Ring Up More Profits by Implementing IP Based Access Control Solution

The retail business is as challenging as ever to win customers away from web only retailers and remain profitable with brick and mortar cost structures. The ability to control inventory shrinkage from both internal and external threats will often determine if a retail business survives on a razor thin margin. The element of cash transactions and high employee turnover compound the challenges in successful retailing. Using new security technology tools, including biometric access control and IP video surveillance, provide the fundamental protection tools to survive and thrive in retail today. Retail loss prevention solutions must be simple to use, affordable and highly reliable to be effective to business owner and their managers.

Solutions

The F6 and F18 stand-alone biometric readers offer a cost effective and manageable solution to tighter inventory controls with high employee turnover. Biometric enrollment is fast, has greater integrity, and has control and audit trail capabilities for business owners. The ZKTeco Network Video Surveillance Systems provide an accessible video record of retail events with a wider variety of cameras and accessories using high quality IP megapixel video cameras at very affordable pricing.

Challenges

  • Standardization of security products
  • Tight budgets for security products
  • Competition from the Internet
  • Competition from larger competitors
  • Delivering customer service at good prices
  • Managing multiple sites
  • High employee turnover rates
  • Continual training new employees and managers
  • Shrinkage of inventory steals profits from internal and external theft

Needs

  • Effective loss prevention tools
  • High reliability and availability of security coverage and data
  • Tighter controls on inventory
  • Audit trails to prosecute theft
  • Simple to operate loss prevention systems
  • Cost effective standardization of security tools

Case Study


Bread Talk Store Installed ZKTeco Attendance Management System

Project Description:

  • Name: Bread Talk
  • Country: China
  • Product Used:

Case Description:

ZKTIME8.0 Attendance Management Terminal with B/S communication function

Case Description:
Bread Talk Foods Group is the first listed company for mainly selling bread and positions its brand in young people. Bread Talk Cake & Bread has more than 80 chain stores in China now, such as shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Nanjing etc.
Bread Talk wants a terminal that can manage and monitor every employees in all chain stores. Furthermore, the terminal can connect with HR system, which can receive employees’ and stores’ information automatically in real time. Information safety also needs to concern. At the same time, the terminal saves original punch-card record to data base automatically.
According to the requirements of Bread Talk company, ZKTeco recommended ZKTIME 8.0 Attendance Management Terminal with B/S to them. Therefore, Bread Talk installed ZK Time8.0 software and database in Shanghai headquarters and each chain stores will place a attendance management terminal. The server will be connected with all terminals by Internet. The software server adopts a flexible network structure: if the server is powered off or interrupted during working, attendance terminal will save all not uploaded data. And the data will continue to upload in next time connection. It is very convenient to manage all the remote distance data . What’s more, the chain stores no need to install any software to visit ZKTime8.0 system, but input IP address in the browser only. The attendance terminal with B/S will upload attendance record to the server by TCP/IP timely. The whole system connects to the HR system automatically.
The Bread Talk is satisfied with this solution. ZK solution ensures not only information safety but also management efficiency and convenience. Using ZK terminals, it will successfully fulfill the requirements of retail chain stores for time attendance management.

The Largest Bank in Turkey adopts ZKTeco Access Control Solution

To protect important assets, investments, clients’ privacy and confidential information, a highly reliable security protection is indeed needed. You may imagine hiring a group of security guards controlling every access of doors, and giving patrol on every door checkpoint to ensure nothing goes off track. However, to an enterprise with nation-wide scale business operations, it needs and deserves a higher security and efficient solution. With the technology advancement, the market has increasingly high standard of security, and with the advancement, a security solution with biometric verification and all-day surveillance has been far more accessible than ever.

The Largest Bank in Turkey, founded in 1863, has its branches widely established in Turkish metropolis including Ankara and Istanbul. An access control solution is necessary to enhance the security level. ZKTeco was invited to provide an access control solution for the renowned enterprise’s headquarter and all branches. The client needed an access control solution with high preciseness of identity verification and an efficient management of access.
ZKTeco has deployed an access control solution with ZKBioSecurity3.0, which is an all-in-one software including access control, video surveillance, and elevator & visitor modules functions. The software is connected to 180 access controllers for more than 600 doors which are particularly equipped with KR Series card readers, FR1200 fingerprint readers and tripod turnstiles. All access are thus centrally controlled and easily monitored by the software.
Apart from general functions including managing access controllers and setting access rights levels, visitor management and alarm functions are also applied to our client’s system, and they are all able to be centrally managed by the software in a simple and effective way.
The customer has been highly satisfied with our solution and has decided to further deploy our Video Surveillance system and Elevator Control System, which are all compatible with the ZKBioSecurity 3.0 Software. If your enterprise needs a secure and effective access control solution, ZKteco with BioSecurity 3.0 would be your absolute optimal choice.

Access Control and Visitor Management Solution for National-Scale Stock Exchange

Our client is a national-scale stock exchange based in Jakarta, Indonesia. At the end of 2012, the stock exchange had 462 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of $426.78 billion. It has a group of employees of up to 40,000.

End User: Stock Exchange

Project Site: Southeast Asia
Project Requirements:

  • The access control system needs to accommodate the large flow of 40,000 employees and 5,000 visitors every day.
  • The global access anti-passback needs to be supported.Blacklist and Alarm Functions
  • The blacklist is supported and alarms will be generated for blacklisted users.
  • The system supports high-speed scanners and Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and automatically reads the card number.
  • The system management software adopts the browser/server architecture.
  • The access status needs to be monitored in real time.
  • Different reports can be customized and exported.

Configurations:

Type Products Quantity
Software ZKBioSecurity 45000 users
Hardware InBio 160 pro embed 3
InBio 260 pro embed 24

Schematic Diagram

Access Control System Applied to Bank in Ghana

Project Description:

Our client is a commercial bank in Ghana which was issued with its Universal Banking License in 2006. It is one of the twenty-seven licensed commercial banks in the country. The bank is headquartered in Accra, at Ridge Towers. As of January 2013, the bank operates networked branches and VISA enabled ATMs at various locations. Our client demands biometric access control systems to manage access to its business premises. The bank currently employs 1,660 employees at 75 different locations.

End User: Fidelity Bank Ghana Limited
Project Site: 75 different locations all over the Ghana

Project Requirements:

Specific Permission and Duration of Access

Biometric access control systems is required to manage access to its business premises. The bank currently employs 1,660 employees at 75 different locations. As high confidentiality is required, apart from card verification, fingerprint verification is also applied as the access permits of business outlet offices. The system also enables specific permission and duration of access, ordinary staffs are denied from entering offices in non-working time.

Real-Time Monitoring in Headquarter

It also requires that the system can fit into client’s browsers’ and servers’ architecture and one server can manage the access control system of business outlets in multiple cities. Access records can also be monitored in real time in headquarter.

Products List:

Type Products Quantity
Software ZKBioSecurity 1660 users
130 doors
Hardware InBio 160 Pro 30
InBio 260 Pro 60
FR1200 134

Schematic Diagram