SALTO XS4 GEO Cylinder and The JustIN  Mobile Interface

SALTO’s range of compact electronic cylinder locks are designed for doors where fitting a full-sized conventional handle and lock is not possible or needed. These cylinder locks, like the other SALTO products, are totally free of wires and are networked through the SALTO Virtual Network and SALTO Wireless network.

 

Several models are available including half cylinder, cylinder with thumb turn, double cylinder, padlock, and with a wide variety of profiles, e.g., Euro profile, UK oval, Swiss Round, Australian oval, Scandinavian profiles, ANSI profiles.

 

These locks can be integrated into existing Brivo infrastructure, among other manufacturers. It is also common for SALTO secured facilities to include interior facing panic bars to equip emergency exit doors with the ability to trigger a panic alarm as soon as they are pushed open.

 

In order to bring smartphones into the access control environment, SALTO uses their JustIN technology to integrate smartphones with their locks. JustIN Mobile BLE permits doors to be opened via smartphone, turning the phone into an update terminal for credentials.

 

This is accomplished through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), a standard for communicating between a smartphone and electronic locks. The mobile key is provided Over the Air (OTA) from proprietary management software to an installed JustIN Mobile app on a registered and verified smartphone. After this, the user will receive a message that a new key has been provided and information on which doors he now has the access rights to.

 

After this, the user only needs to present the smartphone to the lock in order to gain access. All data including the mobile key are encrypted and secured against cloning.

 

Because users can get these mobile keys at any time and any place, access control solutions are given greater flexibility when issuing and receiving rights without losing out on security.

 

This system can be used in conjunction with or as a replacement of RFID credentials.

 

Another SALTO protocol for phone based access control integration is JustIN mSVN.

 

JustIN mSVN (mobile SALTO Virtual Network), is technology for updating access rights for any credentials using mobile communications. It makes use of the mSVN app and the NFC interface of smartphones. Through this technology, the SVN can be expanded to spots with no online wall reader. Access rights are updated via direct communication between the phone and the credential instead.

 

Any new access rights or blacklist information are communicated to the user from a server to the mSVN app. The smartphone will then serve as the update point for any new credentials moving forward, taking the place of what an XS4 online reader would usually do. All data is encrypted and secured using Mifare DESFire EV1 technology.

 

Security Technology of South Texas is an authorized integrator for many surveillance and access control manufacturers and has designed systems with this kind of functionality.

 

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Salto Systems: XS4

From its beginning in 2001, SALTO has had one objective: to create an industry leading access control system that is both simple to use and highly efficient. SALTO systems gives users the ability to control their access needs and secure all points of entry without complex and costly wiring build-outs. Their solutions are simple to install, cost-effective, and designed to be future-proof. SALTO’s SVN platform was the result–the world’s first stand-alone, battery powered electronic locks for access control systems.
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Since then, SALTO has continued to introduce innovations with a major impact on electronic security. With both online and real-time technology, SALTO’s XS4 access control platform augments the security of any building environment through securing nearly any door and allowing the monitoring and control of every user. These systems are networked wirelessly to enable integration with existing systems without running a new backbone through the facility.
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The SALTO Virtual Network (SVN) is the back-end of wireless connection which allows and access control system to grow from just a small number of doors and users to beyond, seamlessly. Locks can read, receive and write through an encrypted data-on-card system through RFID. A smartcard is used for user authentication.
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When the card is presented even to an off-line door, access control is maintained and the door also writes data such as blacklist information and battery status onto the card. This smartcard can then transmit this information to a server through online wall readers which can receive information from these cards at any location on-site.
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Here is a breakdown of the access control chain when the smartcard interacts with the wall reader:
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-A user access event occurs, the card transmits to the system via wall reader.
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-Wall reader now transmits back to the card: This includes deleted card list, updated user access rights, and expiry date renovation.
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-Through the server the following functions can be performed: Users added or deleted remotely, User profiles updated, event audit trail created, device battery report initiated.
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In review, the benefit of a SALTO lock is in their ability to affordably and quickly be integrated into an access control environment with rapid ability to scale. The locks, wall readers, and smartcards can communicate wirelessly and securely, and there is no need to endure the costly and time-consuming process of drilling, running, and testing wires. These locks are used across all access control environments, from schools and hospitals to businesses and government sites.
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Security Technology of South Texas is an authorized integrator for many surveillance and access control manufacturers and has designed systems with this kind of functionality.

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Methods for Enhancing Building Access Control

Whether you have a building that has successfully used the same access control protocols for years or one that needs change, this coming quarter of 2019 is a good time to consider reassessing the system and procedures you use. Critically, if you are not using any form of access control, consider adding it as part of your security plan sooner rather than later.

Having a solid access control system and policies in place will help keep your occupants, assets, and property safe by ensuring secure access for the right people to the right segments of your property.

