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Tailored, risk-led access control solutions
From multi-factor authentication and pattern analysis to emergency lockdowns, our discovery-led consultation ensures we understand what your organisation needs most from its access control.
Get full visibility
Our access control solutions provide full visibility via audit trails and reporting. Now you can stay in-the-know and compliant across safety, security, and operational standards.
Single integration partner
With our custom design system, we can help you create an intelligent ecosystem. Now your access control solutions communicate seamlessly with your CCTV, intruder detection, fire protection, lighting and wider building management systems.
Tailored systems
How do we design access control that’s bespoke to you?
No two businesses are the same. And that goes for access control too. Our experts will guide you through the discovery-led consultation process, from design and strategy to implementation and maintenance, ensuring your chosen solutions and technologies work effectively from the day they’re installed.
When selecting the right access control systems, we take the time to consider several factors such as:
- Site layout: We’ll review various aspects of your commercial premise from its size, entry points, restricted zones and visitor flow, to help us recommend on the best products for your business.
- Security level: We can create a solution that provides various levels of security, from basic entry control to advanced, multi-factor authentication.
- Integration: To ensure full control, our access control technologies are designed to integrate with compatible CCTV cameras, HR systems, HVAC systems, lighting, emergency systems and even building management software.
- Scalability: As your business grows, your access control technologies may need to grow with it. At TIS, our strategists provide future-proof solutions to ensure your access control and security don’t fall behind.
Using access control to improve efficiency and oversight
Ever wondered if your access control system could be smarter? We’re not just talking about locking and unlocking doors, we’re referring to powerful business tools that streamline operations, support compliance and improve efficiency.
If you’re considering integrating access control systems into your business, but not sure of the benefits, let us break it down for you.
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Reduced manual work
Stop guessing where you’ve left your keys and say hello to the future of access. Our smart access control solutions include permission automation, biometric authentication and mobile credentials.
Eliminate the need for manual registers, physical keys and fobs, and reducing credential misuse and allow for instant access changes across multiple sites.
Now your team can reduce the risk of human error and provide tighter security systems that benefit everyone who visits your site.
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Time and attendance tracking
Having the ability to record precise time stamps for all your employees offers valuable information for you to verify working hours, absences and shift patterns. Resulting in fewer mistakes when it comes to paying for things like overtime.
Employees aside, if you regularly welcome visitors to your business, being able to monitor guests makes it easier to record who’s present, especially during an emergency situation.
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Visitor management
Managing a constant flow of people requires special systems that not only monitor but provide the necessary access when required. Perhaps you need to limit access to workers after 5pm? Or a visitor can only enter certain areas of the premises. It’s up to you.
For example, if you manage a school, university or college, you’re likely to have visitors on a daily basis, from stand-in teachers and governing boards to exam invigilators and even parents. This level of activity requires a solution, such as temporary passes, whilst keeping detailed records.
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Data insights
Receive valuable data on your premises, from identifying underused meeting rooms or departments to locating busy entrances that help optimise staff deployment and working schedules.
Through optimised access control features, you’ll be able to make smarter decisions that will improve business efficiency and allow for better use of the space and services you offer. Our access control solutions can help you make decisions based on real-time occupancy data, peak visiting hours, and facility use.
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Cost savings
Smart access control can be a cost-effective solution, reducing the need for on-site staff, manual visitor approvals and credential checks. With cloud systems in place, your staff needs cand be streamlined and team members can be re-allocates to high-value tasks.
Save unnecessary costs on locks due to lost keys and fobs, deactivate them instantly to prevent security risks.
Access control technologies that meet your requirements
You know you need better access control but what else? Access control doesn’t just stop at the entrance, the whole infrastructure and capabilities that we help integrate need to meet your requirements and for that you may require a mixture of technologies.
We use trusted suppliers such as Paxton, SALTO, Simons Voss and our own technology partner, TDSI, to ensure you’re provided with the absolute best of the best when it comes to access control integration.
Keycard & fob access systems
Get reliable, scalable entry control through fobs and keycards.
Padlocks
Simply swipe the padlock for instant access. Configure with specific access timers and install both internally and externally.
Biometric access control
Install facial recognition and fingerprint scanning for high-risk environments.
Mobile credentials
Perfect for use-cases such as university dorms, students can have a key to their dorms integrated into their smartphones.
Automatic doors, gates & barriers
Enable controlled pedestrian and vehicle access throughout your site.
ANPR (automatic number plate recognition)
Integrate intelligent vehicle entry and monitoring to see who’s coming and who’s going.
Intruder detection & alarms
Get immediate alerts and automated responses.
