Housing in Southern Africa April 2015

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April 2015
Industry Buzz, Events & Products
More andmore estates arenow
deploying Ideco’s Electronic
Visitor Identity Management
(EVIM) solution to improve access
security and enhance the overall ef-
fectiveness of existing services.
Ideco Managing Director, Marius
Coetzee says that EVIM offers a more
effective way of securing the estate.
“Residential estates can optimise
existing security processes and so-
lutions by deploying cutting edge
technology.”
“Themain problem is that visitors’
identities are not verified or accurate-
ly recorded. Furthermore, residents’
access control is not controlled suf-
ficiently and visitors’ access control
is easily bypassed,” he explains.
Guards normally use a manual
visitor record book and open the gate
for visitors with a push button solu-
tion from the guard house. Not only
do visitors often record inaccurate or
even false information in the visitors
register, but the entries are often il-
legible and indecipherable.
EVIM ‘Live’ ID checking function-
ality records visitor data and also
verifies the integrity of the visitors’
identity. The visitors fingerprint re-
cord is also irrefutable proof that the
visitor was present when the transac-
tionwas recorded and that the visitor
gave permission for their details to be
verified and recorded.
Furthermore, all EVIMvisitor trans-
actions are recorded, processed
and archived in a POPI compliant
manner. Not only is all data stored
offsite, but visitors fingerprints are
recorded, transmitted and stored in
an encrypted format which cannot
be reverse engineered to a latent
fingerprint image. No data is stored
on the handheld scanning device
and all data is transmitted in an
encrypted format to a secure offsite
hosting engine.
He concludes, “Unlike traditional
electronic visitor recording systems
which process visitor data via an all
too often non-compliant unsecured
Wi-Fi network, the EVIM solution
utilises an encrypted HTTPS and APN
network which is accessible only to
applicable EVIM devices.” ■
Improving security
Security is by far the largest concern for any residential estate and to
stay a step ahead of criminals, they need to embrace technology.
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