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How To Improve The Guest Experience At Your Hotel?

MagnumDecember 26, 2019 0 Comments

Access control is the basis for the automation of hotels and apartments in the current time. One of its advantages is to facilitate and expedite access to guest rooms, while helping the manager manage the rooms, their occupancy and energy savings.

Wireless Electronic Door Locks for Hotels and Apartments

Wireless IP Locks have an integrated system under the plastic housing on the front. It is suitable for anyone who wants a detailed overview of the access control of people, who has access to certain areas, or for anyone who wants to restrict access to parts of the building.

SECURITY OF IP LOCKS

All digital door locks have a “panic” function that allows quick opening of the doors from the inside at any time, even if the doors are closed. A quick and strong pressure on the door handle releases the mechanical lock inside and the door can be opened easily. This is especially useful in emergencies.

The Electronic lock for hotels and apartments is programmed for a specific room, while the guest cards are programmed for a specific lock. If the door of the hotel room is closed inside, not even the cleaning operators can enter the room.

The only card that allows access to all rooms at any time is the administrator card, which is used only in case of emergency.

For added security, each lock comes with a set of two identical keys (basic and backup), which can open the door in case all other systems fail. To open the electronic lock with a key, you must first remove the plate that covers the lock on the outside of the door.

All electronic locks for hotels come with an anti-theft lock that makes it impossible to place a flat object between the lock mechanism and the door frame and prevents theft in hotel rooms or other areas of hotels and office buildings.

What Will Be The Technology Of Hotel Locks?

The future of electronic door lock technology for hotel doors is the ability to improve the guest experience and make hotel operations more efficient. The systems of a hotel are independent of each other: a guest cannot register until the room has been cleaned, the cleaning staff cannot clean the room until they know that a guest has left.

Synchronize the reservation processes with the assignment and management of digital keys.

Remote controlled key delivery, you no longer have to hand over the keys to your guests, or worry about unsafe systems. No key, keychain, card or door code is needed. With the security of our clients’ properties in mind, we develop a new solution.

Property managers can:

Control and manage the reservations received, activating and deactivating the digital keys, controlling the entrances and exits of the guests, among many other utilities to facilitate the comfort of both the guests and the owner of the complex.

In what is being described as truly innovative, holiday rental companies will be able to synchronize the reservation processes with the assignment and management of digital keys, automating these processes from their online holiday rental management system.

A Look At The Future: Is The Mechanical Combination Dead?

MagnumNovember 5, 2019 0 Comments

By now, we are in the age of electronics, digital to be precise, it is undeniable. Yet the old beloved mechanical combination lock is not dead; on the contrary, it is in excellent health!

Despite the fact that in many cases of failure of “old-style” locks the technicians tend to replace them with digital models, which appeared on the market around 1980, thanks also to the fact that the mounting points inside the door are the same, in an equivalent number of cases the replacement takes place with an identical device, often at the explicit request of the customer.

It is an established fact that, in the catalogs of all manufacturers of combination locks, the two systems coexist. Mechanical combination locks are still in production, and no mention is made of the end of this trade. But we must not forget that, while the mechanical lock has evolved and perfected for well over a hundred years, the equivalent electronic model has recently celebrated thirty years of life.

However, it does not make sense to obstinately deny the inexorable advance of electronics, in this as in many other fields. Sooner or later, the mechanical locks will become the material for nostalgic antique collectors.

The characteristics of digital combination locks

Examining in detail the technical characteristics of a Digital Door Lock, we cannot deny the advanced peculiarities from the point of view of anti-tampering security that restrict and perhaps cancel, the possibilities of “bypass” through electronic devices.

The absence of disks and relative notches, coupling pins, levers, and relative cuff from which to obtain useful information for discovering the combination, replaced by a microprocessor that governs a latch interlocked to a solenoid or a stepper motor.

The very limited number of moving parts (keyboard, solenoid, and bolt) restrict the probability of failure, which, statistically, can be attributed to false electrical contacts in the keyboard or in the coupling cables, to defects in the batteries or to the solenoid itself.

