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www.AmericanSecurityToday.com We are focused on these new way of the future. future April 2020 - Edition 43 technologies and watching as About the Author a number of them have instal- lations in operation in turn- stile, speedgate, portals and door access control scenarios in many high volume security oriented facilities facilities. We hope to report back to you at GSX 2020 – via a panel pre- sentation in a few months – with more results as statistics and results are compiled over time. Mike McGovern is a security and But from our current vantage point we see enormous im- provements and great prom- ise with these new authentica- tion and screening methods. methods We believe that the experience data over time will prove out that “contactless, “ contactless, touchless” access control authentication is more secure, fast, and healthy – and will be the clear entrance control industry veter- an who has been helping devel- op & design integrated security strategies since 2000, including entrance control systems at many of the USA’s most iconic and recog- nizable buildings and campuses campuses. Mike is responsible for sales of ve- hicle entrance control products ( optical turnstiles, portals, gates) gates ) in the Southern USA and New En- gland Regions for Automatic Sys- tems. tems 24