Next-Gen Access Control in the time of COVID-19

Has the recent COVID-19 cri­sis caused you to rethink how you con­trol access to your work­place? If you could rev­o­lu­tion­ize how you, your employ­ees, guests, and cus­tomers enter your build­ing, what fea­tures would that access con­trol sys­tem con­tain? Well, keep read­ing to learn what we can do today to take your work­space to the next lev­el. Let us intro­duce you to Open­path.

1. Would you like the abil­i­ty for Hands-Free Unlock of doors, not only for con­ve­nience but for hygiene? With Open­path, you have sev­er­al options for hands-free unlock­ing. Not only can you use a Fob or Card, but now by just hav­ing your mobile phone in your pock­et or brief­case, you can unlock the door by touch­ing the read­er with your elbow or wav­ing your smart­watch across the read­er. Ask us about all the options.

2. Would you like the abil­i­ty to sud­den­ly Lock­down one or more doors in the event of an emer­gency? Would you like to have this capa­bil­i­ty from the con­ve­nience of your office or home? We can now make a LOCKDOWN PLAN a real­i­ty with our Open­path Access Con­trol Sys­tem.

3. Are you tired of meet­ing con­trac­tors or employ­ees on-site on week­ends, ear­ly morn­ings, or evenings to unlock the door for them? With Open­path, you can open a door using your smart­phone via Remote Unlock or text Guest Pass from the con­ve­nience of your home or any­where.

4. Do you have mul­ti­ple loca­tions and want to man­age them all from one login? With our Open­path cloud-based sys­tem, you will nev­er have to wor­ry about com­bin­ing net­works or pay­ing your I.T. peo­ple for a VPN. You can access and man­age from a login from any­where, even from the con­ve­nience of your smart­phone.

5. First Per­son In / Last to Leave — Adminta­tors can con­fig­ure entry sched­ules so that entry doors remain locked and secure until the first per­son arrives and per­forms an autho­rized unlock dur­ing the sched­uled peri­od. This is help­ful should the office be emp­ty dur­ing reg­u­lar office hours for any rea­son. Sim­i­lar­ly, autho­rized users on their Open­path App can use the last-to-leave fea­ture to restore the entry to its secure set­ting if the office is emp­ty dur­ing a sched­uled peri­od.

6. Are you tired of track­ing keys, pay­ing for lock­smiths to rekey doors when keys are lost, or employ­ees leav­ing and don’t return keys? Per­haps it’s time to con­sid­er using an elec­tron­ic solu­tion to con­vert to key­less entry, with full report­ing, sched­ul­ing, remote access and more.

7. Do you already have a lega­cy access con­trol sys­tem and don’t want the cost of replac­ing every­thing? Open­path uses stan­dard cabling, stan­dard strikes, and maglocks and is com­pat­i­ble with many 3rd par­ty cards/fobs. Con­se­quent­ly, with Open­path, your cost to upgrade will be rea­son­able, and the ben­e­fits will be many.

8. Have you resist­ed going to elec­tron­ic access con­trol because you aren’t tech-savvy or don’t want the headache of doing all the admin­is­tra­tion and soft­ware updates? Today we can take away all your sys­tem’s com­pli­cat­ed, expen­sive, and time-con­sum­ing man­age­ment. Let us pro­vide you with cus­tomer ser­vice and tech sup­port from 7 am to 11 pm. With our Open­path Access Con­trol Sys­tem, which uti­lizes “the cloud”, you will nev­er again have to wor­ry about updat­ing soft­ware.

9. Would you like to avoid con­tin­u­al­ly increas­ing I.T. invoic­es to man­age your access con­trol sys­tems and oth­er tech­nol­o­gy in your work­place? With Open­path, you won’t need to place a bill­able call to your I.T. peo­ple with sup­port from Open­path from 7 am to 11 pm, and no soft­ware to update.

10. Do you want to be able to inte­grate oth­er secu­ri­ty tech­nolo­gies with your access con­trol sys­tem? Open­path inte­grates with many of the solu­tions you already use, and you can add more. A great way to enhance your secu­ri­ty at entry points is to inte­grate cam­eras with the access sys­tem, with video con­fir­ma­tion of who accessed the build­ing, pre­vent­ing things like tail­gat­ing or shar­ing of fobs or phones.

Recent­ly, we have seen how com­pa­nies have had to adapt and change with the pan­dem­ic we are expe­ri­enc­ing. Tech­nol­o­gy can sig­nif­i­cant­ly help busi­ness­es become more effi­cient, quick­er to respond to emer­gen­cies, and more secure. In sum­ma­ry, the above 10 points scratch the sur­face of what the next gen­er­a­tion of access con­trol has to offer any busi­ness in Cana­da.