The finalists for this year IFSEC 2009 awards include, in the best new access control product, for the fourth time, a smarti unit.
It’s protocol independent and can be used to control almost any kind of electronic device the makers add such as sensors, electronic locks, lights, alarm systems, finger print scanners and RF ID readers. Applications include business security and home and building automation. This year Slovenian manufacturers TAB Systems Inc launched a new biometric unit for access control, time and attendance and building automation called smarti ELECTRA. The new unit combines multimodal biometric access control based on facial and voice recognition with RFID, power over Ethernet and other features.
Access control is increasingly moving toward identification by who you are rather than by what key or card you may carry or PIN you might know. smarti identifies people by who they are (face and voice recognition) and not by what ID card or key they carry. The biometric information about an individual is saved as part of a swift enrolment process. smarti uses this information to recognize a person and then acts according to pre-defined instructions that the system controller sets up. These might include saving a photo of the person in the event log, and then opening a door, turning on a light, sending an e-mail or SMS etc, or a combination of such actions.
The new DIADEM unit is fan-less. It has an aluminum front casing which is IP 65 compliant and is meant for indoor and outdoor use. It is in-wall or on-wall mountable. The inbuilt IR CCTV camera and IR LED lights provide it is claimed identification in all lighting conditions. The unit is also equipped with an eight inch colour touch screen, motion detector, microphone, speakers, Intel Centrino processor, built in storage and internal memory. The integrated communication ports and relay I/O controller can be used to control lights, electronic locks, alarms, sensors and other electrical devices. The system is in 11 languages: English, German, French, Slovenian, Croatian Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Arabic.
