Access Control

A novel solution for interlocking doors

We recently built a new access control solution for a life sciences company’s sterile lab environment, using a particularly elegant technical approach.

This client’s 10-room clean area included multiple interlocking doors with and without card access, and one three-door interlock. In this application we were asked to account for omni-directional and bi-directional traffic for areas of gowning, de-gowning, material handling, waste handling, and pressurized cross-contamination.

How You Can Respond to the Flipper Zero Threat

A $100 handheld consumer-friendly device named the Flipper Zero got our attention in 2022, when its Kickstarter was a viral success.

Its continued popularity more recently got the attention of the New Jersey government, who correctly called it a potential threat to any company or school with access cards.

Centralizing Your Security Systems

It’s common for large companies with multiple facilities in the US (and overseas) to have a fragmented set of security systems at all those sites. You might have several kinds of video surveillance solutions running at the same time, and access control systems that don’t talk to each other or your HR database.

How Managed Services Improve Your Security System’s Uptime

This is part of our series on how a managed services team helps your system deliver the required level of corporate safety and security.

(If you’re new to this series, a third-party “managed services team” is a remote set of security experts who assume responsibility for your security system’s day-to-day operation. Here’s our team.)

Today, we’ll focus on how they help deliver a high level of system uptime.

Case Study: Tri Properties access control conversion

End User: Tri Properties Inc., Raleigh, NC

Challenge: Legacy access control system needed next revision, which required upgrades to the server and remote workstations.

Solution: Repurpose the door hardware and open-platform Mercury field panels, and migrate the access control software to cloud-based, Keep by Feenics.