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| The Traka Intelligent Laptop Locker is designed to control and automate the process of issuing laptop tablets to students |
Traka, an ASSA ABLOY Group company, is exhibiting the latest generation of its intelligent locker technology at ASIS 2013 with its Intelligent Laptop and Modular Locker products.
The Traka Intelligent Laptop Locker is designed to control and automate the process of issuing laptop tablets to students or employees and ensuring they are returned and stored securely at the end of each school or work day. Negating the need for manual issue and while saving management and administrators valuable time.
As tablets become commonplace in the workplace and classroom – the burden of responsibility often falls upon the manager, employee or teacher. The Traka Intelligent Laptop and Tablet Lockers alleviates the pressure on staff manually signing out and tracking assets, offering an at-a-glance graphical view of current location and user at any time via powerful operating software.
The locker is static, featuring 30 individual compartments – each offering data synchronisation (sync) and battery charging capability to ensure assets are always ready for use.
A true first within the industry, Traka RFID tagging technology is able to track that the device has been returned correctly, and has not been exchanged for another object of similar size, reducing theft and increasing accountability.
At the centre of Traka locker technology is its award-winning network and integration infrastructure, Traka32 Software, used across the company’s extensive product portfolio. Multiple key cabinets can be networked across the facilities or offices, all managed from one central location. This software enables admins to schedule events or curfews and have an audit trail of all key transactions. What was a complicated system is now an easy procedure for pulling reports from multiple key cabinets.
Key features of this technology include:
- Real-time tracking – Management can view the live status of all laptops or tablets within a locker, and who is in possession
- Curfew alerts – Curfews can be triggered to notify an admin when an asset has not been returned by a specific designated time
- Historical data – Should a device become damaged, its previous users can be easily identified
- Quarantine – Damaged laptops can also be locked down remotely
Traka Intelligent Laptop Lockers can be customised with multiple access control methods, from simple integration with pre-existing student ID card, cashless catering and e-registration systems to biometrics. Fingerprint readers, for example, stop a laptop or tablet from being accessed via a lost or stolen ID card.
Traka is also launching its Simple iPad Locker – a cut-down implementation of its locker technology. This static, six-door metal locker can house five laptops behind each door, and it retains a dedicated drawer to house a MacBook.
Each of the six doors can be opened independently, giving authorised users the option of how many devices to allocate to students. Traka Simple iPad Lockers are accessed by a PIN code, providing basic access control that is suitable for smaller secondary and primary schools at a highly cost-effective price.
John Kent, President, Traka Plc commented: “iPads and other tablets are becoming commonplace in many schools, as teachers and IT departments realise the educative benefits, as well as the considerable reduction in overheads that comes from less photocopying and paper use. Traka Laptop Lockers have been designed from the ground up to alleviate the burden on teachers and students of looking after such devices, offering simple yet robust access control, a full audit trail and employing technology like RFID to ensure the system cannot be exploited.”
