Specialist medical centres require very robust access control systems, due both to the often very expensive machinery contained within, as well as the fact that they normally hold very sensitive data on their patients.
This is exactly the case with cancer treatment specialist Rutherford Health, who has entered into a £55m development framework agreement under which it will establish up to five new facilities in the UK to provide diagnostic services to the NHS and to private patients.
The agreement is with Equitix, an investor, developer and long-term fund manager of core infrastructure assets in the UK and Europe.
Each centre will provide a variety of diagnostics services to NHS and private patients including positron emission tomography-computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, ultrasound, endoscopy, x-ray and other relevant diagnostic services.
Rutherford chief executive Mike Moran said: “The demand for diagnostic capability in the NHS, and private sector, has increased significantly over the last five years with demand outstripping supply year on year. The DFA with Equitix will enable Rutherford Diagnostics to meet the rising demand for diagnostic clinical services”.
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Access Control Wales can aid your firm in keeping crime on a downward trend with our Visitor Monitoring and ID Card Systems. Access Control Wales have put together a range of options for bundled ID card systems, guaranteed to suit your business requirements.
All of our ID card systems can be modified, to your particular specifications. We have three ID card systems available, all of which come complete with upgradable software, enabling your system to grow as your needs change.
A solid and reliable access control system is a must for all the companies in the logistics sector keen to expand their business and premises.
One of the latest examples comes from Cwmbran, where Bridgetime Transport part of The APC network, has opened a new operational parcel depot on the Avondale Industrial Estate.
The move allows the company to serve SME customers in a time where SMEs are of great importance.
The depot has an employed workforce of 17 and will be looking to recruit for more roles in the local area in the coming months in order to meet increased demand from the region’s burgeoning SME community.
The new location provides 5,000 sq. ft. of premium warehouse space, more than double its original space of 2,000 sq.ft. This increased space will allow the company to expand its overnight parcel collection and delivery service offerings to local businesses; particularly its specialist fragile, security and liquid services, enabling local SMES to service a national customer base.
Robbie Evans, Director of Bridgetime Transport, said:
“Our new depot is perfectly placed to grow and serve the blossoming heart of Gwent’s entrepreneurial community. We view our customers as more than just a tracking number – they are real people working hard to serve their community, working in partnership with their delivery teams and drivers.
“Managed by Simon Hammett, with new facilities at our disposal and a growing team of enthusiastic logistics experts raring to go, we are excited to champion Welsh SMEs and help them flourish in the coming years.”
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Access Control Wales can aid your firm in keeping crime on a downward trend with our Visitor Monitoring and ID Card Systems. Access Control Wales have put together a range of options for bundled ID card systems, guaranteed to suit your business requirements. All of our ID card systems can be modified, to your particular specifications. We have three ID card systems available, all of which come complete with upgradable software, enabling your system to grow as your needs change.
Contactless access control solutions are likely to represent the solutions of choice for the educational sector in the near future, as the combination of contactless credentials and touchless access control hardware can help mitigate the risks posed by the COVID-19 outbreak.
It’s already a well-known fact that most universities and colleges closed earlier this year, moving to e-learning in many cases, creating unique pressure for students, their families and universities across the country.
While it’s unclear when schools will welcome back students, campuses need to be prepared for a new normal. Schools will need to prove that they can offer a safe campus experience, and contactless is the way to go, whether we’re talking about smart cards (proximity cards) or other authentication solutions, such as mobile credentials.
Touchless solutions can help reduce contact transmission by decreasing the number of surfaces people touch in a facility, which thereby helps decrease opportunities for exposure.
A common way to accomplish touchless operation is by pairing low-energy automatic operators with actuators or readers. Presenting a contactless credential to the reader can automatically open a door without an individual having to touch anything. A similar operation is performed when a person is leaving the building.
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Given the level of security required for stadia and sporting arenas, implementing a very solid access control and surveillance system is really a must, and this is specifically where Access Control Wales could leverage its extensive experience in this field.
