Can Technology Reduce the
Risks for Access Management
in the COVID-19 Era?
Contact-free Biometric Technology is
the answer for the Food Preparation and
Processing Industries.
The wearing personal protective
equipment (PPE) and specialist workwear
– hats, gloves, masks and goggles
is commonplace within various food
processing settings – but this may now
be a prerequisite when following the
COVID-19 guidelines. What’s more,
employees will need to be identified and
authenticated prior to entering their
place of work via access control or time
and attendance technology.
But food processing isn’t the only
industry relying on PPE and COVID-19
Compliance to safeguard employees.
Similar guidelines are now being applied
in the construction, engineering, utility
and healthcare sectors, and by many
commercial enterprises.
While absolutely necessary to protect
employees, avoid contamination, and
maintain food safety standards, PPE
create major problems for Access
Control and Attendance System. Some
biometric devices used to authenticate
people’s identity in line with the current
guidelines, as they enter restricted,
dangerous or sterile areas struggle.
Gloves for example, interfere with
fingerprint readers and make it difficult
to present access cards. In today’s
COVID-19 era, no one wants to remove
gloves and place their hands on a reader
or key-pad previously used by scores if
not hundreds of other people.
Facial readers may be contactless, but
masks, goggles or hairnets may greatly
reduce the accuracy of the recognition
software. That can lead to the rejection
of authorized people and others with
no legitimate business in the area being
allowed to enter.
Iris-based authentication has the
advantage of being contactless. And
it is not impaired by PPE — including
tinted glasses or contact lenses. Using
the iris to identify people complies with
the COVID-19 guidelines and eliminates
the potential spreading of disease while
maintaining security protocols. There’s
no need for employers to make a choice
between their employees’ well-being and
facility security and compliance.
Learn more about our compliant Iris
Recognition and Identification solutions
and how they are used for access
control, time and attendance and many
other applications.
ADITECH COVID-19 COMPLIANT
SOLUTIONS
As the COVID-19 pandemic changes
our lives forever, so will the reliance
on “Contactless” Access Control
and Time and Attendance systems,
migrating from Keys, Cards and
Codes to safer COVID-19 Compliant
solutions employing Iris Recognition
and Identification based biometric
technology.
Aditech and its partners have devised
such solutions based on its range of
reliable, accurate, tried and tested
devices, flexible solutions that can be
applied to many crucial applications and
in the most industrial environments.
For further details contact Paul
Stanborough, Managing Director
Aditech Limited. Tel: +44 (0)1296
398085 Email: [email protected]
Or visit www.aditech.co.uk
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