The very high number of different combinations that can be set, recorded in a non-volatile memory, which reaches twelve zeros! (10 12 possible combinations).

The total absence of tolerances between the numbers, also adjacent, and the absence of “forbidden numbers” in the third digit of the combination.

The possibility of entering several valid combinations, one for each user, with memorization of each single maneuver and with the recording of the day, month, year, hour, and minute and “name” of the operator.

The ability to recognize access attempts made with an exhaustive or deductive search for the combinations, to which the lock reacts by locking for a predetermined time (penalty time) and recording such approaches in a non-erasable memory location.

Some models of digital door locks India must be “loaded” just before use, alternately turning the knob in both directions. Immediately after entering the combination, the bolt must be retracted within four to six seconds. If a longer time elapses, the lock does not open, and the process must be repeated from the beginning.

The implementation of the functions of the “time lock”, which makes the lock insensitive to any maneuver, if performed outside the allowed time slots and many other features whose limits depend on the program encoded in the core of the microprocessor rather than the mechanical tolerances.

Do I Need An Access Control Terminal To Control Employee Entry And Exit Times?

MagnumOctober 21, 2019 0 Comments

The spectacular decrease in overtime worked in the latest reports that have been published reflects the effectiveness of the law on the mandatory registration of working hours. It is true that not only the unpaid but also the paid ones have declined, but in general, the measure is demonstrating that a greater rationalization of work is possible and opens the hope that in the future, those hours will become effective contracts for people who do not have a job.

In the application of the measure, companies and institutions are moving slowly, but all the entities involved (and all those whose workers are regulated by the amended Statute), are considering that need and it is expected that the actions of the Inspection of Work is occurring with increasing intensity so it will be difficult to stay out of the norm.

From here, what is the most convenient employee entry and exit control system? For each company, the answer will be different, and in previous entries of this blog, we have reviewed several options: from the almost prehistoric paper signed to the Excel workbook, the multitude of Apps, and the software of a work access control.

The advantage of Access Control Systems is that, depending on the functionality chosen, they can have either simple access control terminals (to open a door), or access and presence (which, in addition, trigger some device after identification and record the users’ schedule). In this way, the company will have a system that provides both security and reliable data to face a Labor Inspection or quickly and effectively prepare payrolls, have employee vacation quadrants, etc.

So it is not so much that an “access control terminal” is needed for the control of employee entry and exit schedules since there are other possibilities, and each work center will have to study them. But there is no doubt that it is the most appropriate method to carry out the control of entry and exit of employees in order, a task as mechanical as it is essential that too many times overload human resources departments.

Which access control terminal to choose, and with what technology?

Once the decision is made to install a professional Automatic Door Lock, the company must take into account the infrastructure available for its choice. As for the technologies used, the most common terminals use readers with keyboard/password, RFID cards (proximity), and readers with biometric sensors, such as fingerprint reading or facial recognition. And there are models with one or several technologies in the same device.

For example, if you are more interested than the communication of the terminals (readers) with the applications, it is via Ethernet (TCP / IP), RS-232/485, USB, Wifi, or GPRS, for which you can Opt in the same device. Its tightness will also be considered, depending on whether it is an indoor or outdoor (outdoor) access control. In the external fingerprint terminals, it is important that in addition to the tightness, the environment where it is placed is taken care of, preventing sunlight from directly affecting the fingerprint sensor, since this can cause the level of incidents to increase.

Reasons Electronic Door Locks Continue to Grow in Popularity

MagnumSeptember 15, 2019 0 Comments

It can be said that basic pin/key and tumbler door locks are the most ubiquitous invention in human history. But the question is that how many times in a day you find a cylindrical pin and tumbler lock? The answer is, of course, many. There is probably one on the front door of your house, one on the bank door, and the list goes on. The traditional door locks were trustworthy, reliable, and familiar. But the technology keeps on improving, and this is why individuals and organizations are selecting the electronic door locks because of several reasons as they provide better security, convenience, and affordability.

