The Alerton Building Management technology ensures effective overall building management for office blocks, apartment complexes, campuses, hospitals, and factories. It is energy efficient ensuring that critical processes are started at predefined times and switched off at required times. Energy logging makes it possible to monitor usage and savings. Alterton is an innovative software solution for effective building management ensuring full monitoring and control over specific activities. The control over the equipment in the building can be done through one personal computer ensuring high level control while lowering the cost of manpower. It allows for effective building management of several buildings by technicians or engineers from a single control station. It is possible to schedule events for daily, weekly or monthly occurrences. It is also possible to view trend-logs on screen in various forms. Other building management technologies are also available through IDTek.

Apart from being an important access control solution, fingerprint technology is now also used to monitor employee time and attendance. Whereas in the past access cards would have been used simply to enter or exit specific areas where monitoring could take place to establish how many hours the employee has worked, it is now possible to have more control. Instead of having a card swiped that may be stolen or borrowed by another employee to prevent management from accurate assessment of the whereabouts of the employee, fingerprint technology is used. With fingerprint technology an employee cannot borrow another person’s card and with specific verification, identification, and authentication technologies in place, accurate control can be asserted. The fingerprint technology can be used in various areas of the building to not only allow or prevent access, but also to effectively monitor the movement of employees. Several fingerprint technologies are available through IDTek including the SAGEM MA500 and Morphosmart fingerprint technology solutions.

Fire protection for building comprises more than simple smoke detectors and alarm systems. Through the implementation of advanced fire protection systems as available from IDTek, the safety of building occupants can be assured. Most people perish in multi-level building fires because the alarm was sounded too late or there was no early detection of smoke. To prevent such a disaster office blocks and hotels can make use of the fire protection systems such as the Honeywell Life Safety and the VESDA solutions. These solutions ensure early warning to ensure that not only people, but also equipment can be evacuated in time. Warnings can be sounded in audio and visual form, the fire department paged and doors unlocked where required. It also includes laser detection chambers for early fire detection. In addition fire suppression technology can be installed to be activated upon a fire protection alarm being set in motion.

Pay on Foot systems as available from IDTek ensure lower shopping mall and parking area management costs. Fewer employees are needed to man pay systems and more security is obtained. Rather than having money at pay booths which can be robbed or where theft can take place, shopping malls now invest in Pay on Foot systems. The Pay on Foot systems entail terminals where the tickets are issued as well as exit terminals with ticket readers. There are also barriers at the exit areas to prevent unauthorized exiting. Finally a Pay on Foot pay station is also present where the user will pay for the time parked. The Pay on Foot pay stations can take payments in various forms including cards, notes or coins. In many instances a video link will be present for additional monitoring. The Pay on Foot systems have user-friendly interfaces to ensure that the customers know what to do. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls, and office parks benefit from the usage of Pay on Foot systems.

Companies can save millions a year by making use of asset location technology as available through IDTEK. Asset location is a method of tracking and monitoring assets of the company. These assets are tangible. Through the use of real-time location systems in combination with building automation, it is possible to tag and track for instance, important computer hardware pieces, stock trolleys and any other type of asset especially when there is movement from one location to another in the building. Rather than guessing where important assets are companies can now see exactly where a specific object is and when it is moved. This can all be seen from a monitor that will show precisely on screen where the tagged assets are. The data is transferred in real time. This is a tremendous improvement on security and theft prevention. IDTek supplies the Honeywell Asset Location solution that updates the location of assets every few seconds ensuring that people or equipment movement can be monitored at all times. Casinos and banks especially will benefit from this technology.