Access Controls for Offices, Businesses, Homes & Outdoors

Offices, Business’s, Homes, even outdoor areas, all need access control. This has led to burgeoning business for installers, as these areas are now dominated by electronic solutions. Access control is a huge subject because it can be extended to embrace all electronic security techniques by integrating with other technologies, particularly intruder and CCTV.

Such systems are becoming increasingly prominent not only in the management of entrances and exits but also in the monitoring and screening of personnel within defined areas. Such systems extend to the collection of data, the movement patterns of users and the integration with other security functions and building management services.

The most basic form of electronic access control is a very simple domestic system intended to protect a locked but low security door, where a visitor can be interrogated at a local point by means of a simple intercom

At the further end of the scale are the intelligent computer based barrier and multi-door high security systems with remote surveillance and multiple users, with extra facilities for visitors.

The fore mentioned is usually classed as a door entry kit, but it still forms part of access control engineering. The latter system will involve the use of many readers, which personnel are checked as to their right to enter into a prescribed area, with all transactions logged on a database.

It follows that the electronic access control engineer must carry out diverse activities including installing mechanical locks and barriers and yet still be capable of programming systems.

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