Since the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, it became overwhelmingly apparent that we need greater and more advanced access control systems that empower business agility and security, and interactive access control kiosks can help achieve just that. Read on to find out how digital kiosk technology can help ensure safe access control and visitor management.

While many business are turning to touchless digital kiosks, we are unlikely to say goodbye to the touchscreen, now or ever. It is important, however, to keep digital visitor management kiosks clean and safe for customers to use. Because of that reason, we have developed solutions to make touchscreen displays and tablet enclosures safer to touch with the help of anti-microbial screen protectors.

In addition to that, imageHOLDERS digital kiosks can be integrated with multiple health screening devices, such as hand sanitiser dispensers, temperature check cameras and QR code scanners which help ensure the health and safety of staff and visitors.

Biometrics are a form of identification which is traditionally used for security, such as border control and police profiling. However, as passwords and pin numbers become compromised, biometric identification has also started to replace commercial resources such as phone passwords and key fobs at work.

A biometric kiosk could be a fingerprint kiosk or, by incorporating a facial recognition camera, a touchless kiosk allowing for a contactless check in. A touchless user interface is becoming rapidly more popular post-pandemic.

During the pandemic it became overwhelmingly apparent that social distancing is actually quite difficult to execute in certain environments. Installing interactive self-service kiosks can encourage customers to keep a safe distance from one another.

The digital visitor management kiosks can be deployed 6ft away from each other and, if the store or office is not big enough, privacy screens can be introduced to separate the kiosks.

This also adds extra safety measures for client-facing staff such as receptionists and security.

Access control kiosks can be custom designed and retrofitted to fit your specific company’s requirements. Devices such as barcode/QR scanners, hand sanitiser dispensers, thermal fever detection cameras, card readers and scanners can all be added and removed from your product as and when they are needed.

Therefore, cameras or QR scanners can be removed for a less invasive time, but added when risk mitigation function is necessary.

During and post-pandemic, effective access control systems will always be required and, in turn, so will the demand for businesses to be adaptable and innovative, and digital visitor management kiosk are the best way to be prepared.