Freevolt Technology’s innovative fingerprint access control card, S-Key, has won the Silver Award for Security Hardware Product Innovation of the Year, 2023 at the Security & Fire Excellence award ceremony, held earlier this month.
Award for innovation and excellence in security
This Silver Award demonstrates the huge impression that S-Key’s biometric access control card made on the judges, and recognises the valuable innovation that Freevolt has brought to the security market.
S-Key secures biometric access control through fingerprint authentication on a card powered by batteryless technology, which can be read by existing access control readers: a prize-winning example of innovation and excellence in security.
Congratulations to winners of this hard-fought category, Axis Communications, and our thanks to the organisers and to IFSEC who generously sponsored this award.
Award-winning biometric access control cards
S-Key is rapidly becoming an international supplier of choice in physical access control, thanks to innovations which improve security through quick and easy biometric identification, dramatically reducing the risks of breach. Cards cannot be shared or copied, and lost cards present no security risk.
Gonzalo de Gisbert, Head of Product and Business Development at S-Key, is delighted with the award:
“It is fantastic to receive this Silver Award for innovation and excellence in security from leaders in the security industry. We are proud of the high level of security achieved through fingerprint authentication with S-Key biometric access control cards, and pleased to be able to offer this in a scalable, sustainable and cost-effective form. Thank you!”
We’d love to share our award-winning fingerprint access control cards with you. Call us now to set up a trial on +44 (0) 203 176 2350 or email info@freevolt.tech.
Freevolt’s biometric access control card crowned at Industrial Plant & Equipment Awards
Freevolt Technologies is delighted to announce that our biometric access control card ‘S-Key’ has won the ‘Material Handling Solution of the Year’ in the Industrial Plant & Equipment Awards 2023. The Award recognises the innovative role that fingerprint-authenticated access control can play in ensuring the safe operation of industrial vehicles and machinery: S-Key can eliminate the risk of staff sharing cards, causing health and safety issues as well as damage.
Award for exceptional products used in the warehouse and logistics sector
Industrial Plant & Equipment magazine introduced the ‘Material Handling Solution of the Year’ award to recognise exceptional products for use throughout the material handling process. Judges looked at the latest developments to solve pain points for site managers, security officers and logistics operations across a range of industries.
Awarding top ranking to S-Key, the judges recognised that biometric authentication not only provides secure access control for buildings, but can also be used to ensure plant and machinery are operated only by qualified and authorised personnel.
“S-Key’s battery-less biometric access card is a great innovation,” said the judges. “It seems it would be easy to implement in controlling access to vehicles and/or machinery operations. Congratulations, S-Key!”
Freevolt’s biometric authentication card ensures robust access control by requiring positive identification every time, preventing the sharing or borrowing of RFID or access cards. In the warehouse and logistics sector, S-Key cards are an effective way to ensure that only properly skilled and licensed users can gain access to vehicles and machinery, reducing the risks of accidents and uninsured damage.
Excellence in UK industry
The Awards celebrate excellence across the broad spectrum of UK industry. During the award ceremony it was clear that the judges valued the wide range of applications for Freevolt’s innovative solution, including physical and logical access control.
Gonzalo de Gisbert, Head of Product and Business Development at Freevolt Technologies, is delighted to accept the award:
“I am proud to see S-Key recognised in the Industrial Plant & Equipment Awards 2023 celebrating excellence across the broad spectrum of UK industry. Our fingerprint access control card has a wide range of applications, and it is great to see that the judges see it as an exceptional product in the warehouse and logistics sector.”
“I hope this award will encourage people from a wide range of industries to trial our safe, secure access control card for physical or intelligent access control, including access to vehicles and machinery.”
Contact us now for an evaluation card to trial our innovative, secure and sustainable access control system – call +44 (0) 203 176 2350 or email info@freevolt.tech.
The Security & Fire Excellence Awards recognise excellence in the field of security, highlighting businesses that improve safety and security in new and exciting ways.
Freevolt is shortlisted for its innovation in the field of biometric access control – launching the S-Key card with batteryless biometric authentication which can be read by existing access control readers, whilst protecting personal data. A true combination of innovation and excellence!
Improved security reduces risk of breach
Last year, compromised physical security resulting in a data breach cost the average business over $4m. By shortlisting Freevolt’s fingerprint access control card for this Security Excellence Award, the judges recognise that S-Key provides a simple, cost-effective solution: a way to significantly improve security and dramatically reduce these risks.
Fingerprint authenticated access control enables businesses to improve security at a stroke, by requiring positive personal identification every time. Cards cannot be shared or copied, and lost cards present no security risk. S-Key cards offer a scalable, sustainable and safe improvement on standard 2-factor access control systems, and we are thrilled to be recognised for this innovation.
