Efficient access control safeguards a company by reducing the risks related to unlawful entrance of a company’s premises or specific areas within the company.

Access control structures permit better supervision and management of people and goods moving through a building or premises. The conventional security methods for controlling access have changed and it is essential to have an adaptable solution for the safeguarding of the company’s assets, resources and employees. This can be achieved through means of biometrics in the form of fingerprint technology and or proximity security.

We provide various products to help you efficiently  control the coming and going of people and movement of goods within and around your enterprise.

Our Access Control solutions allow you not only to restrict access to certain areas of your business – admitting those who should have entry, and no-one else – but our Access Control products offer so much more.

We can give you detailed reporting on employee, visitor and vehicle movement. This allows you to accurately track, monitor and report working hours for management reports and restrict visitor access to certain areas of your site.

S5 Solutions will provide you with a solution after a free site survey, to fit your budget and risk profile. A comprehensive access solution can incorporate one or many of the following devices, which S5 Solutions supplies, installs and maintains:

• Biometric access control devices
• Tag and keypad access control
• Boom gates
• Turnstiles
• Speed gates
• Spike barriers

The advantages of biometric systems:

The advantages of biometric systems reach further than the normal day to day security applications including building management, background checking and access management.

Biometric systems are also now integrated with payroll systems at the workplace for the monitoring of time and attendance and thus improving the overall HR management of the company. In addition we also see it widely used by companies in relation to customer service where the client’s details are connected to the biometric template. This makes it possible to quickly identify the user profile and thus save time when dealing with the client whereas conventional identification methods may still include various verification questions to be answered by the client before the client can be assisted.

Biometrics is also used with out patients requiring refills of chronic medication prescriptions, making it possible to quickly identify the person and thus provide the correct medication. Also used by the South African government in the distribution of social grants, we can see that identification is fast moving away from older methods to the more advanced options of hand geometry and fingerprint identification methods. Membership systems at golf courses, squash courts and more are based on access control through biometric systems.

Fingerprint identification is readily accepted in the workplace as it eliminates passwords, pin numbers and ID cards which can all be lost or stolen. Not only many industries, but also various applications now utilize the technology effectively. For instance, controlling who may enter specific parts of a building or area and how long a person has worked in the area can all be done through the use of biometrics.

From the above information it becomes clear that biometric systems installed and managed correctly can greatly improve security, safety, customer service, employee time and attendance and administration management. Contact us today for information on a wide range of biometric applications regarding fingerprint identification that can be installed at your premise.