Access Control Technology

Gated residential neighborhoods can consist of single-family residences, condominiums, or rented apartments. The idea of a gated community came into reality in the interest of security. By limiting entry to residents, guests, attendants, delivery vendors, and maintenance personnel, a level of protection can be maintained in the neighborhood for the safety of its residents. In addition, technological advances have made gated neighborhood access control quick, easy, efficient, and cost-effective. Employing a wide range of technology that is unrestricted today, homeowners and community administrators can not only protect their community but also permit residents to control access easily and securely.

What is access control?

Handling shared access to any space involves various challenges. For example, controlled access may be required for gyms, swimming pools, and laundry rooms within gated neighborhoods that have apartments and condominiums. Whether a single point of shared entry or multiple points, the main goal is to strike a balance between limiting access to unauthorized persons while making it manageable for authorized individuals to gain entry quickly and efficiently. An added aspect of access control is permitting multiple persons to oversee the system from diverse devices and allowing them to give and withdraw access to other people. Several high-tech solutions make all this conceivable.

How does access control work?

• The most standard form is with a physical guard stationed at the gate, who inspects the credentials of tenants and guests either manually or by documenting it into a system to validate it against the database.
• This system matured over the years and became more automatic to make it more infallible and secure. The system that most of us are acquainted with is acquiring entry with an electronic clicker or key fob.
• The system further advanced from hardware-based to software-based by permitting residents to punch codes into a keypad. The disadvantage to this is that the codes can be shared or spied on and misapplied by unauthorized people. Frequent modifications to the code to stop this could cause considerable confusion and demand cumbersome system resets.
• RF or radio frequency technology and NFC or near-field communication have sidestepped that problem. They supply access with entry tags that are automatically caught by detectors at the entry point. This finally made the operation wholly automated and contactless.
• With the expansion of mobile devices and apps, it is now feasible to manage access via the internet. Well-designed apps that are straightforward to use permit residents to control access control so that they do not even have to be physically present at the entry to supply access, possibly for a guest or another family member. The system also has segments like the power to grant entry permissions for detailed windows of dates and times and revoke the same, all from a single dashboard user interface on the app.

Technologicaladvances have made access control safer and more convenient. Contact us today for gatehouse solutions to keep your community safe canveniently and effectively. Our proprietary software is designed to make the entire process user friendly while offering top security and safety for your neighborhood.