Secure your secret rooms using a biometric access control system

A secret room built within a house can improve the home’s overall level of security, and a biometric access control system is the best solution for restricting access to such an area. While secret rooms are particularly popular on movie sets and/or crime and spy novels, the truth of the matter is that they’re also […]

Biometric time and attendance systems improve central government employees’ efficiency

Central government employees are spending nearly twenty minutes extra in office every day after a biometric time and attendance system was installed across multiple offices across New Delhi, a news report on the matter has been able to reveal. If this is converted into working days, with an average of 8.5 hours per working day, […]

Time and attendance systems can help companies mitigate the effects of employee turnover

Time and attendance systems designed to monitor and manage workers’ activity can help companies better manage employee turnover, a phenomenon that is likely to affect up to 37 percent of UK workers in 2015. A survey from the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) has revealed a dramatic increase in potential employee turnover from 2014, […]

Over 30 percent of companies worldwide have no appropriate access control systems in place, study reveals

36 percent of companies worldwide have partial or no appropriate physical access control systems in place, a recent study has been able to reveal. Trustwave’s 2014 State of Risk Report, a 16-month comprehensive survey of over 400 IT professionals in more than 50 countries, also found that 81 of companies percent state they have full […]

Employee management systems to help UK businesses mitigate capacity issues

Employee management systems can help UK businesses grow and take on more work despite the ongoing capacity issues revealed by the latest JobsOutlook survey by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Over a third of UK businesses (36%) have no capacity to take on more work, and almost three in five (57%) have ‘little capacity’, […]

20 percent of enterprises to use Biometric Access Control for enhanced security by 2016

Biometric Access Control and multi-factor authentication could be used by up to 20 percent of enterprises by 2016, a recent report by IDC has forecast. In its FutureScape for Security report, the research company has addressed security concerns in a number of technology areas, including biometric identification and user management. The report predicts that in […]

Integrated Access Control Systems can help you prevent crime against your business premises

Integrated Access Control Systems can help prevent crime against business premises, which accounted for 70% of all police recorded crime in 2013/14, according to figures released by the UK Statistics Authority and 82% of all crime covered by the 2013/14 Crime Survey for England and Wales. The crime survey focused on premises in four industry […]

30.80 million people are in work across the UK, latest ONS figures can reveal

The UK employment rate – the proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 in work – has reached 73.0%, higher than for May to July 2014 (72.8%) and higher than for a year earlier (71.8%), the latest figures released by the ONS (The Office for National Statistics) were able to reveal. The statistical data […]

Fire roll call systems can help streamline personnel evacuation in case of an emergency

A solid and reliable fire roll call system designed to streamline the evacuation of personnel in case of an emergency (such as an industrial fire) is a vital, life-saving measure for any firm, especially those from the industrial and manufacturing segment. That was precisely the case with an industrial fire that broke out at Moray […]