Access Control Wales employs a variety of access control technologies, including here facial recognition, to create advanced solutions, enable users to exert solid, reliable and accurate control over the access to specific premises or zones.
If you’d like to find out more about the range of solutions supplied by Access Control Wales, both in terms of hardware (smart card readers, biometric readers, turnstiles, etc.) and software (access rights management software solutions, etc.), just contact us, we’ll be more than happy to answer any queries you might have.
Plans for building a new high-end building aimed at hosting tech and creative start-ups on the site of a former Swansea nightclub have been recommended for approval, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest.
Swansea Council wants to develop a glass-fronted property rising to five storeys above ground level at 71-72 The Kingsway where more than 600 people could work.
The building will be high-tech, eco-friendly and have flexible open-plan work spaces including balconies overlooking the city centre.
The development, which has been recommended for approval, forms part of the Swansea City and Waterfront Digital District project being part-funded by the £1.3bn Swansea Bay City Deal.
The key purpose of the scheme is to provide high quality office space for indigenous tech businesses and start-ups and to stimulate regeneration of the Kingsway and the Swansea City Bay Region as a whole.
The proposed development involves the construction of a mixed-use building to provide flexible workspace with ancillary communal and commercial uses.
The basement area is earmarked for use potentially as a gym or exhibition space, with the lower ground floor used for meeting rooms, further exhibition space and a coffee shop. The ground floor will accommodate the reception with six commercial units along The Kingsway frontage.
The upper floors will accommodate office/business space with the roof area being used for as a garden area, enclosed meeting space or private event space.
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The Access Control Wales system can control most standard types of internal/external electronic door releases and physical security devices such as barriers and turnstiles making.
The system gives you full control over who is allowed access through any controlled point at any time of any day.
It is suitable for operations of any size, from the control of a single internal door through to a fully computerised, multi-site network of control points.
You can integrate CCTV with the software, linking cameras with smart card scanners so that locks releasing triggers recording to begin. This can be viewed afterwards.
There is even a function which allows users to specific that they are entering or allowing entrance under duress.
There is no difference to the reader response when the duress key is pressed but silent alarms and emails are triggered to warn of the entry under duress.
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The access control and authentication market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.2% from 2020 to 2027 to reach $22.7 billion by 2027, a new market research report from Meticulous Market Research has been able to suggest.
The new market research report titled, “Access Control and Authentication Market by Technology (Biometrics, Smart Card, Electronic Locks), Component, Application (Residential/Commercial, IT Telecom, BFSI, Retail, Defense, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Hospitality) – Global Forecast to 2027” points out that a series of factors such as increasing government focus towards improving public infrastructure with the incorporation of latest technologies; growing demand for high-level security technologies, largely amongst BFSI consumers; increasing need for an effective security system; and consistent technological developments are driving the growth of the access control and authentication (ACA) market.
Moreover, the increasing strategic partnerships among advanced technology providers and access control devices manufacturers to strengthen the product portfolio and their position in the global market is encouraging the growth of the access control and authentication market in the forecast period. However, the high initial cost of deploying biometric access control system may restrict the growth of this market in the coming years to some extent.
The report also takes into account the fact that, in 2020, the world is facing a very difficult and unpredicted situation, as the coronavirus continues to spread. The COVID-19 has started showing its distressing collision on most of the profitable businesses across the globe. The outbreak is posing serious challenges to various industries and the world economy.
The biometric access control devices are now playing a significant role in the safety and security of the people. The novel coronavirus is pouring the need for contactless biometric access control devices as the consumers don’t want to interact with shared contact-based authentication devices. The positive impact will be perceptible which in turn encourage the growth of the access control and authentication market over the forecast period.
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Organizations looking to improve their site’s security and prevent crime can do so by installing a comprehensive, high-end CCTV surveillance system, fully integrated with a secure and reliable Access Control solution.
Access Control Wales has an extensive experience in both segments (CCTV and Access Control) and we are able to easily offer such an extensive level of functionality for all of our systems.