With each passing day, more and more office building, condo complexes, business premises, and even residential complexes have started to install electronic locks in their home as part of their fully integrated security system.

Just like other security solutions, electronic locks are sometimes not the best solution for every person or situation.

However, here are some reasons why the demand for digital door locks India is growing at a fast rate:

In the old days, the installation of electronic locks required highly trained technicians and also needed to hire an electrician as well. This is because those locks had hard-wired locks that worked with compatible card readers which in turn made their installation somewhat complicated and the cost high.

But as electronic locks became common, their manufacturers offered a variety of different wireless locks having many sizes, shapes, and appearances. With the passage of time, the new electronic locks were made in such a way that their installation became easy, which in turn increased their demand.

Some of the digital door locks can be installed in a standard cylindrical door, needing nothing more than a screwdriver and few minutes. As the locks are wireless, separate card readers are also not required.

This additional feature made these locks accessible for people and then increased their market share.

The best advantage of having an electronic door lock is that they are used in combination with some type of management program, no matter if it is a full-featured access control system or an app of the smartphone.

The feature of managing these locks provide security directors and administrators the control on all aspect of the site security.

Let us take an example, suppose that there comes a situation where you need to lock all the doors of your house. If you have installed a traditional door lock, then you would be walking around to lock each door manually. But if there is an emergency, then this may cost valuable time and put people in harm. And if you have an electronic door lock installed at your home, then you will be able to disable or enable any individual lock without any problem only by using a smartphone or desktop computer.

As the level of threats is increasing day by day, several organization believe that having a digital door lock means a lot as they provide lockdown capabilities to the users.

How To Buy And Choose The Best And Reliable Door Lock, The Safest Door Lock, According To Experts

MagnumJune 4, 2019 0 Comments

Digital electronic and biometric locks are a more reliable device for protecting a home, office, safe, or hotel than a typical average mechanical lock that opens with an ordinary key. When using an electronic lock, only authorized access is possible.

According to the results of the research conducted, the assessment of experts and criminologists regarding door locks, according to the degree of reliability decrease, the types of Door Handles And Locks can be divided as follows:

Biometric lock- The advantage of such a door lock is obvious: based on some knowledge in forensic science, it is impossible to pick up a fingerprint with which the door opens. With any unauthorized impacts on the lock, an alarm is activated.
Lock with access by RF cards- You cannot copy or use another card/key to access your door lock. The only drawback of this type of lock is that the card/key can be lost or the key can be stolen. In this case, you can simply erase the information about the lost card from the security system of the lock, thus protecting your home from the thief, and then register new electronic cards.
Lock with password access- The security of your home depends on the complexity of the password. The probability of selecting a password by brute force is not so small, despite the fact that this process is very long and laborious. You can also find out your password by looking at it at the moment of dialing it.
Mechanical lock. The most common type of locks in India are Electronic Door Locks. But also this type of door lock is the easiest for an intruder: the criminals can simply pick up the key to such a door lock, you can also open the lock with a master key or using the bumping method, and of course, the key can be lost or stolen.

Lack of public awareness of new technologies and biometrics, causes people to doubt the reliability of a digital electronic lock (with a fingerprint, RF-card) to protect their property. There are questions of this kind: what is the reliability of an electronic lock? How high is the strength of biometric locks? Is it possible to deceive the sensor?

The main advantages of digital electronic locks are a very high indicator of reliability, functionality, convenience, and an impeccable appearance.

Disable mechanical lock is much easier than the electronic lock. In order to harm a mechanical lock, it suffices, for example, to insert a toothpick into the slot of a cylinder lock cylinder.

Digital door lock, in this respect, is much more practical and safer – the locks do not have any functional holes, which could be jammed. The lock can withstand physical impact up to 3.5 tonnes per square centimeter. So if an attacker tries to break the lock, he will have to exert a lot of effort.

