Welcome to AccessNOW - Summer 2014 Edn
This is a bumper edition of AccessNow with over seven special features and five case studies as well as coverage of IFSEC 2014.
Features in this issue include Lead Reporter, Timothy Compston looking at Smartphones and there potential to be employed as part of access control solutions. Also Barriers to Bollards looks at security-critical world of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM).
We take a look at Multi-tech Readers, Tim discovers the key to success of the latest multi-technology readers. While Turning on the Style, Tim considers the way that turnstile manufacturers are successfully matching style with substance in their latest designs.
DataBase Management Matters - focusing on the struggle that organisations face to keep their access control database up-to-date and how technology is helping to lighten the load.
Investing in Integration - With access control very much on the security and management front-line, Tim, focuses on the drive for ever greater integration on an impressive array of on-site systems and how this can best be accomplished.
We also have a piece from ONVIF, the leading global standardisation initiative for IP-based physical security products, who has announced the final release of Profile C, which brings the functionality of the ONVIF global interface specification into the physical access control arena. We will take a more detailed look into this in the next issue.
…and finally case studies in this issue are from Salto Systems, ACT, CEM, Alpro and Genetec