Local Government

Ensuring safety and accessibility for staff and members of the public.

Access control measures are designed to provide and maintain a safe and secure environment for staff, clients, contracted service providers, and members of the public that use government facilities.

With a mechanical key system, lost keys and lock replacements can place a considerable financial burden on councils and shires. Keys can also be duplicated posing a serious security breach.

Councils need a versatile and cost-effective way to regulate access and entry to facilities.

If you’re looking for technology to help, and many local government areas are, your first consideration should be Electronic Access Control (EAC). The right EAC can play a valuable part in facilitating community services and helping your staff and members of the public feel safe.

SVN uses its patented ‘data on card’ technology to create a ‘virtual network’, where the key card becomes a data carrier as users move through the building. The building needs a few online access points (usually at widely used spots, such as a car park barrier or main door), which downloads the full access list to every user’s card in real time.

When the user accesses a stand-alone door, the door queries whether the user can open that door and at the same time writes that user’s audit and the battery status of that lock to the card. This allows the council to manage costs by fitting the majority of doors with stand-alone locks for situations where ‘almost real-time’ will meet their needs.

For situations that need ‘real-time’ (not ‘almost real-time’) SALTO can add Bluetooth gateways that update the lock from the SALTO server. The locks update, store and send the latest access information from the user’s smart keys throughout the building wirelessly and remotely. BLUEnet can be used throughout a facility or in just those parts that need it (with SVN in the rest).

Harnessing the power and flexibility of mobile technology, the JustIN Mobile app turns the user’s phone into their credential. The key is sent directly to their phone, and the app sends access data back to the SALTO server, remotely and securely.

SALTO KS is a separate service to the above, and provides flexible, cloud-based, wireless access control that is incredibly easy to install and maintain, and even simpler to use. Manage access control from anywhere, on-the-go, simply by using the KS app or a web browser. Perform a remote opening and send a Mobile Key to anyone with a smartphone, though the option of tags or PIN code is also available. Issuing and receiving access has never been easier or more flexible.

Features such as SALTO KS Pod can also offload the responsibility of managing access for facility managers and their visitors for security managers, and provide facility managers with the unique experience of managing access to their own space.

SALTO’s solutions can also be integrated with other security platforms, along with property management and booking systems. As a result, facilities can extend and complement what they have in place by making it even better. Security systems are an expensive asset and once you’ve chosen a system, you shouldn’t be penalised if you want to upgrade or extend it to capitalise on the latest technologies as times goes by.

That’s why SALTO offers high levels of integration with some of the best security systems in the world, allowing facilities managers to maintain a one-card solution that revolves around their existing system.