Smart Building Ecosystem (10/13): Advanced Access Control System

For an office tower, access to parking, turnstile, lift and doors are the most common daily activities, also known as people flow. Even though all walks of life accessing a building every day, in general, there are just two types categorized in access control, tenants and visitors. How to differentiate them? It was easy in the past. Those having lanyard tied with RFID tags around their necks are tenants working in the building. An RFID tag is a credential for them to access common doors, turnstiles and lifts. Those without usually are visitors, either issued with a temporary RFID tag or assisted access to the building at the reception counter.

Teh Hon Seng, CEO of TimeTec Group, explained the legacy of a card system. “Card system is common. The problem is that it can be easily passed around and not necessarily tied up with user identity. The common and easiest practice in Malaysia is that property management disseminates the cards according to the number of employees per tenant, not bothering to know who they are. The very reason why the biometrics system is getting more popular, but, the adoption rate for biometrics is low for multi-tenancy properties due to its high administration cost.”    

However, the pandemic disruption in 2020 is about to change how we approach physical security in 2022 and beyond. 

According to Michael Gips, physical and cybersecurity expert, the five major access control trends after the impact of Covid-19 would be 1. Mobile access control, 2. Cloud-based security, 3. Multi-factor authentication, 4. Biometric technology, 5. Subscription-based business model. Altogether, these five major trends will translate into the following applications, 1. The rise of touchless access control, 2. New access control technology, and 3. Access control convergence and integration. All these technologies and application trends will go more strongly with the individual’s identity. How does multi-tenancy property keep up with the trend?

“The answer is pretty simple, go for a cloud-based solution with the self-service tenant platform to ease management,” said Teh Hon Seng.

“All roads lead to Rome, for physical access control, all the contributing technologies and applications lead to more convenience, better security and automation. Access control for the property management industry shouldn’t be standalone; convergence and integration are the key factors to achieve the ultimate objectives. That’s why our access control system is introduced as one of the major components in the TimeTec Smart Building Ecosystem,” Teh added.

Face recognition and mobile access as the multi-factor authentication front-end access methods are all built under a cloud-based environment and subscription model to lower the Capex and maintenance cost. It provides a better user experience by adopting touchless access for tenants and visitors.

“Our cloud-based access control system is also integrated with Kone IoT DX Series elevator. The collaboration will help us promote TimeTec Smart Building solutions into the Asia Pacific market.”

For more information, contact Mr Aiden Teh, Business Development Manager at [email protected] (010-2211150) or General line and email: 03-80709933 and [email protected].

Stay tuned with TimeTec for the next smart building ecosystem announcement every Wednesday! Click here for Series 9 of 13: https://www.malaysiakini.com/announcement/632418 

Malay version: https://www.malaysiakini.com/announcement/632420 

Chinese version:

https://www.malaysiakini.com/bulletin/632421 

About TimeTec

TimeTec Group was established in 2000. With its strong in-house R&D for software and hardware development, the Group has filed more than 20 patents in US and Malaysia; and developed the state-of-the-art HRTech solutions for workforce management and PropTech solutions for smart residential, digital building, smart home/office, smart parking, and smart township, unleashing the power of biometrics, cloud & edge computing, IoT and AI technologies to build its unique cloud ecosystem. All these solutions connect and change the landscape of work life and home life in a larger digital perspective via its consolidated super app. 

The marketing efforts of TimeTec Group have successfully bred three homegrown but globally recognized IT brands, FingerTec, TimeTec and iNeighbour. Through a vast network, TimeTec Group distributes its biometric hardware products and 18 cloud applications, including IoT devices, to more than 150 countries worldwide. For more information, visit our company website: www.timeteccloud.com.

Various renowned clients have subscribed to multiple TimeTec cloud solutions, including IOI Properties, Putrajaya Holdings, Ibraco, Binastra, Thriven, Hock Seng Lee, QSR Brands, Central Sugars Refinery CSR, Sunway Constructions, Mamee, Yakult, Nano Malaysia Berhad, Kossan, Zalora, Focus Point, Yee Lee Group and many more. The versatility and feasibility of TimeTec products also attract various international customers from all over the world, including Hong Kong, US, UK, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Australia, Qatar, South Africa etc. 

This content is provided by TimeTec

Interested in having your announcements on Malaysiakini? Contact the announcements team at [email protected] or whatsapp on +60 17-323 0707 for urgent matters.