The first reference site is a retrofit situation for an old building in a light industrial zone in Auckland. The building has been equipped with traditional door locks and a traditional alarm system since day one. Compucon installed modern IP-based access control equipment including RFID card readers, supervisory management software, and remote control facilities recently and successfully. Since the building has operated for well over 20 years, everything existing there worked. Therefore the new system must do better than the traditional system, and the expectation of the clients from the new IP system is high.

A special feature of this project was that Compucon was able to re-use whatever existing resources in the building such as cabling and a PC-based server for the new system. At the same time, attention was paid to various usage concerns which the clients expressed. It has been a productive consulting process.

In order for the building users to have time to adjust to the new IP locking system, Compucon installed a special switch in the building to allow: (a) traditional locks only in operation, (b) IP locks only in operation, and (c) both in operation giving extra-strong protection. Option C is not really necessary for long term operation but it is there for the clients to take time to accept the IP locks. The clients will make their own decisions of when to shift to the IP locks to enjoy the benefits they provide for the price paid. Please see Merits of Compucon Access Control Systems.

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