IR Security & Safety’s Electronic Access Control Division announced the release of an enhanced version of its LockLink access control management software. LockLink 7.0 lets users manage both offline and online access control solutions available from IR Security & Safety. Designed with a client/server architecture, it lets different individuals across an educational, healthcare or business campus manage their own piece of the system. A GUI provides drag and drop assignment, reducing the amount of time required for system administrators to learn how to program locks.

Different openings require different types of access control solutions, says Jeff Koziol, marketing manager for IR Security & Safety. Low security openings in an existing structure are best equipped with offline, battery-powered locksets as an appropriate access control solution. High security, perimeter, or high traffic openings are best equipped with online, hard-wired access control solutions. With this control management software, customers can mix-and-match such access control options without needing help from their systems administrators to train, manage and keep up to date with a separate access control system.

In addition to managing the variety of offline and online products available from IR Security & Safety, the software also manages a variety of credentials ranging from hand geometry (biometric), HID proximity, magnetic stripe card, iButton, all the above with PIN number and PIN number only.

It is not uncommon for a customer to utilize different types of access credentials across their campus, says Koziol.

In the same way that openings have different access control needs, various departments on an education, healthcare or business campus have different access control requirements, says Koziol. Allowing clients access to the user and door information for which they are authorized gives them the ability to manage access as they deem appropriate within their department. This adds to the ultimate flexibility of the system.