Category: Mobile Access Control

Telaeris was recently approached by a company inquiring about our XPressEntry 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! 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 time-cards which were […]

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 […]

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, […]

Why do we practice Fire Drills? The answer is the same as it would be for anything else. We practice to improve. I remember talking with an old teammate of mine, Bryan, about an amazing between-the-legs shot Andre Agassi made in a tennis match. Top players do the basics over and over until the muscle […]

As children, most of us went through the experience of fire drills at school. They were often a special treat because it meant we got to be somewhere other than our classroom. If we were lucky, it gave us more time to cram for a test. Because real emergencies are so rare, few people take […]