Since the Covid-19 pandemic started, we have become much more aware of the importance of good hygiene. WAVE XS removes the risk of infection as there is no physical contact with the reader. At the same time, WAVE XS will not get worn down as other activation points. The new WAVE XS can be installed and used for many different purposes, e.g. as exit button to open a door, to turn on the light, call for an elevator – just a few among many other options.

Some of the many features are: 

• Reading distance can be set between 1-25 cm
• Time of activation can be set to 3, 5, 10, 15 or 20 seconds or to toggle mode (or up to 240 seconds via software)
• Choose design – E.g. the text “EXIT” or 6 different symbols like a door, hand or lock
• Upload your own symbol, text or image (requires software)

WAVE XS is available in both black and white with label and frame for mounting. The reader is easily programmed on-site using four dip switches located on the back. If you want your own design, you can use the included software.

WAVE XS SOFTWARE

The WAVE XS software gives you endless possibilities to design the reader according to your wishes and needs.

You can upload your own icon (120×120 px) or your own image (240×240 px). This can e.g. be your or your customer’s logo. You can also insert text of up to 3 lines (with a limited number of characters).

In addition, you can also choose what color the light ring should have in the display, both as default and when activated. In the software you can also switch the buzzer on / off, as well as set the activation time and reading distance.

The PC program for WAVE XS can be downloaded directly and free of charge under the “downloads” page on our website.

Could WAVE XS be something for you and your customer? Then do not hesitate to give us a call on tel. +45 72 40 60 03 or write to us on info@conlan.dk

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Liv has worked as a student assistant at CONLAN for 3 years, and has now, after 5 years of education at Aalborg University in Northern Denmark, finished her thesis in International Business Communication. Liv will therefore participate in preparing all our marketing activities e.g. in connection with trade fairs, product material, brochures and newsletters.

”I really look forward to be creative and use my education to strengthen our brands. It will be particularly exciting to be a part of the collaboration with SALTO Systems various business units when the CONLAN products are to be presented worldwide,” says Liv.

“Liv will be a valuable resource for our marketing department, where we are currently developing strategies for better communication and new, digital marketing platforms,” says Lena Kronborg, Marketing Manager Nordic at SALTO Systems.

Welcome Liv!

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Conlan ApS is a leading manufacturer of specialised access control products especially well-suited to the Nordic market.

Via this mutually beneficial deal, Conlan’s innovative product lines gain access to SALTO Systems extensive dealer network and SALTO’s product offering will be more competitive than ever in the leading Nordic market.

We anticipate this deal to be fully integrated into SALTO Systems Nordic business unit by December 2019.

Conlan will participate in SALTO Systems stand D3222 at Danish Security Fair in Fredericia August 28-29.

For further information, please contact j.buch@saltosystems.com or +45 25 29 20 38

About SALTO Systems

From its inception in 2001, SALTO Systems was created with one objective: to devise a world-class access control system that was simple to use and extremely efficient, giving users the ability to control all their access needs and secure all their doors. Today, we have offices in 27 countries and our products is used every day in 90 countries; within education, healthcare, army, transport, hotels etc. In the Nordic region we have 11 offices in 4 countries.

For more information visit www.saltosystems.com

About Conlan ApS

Conlan was founded in 1991 with the purpose of developing and producing a user-friendly keypad for access control. After a few years’ development, this project became later development of accesscontrol readers and accessories within RFID. Development and production is situated in Aalborg, Denmark.

For more information visit www.conlan.eu

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Liv Kolstad, Marketing Conlan ApS, Jesper Buch, Managing Director SALTO Systems Nordic Region, Jennifer Stack, VP Strategic Business Development SALTO Systems S.L, Gonzalo Marco, CFO SALTO Systems S.L, Santiago Estevas, COO SALTO Systems S.L and Ejner Schmidt Hansen, founder of Conlan ApS.

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What is Modbus?

Modbus is a communication protocol developed in 1979 by the company formerly known as Modicon. It is a simple and reliable standard protocol developed for the industrial sector.

What is it used for?

The Modbus protocol is frequently used for industrial applications, because the protocol allows for communication between a large number of devices connected to the same network. Conlan’s first Modbus readers will be used for a combined BMS and ACS solution, developed in collaboration with Softcontrol.

