Advantages of Access Control System

The key reason for installing an access control system is securing physical access to your buildings or sites. You want to control who is entering which area and when. But choosing the right system, and the access control benefits can stretch far beyond protecting people, possessions, and places.

Benefits of access control

Letting access control put people first

Your access control system, and the data it generates, play a strategic role in helping you boost not just security but productivity, performance as well as happiness. That’s because the most important thing to consider when it comes to your access control system is the people using it. We believe security isn’t just about technology – it’s about how people live their lives and about helping them to make the most of their days. The right access control system can free people’s minds from security and help them live to their full potential.

Increase convenience for improving productivity

Let’s take an example. You have a large multinational company with several sites. Many employees may need or want to visit a range of your sites regularly. Without a good access control system, they can face several complications that waste time and lower the likelihood of a collaborative workforce. They may, for instance, have to stand in a long queue at each site to be signed in as a visitor. And then find they are unable to log onto the network, send something to print, or even move around the building freely.
All such barriers to convenience can be prevented with an access control system. Especially that has the flexibility to incorporate multiple functions on one access card and is standardized across sites and countries.

Protect processes, data, and business continuity

It’s understandable to think of physical security first when considering access control, but what about protecting your business processes and critical data? One of the advantages of access control is in helping to ensure business continuity. It can prevent your logistics from being disrupted or sensitive data being leaked – both of which can have disastrous consequences for your turnover as well as your reputation. You can also use your access control system for optimizing your business processes. When linked to other procedures, such as your HR database, it can help in reducing administration dramatically. Information only needs to be entered once and updates automatically.

Maximizing your space

As well as protecting your buildings, another valuable benefit of an access control system is that it can help you use them more efficiently. For example, your access control system can reveal, that a building is very quiet on Mondays or the last week of each month. With this information, you may decide only to open some floors during the periods when you know it’ll be quiet. Or you may find you can manage with a smaller space altogether. Of course, to reap the great benefits of access control, you need to select a great system. A system built on open standards and can integrate with an extensive range of other technologies, from biometric readers to video monitoring and wireless locks.