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A new biometric system will fast-track access to sporting events on the AT&T Park stadium in San Francisco, home of the famous baseball team the San Francisco Giants, a recent news report in the local media has been able to reveal. The new biometric secure identity platform prescreens individuals, expediting the waiting process for fans […]

An employee management system can help businesses streamline and optimize the management processes for their growing mobile workforces, thus improving their overall productivity and helping them save more money on the long-run. Mobile employee management systems will enable staff to do their jobs most effectively by directing those nearest to a new job, which means […]

Biometric time and attendance systems can deliver irrefutable proof of attendance, but they can also create some level of controversy when the underlying technologies are not explained transparently enough during training and privacy-related concerns are not addressed in due time. This sort of situation has recently occurred in San Francisco, the United States, where city […]

Ensuring a very good level of security for all festival goers is a must for any event organizers, and Tensor’s Rapid Deployment Asset Protection System (RDAPS) is the perfect tool for the job, even for those areas where access to electricity is not readily available. This will also apply to the “unplugged” weekend put together […]

The ability to control access to a school’s premises and to thoroughly monitor whoever goes in or out should be a top priority in terms of school security, experts in this field have argued. School administrators are starting to realize the fact that campus security begins at the main entrance, because, without proper control of […]

UK organisations consistently show they are more likely to implement workforce management technology, such as absence and leave management or analytics compared to international counterparts, new research conducted by the Aberdeen Group has been able to reveal. The results of the Aberdeen Group report, Productivity: Managing and Measuring a Workforce (January 2015) confirm that organisations […]

Two Chinese universities, Henan University of Technology in Henan province and Minjiang University in Fujian province, have adopted facial recognition technology as the method of choice for monitoring student attendance and preventing students from registering other classmates on their behalf, a news report has been able to reveal. After Henan University of Technology’s School of […]

A Dubai bank has decided to bolster its security by commissioning vaults employing biometric access control, a specialist news source has revealed. The new vaults to be installed at the Dubai Islamic Bank feature advanced fire detection and suppression systems, external and internal CCTV monitors, and digitization capabilities, in addition to the aforementioned biometric security […]

A fully-featured remote workers module running on a smartphone can help employees spend less time in the office while improving their overall productivity and achieving a very good balance between their working and personal lives. A recent survey of 2000 UK employees carried out on behalf of Microsoft Lumia has revealed that, despite nearly a third […]

Improving building site security is something every company in the construction sector should seriously consider following the Hatton Garden incident, where robbers apparently used two diamond tipped drills stolen from a building site in the City of London last year, according to police sources. Drills that were identical to the model used in the Hatton […]

The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) is the trade association for the British security industry, representing the members on European and British legislation matters. Over 500 members are responsible for more than 70% of UK security business. And now, the BSIA has announced the creation of two new sections of membership, which aim to better […]

The global access control and authentication market is set to grow at an estimated CAGR of 15.3% from 2014 to 2020, reaching an estimated US$ 49,890.3 mn by the end of the forecast period, a recent report from Transparency Market Research has been able to reveal. In the coming years, increase in security budgets for […]