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We are proud to announce the release of the SALTO Neo Cylinder: a new electronic cylinder that offers a variety of features and superior functionality.

The SALTO Neo Cylinder offers value far beyond security. Of course, upgrading a mechanical door to electronic access control enhances security, but the SALTO Neo Cylinder provides even greater control of the door. It offers end users keyless mobile access to any access point and wireless access for instant key cancellation, remote opening, audit trails, reports, and alerts; delivering system administration operations that are simple, secure, and in real-time.

The compact lock is designed for doors where fitting an electronic escutcheon is not possible or not required and can be installed on standard doors, server racks, gates, cabinets, electric switches, sliding doors, and more. It is available in an extensive range of models to suit almost any kind of door, no matter the country.

Read further to find out more about how to optimize access control with the Neo Cylinder.

Where cloud technology meets the Neo Cylinder

SALTO KS cloud technology along with the SALTO Neo Cylinder delivers security that makes it possible to remotely monitor every access point from anywhere, at any time, on any device which offers greater control and flexibility.

With SALTO KS and the SALTO Neo Cylinder, there’s no need to replace or update the cylinder in case keys are lost or stolen. Simply block the tags or user access and assign new access instantly.

With the Neo, you can have full control of all access functions and features over the SALTO KS Web App from anywhere, without any worry about backups, maintenance, or physical on-premise server needs. While on-the-go, use the SALTO KS Mobile App for keeping track of events, remotely unlocking an electronic cylinder, and blocking user access. A cloud-based service is much simpler to integrate with other cloud service systems than an on-premise solution.

Using Digital Key with Neo

Users of the SALTO KS Mobile App can efficiently operate the Neo cylinder with their iPhones or Android phones. Combine the advantages of RFID, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and NFC technologies, when using your Digital Key or Digital Key Widget with the Neo.

Incorporating mobile access into building security ecosystems is essential to maintaining safety and will spare you from the hassle of lost keys, along with the expense and waste which follows.

“With the addition of the SALTO Neo Cylinder to SALTO KS, Digital Keys are now even more powerful, secure and reliable, moving us forward towards our vision of replacing mechanical keys.” - Cem Akcali, Product Manager at SALTO KS

Optimize your use of energy

The SALTO Neo Cylinder provides the most efficient and convenient way of securing your building and assets. The re-engineered clutch system design makes efficient use of energy, dropping consumption to impressively low levels resulting in 100,000 / 130,000 cycles with just one set of batteries. System standby power consumption is reduced, which extends the battery life of the electronic cylinder.

Ensure durability and hygiene

The IP66-rated SALTO Neo Cylinder was classified as weather-resistant, making it especially suitable for the outdoors including extreme environments, encapsulated safely inside the tough Neo Cylinder exterior. Certified to the highest security standards, and pursuing ever-higher quality and reliability, the cylinder is designed to provide users with the finest in safety, security and durability.

For nearly a decade, SALTO, in partnership with BioCote®, incorporated antimicrobial silver ion technology in its smart electronic lock range and supporting product hardware like new SALTO Neo electronic cylinder product range. This is of particular importance in healthcare applications and any public or shared space setting by improving the hygiene of common touchpoints and helping to prevent cross-contamination of microbes.

Easy to install and compatible with your door

Easy to install and retrofit, the SALTO Neo universally compatible cylinder replaces your existing cylinder and fits any door with unlimited model options. It offers an extensive range of wire-free, stand-alone electronic cylinders designed for standard doors where fitting a conventional electronic lock is neither possible nor required. Installation takes less than 5 minutes and is done without screws or drilling.

The SALTO Neo Cylinder range offers limitless choices for customization of your door and retrofitting. SALTO Neo cylinder standard finishes meet most project needs and provide a great match for existing doors. Plus, black and white reader finish choices mean you can offer a truly unique cylinder for any working space or business access project.

Using smart keys and mobile technology with the SALTO Neo Cylinder allows users to manage access rights, instant and keyless, which is more secure than using mechanical keys. There is also added value in the flexibility, convenience and operational efficiency provided by the Neo Cylinder’s wireless technology.

