Introduction

When designing a networked access control solution, it is important to consider first the purpose or design brief.   We work in partnership with you to write a statement of requirements or design brief and in-turn get this approved by leading manufacturers

Access rights

We can import any existing database and assist with giving access rights to the right people and the right time.  We offer completely managed services with our revolutionary remote access bureau service to add users remotely and issues cards and assign access rights and privileges.

Network

When thinking about the needs of both new build and upgrade projects, it is quite important to factor in longer term ongoing maintenance and flexibility factors. A good system will give you a choice of platforms and let you mix and match between them ideally. For example, you could configure the system in three typical ways ideally:

– LON (Local Operating Network).
– IP (Local Area Network).
– Or a combination of both

Whichever route you take, it is important that standard contemporary wiring is employed to future proof the purchase decision. Either way, since IP cabling represents the direction in which almost all new installations are wired these days, you’ll be totally assured that your choice of system will ultimately future-proof your organisation and mitigate many of the inherent risks of potentially unexpected costs in the future.

Extending the system

Whether or not you’re considering extending the system for commonly requested add-ons such as panic buttons and ID badges with call buttons, you should also consider what else you’d want the system to be capable of – from speech to asset tagging, staff location, man down features and then right through to the ability to extract powerful historic reports of user activity for audit trail purposes.

Backwards Compatibility

We have seen many systems out there that are literally only a few years old where the owners are being asked to upgrade the whole system. That is crazy. One of the first questions you should ask a potential partner for such solutions is what is the backwards compatibility policy of the manufacturing company and how far does it go back in time? A good company would be able to upgrade a system without requiring a whole rewire of the system for systems going back at least twenty years or so.

If you fail to ask this fundamental question – it could end up being a costly mistake in lifecycle terms.