Security & Fire Excellence Awards
The Security & Fire Excellence Awards will take place on 4 December at JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane in London. We look forward to participating in the awards and sharing more about S-Key fingerprint access control cards with the best in the security industry.
Contact us now for an evaluation card to trial our innovative, secure and sustainable access control system – call +44 (0)203 1762350 or email info@freevolt.tech.
To watch the ‘Security Matters’ webinar with S-Key alongside legal and security experts click here.
Breaches in physical and logical access control are becoming mhttps://events.streamgo.live/biometric-access-control-are-fingerprint-cards-the-future/live?ore frequent, costly and damaging. Now that biometric authentication is an accepted means of identification, can fingerprint access cards cut the risks of breach and improve security?
Gonzalo de Gisbert, Head of Product and Business Development at Freevolt Technologies, Graham Evans, Chief Technical Officer at the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) and Will Richmond-Coggan, a partner at Freeths Law Firm, took part in a popular webinar this week for Security Matters Magazine,a key resource for security and risk management professionals.
To watch the webinar in full and learn more about biometric access control solutions and how S-Key’s fingerprint access cards work in practice, head over to the webinar recording at Security Matters Magazine.
Useful webinar on biometric access control
Over 500 people signed up for the webinar, presented by Brian Sims (Editor of Security Matters) with experts in security and legal data control. Key questions included:
What are the security benefits of biometric access control?
What are the pros and cons of different forms of biometric access technology?
Where are personal biometric details stored, and what are the implications for company GDPR compliance?
How do biometric access cards work in practice, and what are the costs of adoption?
Biometric access technology
Gonzalo explained the growing need for strong two-factor authentication in any access control system, and the benefits of using biometric identification to ensure that only the authorised person can gain access.
Whilst biometric technology can be installed as wall readers, on personal devices such as mobile phones, or on dedicated cards, Gonzalo showed that on-card biometric authentication is currently the most flexible and effective solution.
Expert lawyer says S-Key’s access control solution simplifies data control
S-Key was joined in the webinar by lawyer Will Richmond-Coggan, a partner at Freeths, who advised on the potential risks for an organisation in holding and using biometric data, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Where biometric personal data is used for identification, this falls into a special category imposing particular obligations on the person using that data, which can be onerous. S-Key’s solution removes this added burden by ensuring that the biometric identity function is carried out exclusively on the card itself, so that the data is never accessible to the organisation or from its systems.
As Will notes, S-Key’s solution “gives all the convenience of fingerprint-enabled access control, but without the headaches that go along with that.”
Security expert confirms personal data is secure on S-Key access control cards
Expert in data compliance, access control, biometrics and cyber security Graham Evans reinforced this view. Graham is Technical Officer at the British Security Industry Association and stated that S-Key’s on-card fingerprint storage and encryption is “from a data protection standpoint very secure.”
The trial showed law firm the benefits of S-Key fingerprint access cards
Freeths has trialled the S-Key access control system and found it to be a great improvement on their existing fob access control. As Will Richmond-Coggan shared in the webinar, it was quick to set up and they used the fingerprint access control cards alongside existing systems at one of their 13 UK sites, allowing graduated access for different users without the need to invest in infrastructure.
“What is striking about the S-Key solution is that it is one we could be confident about rolling out across all our venues… rather than having to have something bespoke to each environment, so we could standardise our approach to access control even across a multi-site setting.”
Biometric access control cards: the future is fingerprints
This Security Matters webinar explored how biometric access control adds a robust security layer to access control, and showed that it can be cost-efficient and sustainable.
Contact us now for an evaluation card to trial our innovative, secure and sustainable access control system – call +44 (0)203 1762350 or email info@freevolt.tech.
LEGIC is pleased to welcome UK-based Freevolt Technologies to the LEGIC Partner Network. Freevolt develops next-generation biometric smartcard products for the access control, healthcare, payment and cryptocurrency wallet sectors. By leveraging patented, battery-less, fingerprint-activated smartcards with the LEGIC security platform, risks associated with lost or stolen cards are eliminated. This prevents criminal access to restricted areas, as well as fraudulent use of access cards, potentially saving companies millions of dollars annually.
“By combining our leading radio frequency energy harvesting with advanced fingerprint recognition algorithms, Freevolt is pioneering the field of secure smart cards,” said Gonzalo de Gisbert, Head of Product & Business Development, “Our GDPR-compliant technology works with existing access control systems which allows our S-Key to integrate seamlessly with LEGIC’s end-to-end Security Platform. With S-Key, we provide an off-the-shelf smartcard solution with built-in 2-Factor Authentication that can be immediately deployed in any existing NFC-based access control infrastructure, increasing security by at least 5 times.”