BMS and ACS in one solution

Softcontrol is working on a larger solution that will allow a single controller to be able to control air conditioning as well as access to several gates and doors in a large industrial facility.

“Being able to access both light, heat, alarms and ACS in one system provides a number of benefits,”

says Kim Jespersen, CEO of Softcontrol.

“For instance, we can reuse a lot of censors, and thereby also save money.”

At Softcontrol they are frequently developing customized systems for their customers. It is important for them that the development process is flexible and that the final quality is at its best.

“We have chosen to work with Conlan on this project, one of the reasons being that all development and production takes place in Denmark. This allows us to provide both the highest flexibility and quality, just as our customers expect,”

says Kim.

About Softcontrol

Softcontrol is an ambitious company with a can do attitude and an impressive roadmap with a number of new product introductions in the sales pipeline. Softcontrol’s platform provides a complete solution for heating, lighting, monitoring, security etc.
Read more about Softcontrol.

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Bluetooth, Tags and Door closers

The residents of Bøge Alle 14 are not able to open the door to their apartment themselves. That is why Lindpro has installed Bluetooth readers on each door and connected them to a door operator that opens the door when the resident stands outside. A Bluetooth Low Energy tag located on the resident’s wheelchair activates the reader. In this way, the employees do not have to go all the way to the door to open it, when they are with the resident.

The Bluetooth tag is programmed so that the individual citizen may only access their own room. You also have the possibility to set the reading distance, in which the resident must be, before the door opens.

Mifare for Employees

The employees at Bøge Alle access the front door and the residents’s rooms using their own personal Mifare tag. It is therefore not necessary for the employees to have keys or tags for each room. There are also Mifare readers installed on some residents’s kitchen and medical cabinets, so that only the employees can access the cabinets.

Codes as Back-up or to Guests

All Bluetooth readers are equipped with a keypad as back-up. This means that it is always possible to open the doors with a PIN code, which ensures accessibility, even when the programmed Mifare and Bluetooth tags are not available. A code may also be handed over to relatives, who visit often.

adgangskontrol med bluetoothAt Conlan, we have delivered several solutions with Bluetooth.

For example, click here to read about Digital access for wheelchair user via Bluetooth.

Lindpro

The supervised residential facility at Bøge Alle 14 was installed by Lindpro.

Lindpro is dedicated to delivering excellent technical craftsmanship. Lindpro is also a leading knowledge company with focus on delivering innovative technical solutions within various specialty areas. The variety of solutions adds great value for their customers.

Read more about Lindpro at www.lindpro.dk, or contact project manager, Kristian Stengård Nordby at tel. +45 76 11 49 00.

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One of the more severe problems with the Wiegand protocol is unencrypted communication. The protocol’s limited bandwidth and inability to offer bi-directional communication are also issues that encourage access control professionals to seek out other options.

Proprietary Protocols

Many professionals within the security industry have worked around these weaknesses by developing their own proprietary protocols. However, this approach has its own set of limitations. The amount of testing and maintenance is a major issue for many companies. Add to that the difficulties these companies encounter, when they need to connect their device to that of another producer, and it becomes evident that a better solution should be sought.

These are some of the reasons why SIA have developed the OSDP (Open Supervised Device Protocol).

OSDP – Reliable Protocol

The OSDP protocol eliminates the need to develop, test and maintain your own proprietary protocol. The OSDP is thoroughly tested and maintained by SIA, who are also making the necessary test tools available to users. Additionally, SIA offers an encrypted version of the OSDP, thereby ensuring that the protocol meets the highest security standards.

Exiting Possibilities with OSDP

The OSDP is able to transmit large amounts of data which in itself opens up a wide range of possibilities. Since the protocol also enables easy integration between systems from different producers, new and exciting solutions are now within reach. Smart buildings and industry management systems are just a few of the areas in which we may see the OSDP used to integrate systems from various suppliers.

Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that the OSDP enables bi-directional communication and read/write capabilities.

OSDP Access Control

We are certain that OSDP is the future of access control, and we have developed a number of access control readers (PIN, proximity, Bluetooth, mifare, fingerprint) and a display using the OSDP protocol. If you would like to know more, you are more than welcome to contact us at 0045 72 40 60 03.

Read more about Conlan OSDP access control.

