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hand, what if a resident advisor loses the master key to all the doors in a building?” Koziol asks. “Now the entire building has been compromised and has to be rekeyed, at tremendous cost.”
To avoid such problems, some, if not many, campuses are adopting electronic card access control systems. If a card is lost, it can be disabled at a card control panel, making it useless.
“There are several different kinds
of electronic locking systems,” says
Paul Timm, vice president in the Chicago offices of the Washington, DC-based Facility Engineering Associates (FEA). “You can mount a keypad beside the door. Students gain entry by punching
in a code.
“You also can carry a fob on a keychain and present the fob to a proximity reader to gain access.
“Then, there are proximity cards, which do the same job as a fob. Proximity cards can also serve as ID cards. In addition, you can add a magnetic stripe to a proximity card, making it possible to use the card for other tasks, such as accessing funds from bank ATMs and even purchasing goods in campus or local stores.
“The next iteration of electronic access is a smartphone app that enables users to access doors. A user simply opens the app in the phone and presents the phone to a reader, in the same way a proximity card or fob is presented. Such phone apps are already in use in a few places.”
Customizing Card Access Systems to Improve Security
A multi-building college campus has many locked doors, and each individual in the campus community will need access to a number of those doors. An enterprise- class access control system can facilitate such a requirement.
Unlike entry-level access control, enterprise class access control systems can be customized.
“A customizable system enables you to set up authority levels,” says Todd Shook,
project manager and security systems spe- cialist in the buildings group at Edmonton, Alberta-based Stantec. “This means that one group of individuals will have cards that will enable them to enter, say, the din- ing hall, the library, classroom buildings and their own dormitories—but they will
not be able to enter buildings where they have no business.
“You can also tie these cards into cam- pus parking facilities, allowing students
to park in certain surface parking lots or certain parking decks in a garage—but not in other gated lots.”
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