Our aim is to protect people, information, property and assets from crime, fire and other security risks using a solution that is tailored to your situation and budget.

Group is comprised of four business components Group Security Solutions (security and integrated systems provider), Group Fire and Safety Security (fire installation and total fire security product solutions), Group Data and Electrical Security (commercial electrical services) and Biometrics Access Control, Biometric Fingerprint Readers, Biometric Facial Recognition, Biometric Time & Attendance and Sagem Biometric reader.

Our qualified technical staff can walk you through all the components of security alarm monitoring, biometric security access control and a complete fire detection and suppression system that will not only meet your needs, but will also comply with local, state and national standards.

Whatever your situation calls for, Group has the knowledge, experience, technology and the attention to detail you can come to expect from our dedicated team of technical security specialists and customer service team. So, whether you’re looking for an intruder alarm system, new or upgraded access controls, CCTV surveillance security cameras, monitoring alarms for home and commercial security, Group has the solution you are looking for.

Group Data & Electrical Security Services offer complete and holistic electrical installations, service and maintenance including:

* Security lighting
* Energy efficient fluorescent lighting
* Board room lighting
* Trapeze lighting
* UPS systems and line conditioners
* Mains and switchboard upgrades
* CCTV
* Intercom systems
* Exit & emergency lighting
* Fire detection systems

High level integration between the Cardax FT and SAGEM fingerprint readers (including the new SAGEM MA 500 range) provides a full integrated biometric access control solution.

Sagem Biometric reader – MorphoAccess™ hardware has been designed to provide accurate biometric identification at amazing speed for the front line of your physical security. The Sagem Biometric reader – MorphoAccess™ is based on 20 years of research and development and proven implementation of Biometric reader fingerprint identification technology.

Expect the best with Sagem Biometric reader – MorphoAccess™, the world leader in biometric reader identification technology.

Easy to follow on screen instructions are provided to help get the best placement of your finger. Biometric Identification typically occurs in less than 0.8 of a second giving the benefit of “present and go”.

Features of SAGEM Biometric Reader Range

* 500 DPI optical fingerprint sensors
* Mifare card reader built into recommended models, allowing a secondary entry method if desired
* Able to operate independently of the Biometric server software.
* Individually adjustable false-acceptance rates for each Sagem Biometric reader
* Outdoor and ‘false finger’ detection models available.

Biometrics consist of automated methods of recognizing a person based on unique physical characteristic. Each type of biometric system, while different in application, contains at least one similarity: the biometric ID must be based upon a distinguishable human attribute such as a person’s fingerprint, iris, voice pattern or even facial pattern.

Today Biometric fingerprint readers are by far the most popular form of biometric access security used, with a variety of access control systems on the market intended for general and mass market usage. Long gone are the huge bulky Biometric fingerprint scanners, now a Biometric fingerprint reader can be small enough to be incorporated into a laptop for security.

A fingerprint is made of a series of ridges and grooves. Once a Biometric fingerprint is captured the system locates the minutia points. These minutia points occur where the lines of the ridges begin, end, branch off and merge with other ridge lines. These points are then mapped and a line is drawn between each point. This creates a map of how each point relates to the other points. The map is then stored as a data stream called a minutia template in a database for future comparison with other presented fingerprints. It is important to note that during the entire process no fingerprint images are stored on the system and a fingerprint image cannot be recreated from the minutia template.

Minutia Capture

Traditionally, gathering Biometrics time and attendance data has been a complex, time consuming process, often producing inaccurate information.

By combining easy to use Biometric control software with world leading biometric hardware, we can increase the accuracy of staff time and attendance at a fraction of the cost of conventional methods.

You can retrieve activity, validate staff shifts and export to your payroll system. It really is that simple!

Instead of employees punching in a time-card or logging their attendance by hand, they simply place their finger on the Biometric fingerprint reader sensor, or flash a card in front of the proximity or HID card reader and our software does the rest. In secure situations we install Biometric facial time and attendance recognition systems.