Sitting next to surveillance and maintaining a human presence on-site, a system of electronic access control completes a triad of safety, and will be designed to take into account the design of the building, any complementary security systems, and training for those who will use it. Following are three things to think about when working with a security integrator to design and implement electronic access control on your properties.

 

1. Setting Access Levels

Borrowing a page from the “Zero-Trust” doctrine of info-sec administrators, it is important to think with the mind of the potential aggressors you are implementing the system to protect yourself against. There will be people who simply do not need access to all levels of a building, and before deciding who should have what level of access, the building itself should be examined to determine points of exposure.

It can be useful to take a map of the structure and break it down into zones of different colors according to the access or security level needed. Then you can decide who can have access and associate time and date restrictions to those identities.

It will generally make sense for the majority of employees to enter and exit through a single point of entry, so as to more easily monitor who is in and out of the building. From there, branch out and look at the rooms inside. Set a protocol in place to make sure everyone has the right level of access for their needs, but nothing more. Modern systems will create a “digital fingerprint” for each person granted access, able to track their movements and any times they accessed specific areas.

 

2. Audit Access

A common trap to fall into is an over-issuing of key fobs or cards over time. As people report losing cards or forget them, it is often simplest to issue another right then and there. Of course, this creates significant security concerns overtime with duplicate access cards potentially being available for malicious use. To manage this, facility admins must either audit the system regularly or set automatic time-out features to the cards.

 

These features could include:

-Access denied if the card has not been used within a set amount of time

-Self-expiration of the card

-The direct connection of the card to a database that will be managed personally or by an administrator

 

In the event that third-party employees require access, a separate database can be created. Using a specific search term for these contractors will differentiate them within the database.

 

3. Perform Periodic Testing and Protocol Assurance

Just like any other electronic system, regular testing and updating of drivers is necessary. Security flaws are repaired through patches by the vendor, and if you fail to update, the potential for threat actors to take advantage of that failure exists.

Furthermore, without the assurance of procedures and protocols surrounding the use of these systems, their value is greatly reduced. For instance, a simple but popular method of building intrusion called “tailgating” relies upon our social tendency towards politeness over security assurance. In this attack, the threat actor simply follows closely behind someone accessing the building and relies on them holding the door for them.

This is actually one of the most difficult to control threats to an access control system due to its simplicity and zero-tech approach. Having multiple layers of security, man-traps, and other fail-safes massively reduces the success rate of “tailgating”. Protocol should assume anyone who cannot present a card or other provided identifier to be a potential threat.

 

Security Technology of South Texas is happy to offer
custom access control and surveillance solutions to the
business security market, designed either turn-key and from the ground up,
or integrated into an already existing series of cameras and access control
structures.

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GV-VD8700 “Face”

The VD8700 8MP face recognition analytic camera, recently released by Geovision, a world leader in surveillance, features on-board analytics as well as a facial recognition program. The device is able to capture faces and store those images to allow it to initiate alerts to the user if a certain person enters its view.

Geovision’s GV-VD8700  is a ‘Vandal Proof’ IP Dome camera featuring industry leading face recognition technology. Unlike some off-the-shelf solutions, this device features not only person/vehicle detection modes with analytics capabilities, but the power to identify personnel from a database. Up to 10,000 face profiles can be defined in the camera’s database. This database can also be categorized to meet various other needs in the corporate environment, including facilitating customer service, security management and more.

This camera’s facial recognition mechanism is effective within a relatively short distance of 4 meters, and is meant to be used in points of entrance to a facility, but it is able to detect up to 10 faces at a time. A recognition time of just 2 seconds allows quick identification of both VIP guests and potential intruders. Integrated with Geovision’s GV-VMS, this IP camera can also be used to trigger alerts based upon predefined rules, providing improved and reliable security management.

In its outdoor version, the camera features IK10 vandal resistance with IP66 ingress protection. In order to  achieve a better compression ratio while still maintaining high-quality imaging at reduced network bandwidths, the camera supports the H.265 video codec. If intended to be used for night operations, this version of the camera is equipped with an IR effective distance of up to 40 meters. Wide Dynamic Range and Backlight Compensation allow the camera to detect faces in environments with drastic light contrast.

It is able to pan, tilt, and rotate on a 3-axis mechanism; pan 0-350 degrees, tilt 0-75, and rotate 0-340 degrees. It runs on Windows 10 and has support for mobile device access for iOS and Android. Storage is at 2GB for RAM, and 8GB for ROM. The camera can run stand-alone or connected to a Video Management Software (VMS).

Facial recognition and analytics gives an existing system a new edge. Large retail chains use this technology to identify shoplifters, capturing their face when they steal the first time, so that security can be alerted immediately to any time that individual returns. It could also be used on a door, front porch, or any place where you might want to know if a specific person is coming to, and if so, whether you would like to receive an immediate alert about it.

 

To learn more about how facial recognition cameras can help protect your commercial facility, please contact Security Technology of South Texas, Inc. at 210-446-4863 or through the website form: www.securitytechnologyofsouthtexas.com/contact-us