platform, you unleash their true [...]