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It has been an interesting journey to develop and produce more than 45.000 access control systems, and I am proud of the many buildings that are now equipped with Key7 access control,

says Nicolaj Haarup who founded Key7 in 1999.

We are happy to add Key7 access control products to our portfolio and look forward to servicing all Key7 customers.

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CT2000 in the year 1993

We had a notion that the bypass couplers that were available in the market at the time could be improved substantially. First of all, they needed to be smaller and smarter, and then we wanted the keys to have a capacitive touch. That really was the essence of the project,” says Ejner Hansen, who is still a director at Conlan today.

On a Saturday in the summer of 1993, Conlan started a co-operation with Alarm System in order to design the new code keypad. The first sod was cut at a meeting between Ejner and Flemming Ravn and Bjørn-Erik Jørgensen from Alarm System.

There, they had made this keypad, which had some of the technology but lacked all the background in order to be used in the alarm systems industry as a bypass coupler

says Flemming Ravn, who was responsible for the development of fuses at Alarm System at the time.

Flemming Ravn, among other things, participated in the project by designing a new keypad for bypass couplers, as the existing products in the market did not fulfil the wishes of the customers of Alarm Systems with respect to design and functionality.

At the time, there were two in the market, and their products were bulky. They were big and fat, and the keys were prone to wear. Therefore, we saw that there were a few opportunities for this keypad, because there wasn’t any mechanical scanning and instead, it had capacitive scanning,

says Flemming.

Design and Functionality

From the start, during the development process, the focus was on a significantly different design compared to the existing products in the market.

At the time, we already recognised the trend that the users wanted the installations to look nice, too

says Ejner Hansen.

Therefore, one of the first steps consisted of determining the dimensions of the unit – and next, to find the space for the internal technology.

We decided to use the long 2×6 key format, so that it could be installed on a door frame,

says Flemming.

It was a very free process, where we were allowed to be creative and spent very little time on development documentation. That was probably one of the reasons for the success.

Summer and Sun

As always, when you start a new project, there were also a few surprises in the CT2000 project that the participants from Conlan and Alarm System had not expected. The first surprise turned up when it became summer and hot.

When it was really hot, the users noticed that the sabotage alarm suddenly started. When a cloud moved in front of the sun, the system worked again, and we simply couldn’t find out why

says Flemming.

We found out that the error made the cast iron bulge a little so that the small sabotage contact was released and started the alarm. But it took us a little time to find out about that. After all, you couldn’t see it.

Black and White

At the same time, when the code keyboard went into sales, the group also developed the proximity reader in the same series – and here, they met with funny challenges.

We had this proximity reader, which worked fine when it was installed on white paint. But when we installed it on black paint, it suddenly stopped working. So we removed it from the black paint, and it started working again. In the same way, it worked fine with a white front label, but not with the black one. So how could this be? They were absolutely similar apart from the paint. We wondered at great deal about that,

says Flemming Ravn.

We found out that the problem was due to the content of carbon in the black paint, which disturbed the signals.

Then we had a few tests, where we put in some ferrite together with the coil. And that ferrite plate is still sitting there today, which is also the reason why we don’t have a reading problem when the reader is installed on metal.

A Durable Classic

They had an idea – the North Jutlanders – and the fact was, it was probably one of the better ideas. Today – more than 20 years later – the CT2000 is still produced at Conlan. The teething trouble has been overcome a long time ago, and the keypad is still used as a bypass coupler and for a number of other purposes, where the flexible software comes into its own. The design and the features are still exactly the same as when the product was launched in the early 90s.

According to Flemming Ravn, it was especially the design of the reader with its many features and combinations which ensured that it had a solid position in the marked directly from the start.

That was the reason why we beat the two competitors who existed at the time. Because it was so small because it had such a smart design compared to the existing products in the market.

Today, the aesthetic design is still one of the major aspects in Conlan’s development of new products. This can among other things be seen in the newer product line, Mykey, which fits a Fuga frame as module 1 or 1½. Time will show, whether this idea is durable as the one, they had 25 years ago.

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long range reader

The Conlan/RTR Long Range Reader is a high performance UHF RFID integrated reader.

• The reading range can be up to 3 m.
• It offers fast tag reading operation coupled with secure identification.
• Maximum of 256 users with all users managed via cards, which means no software or PC connection required.
  Come and visit us at stand C1470 to find out more.

Read more about the new long-range proximity reader.

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