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Switch™ Tech Solution Overview

 

Switch™ Tech is a platform to transform mechanical locksets into electronic access control. The first product. Switch™ Core, allows for the conversion of almost any mechanical small format interchangeable core (SFIC) to an electronic access core.

Switch™ Tech's integration into Genetec Security Center provides comprehensive configuration and monitoring of Switch Tech hardware.  With a Switch™ Bridge (panel replacement) and Switch™ Deck (backend cloud platform), access rights supplied in Genetec Security Center are deployed to end users’ mobile devices and access history flows back, all in near real time. Switch Tech offers the ability to implement access control at many more locations than previously possible with more control, less friction, and faster monitoring of activity than other solutions.

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Industry

  • Cities
  • Education
  • Energy Utilities
  • Gaming
  • Public Safety
  • Retail
  • Sports Entertainment
  • Transit

Availability

  • Americas

Product line

  • Security Center

Your Rx For Secure Healthcare Facilities

Access control is critical in healthcare facilities, but the cost has always been prohibitive for extensive deployment–until now. Because now you can extend electronic access control to almost anywhere you currently use a mechanical lock with a small format interchangeable core (SFIC).

Benefits include:

  • The ability to monitor specific users and provide access to certain places at specific times to sensitive records, medications, and areas
  • Identify opportunities to extend protection into small format interchangeable cores where keys are the only current solution, or where access control was previously seen as valuable but cost-prohibitive

Switch™ Tech helps you secure, in no particular order:

  • Medication Storage
  • Laboratories
  • Linen Closets
  • Storage Rooms
  • Senior Living Facilities
  • Patient corridors
  • Filing Cabinets (sensitive records)
  • Offices
  • Data rooms/Server racks

And so much more!

Graduate to Smarter Security and Access Control

With significant traffic and access control needs, schools and other learning institutions need innovative and more cost-effective approaches to minimize risk and protect valuable assets. Switch™ Tech offers schools new layers of protection and access across a range of use cases.

The many benefits for education environments include:

  • Ability to monitor specific users and provide access to certain places at specific times with improved ability to provide secure access for ever-changing populations of students and staff
  • Ability to quickly “rekey” entire dorms, hallways, and classroom areas without having to physically change cores
  • Quickly and easily confirm all needed door credentials at residence halls to facilitate changeover at the beginning of a semester / school year
  • Add SHELTER™ for a highly versatile lockdown solution

Switch™ Tech helps you secure:

  • Gym
  • First aid/Training lab
  • Registrar and Financial offices
  • Recreational building
  • Student Housing
  • Research labs

And so much more!

Better Access Control to Help You Go Back to Business as Usual

In retail environments, staff turnover is high, theft is a constant risk, and shrinkage is a constant issue. For commercial organizations, the cost-benefit of controlling and monitoring every door provides compelling features to tenants. Because of these factors, trusted access control is needed in both environments to maintain proper security. Switch™ Tech offers a cost-benefit model that will help keep business running as usual.

Benefits Include:

  • An improved and cost-effective way to monitor, manage, and trace individual access to inventory, offices records, back-of-house storage, and display cases
  • Improved savings and reduction of administrative effort spent on changing keys or replacing cores due to high staff turnover

Switch™ Tech Helps You Secure:

  • Interior Doors
  • Server/IT closets
  • Security Offices
  • Shipping department/warehouse
  • Display cases
  • Supply closets
  • File/equipment cabinets
  • Trash compactors
  • Dock doors

And so much more!

Features and Benefits

Switch Tech brings affordable intelligent access control to almost any location in a matter of minutes.

  • LOW COST
    • At approximately 10% of the cost of a hardwired access control door, it is far less expensive than traditional electronic access control. Contact your local sales representative for pricing details.
  • QUICK INSTALL
    • Installation takes just minutes with no advanced knowledge (handing or door thickness) needed.
  • VERSATILE
    • Switch Core can be easily installed in a wide range of applications–almost any SFIC lock–and integrates with existing access control software.
  • SCALABLE
    • Switch can be added strategically where and as needed.
  • EASY MAINTENANCE
    • Credentials can be easily added via Switch Deck. 
  • SAVES TIME
    • Switch reduces mechanical key management (lost, stolen, new keys) for facility managers.
  • TAMPER RESISTANT
    • No exposed fasteners or points of attack.
  • REDUCES RISK
    • Makes visitor management easy while reducing risk compared to temporary keys.