“The SALTO Neo Cylinder has more functionality and performance capability than any other cylinder on the market, allowing businesses to connect to their on-premises network via the cloud with our SALTO KS cloud-based access management platform.” - Marc Handels, Co-Founder and CTIO of SALTO Systems

By integrating all of your security needs through smart, wireless and battery-operated cylinders, the SALTO Neo cylinder will elevate your security experience.

Visit this page to find out more about the Neo or get in touch with our team!

To read more about SALTO KS, click here or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn for the latest product features, team updates and news from the industry.

SALTO KS provides a flexible access control management system that requires no software installation or the added expense of a fully-wired electronic product. Modern cloud-based, wireless access control systems are easy and simple to use for businesses including Coworking Spaces, Coliving Buildings, Purpose Built Student Accommodation, Retail, Multi-Tenant Housing, Gyms and many more. Our best in class wireless access control solution and smart locks guarantee the efficiency for your business. Integrate smart locks, start easily managing wireless access control now!

As our team expands, so does our commitment to providing our users with the best user experience in operating their own systems or running a business, accompanied by smart and valuable software. This is why SALTO KS is proud to announce a brand new integration partner: Fichaj.es, whose technology partnership allows our users the convenience of ‘time and attendance’ along with their cloud-based access control management system. The time-tracking software developer Fichaj.es provides system administrators with a workforce management tool which allows users to accurately record and monitor employee attendance, make staff planning easier, and communicate employee hours and automated access management with 24/7 activity data.

“The Fichaj.es integration with SALTO KS lets the end-user use door access control as a check-in and check-out reader which helps to avoid expensive investments in time and attendance tablets, keypad devices, and even installing drivers on laptops for clock-in and clock-out event notification” - Pablo Pérez de Ciriza, Project Manager at Nubba Group

Fichaj.es is a trusted and accurate time-tracking solution that has robust features including an online time-clock application available for Android and iOS. It has the ability to show overtime information as well as breaks in graphs and progress bars. Additionally, the solution contains an advanced system for managing work schedules and attendance - including maternity leaves and vacations.

KS Connect Partners offer advanced management and access control in an easy and secure way. As a result of this partnership, you can now manage access along with time and attendance needs for your business on-the-go. Open doors remotely, block access, view entry activity and receive activity messages on your smartphone. All that is needed is an online device with an internet connection. In addition to enhanced functionality and performance, this effectively reduces cost and almost eliminates the need for maintenance.

SALTO KS provides flexible cloud-based access control management that requires no software installation nor the added expense of fully-wired electronic locking solutions, ensuring vastly better functionality and performance than is possible in a traditional mechanical locking system.

Enabling the Fichaj.es integration with SALTO KS delivers the following features:

Enabling the Fichaj.es integration with SALTO KS delivers the following features:

This integration brings with it, the exciting and promising scope for more successful, time and cost-reducing collaborations.

If you’d like to be a KS Service within SALTO KS or integrate SALTO KS smart lock functionality into your own app, make sure to contact us.

For more information, watch this video or visit the Fichaj.es Academy.

To read more about SALTO KS, click here or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn for the latest product features, team updates and news from the industry.

SALTO KS provides a flexible access control management system that requires no software installation or the added expense of a fully-wired electronic product. Modern cloud-based, wireless access control system is easy and simple to use for businesses including Coworking Spaces, Coliving Buildings, Purpose Built Student Accommodation, Retail, Multi-Tenant Housing, Gyms and many more. Our best in class wireless access control solution and smart locks guarantee the efficiency for your business. Integrate smart locks, start easily managing wireless access control now!

Anyone who has ever operated an office property or a residential building knows the importance of utilizing that building’s full potential. Whether that means optimizing their tenants’ experience with amenities or ensuring the building’s profitability, every owner and operator has their priorities when it comes to managing the building’s resources.

However, what if we told you that you do not need to pick and choose your priorities and that you can maximize your building’s full potential in every sense?

Enter Rise Buildings, a property management platform devoted to ensuring operational efficiency while providing an optimal occupant experience. Rise Buildings has been a KS Connect Partner since the start of the year and has helped SALTO KS provide seamless solutions to end-users.