In addition, electronic door locks have several other advantages:

Presence of night illumination;
When trying to break into or when supporting keys and code, the built-in siren is activated;
Availability of a fire detection sensor;
Anti-panic system;
Automatic locking function;
Dual authorization for maximum security;
If the door remains unlocked, an automatic reminder is triggered;
Locks are powered by the built-in power supply, finger batteries;

Our company offers you high-quality Korean digital electronic and biometric locks of premium class, with a fingerprint, password, RF card for homes, hotels, offices, and lockers.

Physical Access Control via Electronic Locks

MagnumApril 16, 2019 0 Comments

The access control systems make it possible to filter the flows of individuals inside a site, establishment, building, local, carpark, etc. i.e., all the means which constitute them allow the entrances – exits of zones to the only people having the required rights. The implementation of such a system is structuring for the establishment and its users.

At each checkpoint, the three primary functions are provided:

Identification and authentication;

Data processing;
Locking and unlocking

The Electronic Door Locks allows the mechanical blocking of the access point to prevent the passage of unauthorized persons. The RFID badge access control system allows unlocking according to the access rights stored in the database.

Badge access control systems take into account specific operating procedures such as degraded operation in the event of a power or mains failure, as well as the need for an automatic opening in case of fire.

The RFID badge access control system makes it possible to take into account the needs in terms of people’s flow of traffic and the needs of each person.

To complete the access control solution, it is possible to distinguish and simply manage groups of readers corresponding to areas with different levels of security within the sites to be protected. The creation of sensitivity level groups is possible to take into account the type of threat feared for each zone.

Multi-purpose badges for Access Control

Access control solutions make it possible to pool uses with a single contactless RFID badge. It is thus possible to add on the badge used for the access control, an electronic purse. With a single RFID badge, it is possible to control physical access but also payments to the restaurant, canteen, self-service or cafeteria, etc.

Develop the appropriate solution to secure access.

There are many tools for Electronic Door Locks, but to develop the right solution, there are several criteria to consider:

The budget allocated to the operation taking into account the possibilities of evolution of the installation. Indeed, a device is never static; it must be able to evolve with the internal changes in society. If buildings are rehabilitated or extensions are built, it must always be possible to fit the existing facility. It is a question of common sense, but it is too often overlooked.

The reality of life in the company. It is not necessary to add to the procedures if it is not justified and not to differentiate too many areas if the plan can be simplified. On the other hand, we must take into account the flow of people. The choice of access control systems is different depending on the number of people involved.

Practicality: The goal is not to slow down the evolution of staff from one place to another, but to always think of safety. The operation of the company must never suffer from the access control system.

Respect for the laws: there are, of course, standards including the regulations on data collected and respect for privacy.

Technical feasibility: some site configurations are more complicated than others to cut and secure.

Dematerialized Access Control – The Smartphone as a New Access Badge

MagnumApril 5, 2019 0 Comments

To control access in their premises, companies, and communities these days use badges. But do you know dematerialized solutions? It saves time for both the building manager and the user. Companies are starting to realize that dematerializing the badge in a smartphone has a lot of benefits. Moreover, according to the study, 20% of companies will promote a system of Digital Door Lock India by smartphone rather than traditional badges by 2020. While they were only 5% to use them in 2016, more intuitive and less restrictive, smartphones would be doomed to remove the classic access badges?

To understand this craze, here are the benefits of this technology, its uses and the best solutions that exist. Finally, some questions to expert teams, one of the most complete dematerialized access solutions on the market. Indeed, the virtual badge makes it easier for users and promotes their adherence to the company’s safety practices. Indeed, it is much rarer to forget his smartphone than his badge. And for a good reason, the smartphone is always in the pocket of the employee. Even if he forgets it at his home, he will turn around to get it back, not for his badge.

For the company, the cost of a virtual badge is three to four times cheaper than a physical badge. This avoids having to make badges and set them up. When a new employee, a visitor or a service provider arrives, it is necessary to manage the new badges, the access they allow, etc. Thanks to dematerialized access, it is possible to authorize or revoke the remote access rights.

