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Access Control
What is access control?
• Control Systems are electronic security systems designed and installed to provide protection against unwanted visitors into a property and allow free movement and entry for authorised users where there is frequent personnel traffic.
• Installing the correct Access Control solution for you will help provide protection to your employees, visitors, stock and your property. • In very simple terms, Access control Systems provide control of entry (or exit) through nominated doors via a control panel and some form of electric locking facility. • Access Control Systems can be as simple or as complicated as you desire, but in each case the solution will always provide an easy passage for permitted persons around the building.
• Door entry or Access Control?
• In truth these are one in the same thing, although door entry is commonly associated with a single door or gate, and the term Access Control is used more to describe multiple doors or entry points.
• Access Control Systems can also provide a host of other features that may be found useful in other areas of the business like, time and attendance functions, integration with payroll systems, car park management and maybe even vending machine applications.
• How does a permitted user open the door that has a system fitted to it?
• PIN code entry:
• One of the most common types of Access Control is the keypad system. This could be a Mechanical Pushbutton Lock or an electronic keypad with a series of numbered push buttons, or a touch-sensitive pad, connected to the lock release mechanism via a control unit inside the entrance.
• ‘Magstripe’ Readers:
• The user has an encoded card, a bit like a “credit card” sometimes worn on a chain around the neck; each entry point will have an associated card reader through which the user simply “swipes” the card through to gain entry.
• Proximity Readers
• As before the user of the system carries a card or a tag, but instead of having to swipe the card, the user simply presents the card or tag up to a reader, which typically will see the card at about 100mm distance, making this a non-contact and faster method of entry.
• Smartcard Readers:
• In each of the above methods, the user carries a card or similar, these cards have the ability to carry additional information which can be used for other building services such as vending machines.
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