Access control systems for education
Meeting the security challenges of education with affordable, flexible systems
Educational environments require detailed security management and control. With SALTO wireless smart access solutions, you can support the safety of students and teachers with a balance of security and accessibility, protecting the community in the place of learning.
The global leader in next generation security, providing access control solutions for schools and colleges.
As a top priority in the modern world, security is of vital importance to the parents and teachers with schools across the world. The balance of a high-security location and increased accessibility in the education sector reassures the children, teachers, parents and school community that their learning environment is secure.
One major challenge faced by the schools and colleges across the world is maintaining an effective learning environment while prioritising the security of the premises. These physical locations include classrooms, libraries, canteens and sports facilities.
All levels of education from pre-schools to high schools and universities, requires the peace of mind of a high-security, low-cost security solution.
Key benefits of SALTO smart access control include:
- Increased flexibility and accessibility, resulting in a security system appropriate for schools.
- Prepared for emergency situations with lockdown functionality and AMOK function mode.
- With a hardware and electronic lock, the access control lock can be fitted on any access point.
- With the use of smart access, student cards and smartphone access remove the risk of losing keys.
Learn more about smart access control for education with the experts at AM Fire & Security.
Security & Safety
With an important role in protecting the people and environments of the education system, access control allows you to monitor and control the flow of people around a building, resulting in peace of mind for staff and parents.
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- Providing reassurance to people within the building, electronic door locks, help control individual access to specific and groups of doors. The access management controls where groups of people can go and can be cancelled immediately if lost or misplaced.
- Classroom locks are prepared for emergency situations. With the ability to activate localised lockdowns by staff, administrators or even the authorities, classroom locks can immediately lock entire individual doors or even entire campuses. Furthermore, SALTO AMOK electronic locks contain a build-in card reader inside the lock that can initiate the lockdown quickly. This feature is limited to users authorised with AMOK access privileges.
- In a crisis situation, area specific responses can be setup to allow for emergency procedures to be setup for electronic door locks. The SALTO electronic door lock provides added security to schools and improve the overall crisis management plan.
- With added convenience and ease of use, SALTO access control meets requirements across the campus with a single student card, app or key fob. This allows you to replace, store and create new keys quickly with the peace of mind of staff and guests.
- With the ability integrate a SALTO access control system with a pre-existing CCTV and alarm monitoring system for increased functionality, the SALTO smart access control system delivers a high level of security with a central control platform.
Flexibility and Scalability
The future of access control in the education industry that will support the student’s learning and physical environment.
SALTO creates future proof engineering and design that allows for straightforward integration with other services to create a streamlined access rights service that links with other school services like cashless vending, libraries and printing.
- With a flexible approach to access control and centralised approach to integrated system security, SALTO smart locks are future proofed, scalable and complies with the latest regulations.
- Advanced SALTO systems work on any door, resulting an easy installation and low maintenance product. This can be upgraded into a full smart door, complying with local regulations to maintain a healthy learning environment.
- Technology linked to each door connects to a central platform enabling additional security functionality. They can also be
- integrated with other third-party systems to merge features with the systems.
- Integration with previous security systems via LAN/WAN can support a range of features from a single platform. SALTO smart locks communicate with systems such as emergency action plans, security checks and other daily activities to maintain a high level of security.
- Having a worldwide network of trained security installers, SALTO provides expert industry guidance and support for security in education.
Students & Staff experience
Keyless and smart device access provide both staff and students a convenient and more secure solution and school experience. Also, minimal admin distractions result in a larger focus on learning.
In addition to producing a streamlined security solution, mobile access and key card technology enable you to include the requirements and permissions into a group or individual profile, allowing a convenient way of accessing the appropriate access permissions.
- With student card or smart device access functionality, SALTO smart locks provide secure modern access control technology.
- Full campus-wide functionality enables integration with student cards to access each building. This results in a seamless user experience including door locking, canteen payments, library and printing services and more.
- Real-time remote monitoring and control allows staff to grant resources across the school network, even out of hours.
- Customisable access plants for one-off events such as sports and other events.
Simplified Management
A streamlined management process reduces running costs while increasing the adaptability of the system. SALTO has a robust management platform that allows improved security for staff and students. The access control platform allows administrators to differentiate permissions from access groups such as teachers, security staff and students and control access to more restricted including offices, staff areas and classrooms.
- Save on money and time with SALTO access control, removing the long process of replacing keys, creating new keys or cancelling lost keys.
- Manage multiple locations in real-time with centralised electric locks for classrooms.
- Pre-set access times, points and time periods for all levels of access, including students, teachers, visitors and other staff.
- An increased level of efficiency and control is possible with SALTO access control, allowing you to capture valuable data for traffic flow and facility usage to improve the systems in place. Live access increases this functionality and data can be recorded with web-based software.
- Secure and efficient management of your system with powerful software. This allows you to program events into your SALTO access control system.
- Mass emails and emergency alerts can be arranged with the crisis management system to allow for easy communication.
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