It has been a year since Corona came uninvited into our lives and we started taking strict measures to avoid the deadly infection at all costs. This included social distancing, masks, active hand washing, work from home among others. Even though the virus is not curbed completely, a lot of companies have started their business operations. However, a lot of us are still fearful about going to office as we feel it is unsafe for us and our family.
How can employers ensure that they make the workplace safe and minimize physical contact? This is where access control systems come into picture. They can play a very important role is enforcing the new regulations for workplace safety and security. Let’s see how.
Ensuring Social Distancing with Face Recognition
A video surveillance system like face recognition can be used to implement and monitor social distancing at workplace. It can be used at front desk to avoid physical contact with visitors.
Artificial Intelligence(AI) drives the modern access controls. They can be highly customized by programming as per the requirements like making announcements or giving sound alerts when social distancing norms are breached.
Managing Security remotely
Let’s say on a nice Sunday evening, you came to know that some important clients will be coming Monday morning. You have to ensure that they have access to entry. You will have to visit the office to hand they the visitor key cards right? Not required! With modern access controls which are cloud based, you can easily grant entry permissions from the comfort of your home and hence avoid face to face interactions.
With cloud based access control systems, you can grant or revoke access permissions at any point of time, lock or unlock any door or any section of the building with a phone app.
Touch-less Entry
Face recognition system serves another purpose of contactless entry, avoiding common touch points like keypads, fingerprint scanners etc. Employees can get access just by looking at the camera. Wonderful, isn’t it? Its amazing how modern engineering has come to our rescue!
Scaling security throughout
Have a business enterprise spread across multiple locations in the country or spread globally? How to ensure same security standard at each branch? This can again be handled easily by cloud computing. It requires minimal hardware setup cost and can be made up and running in a couple of days. All locations can be managed for authorizing, revoking and modifying security from a single desktop or mobile, thus ensuring standard security measures across regions.
2FA is the new norm(al)
Sensitive areas at workplace like server rooms need extra layer of security apart from the basic access control. Instead of keeping a security personnel at place, this can be securely accomplished by 2FA or Two-Factor Authentication. This can be done by user’s smartphone camera or fingerprint scanner in case of smartphone access control systems. This will ensure that the user is one who he says who is, thereby maintaining security.
These new access control methods can help increase the workplace safety and thus help employees regain their confidence in coming back to work. AAA control can help you implement these security measures by providing the most secure access control systems in Austin. Call us at (512) 790-2424 to schedule an appointment to more about our services or get a quote. Making your workplace safe is just once call away!