They get a lot more benefits than individual staff member or hotel guest. The benefits appear in all stages of the lifespan of the locking system. It is not that Compucon favours owners or management than users. It is just the nature of scale. System owners and managers will get training from Compucon before, during and after project implementation.
The initial allocation of cards to locks for users is a big job depending on the number of the 3 parameters (cards, locks, users).
The on-going maintenance of the use of the system would be efficient and fast when replacements are required or when there are changes of any one parameter.
A log of locking and unlocking events will be kept and the manager can track back the sequence of events if needed.
A snapshot of the person unlocking a door can be saved to the event log. This extra info may reveal that a card was used by another person instead of the registered owner if this info is useful at all.
Alarm will be raised if any usage conditions by people or system health conditions have breached prescribed states.
The system can be used for recording the time of attendance of a staff member in the office or factory.
A duress alarm will be raised to the building supervisor if a user is under pressure to let another person enter the building with him at the same time- he or she will enter a special PIN which is the Duress code of the building or office.
The RFID system allows one access card to open a multitude of door locks and this is an executable decision to be made by the system owner. For multiple persons such as a large business with 150 staff members, the system owner decides who gets access to which doors and these decisions can be easily implemented with the help of a supervisor software package associated with the locks and keys.
In theory, there is not an upper limit of the number of locks that can be supervised by one system. In practice, software licenses come into the picture. At the other end of the complexity spectrum, a software package would not be needed and the allocation of locks and keys for people can be assigned on a per lock basis.
The RFID system allows one access card to open a multitude of door locks and this is an executable decision to be made by the system owner. For multiple persons such as a large business with 150 staff members, the system owner decides who gets access to which doors and these decisions can be easily implemented with the help of a supervisor software package associated with the locks and keys.
In theory, there is not an upper limit of the number of locks that can be supervised by one system. In practice, software licenses come into the picture. At the other end of the complexity spectrum, a software package would not be needed and the allocation of locks and keys for people can be assigned on a per lock basis.
In the event of fire or electricity cut, all magnetic or electric controllable locks would be released (returned to the open state). For a hotel of 300 rooms, all guests can safely get out of their room and the hotel building. Hotel staff can go into rooms allocated to senior citizens or people with disability. Without such fail-safe feature, hotel staff would have to manually unlock all 300 rooms.
It would be desirable for an audible siren to be turned on in case all door locks are released automatically in the background. A fire would be accompanied by an alarm anyway. What about electricity cuts? The siren would have to be battery-powered. Similarly, the locks should run on standby power in case of electricity loss.
There are locks that are designed to be fail-secured for installing in data or money safes for instances. This is a major decision with fatal consequences if not properly decided and executed. This is a Compucon system design philosophy. Do not assume that all locking systems are the same.
In the event of fire or electricity cut, all magnetic or electric controllable locks would be released (returned to the open state). For a hotel of 300 rooms, all guests can safely get out of their room and the hotel building. Hotel staff can go into rooms allocated to senior citizens or people with disability. Without such fail-safe feature, hotel staff would have to manually unlock all 300 rooms.
It would be desirable for an audible siren to be turned on in case all door locks are released automatically in the background. A fire would be accompanied by an alarm anyway. What about electricity cuts? The siren would have to be battery-powered. Similarly, the locks should run on standby power in case of electricity loss.
There are locks that are designed to be fail-secured for installing in data or money safes for instances. This is a major decision with fatal consequences if not properly decided and executed. This is a Compucon system design philosophy. Do not assume that all locking systems are the same.
