Strode College in Somerset, U.K. recently deployed a wireless access control system to improve campus security and to better manage access control at its facilities. Salto Systems' local partner Lock-Tech, which recently opened a new office in Bristol, supplied and installed the locks at the university. The system currently secures 32 doors.
Strode College in Somerset, U.K. recently deployed a wireless access control system to improve campus security and to better manage access control at its facilities. Salto Systems' local partner Lock-Tech, which recently opened a new office in Bristol, supplied and installed the locks at the university. The system currently secures 32 doors.
Strode College is one of England's top performing colleges for further and higher education, offering a wide range of academic and vocational courses, training and leisure courses for the community. Most of the on-campus facilities are new or newly refurbished. A multi million pound capital investment program has continued in recent years to improve student facilities; over US$30.9 million (￡20 million) has been invested over the last 10 years.
The college required the addition of a product that would provide networked access control and security via a single access card that could be easily distributed to staff and potentially, in the future to students.
Working in conjunction with the college's IT and procurement teams, Lock-Tech's Bristol team selected wireless access control system. The system is an on-line, real-time access control system that uses RFID to communicate with the central access control database stored on the college's server. The wireless functionality provides the control and flexibility of a hard-wired access control system, without the additional costs and complexity associated with hardwiring each door. The wireless electronic escutcheons on the doors are configured automatically via Salto gateways installed in strategic locations.
The system allows administrators to monitor the wireless network, download audit trail information from doors in real time, delete users remotely and securely, collect battery status of the battery operated units for maintenance, remotely lock and unlock doors and much more. The wireless units are now installed campus wide on a mixture of Apple Mac suites, lecture rooms, engineering workshops and communal staff areas. This site is totally online and wireless with no current offline or stand-alone doors.