Category: Mobile Access Control

We got knee deep into a couple employee identification projects over the summer.  Both systems said that they were using standard HID Prox cards, but as we went through the deploy, we found out that both customers were using HID Prox and another technology badge that our readers could not interpret correctly. As we took […]

Having procedures in place for workplace evacuations is part of what employers should do to keep their employees safe in case of emergencies. “Accounting for all employees after an emergency evacuation has been completed” is one of the Department of Labor’s minimum requirements for an emergency action plan (EAP). However, the manner in which an employer should perform ..

Telaeris was recently approached by a company inquiring about our XPressEntry (XPE) emergency mustering system. One of the first questions they asked was: "How long does it take to get a current list of onsite employees after the emergency starts?" I had to stop for a moment and make sure I heard the question appropriately. My [...]

Automation - it's what modern-day technology is all about! Track Construction Time Recently, Telaeris was asked to simplify employee timekeeping for a construction yard using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The company had 3000 employees and wanted to know both who was on the job site and when they came and left. Instead of hand-punched [...]

A few months ago, we published a history of where Wiegand came from and a "light-on-technical-details" overview of how it works. For those of us that are more engineer-y, it left a bit to be desired. For me in particular, I recently was doing some low-level work with one of my engineers. We were monitoring [...]

Telaeris' first foray into the security field had little to do with RFID, but a lot to do with where we would head in the future. In late 2006, one of our early customers had an urgent requirement. They had more than 500 contractors arriving onsite for a maintenance event lasting 2 months. The facility lacked sufficient [...]

Recently, our CEO, David Carta, called me into his office and asked me, “Mark, what is Wiegand?” He was instructing a new Telaeris employee about XPressFreedom, our Wiegand to Ethernet converter which we use to enable mobile access control with existing system. He thought that I, as our sales lead, should be able to give an appropriate [...]

The SmartAT870 is a lightweight and rugged (IP65 rated) mobile unit manufactured by SmarTerminal that Telaeris resells. It is an outstanding device, capable of reading most RFID tags, barcodes, and smart cards available. We get lots of questions regarding what this device can do, so this article discusses most of the capabilities of the SmartAT870 for Badge Identification […]

What is the Cost of Safety? People don’t like to talk about it, but there are costs to safety. The standard reply to satisfy legal is: “We comply with all regulations to keep our people safe” There are always tradeoffs when it comes to safety. If you look at most evacuation drills that take place, […]