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What it is

A door is a policy.
So is everyone who walks through it.

Locks deter strangers. Access control documents who came in, when, by which credential, and whether they should have been there at all.

The point of access control isn't to keep people out. It's to make it provable, auditable, and revocable who came in — and to do it without slowing anyone down.

A modern access control system replaces keys, lost cards, and "who let them in" guesswork with credentials tied to people, roles, and time windows. A staff member's card stops working the moment HR offboards them. A contractor gets access for a Tuesday afternoon, not a Tuesday-and-onwards lifetime.

BEALARMED designs and installs systems across the spectrum — from a single biometric reader on a server-room door to multi-site estates with thousands of identities, integrated with your HR system, your CCTV, and your KYC onboarding workflow.

The right system is invisible to authorised people and unforgiving to everyone else.

Credential types

Five ways
to prove identity.

Most sites use two or three of these in combination. Higher-security zones layer credentials (face + card, or PIN + biometric).

01

Facial recognition

Hands-free, hygienic, fast. Modern liveness detection defeats photo and video spoofing. Best for high-throughput entrances.

Recommended for offices, banks
02

Fingerprint biometrics

Cost-effective, well-understood, durable. Excellent for staff-only entrances where a controlled enrollment process is feasible.

Workshops, factories, sites
03

Card & fob

MIFARE / DESFire encrypted cards and key fobs. Ideal where biometrics aren't appropriate — or as a backup credential layer.

Visitors, contractors
04

QR & mobile

Single-use QR codes for visitors, deliveries, and event access. Issued by email or WhatsApp, expired automatically.

Visitors, gated estates
Hardware we install & support

The brands
we work with.

We install, integrate, and maintain access control hardware from the leading manufacturers — chosen for the right environment, not the easiest margin.

ZKTeco SpeedFace · ProFace
Hikvision DS-K · MinMoe
Lenel OnGuard · S2
Impro Access Portal · iTRT
Gallagher Command Centre
Featured hardware

ZKTeco SpeedFace
V5L (QR).

Our go-to terminal for mid- to high-throughput access points. Multi-modal: facial recognition with liveness detection, QR code reading, RFID card support, and PIN fallback — all in one device.

Especially well suited to client onboarding flows where the same terminal handles KYC capture and ongoing access, integrated with platforms like Sumsub for identity verification and AML compliance.

  • RecognitionVisible-light facial + liveness
  • Match speed< 0.3 seconds
  • Capacity50,000 face / 100,000 card
  • CommsTCP/IP · Wi-Fi · 4G optional
  • SourcingZKTeco South Africa · SACU
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Where it fits

Built around
real environments.

Each environment has its own access logic. We design around the operational reality, not just the door count.

Use case · 01

Offices & corporate

Card or face credentials at lobby and floor entry, time-window restrictions for cleaners and contractors, integration with HR for instant offboarding.

  • Single sign-on with HR system
  • Visitor pre-registration via QR
  • Floor- and zone-level access tiers
Use case · 02

Banks & financial

Layered credentials at branch entry, vault and server room, with KYC-grade audit trails and integration with regulatory reporting workflows.

  • Sumsub / KYC integration
  • Dual-credential vault control
  • AML-ready event logging
Use case · 03

Industrial & mining

Site-wide rugged biometrics, contractor accreditation, time-and-attendance integration, and hazardous-zone restriction enforcement.

  • IP65+ rugged terminals
  • Contractor expiry workflows
  • T&A export to payroll
Use case · 04

Estates & residential

Resident facial credentials at gate, household QR codes for visitors and deliveries, integrated with intercom and CCTV.

  • Visitor QR via WhatsApp
  • Household-level admin app
  • CCTV-linked event playback
Integration

Doesn't sit in a silo.

One identity · many systems
Source

HR / KYC onboarding

New employee or client identity captured once — via Sumsub, your HR system, or our enrolment portal.

Hub

Access platform

Identity provisioned to all relevant readers with the right zones, time windows, and credential types.

Outputs

Doors · CCTV · payroll

Same identity drives door events, video tagging, and time-and-attendance — one source of truth, multiple uses.

Indicative scope · BWP

Three
starting points.

Pricing depends on door count, credential type, integration scope, and hardware sourcing. The figures below are indicative starting points — your formal quote is a fully itemised landed-cost breakdown in BWP.

Single Door
One controlled entry point, biometric or card.
From
BWP8,500
  • 1× SpeedFace or fingerprint terminal
  • Maglock or strike, button, sensor
  • Up to 100 enrolled users
  • Standalone management software
  • Installation & 12-mo maintenance
  • HR / KYC integration
Get quote
One-off install · landed BWP
Enterprise Estate
Multi-site, KYC-integrated, audit-grade.
By assessment
BWPTailored
  • Unlimited doors and identities
  • Sumsub / KYC integration
  • SIEM / VMS / HR connectors
  • Custom enrolment workflows
  • Compliance-grade audit logs
  • Dedicated account engineer
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Project + service contract
Common questions

Things prospects
always ask first.

Have something specific to your environment? Send it through — we usually reply within a working day.

Modern terminals like the ZKTeco SpeedFace V5L use visible-light facial recognition with on-device liveness detection — they reject photos, videos, and masks. False-acceptance rates are well under 0.001%, and match times are under half a second. For genuine high-security zones we layer face with a second credential like a card or PIN.
Facial recognition has very high enrolment success across populations. Fingerprint biometrics can be challenging for users with worn or damaged fingerprints (common in manual industries) — in those cases we recommend face or card as the primary credential and keep fingerprint as a backup option.
Yes. Most modern HR systems expose APIs we can connect to, so when a person is added or removed in HR, their access is provisioned or revoked automatically. We've integrated with Sage, BambooHR, and several local HR platforms, plus custom systems via standard exports.
Properly designed access control runs on UPS-backed power for the controllers and locks. Strikes default to a configurable fail-safe or fail-secure state depending on the door's purpose (fire egress doors fail-safe, vaults fail-secure). Battery runtime is sized for typical load-shedding cycles plus margin.
We source primarily from authorised regional channels — typically ZKTeco South Africa for SpeedFace estate — which means the SACU customs framework applies and landed cost is straightforward. Quotations are itemised in BWP with import duties, VAT and shipping clearly broken out, so you see exactly what you're paying for.
Absolutely — and most clients do. Visitors are pre-registered (often by the host through a self-service portal), receive a QR code by email or WhatsApp, and present it at the gate or reception terminal. The QR is single-use and time-limited, with full event logging.
Biometric templates are stored as mathematical hashes, not images — they can't be reverse-engineered into a usable photo. Storage location (on-device, on-server, on-premise) is configurable to your data-handling policy. We can also advise on retention policies aligned with Botswana's Data Protection Act.
Pairs well with

Stronger together
than apart.

Access control gets smarter the moment it's tied to video and monitoring — and to the people responsible for verifying events.

Get started

Tell us about
the doors you control.

Most access control proposals go out within one working day. Site assessments are free and scheduled around your operations — including after-hours.