by AF 1113 g5 — November 17, 2008—SALTO Systems has supplied a smart access control solution for the new Student Life Center at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo).
Home to almost 3,800 students, The University of Hawaii at Hilo is a state university established in 1947 as a branch campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The school officially became a four-year baccalaureate institution to be known as UH Hilo in 1970.
The new UH Hilo Student Life Center consists of nearly 23,000 square feet of indoor fitness and recreational rooms, a cardio and weight room, dance and aerobics rooms, a lounge with wireless internet, an indoor cafe’, locker rooms, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and an open deck area by the swimming pool.
To ensure only accredited students and members of the university can gain admission to the new center; it is protected by a smart access control system that includes a combination of 34 networked on-line and off-line battery powered locks, panic bar interfaces and 8 13.56Mhz RFID wall reader “hot spot” control points.
The solution is fully integrated to enable it to control the entire building with the main gate, all perimeter doors and one internal door controlled by hot spots, with the remaining internal doors controlled via off-line locks. This enables staff to control all the locks in the building with one software package and one card system without the need to visit any of the locks if re-programming is required.
All components of the system are controlled via MIFARE contactless smart cards with the on-line elements interfacing with the SALTO Virtual Network (SVN) to enable the university to reduce the time needed to manage the system without any loss of functionality, flexibility, control or security.
For more information visit SALTO Web site.
