Campuses safety is key
A Fast, Easy, and Affordable Access Solution for Higher Education
College and university campuses are considered safe havens for children and adolescents to develop life skills and a knowledge base to help stimulate personal growth, independent thinking, and thought leadership. This remains true at most higher education facilities today, assisted by added layers of protection provided by modern security solutions to ensure the security and safety of students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Access Control: A Security Imperative for Higher Education
Access control is crucial for enhancing security and safety across higher education campuses, but conventional access control solutions can be expensive to install, implement, and maintain. Physical access credentials like cards and fobs require robust management and supervision to onboard and offboard user identities and ensure that missing credentials are voided and replaced, adding another layer of expense. Modern solutions utilizing smartphones and wireless hardware provide many significant benefits with fewer barriers of entry for both new system installations and when expanding existing systems, including:
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Access Control
A Security Imperative for Higher Education
Access control is crucial for enhancing security and safety across higher education campuses, but conventional access control solutions can be expensive to install, implement, and maintain. Physical access credentials like cards and fobs require robust management and supervision to onboard and offboard user identities and ensure that missing credentials are voided and replaced, adding another layer of expense. Modern solutions utilizing smartphones and wireless hardware provide many significant benefits with fewer barriers of entry for both new system installations and when expanding existing systems, including:
Enhanced overall security by controlling access to student dormitories, admin offices, classrooms, food preparation and service facilities, sports facilities, as well as maintenance, storage, and inventory areas.
Simplified visitor management allowing admins and campus police to always know who is on campus—including visitors and contracted workers—based on scheduled permissions to specific areas on campus.
Protection of high-risk areas such as HVAC and power facilities, fleet and maintenance garages, server rooms, and research laboratories.
Emergency lockdown capabilities enabling the ability to instantaneously and remotely lock down or open any specific facility, any combination of facilities, or the entire campus on a moment’s notice.
Cost reduction and future savings by eliminating physical credentials and their associated management expenses.
Detailed record-keeping with electronic logs of all access activity across campus for compliance audits, policy reviews, and forensic investigations.
Easy expansion and scalability accommodating ongoing renovations to existing facilities and new construction.
Greater inclusivity and improved ADA accessibility for students and staff through hands-free, smartphone-based entry.
Kindoo Access Control
Kindoo Delivers a Smarter Access Alternative
Modern access solutions utilizing smartphone credentialing improve overall security and safety, reducing shrinkage, deterring vandalism, and simplifying daily operations. It also puts access management at the fingertips of higher education admins and police without the cost and complexity of traditional access control platforms. Simplifying electronic access control with managed mobile credentials allows system admins to instantly and remotely create or revoke access permissions, granting permissions-based entry to specific campus locations and/or multiple facilities. If a student leaves the school, or a specific worker quits or is terminated, their access privileges can be revoked in seconds from any remote location by an authorized admin. This removes the time and expense of managing and/or recovering physical credentials. The same ease of termination and enrollment applies to onboarding new students, employees, and visitors. In addition, mobile credentials on smartphones can integrate with HR and scheduling software, helping ensure that only the employees who are scheduled to work can enter restricted areas at the appropriate times.
Wireless Security
Smartphone Mobile Access Also Means Wireless
Conventional access systems require expensive controllers, hardwiring, power, and dedicated IT support, which often puts electronic access control out of reach for many higher education facilities. Battery-powered surface mounted strikes and door handles with embedded access software do not require internet connectivity, hardwired connections, or local power at each door, making installation and implementation fast, easy, and much more affordable. The lower cost of entry also results in lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by eliminating future expenses related to system expansion, expendable physical credentials, and system management.
Identity Management with Privacy and Trust
Maintaining personal privacy is also critical when considering electronic access control. Collecting excess personal data or facial images without specific consent can result in both non-compliance and hefty fines, especially with new and emerging regulations like the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Kindoo requires minimal personal data without any sacrifices to security. Kindo also features embedded encryption to enhance security without compromising campus data or individuals’ privacy.A Better Access Experience for All
Providing an access control solution for college and university campuses needs to be more than safe, secure, and private… it needs to be convenient and provide a great user experience. Here’s how easy Kindoo makes access control:- Once a student, faculty member, visitor, or contracted employee enrolls and is approved, they’ll be granted immediate access to the areas they’re authorized to visit.
- Individuals with disabilities can enter buildings easily with their smartphones, so they don’t have to carry cards or fobs, supporting ADA accessibility.
- Enrolled users can use a single mobile credential across campus, including dorms, classrooms, the gym, and other locations.
- Students receive lab access when they register, staff can enter only during their shifts, and visiting faculty get temporary credentials that expire on their own.
Maintain Tight Control Over Access Privileges
- Instantly lock down every building on campus remotely in seconds from your phone during an active threat.
- Track who enters labs, server rooms, chemical storage, and other restricted areas in real time.
- Instantly enable and revoke access privileges from anywhere, maintaining the highest levels of security.
- Manage and program access schedules for different facilities based on usage and event activity.
- Control exactly who can enter research facilities, equipment storage, reactor buildings, or maintenance shops and when.
- Oversee access for multiple campuses or off-site buildings from one dashboard without traveling between locations.
Let’s Get the Conversation Started!
Campus safety is a mission critical concern and challenge for colleges and universities. Recommending and implementing a new solution like Kindoo can help better secure your campus, reduce exposure to liabilities, and actually reduce security and operations expenses, but it’s a big decision. We would love to walk you through why education facilities around the world are looking to Kindoo for a smarter solution. Let us show you why.
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