Early in Google's history, there was a meeting to decide on a corporate mission statement. The unwilling employees came up with a real cracker: "Don't Be Evil". On one level, I think this was a snub toward the mind numbing stupidity of mission statements issued by men with striped suits and wavy hair in other corporations. But it's also elegant, efficient and a useful reminder, and I have to say I almost see the point of mission statements if they are this good. Read more...

What’s the best way of networking access control units?

This is dependent on the exact customer requirements and the circumstances at site. To answer this properly I’ve split the question into 3 separate parts to address the primary methods of communication used by access control systems. Read more...

We at Paxton Access Inc. continue to blaze a trail across the American continent just as the prospectors and pioneers did in the late 19th Century- albeit with different tools and transport! With two account managers out and about full time on the road and myself split between the office and visiting customers we are breaking new ground and signing new accounts every day. We even have our very own support staff in Barbara Lee who manages the office and coordinates literature requests and monthly mailings. Read more...

If you believe everything reported in the news recently then pretty soon all of our houses are going to be worth 2p and it won’t be long before we’re all queuing for soup at the local parish hall. Although it’s unlikely that the current frenzy around the state of the economy is proportionate, there has been a serious shift in the way individuals and companies are viewing expenditure. Even ignoring the credit crunch, the housing crisis, and inflation, just the talk of a downturn is enough to trigger a more conservative approach to budgeting. So how does this affect the security industry and, more specifically, the sale of access control systems? Read more...

Question: Why would anyone pay more for an electronic access control system rather than use a conventional lock and keys?
Answer: The most fundamental advantage of an electronic access control system over lock and keys concerns the barring of tokens from the system. If a key is... Read more...