www . AmericanSecurityToday . com 2020 CHAMPIONS - Edition 51
The security designer manag- es demands such as
maintaining high quality product selections with smart connectivity ,
budget constraints , future focused , beau- tiful ….. and now we must
provide hygienic focused designs too ! Generally , architects and security technology designers work
togeth- er to design the best solution for their client .
But architects are focused on day one operations and aesthetics -
while technology consultants are more concerned with long term techni- cal functionality and supporting
/ integrating with new smart build- ing systems .
Speed , security , appearances - and recently the need for hygienic solutions - were already
raising new challenges for the industry
.
Security authentication
design was moving in the right
direction before we had
COVID-19 to deal with , as evidenced by the
many new technologies that were al- ready being introduced prior to the year that was 2020 .
Security design engineers and con- sultants tell us that new
approach- es to authentication integration were necessary
.
Our co-author Frank Scala of
WSP
USA , his colleagues , and other
tech- nology consulting experts agree that new contact-free access is a must , not a want
.
Jon Harris , PSP ,
CPP is Director of
Enterprise Solutions at Guidepost
Solutions LLC . He observed
some current trends in contactless ac- cess control .
As he says , “ The COVID pandemic
is driving the adoption of the con- tactless technologies that
were already existing and readily avail- able , however , they were previous- ly viewed more as a novelty than providing security value .”
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