Simplifying the day at school with SALTO

SALTO is simplifying the school day with access control solutions trusted by hundreds of schools around ANZ. Managing a school campus, with multiple teaching areas and large numbers of people moving between them, can be complex, costly and time-consuming. Schools need to ensure that pupils and staff can access the premises easily, but at the same time keep out unwanted visitors. Teachers need to get from classroom to classroom, often whilst carrying laptops and other teaching materials. You may also have facilities such as sports or drama areas that are used by external groups.

With this level of complexity, traditional locks and keys simply don’t cut it in today’s schools. That’s why over 800 educational establishments in Australia and New Zealand have turned to SALTO, a leading global provider of Electronic Access Control (EAC) solutions.

SALTO provides schools with electronic locks, which are opened with a ‘credential’ such as a keycard or wristband fob. The credential (which can double up as, for example, an ID badge or photocopier card) is programmed to only give each user access to the areas, and at the times, for which they are authorised. Doors and gates can be programmed to automatically lock and unlock at pre-defined times. The card or wristband fob simplifies life for teachers. They don’t have to carry multiple cards and keys, and they don’t have to put down the teaching materials they are carrying in order to unlock a door – they simply touch their credential to the lock.

For school managers, SALTO simplifies things too – no more sending someone round the campus locking and unlocking doors; it’s much easier to give, for example, sports clubs access to facilities, and SALTO’s reporting gives them an audit trail of who has accessed (or tried to access) each area.

Yarrabilba, a high school on a large campus in southeast Queensland, is one of those benefitting from the SALTO EAC. Deputy principal Janelle Whatmore explains: “Our staff love the SALTO system and particularly using the fobs, which really simplifies their working day. Teachers simply have to touch their wristband against the door lock which makes access easy, even if they are carrying multiple objects.”

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