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Turning Your Gym into a 24/7 Easily and Affordably

Oct

12

2014

Are you sitting there thinking, “how do I raise my income” and “how do I bring more customers to my gym”? The hours of 7AM – 7PM can be the issue. Fitness junkies, moms on the go, and healthy college students all have one thing in common, they have schedules that fluctuate. You may not ...

Door and Gate Access Control: Explained 5

Mar

25

2014

Access control systems have an array of uses and are used in diverse environments. Luckily for consumers, today systems are able to provide security and ease by being networked together via cabling or built-in web servers. No matter the situation or installation that occurred in different areas around a property or even multiple buildings, ...

Access Control for Food and Manufacturing Facilities

Mar

10

2014

Restricting access to areas of food production and the maintaining of accurate entry records are not only critical but can be legally mandatory. Using State-of-the-Art access control products will simultaneously update your facility’s security while reducing many legal or governmental liability concerns. IBC systems can deliver solutions that will provide constant surveillance of every access ...

Industries that are Purchasing Door Access Control 3

Jan

8

2014

I just received the newest issue from Security Sales & Integration (The Gold Book 2014). Many “Fast Facts” about door access control and security details from the years past were found throughout the pages. I was particularly interested in the statistics of Access Control Sales by Industry. If you want to look it up the ...

Benefits of Access Control at Your Club House 1

May

14

2013

Private communities with resident club houses, private gyms, and pools are finding that there are benefits of access control at the facilities. Uses for access control can go way beyond time and attendance. These superior door devices provide the ability to control when certain people have access to a facility without needing a person there ...

Biometric Access Control at Storage Facilities

Feb

6

2013

Safely and Easily Control Your Front Gates and Storage Buildings Biometric access control at storage facilities and their gates to the storage areas provides a lot more protection than those old keyed locks or even pin code machines. With products from Intelligent Biometric Controls, Inc. (IBC) front gates can be secured to only enrolled users ...

Biometrics and Food Facility Security

Jan

17

2013

Biometrics and food facility security is protecting processing plants and food manufactures against food contamination and helping to abide with the bioterrorism act. Plant security is a large concern for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, FDA, and the food companies alike. Many mandates have been put in place to assure that all companies are providing ...

When to Migrate From an HID Card Reader to Biometric Door Access

Nov

21

2012

If the number of employees has out grown your current door or attendance device and you will need to upgrade to another device. This would be a good time to reevaluate the technologies that are available and consider the benefits of migrating from a Card Reader to Biometric. The ability to have both an HID ...

How is Anti-Passback used with Access Control?

Nov

15

2012

Ways Anti-passback is Used Anti-passback was designed to prevent fraudulent activity within a work space, gym, or any other facility that is protected with a door access control system. Anti-passback is a setting that will prevent a card/ fob or pin code from being used twice to gain access through a door without exiting a ...

What is Access Control 1

Oct

18

2012

In the area of biometric security the term “access control” comes up a lot. The term in general means, to control access through a point. In the field of biometric security products this phrase has a more specific connotation. When a person states their interest in access control products or more specifically biometric access control ...