As they’re built around the same cutting-edge technology platform, Tensor.NET, both the WinAC.NET and WinTA.NET suites support an extensive level of CCTV integration.
Video clips retrieved from CCTV cameras are associated with access control activity are available when CCTV is integrated with Tensor.NET.
The cameras are allocated to location entries created in Tensor.NET, which are then linked to smart card scanners or push buttons in the Hardware Manager. Furthermore, multiple cameras can be allocated to the same location, or multiple locations can be assigned to the same camera and lock sensors are connected directly to the CCTV’s DVR.
As a lock is released, an alarm event triggers the recording of video footage for the event. This footage is then available for playback in Tensor.NET, either by location or as a link in an access control report. Screen displays are provided to report upon access events, including links to play the related video clip.
Additionally, the application allows either live or historic video to be viewed for periods not linked to any specific Access Control event.
If you’d like to find out more about Access Control Wales’ CCTV integration options, as well as the multiple useful features provided by our Time and Attendance and Access Control systems, just contact us and we’ll be sure to answer all of your queries on the matter.
Remote working and the furloughing of staff caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are leaving employees without the usual support mechanisms from their workplace, hence increasing the numerous security threats organisations and businesses face every day.
These threats are likely to grow, the more extended the pandemic control measures, and one of the most insidious and perhaps challenging to mitigate is an attack from within carried out by an organisation’s people or former people; employees, contractors, consultants, even volunteers. To address this inherent weakness in security requires a clear understanding of the threat and investment in robust mitigation policies, procedures and systems.
Putting in place a robust personnel security policy is therefore a must for every organization that takes security seriously, and access control is a vital component used for enforcing such a policy. In fact, where applicable, it is highly recommended to implement an access control system or procedure to limit/permit access to physical (buildings) and electronic assets.
Furthermore, the electronic access control system should be able to easily control who, what, when and where moves around a facility and use assets to provide real-time monitoring and alerts to breaches. Video surveillance can supplement this to provide an additional security layer.
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Several new lettings have been secured at Deeside Industrial Estate’s Zone Two following the latest phase of refurbishment, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest.
The Temporary Kitchen Company has taken 12,178 sq ft, with the facility set to be used to help assist with the contract that the company has with the NHS.
Elsewhere, utilities contractor MJ Quinn Integrated Services has taken 20,050 sq ft and Bevie.co snapped up 26,540 sq ft.
Further phases of extensive refurbishment lined up.
Mark Diaper, associate director at Legat Owen, joint property agent with B8 Real Estate, said: “We are currently identifying a new wave of requirements from firms who are performing well in these market conditions.
“Our client is continually investing in the site, not least with the purchase of dedicated electric security vehicles for the site, and that has proven to be an attractive proposition for businesses looking to grow.”
Access Control Wales – Expert Suppliers of Integrated Access Control Systems
Access Control Wales can aid your firm in keeping crime on a downward trend with our Visitor Monitoring and ID Card Systems. Access Control Wales have put together a range of options for bundled ID card systems, guaranteed to suit your business requirements. All of our ID card systems can be modified, to your particular specifications. We have three ID card systems available, all of which come complete with upgradable software, enabling your system to grow as your needs change.
Deploying an integrated access control and CCTV surveillance system can significantly improve an organization’s security provision, but can actually deliver real business benefits on a broader scale, experts in this field believe.
Typically, access control is a part of a building or office manager’s responsibility, but the process is often simple and has little oversight. If a keycard is presented, a door will open, regardless of who is using the keycard or whether or not they are supposed to be at work on a given day.
As business functions digitalise, however, better ways of securing the workplace via access control emerge. IP-networked video cameras provide extensive real-time information that can be put to use beyond the traditional applications of surveillance.
In the case of access control, data from the video surveillance network is combined with data from access control – and other sources – into a single platform for a truly smart, efficient and secure system.
INTEGRATED ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS FROM ACCESS CONTROL WALES – DELIVERING IMPROVED SECURITY AND REDUCING OPERATIONAL COSTS
Organizations looking to improve their site’s security and prevent crime can do so by installing a comprehensive, high-end CCTV surveillance system, fully integrated with a secure and reliable Access Control solution.