In order to properly introduce Rise Buildings to you, we asked the team a few questions about who they are, what they stand for, and which solutions they have to offer.

Read on to find out everything you need to know about Rise Buildings:

Could you please introduce your company to our readers?

Rise Buildings is a robust occupant experience and property operations platform that consolidates multiple software and hardware solutions into one, fully-integrated platform. As a result, we are able to deliver savings from reduced technology spend and greater operational efficiency. Our platform also drives higher retention and enables ancillary revenue opportunities through amenity bookings and concierge services.

Further, our data analytics engine allows owners and operators to see and understand critical information about what's going on in their buildings and proactively capitalize on this intelligence. We do this while delivering an on-brand, seamless product, with the possibility of white-labelling, that drives both high adoption and high utilization across the building population, including occupants, staff, and management.

Rise is currently used in over 200 buildings, including some of the top, state-of-the-art multi-family and commercial office properties around the world.

Which features do Rise Buildings offer its users?

The Rise Buildings platform is a full-featured property operations and occupant experience platform that encompasses over 45 features. This includes visitor management, package management, the amenity booking system of record, payments, work orders and preventive maintenance, a full-suite communications module, and much more.

Rise was built and designed by a team with decades of experience as developers, owners, and operators in the real estate industry. Our product was built with the goal of providing a single platform for property managers and staff for everything they do in their property on a day-to-day basis. It also provides the corresponding features that occupants need to interact with the property in one place. By providing this level of functionality, Rise delivers a world-class experience to end-users, achieving this through multiple points of engagement ranging from providing the property’s social feed, enabling the purchase of third party goods and services, a peer-to-peer marketplace, the ability to post and RSVP for events, and so much more.

You recently published an article on your blog about the benefits of fully integrated property platforms. Could you please explain those to our readers?

The importance of a fully integrated platform can be distilled into three main benefits, all of which are interrelated:

• Exceeding occupants’ expectations for a high-quality experience in their building. The clearest manifestation of this is the goal of having one place for every occupant's needs.
• Increasing property management and staff operational efficiency through valuable tools and automation to reduce double-data entry, multiple logins, overhead from multiple vendors, and more.
• Increasing the NOI (net operating income) for owners with the end goal of making the building more profitable. Two ways to achieve that are through increased revenue (happier occupants who stay longer) and lower costs (less turnover, lower overhead/inefficiency).

Ultimately, our platform creates a win-win-win. It provides a better experience for occupants, better tools for staff and management, and better financial performance for owners.

How does the integration of Rise Buildings with SALTO KS benefit the end-users?

Rise’s integration with SALTO KS is a perfect example of our goal of being the one place that occupants and property teams need to go to do everything in their building. SALTO KS’ smart lock technology complements Rise’s complete, end-to-end access and visitor management tool for end-users, which also integrates with the building’s property management and access control systems. With Rise + SALTO KS, end users can use their mobile devices to open entry points, common area doors, and elevators throughout the property based on their credentials as well as individual unit doors equipped with SALTO locks. Further, this integration enables occupants to remotely open access points throughout the property when expecting visitors.

Together, Rise and SALTO KS provide a seamless, end-to-end mobile-based solution for end-users to easily move about their building safely and securely.

In your blog “What Most Of The PropTech Industry Gets Wrong About Tenant Experience”, you mention the importance of functional technology as opposed to technology for technology’s sake. Could you elaborate on that?

The key point is that if you want people to adopt and utilize a technology platform in a building with the end-goals of achieving a great experience, increased efficiency, and higher profitability, you have to provide features that deliver value that users cannot readily get elsewhere. If a building technology’s primary goal is to enable users to order coffee from downstairs, the technology isn’t delivering unique value; that’s something they can do with their Starbucks app. As a result, it’s unlikely that occupants will switch to that platform for coffee ordering, or anything else for that matter.

If, however, the platform’s primary focus is on unique capabilities that people can’t do elsewhere, such as unlocking a door using the Rise + SALTO KS integration, people will adopt and utilize the platform because, after all, they cannot go to the Starbucks app to open their door.

“It is only after you get people to download and use a platform that you can suggest they do things on that platform that they might do elsewhere.”

