IP Access Control Solutions for Retailers

Retail, convenience stores and grocery stores face the challenges of high employee turnover, employee theft and merchandise shrinkage. High employee turnover within a traditional physical hardware lock-and-key environment leads to expensive re-keying lock costs, plus administrative management headaches. Hardware keys can be easily copied and shared, which creates an additional security risk for retailers. At the same time, retailers must deal with management and budget constraints.

IP-based Access Control Provides a Solution

IP-based access control solutions offer retailers a secure, reliable, highly-scalable access control solution that is cost-effective and enables them to solve real retail challenges.

Secure Cash Offices and Theft-prone Areas

Control who has access to cash offices, merchandise and inventory storage areas and other parts of your store that are prone to theft.

Manage Staff Turnover

Manage permissions and credentials for staff centrally, and remotely. Any change in staff status can be easily and immediately entered into the system from anywhere there is an internet connection, including a smartphone, simplifying administrative management.

Eliminate Key Management Headaches

Eliminate the need for hardware keys for retail locations which can be easily lost, copied and shared. IP-based access control enables you to eliminate the need to re-key doors.

Manage Multiple Doors and Locations

Manage multiple doors, at single and multiple locations, with centralized and remote management.

Simplify Administration

Simplify the management of credentials and cardholders for multiple doors, at multiple locations, with remote, centralized administration.

Expand Your System as Your Business Grows

Grow your access control system one door or reader at a time. Or expand your system to include hundreds of doors across multiple building locations-locally or around the world.

The infinias Advantage

infinias IP-based access control solutions provide a cost-effective, reliable and scalable management solution for retail stores at a single or multiple locations. By leveraging your existing IP network infrastructure, IP-based solutions substantially reduce costly cabling and overcome flexibility challenges of traditional panel-based access control systems.

Lowers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

IP-based access control eliminates the need to physically re-key doors and offers additional cost-savings with lower equipment costs (no costly control panel or multiple bundles of cabling required), and reduced installation costs (network-powered with significantly less cabling and shorter runs).

Scalable Solution

infinias access control solutions grow with your needs and your budget. Intelli-M Access software supports an unlimited number of doors, and the eIDC³² Ethernet-enabled integrated door controller enables you to add additional doors to your network at any time-from a single door, to hundreds.

No Client Servers or Client Software

Run infinias Intelli-M Access browser-based software from any web browser connected to the network (or from your smartphone or tablet), to manage your access control system. infinias eliminates the need for external client server hardware, and the inconvenience of installing client software and managing software updates.

Seamless Integration with Video Surveillance Systems

An infinias IP-based access control solution provides an integrated platform for access control, alarm monitoring and video surveillance-adding another layer of security to your facility. Video integration enables you to visually monitor the building perimeter, entrances and exits, hallways and common areas, as well as individuals entering to prevent -tailgating- and the sharing or theft of credentials.

Cell Phone Access Eliminates the Need for Card Credentials

infinias Mobile Credential provides convenient access control, allowing authorized users to unlock doors from an iPhone or Android phone from anywhere with cellular or wireless connectivity. Mobile Credential provides secure access, simplifies management and eliminates the need for physical access control cards-saving you time and money on administration costs and card replacement costs.

Features for Retail Establishments

Multi-Tier Management

infinias Intelli-M Access Corporate software provides multi-tier support to enable you to efficiently manage multi-facility, multi-location installations, common in retail environments.

Convenient Scheduling and Calendar Integration

infinias Intelli-M Access software provides convenient access management of weekly schedules and holidays. Each door controller/door supports up to 254 schedules with a Sunday-Saturday, 24-hour schedule that will repeat each week. Holiday sets allow you to create groups of days that are the exception to a schedule, allowing you to keep doors locked on holidays within a schedule.

Additionally, Intelli-M Access Professional and Corporate software versions offer convenient calendar integration with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, or Google Calendar.

To learn more about infinias IP-based access control solutions for retailers, or to find a local authorized re-seller , contact us today.