Access Control Wales has an extensive experience in both segments (CCTV and Access Control) and we are able to easily offer such an extensive level of functionality for all of our systems.
As they’re built around the same cutting-edge technology platform, Tensor.NET, both the WinAC.NET and WinTA.NET suites support an extensive level of CCTV integration.
Video clips retrieved from CCTV cameras are associated with access control activity are available when CCTV is integrated with Tensor.NET.
The cameras are allocated to location entries created in Tensor.NET, which are then linked to smart card scanners or push buttons in the Hardware Manager. Furthermore, multiple cameras can be allocated to the same location, or multiple locations can be assigned to the same camera and lock sensors are connected directly to the CCTV’s DVR.
As a lock is released, an alarm event triggers the recording of video footage for the event. This footage is then available for playback in Tensor.NET, either by location or as a link in an access control report. Screen displays are provided to report upon access events, including links to play the related video clip.
Additionally, the application allows either live or historic video to be viewed for periods not linked to any specific Access Control event.
If you’d like to find out more about Access Control Wales’ CCTV integration options, as well as the multiple useful features provided by our Time and Attendance and Access Control systems, just contact us and we’ll be sure to answer all of your queries on the matter.
Integrated access control and identity management systems, whose purpose is to sync the identity management of employees and their physical access privileges, can be put to very good work and help limit the spread of COVID-19, experts in this sector have argued.
By using an integrated system, HR and security departments can manage employee access rights from anywhere, even across multiple offices with a single credential, while also tracking activity for personnel remotely.
Should an employee or visitor be later diagnosed with COVID-19, businesses can run audits of access history to determine when the infected individual entered a location and who was there concurrently, invaluable insight to help limit the disease’s spread.
A related circumstance that will make the integration of cloud-based access control and identity management even more important for HR professionals is an anticipated increase in staff reductions. Economic uncertainty is forcing businesses to consider downsizing and when these plans are executed, HR leaders benefit from immediate (and remote) revocation of access rights as impacted individuals are removed from an HR system. This automated security step, helps mitigate potential workplace violence issues from disgruntled employees.
Access Control Wales – Expert Suppliers of Integrated Access Control Systems
Access Control Wales can aid your firm in keeping crime on a downward trend with our Visitor Monitoring and ID Card Systems. Access Control Wales have put together a range of options for bundled ID card systems, guaranteed to suit your business requirements.
All of our ID card systems can be modified, to your particular specifications. We have three ID card systems available, all of which come complete with upgradable software, enabling your system to grow as your needs change.
A traditional lock and key to control access to the entrance and exit of a facility simply isn’t enough anymore in today’s highly-digitized world, and more flexible solutions for staffing arrangements of shift workers or contractors, shared workspaces and lean budgets have to be found and deployed.
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than ever, unmanned infrastructure is being tasked with protecting assets and
network access points from physical and cyberattacks. Integrated electronic
access control solutions are adapting to meet all of these changing needs.
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to small interior spaces demands creative new solutions that are cost-effective
and easy to use. In many facilities, cabinet locks are used to secure materials
that multiple shifts of employees must access. This makes mechanical keys
cumbersome for facilities to manage—more so when managing mechanical locks and
keys for multiple sites.
Package
delivery and data security aren’t going away any time soon, and the need to
secure supplies and equipment in shared facilities will continue to grow.
That’s why facilities in a range of industries should explore the latest access control options for small spaces, which can improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve convenience for the people who use them.
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Integrated Access Control Systems
Access Control
Wales can aid your firm in keeping crime on a downward trend with our Visitor
Monitoring and ID Card Systems. Access Control Wales have put together a range
of options for bundled ID card systems, guaranteed to suit your business
requirements. All of our ID card systems can be modified, to your particular
specifications. We have three ID card systems available, all of which come
complete with upgradable software, enabling your system to grow as your needs
change.