Monday, March 05, 2007

Lobby kiosk checks visitor background

Lobby kiosk checks visitor background | KioskMarketplace: "Davidson Elementary School opened its doors in 1993. Until last year, visitors to the North Carolina school would fill out a visitor form with a pen and receive a temporary hall pass from an office staffer.

In August 2006, the school installed the LobbyGuard system. Today, visitors can check themselves in – and the school can keep tabs on who is trying to get in, using the kiosk’s sophisticated background check functionality.

“The old way of doing things did not provide some of the securities that our current system provides,” said principal Celeste Ellis. “Just recently, the background check alerted us on two instances of questionable persons.”

When someone wants to pay a visit to Davidson Elementary, that person swipes his driver’s license on the lobby kiosk. It snaps a picture and prepares a one-use visitor badge – while simultaneously checking sex offender registries and the school’s internal “do not allow” list. If the visitor is a match for one of those lists, the badge isn’t printed and the office is alerted."

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