Introduction
This large Fortune 500 mining company and has been providing engineering, procurement and construction services for more than 100 years. To enhance their eFusion access control system from Maxxess, the large mining company has implemented XPressEntry handheld badge and biometric readers at a project site to improve operations and management of all contractors.
Challenges
At a very remote project site with thousands of workers in Canada, the large mining company had difficulty verifying personnel and visitor security badge information against the identity information on record in the eFusion access control system. In addition, hundreds of buses are used to transport workers to their appropriate work areas and making sure that workers board the right buses is key to running a smooth operation. Finally, with so many personnel working in numerous remote areas, the large mining company’s onsite safety and security professionals needed a way to track personnel and maintain facility occupancy information to help keep the project site safe and secure.
Solution
The large mining company needed a scalable, mobile, handheld security badge reader for their safety and security professionals that also worked in offline mode as a result of intermittent cellular and WiFi connectivity issues and integrated with their eFusion access control system from Maxxess. All recorded activities including enrolling new users, managing access permissions, entry / exit tracking, and denying access when necessary needed to remain in sync across both the eFusion access control system and handheld security badge reader system.
The large mining company implemented 140 XPressEntry handheld badge and biometric readers from Telaeris at the remote project site in Canada to fulfill these challenges and much more.
Enrollment – When a new personnel or visitor is enrolled in the eFusion access control system and issued a security badge, that new user is automatically added to all connected XPressEntry handheld badge and biometric readers.
Handheld Badge Verification – The large mining company’s guards and security teams now have superior physical security with handheld authentication to verify identity, access permissions, and confidently control access to and manage any secured space.
Entry / Exit Tracking – The large mining company now maintains facility occupancy information and knows where personnel and visitors are located on site at all times. Any offline recorded activities are stored locally and synced with eFusion once the reader is reconnected.
Emergency Evacuation Mustering – The large mining company can now ensure everyone is safely accounted for during a true emergency to reduce financial risks / liability and improve evacuations, personnel / visitor safety and OSHA / regulatory compliance.
Bus Entry Validation – With the thousands of personnel and hundreds of buses in operation everyday, the large mining company can now make sure that workers are boarding the appropriate bus to take them to their specific work area improving efficiency.
Time and Attendance – Now that the large mining company can maintain facility occupancy information with Entry / Exit Tracking, it can also manage and easily track time and attendance greatly simplifying paying contractors appropriately for time on the jobsite.
Benefits
XPressEntry handheld badge and biometric readers enhance eFusion access control systems and deliver new convenience, flexibility, intelligence, and functionality to safety and security professionals never before possible.
- Integrates with most access control systems
- Better physical security and personnel tracking
- Simplified operations by removing manual work
- Compliance with regulatory safety standards
- Scalable and offline operation for any worksite
- Reduces real risks and financial loss mitigation
Conclusion
After the implementation of XPressEntry, the large mining company noticed a huge improvement in productivity and operations. As the large mining company’s operation continues to grow, scaling with additional XPressEntry handheld badge and biometric readers is easy and will help streamline operations throughout the remote worksite. The large mining company is in a much better position to fulfill its public commitments and regulatory requirements to keep the worksite safe and secure for both personnel and visitors 24/7.
XPressEntry handheld badge and biometric readers proudly lead the industry with the most access control integrations and proudly lead the industry with the broadest support for badge technologies.
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