How do you see the Real Estate industry progressing in the future, especially in regards to property technology? Are there any features you would like to see?

First and foremost, we expect to see an acceleration in buildings adopting more technology. While this was already a trend, it was moving more slowly prior to the pandemic. COVID-19 is proving to be a catalyst for technology implementation in the real estate industry. That said, we are still in the very early stages of both the adoption curve and the innovation curve for real estate. Much of the technology currently offered in real estate is table stakes in other industries. Sometimes this manifests as technology providers trying to push for technologies that are “cool’ over technologies that are actually needed. Before real estate starts implementing the really advanced stuff, we have to start with getting the basics right. And to be clear, doing the basics right is not easy. Implementing good, functional technology is complex if you want to do it the right way.

Thank you, Rise Buildings, for giving our readers an in-depth understanding of your solutions, products, and services, as well as your view on the future of technology in the real estate industry. We look forward to seeing this unfold, and are equally excited for the future of our partnership.

For more on Rise Buildings, you can visit their website here, request a demo, or email the Rise team at info@risebuildings.com. You can also follow us on LinkedIn.

If you want to learn more about our KS Connect partners, explore our integration page. To read more about SALTO KS, click here or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn for the latest product features, team updates and news from the industry.

SALTO KS provides a flexible access control management system that requires no software installation or the added expense of a fully-wired electronic product. Modern cloud-based, wireless access control systems are easy and simple to use for businesses including Coworking Spaces, Coliving Buildings, Purpose Built Student Accommodation, Retail, Multi-Tenant Housing, Gyms and many more. Our best in class wireless access control solution and smart locks guarantee the efficiency for your business. Integrate smart locks, start easily managing wireless access control now!

Spaceflow: making smarter buildings

Seamless access and movement between buildings where you may live or work are key in curating the best possible tenant experience. Spaceflow, is the integral puzzle piece who can make this happen, delivering software and community engagement services to landlords and building operators across the globe.

How do they achieve this? By combining the physical and digital in order to elevate the experience for occupants; connecting local services, smart building features, and community life in offices and residential buildings, all in a single app. This includes offerings from any local service, like restaurants or wellness providers, booking meeting rooms, receiving news about the building and local events, and of course using the right access control system. This is where SALTO KS steps in.

We spoke with Head of Marketing at Spaceflow, Petr Boruta who has been with the company for more than 3 years. He says, “It has truly been great to see the progress from the very beginning and our first implementation to where we are now with 100+ buildings launched. Our product, the team and the company as a whole have since developed tremendously.” In this blog post, Petr discusses all things Spaceflow and gives us insight into the integration with SALTO KS.

The team behind Spaceflow

Spaceflow app: how it works

Read on to find out everything you need to know about Spaceflow:

Could you please introduce your company to our readers?

Spaceflow’s mission is to empower landlords to create the best tenant experience possible across their portfolios on a global scale.

Spaceflow was created to make buildings smarter and more community-oriented. Through our mobile app and community engagement program, we offer a single link connecting building services, amenities, smart building features, and community, all in one place.

Today, landlords‘ top priority is to minimize vacant space whilst increasing asset value. We solve this problem by boosting tenant loyalty with customized programming and enhanced tenant experiences, effectively increasing tenant satisfaction and retention.

Spaceflow can be summed up as “Your building in one app”. How does the app achieve this?

Spaceflow connects local services, smart building features, and community life in offices and residential buildings which improves integration, collaboration and simplifies daily life.

The app itself has four core modules: smart technology, such as touchless access systems that we integrate from partners like SALTO KS, communication from the landlord and building management via the newsfeed, ticketing and messaging, access to services, amenities and bookings, and finally the possibility to get to know your community better– via events (even virtual!), news from other occupants and neighbours and community sharing.

Simply put, Spaceflow fills that missing gap between you and the building you work or live in.

The Spaceflow engagement program

Community engagement seems to be a vital component of Spaceflow’s offering. Could you share more about the Spaceflow Engagement Program and efforts to drive tenant experience?