Keyless locks
Ideal for flexible and multi-occupancy environments. Keyless entry systems require no cabling and have end-to-end encryption built it.
Cloud-based access control platforms
Allowing for remote management, reporting and scalability
Integrated CCTV & analytics
Providing real-time visibility and incident verification.
Traditional mechanical locks
We can still offer these too. They’re just not as smart, but still robust.
Overcoming common access control challenges
Modern access control environments can face multiple operational and security challenges. TIS delivers fully integrated, reliable, and scalable solutions to address these issues:
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Outdated or unreliable systems
Our future-ready access control and surveillance systems are designed for uninterrupted operation, eliminating system failures at critical moments.
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Limited visibility and control
Manage all your access control from one place with centralised management. This includes remote monitoring, real-time access logs, and seamless multi-site oversight to ensure complete operational control.
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Poor integration
Operate your access control, CCTV, intruder alarms, automated entry, and other security technologies on a single converged IP network. Eliminate fragmented systems and enable automated incident response with integrated security systems.
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Compliance and data security
Our systems invariably incorporate GDPR-compliant data management, audit trails, secure storage, and regulatory reporting to maintain operational and legal compliance, especially in high-risk environments.
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Labour-intensive monitoring
Manual monitoring can be tedious and time-consuming. Labour-intensive monitoring is also susceptible to human error. We can design systems to be fully automated, with intelligent alerts and analytics to support proactive security management.
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Inconsistent service and support
Having to deal with multiple suppliers for different security technologies and systems can become unmanageable. As a single, accountable integration partner, TIS provides proactive health checks and remote diagnostics. This ensures continuity and reliability through quick response times and long-term technical support.
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Security gaps and rising risk
With increased incidents of trespassing, vandalism and anti-social behaviour comes an ever-rising risk. If your organisation has limited deterrence and slow security response times, your risk is elevated further.
Our multi-factor authentication, biometric access, intruder detection, and automated lockdowns minimise vulnerabilities and enable rapid response to incidents, so you don’t have to worry about liabilities or reputational damage.
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Pressure to modernise
ESG goals require reduced energy usage and enhanced efficiency. Our scalable cloud-based platforms, mobile credentials, and keyless entry solutions deliver modern, efficient, and future-ready access control aligned with both operational and ESG goals.
Access control support for emergency lockdown and evacuation
In the event of an emergency, being able to lock systems down in an instant is crucial for the safety of your staff and business assets. We highly recommend considering upgrading access control systems for environments such as, schools, healthcare facilities, public venues and corporate offices.
- Restrict access with immediate effect: All doors and access points will be locked and secured at just the touch of a button.
- Create lockdown zones: Isolate specific areas to keep exit zones free for passage and ensure individuals can leave safely.
- Integrate with alarms: By connecting all your technologies, you can create a foolproof system that triggers in response to security threats and alerts.
- Evacuate safely: Ensuring staff, visitors and students can exit a building safely and together is crucial. Your access control can be configured to unlock designated emergency exits while keeping other areas secure and locked down.
- Reassurance and compliance: If an emergency event were to take place, you can rest assured you have the correct protocols and systems in place to demonstrate clear safety strategies for safeguarding individuals during a high-risk situation.
- Intruder detection integration: Lockdown events can be triggered automatically by alarms, sensors or access violations.
Why select TIS to design your access control systems?
Managing access control in modern commercial environments can be complex, especially when systems are supplied by multiple separate suppliers.
Our access control solutions offer more than just door entry solutions. TIS simplifies your access control, offering a single, accountable access control partner.
We bring access control, CCTV, intruder detection, alarms and automated entry together on a single, converged IP network, removing the complexity and risk of disconnected systems from multiple suppliers.
As an independent systems integrator, we design, install and maintain fully integrated access control systems that protect your people, places and spaces day-in, day-out.
Sectors we serve
Over the years we’ve designed and installed bespoke access control solutions across a variety of sectors including:
How we help you stay compliant
When done correctly, access control has huge benefits to the operations of a business and its people, it can also ensure you stay compliant when it comes to not only health and safety, but data safety too.
- Audit trails: Generate and store detailed logs of individuals accessing specific areas and at what time.
- GDPR and data security: Keep sensitive data secure and away from prying unauthorised eyes.
- Health and safety: Stay compliant by ensuring restricted or hazardous zones are out of reach and unable to access.
- Regulatory compliance: Meet the correct requirements for your sector, no matter if you work in healthcare, finance, education, and other regulated industries.
- Emergency preparedness: In the event of an emergency, your access controls systems will keep lockdown events documented, ideal for reviewing audits and risk assessments.
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