As one recent market report highlights*, more and more organizations are switching to wireless access control to secure premises. Their motivations are well rehearsed. Wireless devices offer greater flexibility without sacrificing security. With integrated RFID readers, they are easy to retrofit to existing doors and buildings, giving security managers much more control over a site. And because they are battery powered and use almost no electricity when idle, wireless access control helps companies reduce energy bills.
But choosing to cut the cables is only the first of many welcome choices when you switch to wireless.
Choose your credential
Wireless access control — including Aperio®, SMARTair® and CLIQ® wireless locking from ASSA ABLOY — gives you the widest possible choice of credentials. You don’t even need to abandon physical keys. In ASSA ABLOY’s CLIQ® key-based access control system, programmable keys with batteries power the cylinder or padlock via an encrypted interface. Electromechanical CLIQ® and fully electronic eCLIQ cylinders are available for doors, cabinets, lifts, alarm boxes, machines and entrance gates. Users reprogram or revalidate their key access rights at wall devices, with portable programming devices or making a Bluetooth connection between the key and the CLIQ® Connect mobile phone app.
Card-based access control leaves your credential options wide open. Both Aperio® wireless locking devices for upgrading access control systems and SMARTair® access control systems are compatible with all leading RFID proximity protocols, including MIFARE®, DESFire and iCLASS®. Users can pick from standard smart-cards, tags, bracelets and other convenient formats, tailored to the site. Wireless escutcheons come with optional PINpads, for doors where multi-factor authentication is needed for upgraded security.
In addition, a SMARTair® system offers mobile-ready access. With SMARTair®, administrators can open electronic door locks remotely. At the user end, the Openow™ app stores validated virtual keys on a smartphone, so there’s no need for anyone to visit a security office to physically collect or update a credential. SMARTair® virtual keys can be sent or revoked over the air — for maximum, time-saving flexibility. Users just tap the SMARTair® lock to open up via Bluetooth.
How big? How small? No limits to building size or type
Whatever size your premises, and no matter what work you do, a wireless access control system fits. In the healthcare sector, our card-based access systems manage huge hospitals and small doctors’ surgeries — where optional anti-bacterial coatings preserve hygienic environments. ASSA ABLOY wireless access control protects single-unit shops and whole shopping malls; care homes and corporate headquarters. From Helen Oy power stations in Helsinki to ULab, Alicante’s newest co-working space, wireless is the right solution.
Key-based access system CLIQ®, for example, caters to complex, multi-location businesses with thousands of locks securing hundreds of employees, plus contractors who need access round the clock. Many utilities operate remote sites, miles from reliable mains electricity, and often at the mercy of extreme weather. None of these challenges stops CLIQ® cylinders and padlocks delivering the trusted security critical infrastructure demands.
CLIQ® is not just for the giants. One user-friendly extension of the technology, CLIQ® Go** enables small business owners to manage an access system from a mobile app. A few taps on the screen is all it takes to cancel, issue or change the door permissions for an employee’s CLIQ® key.
A menu of system management options
Wireless access control does not restrict your system management workflows. The backbone of every ASSA ABLOY wireless access system is intuitive software which makes it easy for facility managers to control, identify and update exactly who can open every door. For all ASSA ABLOY wireless access ecosystems, a user-friendly software interface is accessible from almost any standard PC, tablet or smartphone. It gives facility managers an instant overview of their site’s security status
With Aperio® wireless locks, you manage the new doors from the same interface as your existing access control system. Aperio® devices integrate online or offline (or both) with access systems from over 100 different manufacturers. System administrators see only one, familiar admin interface. SMARTair® offers a menu of management options from standalone operation through offline and Update on Card control to real-time control via SMARTair® Wireless Online functionality.
With wireless, the choice is yours.
Based on a survey of industry experts, the 22-page “Wireless Access Control Report” is free to download at https://campaigns.assaabloyopeningsolutions.eu/wacreport2018