We always strive to build communities in which tenants can thrive, by integrating an effective engagement program with the help of our experienced community team. In order for landlords to meet the surging demand for smart solutions and community, we craft experiences for tenants in various shapes and sizes, both on and offline. This means working side by side with clients during the adoption process, organizing regular success meetings, and in-depth training, followed by a tailored marketing strategy and campaign to raise awareness, engagement, and adoption prior to launch.

Once Spaceflow is live, our community team can help with anything from organizing launch events, pop/ups, finding local offers and perks, and tailoring timely, relevant, and engaging content for your community.

The Spaceflow mobile and web app

“We recognize that in a time of increased disconnectedness and loneliness in society at large, it is now more important than ever before to utilize technology as a way to build bridges between people, emphasizing the great need for a community-oriented approach to life in order to motivate optimal tenant health and well-being.” - Petr Boruta, Head of Marketing at Spaceflow

Buildings' digital layer

What is the role of Spaceflow with respect to building management and tenants respectively?

Spaceflow is here to help the building operator or owner with managing the whole building-tenant and building-occupier relation. Today, buildings need to have a digital layer as well as a community engagement strategy in place in order to differentiate from the competition and appeal to tenants.

We also help our clients manage the value of their space by providing data for more precise decision making and enable additional revenue from all transactions by providing their building as-a-service for tenants to enjoy.

Integration of Spaceflow and Salto KS

How does the integration of Spaceflow with SALTO KS benefit the end-users?

Seamless building-access and movement are one of the key cornerstones in creating the best possible tenant experience. The integration of SALTO KS as a provider of digital access control, and Spaceflow as a tenant experience platform, enables just that. Building occupiers can now use the tenant experience app in their mobile phones to unlock doors throughout the building they live or work in.

What would you like to see for the future of this integration with Salto KS?

The next step for our integration is to allow administrators to manage Salto KS users through the Spaceflow admin console and thus reduce the number of apps they have to use on a daily basis.

Thank you, Petr and the rest of the team at Spaceflow, for giving our readers an in-depth understanding of your solutions, products, and services, as well as your view on the future of technology in optimizing tenant experience. We look forward to seeing this unfold, and are equally excited for the future of our partnership.

For more on Spaceflow, you can visit their website here, request a demo, or have a look at their official blog.

If you want to learn more about our KS Connect partners, explore our integration page. To read more about SALTO KS, click here or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn for the latest product features, team updates and news from the industry.

SALTO KS provides a flexible access control management system that requires no software installation or the added expense of a fully-wired electronic product. Modern cloud-based, wireless access control systems are easy and simple to use for businesses including Coworking Spaces, Coliving Buildings, Purpose Built Student Accommodation, Retail, Multi-Tenant Housing, Gyms and many more. Our best in class wireless access control solution and smart locks guarantee the efficiency for your business. Integrate smart locks, start easily managing wireless access control now!

Over the years, we have found our solutions implemented in smart and sustainable sites around the world. Ranging from maritime to real estate, we have built upon these stories by reaching out to our customers to find out what led them to SALTO KS and how they make use of it.

In this blog post, we reflect on a customer of SALTO KS who lies at the heart of technology, TNW. Also known as The Next Web, the company aims to inform, inspire and connect people who love tech, and they do exactly that. You might be familiar with the tech conference which brings together talent and thought leaders annually, most recently with their 2020 live digital conference.

TNW was founded in 2006 when co-founders Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Patrick de Laive were looking for a tech event to showcase their new startup. One thing led to another and they soon realized they needed to host their event to check all their boxes and in promoting this, needed a platform. This is how thenextweb.com was born which later transformed into the company which leads tech media today.

Today the company has expanded to four pillars that have given rise to TNW News, TNW Deals, TNW Conference and Events. Through stories and insights, they aim to bridge the cross-generational gap through events and workspaces. Their headquarters are found in the place where it all started, in Amsterdam.

 

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Their mission as the centre of tech with the TNW spaces is to provide a physical space for Tech startup and smart building solutions. In order to achieve this, TNW required a smart lock solution to fit their spaces in Amsterdam for which they decided to partner with SALTO KS.

Once this collaboration started, there were a few hurdles at the beginning which motivated both parties to work through these issues to achieve a practical and reliable solution for the space at hand. These went on to be solved, and the benefit of smart locks was quickly noticed by the TNW team.