Besides, the security is increased, because the management of the Fingerprint Door Locks in a dematerialized way makes it possible to get data in real time: who enters the premises, at which moment, in which building it is, etc.

For the employees, it is more intuitive, and for the company, it offers undeniable ease of management.

Many uses for the dematerialized access

When it comes to access badge, we think of use in the office. Dematerialized badges make it possible to optimize and automate the management of access controls for employees and external guests. Or to business villages and coworking spaces, which are highly trafficked and require frequent and changing access. Yet these virtual access technologies are scalable for many uses.

For example, for governments and communities. Whether it is a gym, the building of an association or a village hall, each shared public place can use dematerialized access. This allows authorized persons to easily enter the premises at defined times and thereby enhance security.

Then, for events requiring the rental of a place, use a dematerialized badge allows allowing access to guests. This access is guaranteed during the period of the event. Once the rental is complete, the accesses are revoked automatically.

Finally, another possible use: car parks. It may be interesting to distribute limited access to drivers based on the time of day.

The Rise of Biometry

MagnumMarch 30, 2019 0 Comments

While the use of biometric readers is democratized worldwide to identify users, experts warn that not all systems on the market offer the same security guarantees.

We are witnessing a process of integrating Security Access Control System in India as a source of identification in more and more day-to-day uses. Unblocking mobile phones, making payments by footprint authentication in shops, participating in voting by biometric patterns and even incorporating this type of sensors to activate the mechanisms for opening and starting vehicles are applications that, if they are not yet part of our day by day, they are getting closer and closer to becoming every day.

The biggest advantage it offers is to turn the person into their own access key. It is finished loading with key chains or cards that in case of loss can be used by whoever owns them. Biometrics offers a user verification system that is very difficult to impersonate.

We speak of very diverse applications, and for that reason, the advances go in different ways. Right now, the news refers to the ability of facial recognition systems to locate certain people within a crowd, as is already happening in China. In these cases, the result is not 100% accurate, but it goes to say that the person identified is very likely to be the one sought, but without offering a total certainty. These systems are based on 2D images and do not provide enough information on the face to guarantee the success of the result.

Currently, fingerprint readers are the most widespread identification systems, since they present great advantages over the previous ones if we take into account the ease of use, the size and the relationship between the cost and the security they offer. But do not forget that not all fingerprint readers are the same.

It is important to consider a series of decisive variables when opting for Fingerprint Door Locks and always remembering that not all fingerprint readers offer the same guarantees. Accessing the data of a personal mobile phone is not the same as entering a physical space where the security reasons required are maximum. Therefore, it is important to distinguish what different systems on the market can offer.

Capacitive readers, which are usually placed on mobile phones, are based on a silicon chip with thousands of transistors that are affected by the electric field generated by the crests and valleys of the fingerprint. What they do is generate a monochromatic image. An ideal system for economic readers and with few users: between 10 and 250 depending on the model.

More precision offered by fingerprint reading systems with optical technology. In this case, a micro camera captures the image that is formed by placing a finger on a glass and offers an image with a quality superior to that of capacitive sensors. However, they have the drawback of being affected by the degree of humidity: a very dry finger almost does not create an image and a wet finger that generates a black spot. This system may be suitable for 1: N identification of a maximum of 1000 users.

The Hotel Sector and Remote Access Management

MagnumMarch 29, 2019 0 Comments

In the universe where everything revolves around the Internet, it is unthinkable not to decline the high potential of some products in contexts where simple solutions could revolutionize an entire market. How can these characteristics be translated into “smart” management of tourism?

We think of the growth that has taken place in recent years and all those solutions related to “easy” tourism, which do not oblige any owners of accommodation to make high initial investments. Being able to rent holiday homes, rooms or portions of one’s home for a few days or longer periods is certainly a benefit in terms of profit, but often one comes up against the difficulty of managing entrances and exits and the delivery of keys, in an alternation of physical presence and organizational skills.

Manage access to your hotel in a smart, always monitored and efficient way.

