Access control

A door is an entrance into a building, so the security of any building depends in part on its doors’ security.

Any security system should include a premise’s doors to prevent a break in.

Many equipment are designed to secure … Read more

In many structured companies, physical access control is managed by the security department. So, security officers make the monitoring. Assign credentials to the employees, guests and visitors according to a security plan.
However, when it comes to small companies. The … Read more

Here is a brief history of the evolution of access control credentials

Magstripe cards

In the eighties, there was a swipe cards technology, also called a magstripe cards. This technology requires a manual swipe of the card through the reader … Read more

Door security involves many door hardware. Some are very familiar and others can confuse us when it comes to installing and running them. Therefore, someone this could be overwhelming. Because of the different products, terminology and requirements of the territory … Read more

During these last days, I was charged to start up a large project. It was a redundant security system. Meaning that, there was a main server, a fail-over server, two core switches and many POE switches.

I was then confronted … Read more

The access control industry moves to OSDP communication protocol. After decades of adopting the wiegand protocol. OSDP stands for Open Supervised Device Protocol. Developed by the SIA to improve interoperability among access control and security products.

Actually, it comes to … Read more