Both companies aligned on their values and positions in the wider tech community at the time and now continue to do. Today, with a total of 56 spaces, 90 doors, and 84 locks used, TNW uses SALTO KS as their access control solution.

 

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For TNW, the main benefits of using SALTO KS are the lowered installation costs paired with cloud-based access control and having access to an app. Their ways of opening are divided across their visitors for their spaces. For instance, residents and members use Keycards while the suppliers use physical Tags. Last but not least, the TNW team and management make use of Remote Opening. As the name suggests, this way of opening is used by admins to open doors remotely. A SALTO lock can be unlocked in two ways: short and temporary, or long and continuous. A short ‘unlocking’ action is ideal for letting someone in from a distance. This unlocks the lock for about 5 seconds, providing temporary access. For longer, continuous access, a lock can also be set in ‘Office Mode’. This unlocks the door for a longer period of time, depending on the type of Office Mode.

The allocation of these ways of opening has been carried out with close consideration. The reason for Remote Opening being limited to internal staff is to avoid the risk of users accidentally activating Office Mode for the entrance doors outside of office hours. Office mode is the state a lock is in when it is continuously unlocked. This allows anyone to enter the lock without a SALTO KS Tag. The Remote Opening feature has also proven useful in times when the team has been able to save the day and open office doors for residents who have forgotten their Tags.

 

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The SALTO KS web application and app interface have also proved most valuable according to TNW Head of facilities, Wai-Man Sun. “We’re happy to see consistent improvements and added features,” he says. The team has also looked into the prospect of integrations with their current solution and have recently started to implement OfficeRnD, which enables you to completely automate the door access control in your flexible workspace.

Looking to the future, TNW believes that the app can be even more user friendly, levelling with its high security. This is particularly with regards to the process of onboarding new users.

The SALTO KS access control system has significantly reduced management time and overhead needed to manage access and has provided the flexibility to use Tags, Keycards or Remote Opening to access the site(s) of TNW. We are proud to be entrusted with the unique and pioneering spaces of TNW and look forward to unlocking even more potential with our solutions.

To learn more about how SALTO KS benefits TNW, among other spaces, visit our selection of Customer Stories.

To read more about SALTO KS, click here or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn for the latest product features, team updates and news from the industry.

SALTO KS provides a flexible access control management system that requires no software installation or the added expense of a fully-wired electronic product. Modern cloud-based, wireless access control systems are easy and simple to use for businesses including Coworking Spaces, Coliving Buildings, Purpose Built Student Accommodation, Retail, Multi-Tenant Housing, Gyms and many more. Our best in class wireless access control solution and smart locks guarantee efficiency for your business. Integrate smart locks, start easily managing wireless access control now!

From the experts' point of view, the clear design and intuitive user experience were the main reasons for voting to award the SALTO MyLock Configurator a 2020 ARCHITECTS’ DARLING AWARD. In addition, they positively highlighted the immediate display of configuration changes and the user navigation. SALTO MyLock was clearly above the average of all participants in most evaluation categories.

The award was judged by a jury of communication experts and renowned representatives of top international architecture companies and specifiers. In the course of the evaluation, the jury members answered questions about the brand, the "look & feel," "search results," and open questions about "difficulties," "time required," and "personal impressions." An overall mark was derived from this, which formed the basis for the final ranking.

SALTO MyLock enables specifiers, architects, partners, and end users to individually configure SALTO‘s wire-free electronic door lock components and visualise them on different door types or styles. In addition to the electronic hardware, they can choose from several door models and a wide range of colours, finishes, handles and functions.

The renowned ARCHITECTS' DARLING AWARDS have been awarded by Heinze GmbH for ten years. This year, the awards were judged in 25 product areas, from flooring to technical products. In addition, 12 theme awards were evaluated by a jury. Categories here included "Best Website," "Best Product Innovation," and, new this year, "Best Product Configurator." The Cradle to Cradle Challenge Award, the award for sustainability and corporate responsibility, was also presented again.

MyLock online configurator: https://mylock.saltosystems.com/