It is a simple solution that pays for itself over and over again by allowing your organisation to:

* Automate payroll processing – Time and attendance data is transferred using an automated software tool or exported
* Eliminate buddy-punching
* Eliminate time-cards
* Eliminate early punch-ins
* Eliminate unauthorized overtime
* Eliminate hours of payroll calculations
* Accurately reports employee time and attendance to Payroll and Human resourses

Biometric time and attendance systems completely eliminate the time and effort required by the Shift Supervisor to monitor the time and attendance activity at punch in/out times and significantly reduces the manual involvement of payroll and human resources departments, consequently leading to substantial cost savings and improved productivity.

Fire Monitoring Security is a simple solution to protect your property, information and assets from fire.

Group Fire & Safety Solutions System can provide fire monitoring for residential, small and large commercial buildings, workshops, warehouses and carparks.

By law, an alarm can sound for up to five minutes, but after this it must shut down. What a fire monitoring alarm provides is a continuous record of conditions at your property. Any change in conditions is immediately transmitted to the central station and the appropriate response initiated.

Group Fire & Safety offer accredited Fire Monitoring that complies to Australian Standard AS.1670 through a strategic business partner.

Call Group Fire & Safety Security today for a quote.

For companies where security is vital and access to certain areas must be controlled and monitored, Group Security Solutions access control systems allow companies to manage and monitor all access points and locks, allowing for auditable security and quick responses to any security breaches.

Whether the need is for a basic wall-mounted proximity card reader or a sophisticated combination PIN, card swipe and fingerprint reader, Group Security Solutions has a comprehensive range of access control, biometric products and a large number of identification systems.

Group Security Solutions systems allows companies to choose almost any common form of existing ID technology for access point recognition.

Some of the options include swipe cards and/or keypads as well as more sophisticated readers such as proximity cards and state-of-the-art biometric readers for fingerprint and/or facial recognition.

All user access information is gathered by a central PC-based workstation where the administrators can retrieve and analyse the information. This data provides a recording of staff movement within an organisation, whether it is a small company or a company that employs thousands.

For more information on how Group Security Solutions can design an access control system for your needs please contact us.

Traditionally, identity verification has relied on something you know, such as a password, or something you have, such as a card or pin access device. Biometrics is unique in that it is based on the physical characteristics of an individual – i.e. something you are.

Biometric facial recognition is just one type of biometrics identification. Other types include iris scanning, fingerprint, and voice recognition. Given that portrait photos are already part of the current identification system for photo cards, it is simple to merge this with a biometric access system.

A Biometric facial recognition system is a computer program that mainly uses the following techniques:

* Facial geometry: uses geometrical characteristics of the face. May use several cameras to get better accuracy (2D, 3D…)
* Skin pattern recognition (Visual skin print)
* Facial thermogram: uses an infrared camera to map the face temperatures.

To prevent a fake face or mole from faking out the system, many systems now require the user to smile, blink, or otherwise move in a way that is human before verifying. The system can be used to compare the photograph taken when a person enters the premises, against the images stored in the centralised security system.

Biometric access systems are used to automatically recognize people based on one or more physical elements, most commonly a Biometric fingerprint. Because your fingerprint is always with you it cannot be lost, stolen or shared with other staff. This results in greater security and accountability using human Biometrics alleviating human and staff rounding of worked hours.

Biometric access control systems are more secure, they cannot be guessed, stolen, shared or written down. They are more convenient, they can’t be forgotten and are always with you. Biometric access control systems are more economical as there is no need to provide users with access cards or other expensive tokens, that are easily lost. With biometric access control systems you can be confident that the right people are getting in.

The operation of all biometric access readers is alike: they compare the template stored in memory to the scan obtained during the process of Biometric identification. If the probability that the template in the memory and the live scan belong to the same person is high enough, the Biometric ID number of that person is sent to an access control panel. The access control panel then checks permissions of the Biometric user and makes the decision whether to grant access or not.

Group Security Solutions can help you create an advanced biometric access control solution using biometric readers and our easy to use software, offering you total control to group your users and apply security settings, access control rights and time and attendance masks to determine who goes where and when. With an extensive range of reporting options included, you will always know what’s going on.

With our easy to use software, not only do you get an advanced biometric access control system you also have access to the powerful Biometric time and attendance functionality.