Why choose an Automatic Door Lock for guest check-in and check-out management:

It is possible to remotely control the opening or closing of a door (gate) through a web-based system;
It is possible to authorize or deny access credentials to a specific badge immediately and simply;
It is possible to manage and administer all events in real time;
Infrastructure installation is facilitated;
The guest is completely independent.

How is the access control system for accommodation facilities made up?

The access control system we offer for the hotel sector requires an initial investment, which can be declined according to the size of the system, and a monthly fee to access the online platform and all other services that can be integrated.

The access control systems are not all the same but can be declined based on the type of control compared to the specific gate.

Usually, centralized solutions (as opposed to stand-alone systems) are suitable for those environments where a supervision and control system allows users to be profiled according to the type of authorization set and at the same time allow accesses, burglaries to be traced in real time or events.

At the company level, it is necessary, first of all, to examine whether bottlenecks exist within one’s structure: phases and procedures that slow down the natural transit of people/vehicles with a consequent slowdown in conveying this information. Usually, in these cases, specific personnel are required to be able to register and check passages and authorizations.

When is a Fingerprint Access Control System mandatory and when needed?

The reasons why a gate or access is controlled is related to issues of:

Safety: deciding who and when to let inside a building or a room, to protect it from unwanted personnel;
Control: to keep track of the number of people or vehicles crossing a passage in a given period of time;
Distance: the need to be able to decide personally who does what, even when you are not physically there;
Control of the production chain: for some companies, above all of food or health, some areas are compulsorily controlled in accesses for obvious reasons of contamination;
Health: controlled access is a must in companies that hold hazardous and toxic substances.

Taking into consideration these 5 variables it is very easy for almost all companies to have the need to create an adequate and efficient access control system.

Robberies in Neighborhood Communities How to Avoid Them?

MagnumMarch 22, 2019 0 Comments

Robberies in neighboring communities and already in our homes. Too usual. The number of robberies does not go down; how can I avoid them? Keep reading, and we’ll get you out of doubt.

Thefts in most common neighborhood communities, as well as unauthorized access, are the following:

Robberies in the storage rooms of neighborhood communities or garages.
Vehicles in garages with access from the hall.
Quarters of accountants.
Access rooftops from which you can enter adjacent communities.
Vandalism act
Robbery in homes, thanks to free access to the farm.

How to avoid thefts in neighborhood communities?

Below, we will talk about deterrence (alarm systems) and visual control (surveillance cameras and CCTV) for later identification. Both for theft and vandalism.

How to avoid thefts in neighborhood communities? We will have to take the following measures:

Install springs to close doors and maintain proper maintenance. In this way, the Digital Door Lock will always close when leaving or entering the hall.
Always check, who enters next or after us. We will never really know their intentions (when they are unknown).
Do not go out or go in a hurry and wait until the door is completely closed.
Install electro locks on the entrance door. They are automatic, so in this way, every time the door is closed, it will be automatically closed with a turn of the key. Important, with anti-panic function.
Installation of high-security bulbs, with duplicate key control.
Install automatic locks and high-security bulbs (trained) in all garage access doors, storage rooms, stairs, and community areas.
Cover with bars on all windows that give access to the neighborhood community.
And in our homes, increase the level of security of the access doors.
In first floors and attics, extreme caution and security of all doors and windows.

How to dissuade, alert and discover who has entered our neighborhood community? Both for theft and vandalism.

The installation of an Electronic Door Lock helps us to dissuade to some extent and warns us when we have been victims of a robbery or prank, but in no way will avoid it. However, it is a great compliment.

A video surveillance system or CCTV is very dissuasive and will help us discover who does what. The drawback is that as a general rule, after viewing the images, the percentage of knowing who has been is minimal, since they tend to be camouflaged in some way.

An access control system will also help us, but it will depend on the chosen system and its components.

Another important factor and high risk, are the garages as we find very uncontrolled and vulnerable access. We all go out in a hurry to go to work and very few wait until the garage doors are completely closed. Serious error! If we take good note of these safety tips to avoid thefts in neighborhood communities, surely the percentage of loss falls sharply.