Access Control System Responses to Incidents

In recent years, emergencies have occurred frequently, and the emergency handling of emergencies has directly affected the public safety and stability of the society. Therefore, more and more attention has been paid to the handling of emergencies.

As an important part of the security system, the access control system can play an active role for enterprises and institutions in preparing emergency plans and handling emergencies. Combined with the access control management functions, a brief introduction to these measures is provided for everyone.

First, police handling

Some emergencies can trigger various alarms in the access control system, such as forcibly entering a controlled channel. The handling of the police situation is an important part of the emergency plan. Amadeus5 security management platform can carry out the pre-programming process for the alarm events in the system. After the system receives the alarm information, it will pop up the electronic map in time according to the programming, call the relevant video, send an email or SMS to remind the staff on duty. On the alarm condition and disposal method, for the handling of the police situation, the on-duty personnel with the authority also need to record the detailed situation, and process confirmation.

Second, the regional population statistics

When a natural disaster occurs, such as a fire or an earthquake, managers need to quickly grasp the situation of personnel in the area in order to quickly carry out rescue work. The access control system with location status management function can quickly retrieve the number of people and lists in each area and generate reports with one click. It can even locate the last pass location of each person and provide decision-makers with valid basic data.

III. Crisis Level Management

Incidents such as thefts and employee conflicts can have a detrimental effect on jurisdiction. When an incident occurs, it is necessary to restrict the access rights of some channels and some cardholders (such as suspicious individuals). Selecting these cardholders in software and modifying permissions one by one are complicated and time consuming tasks. The company's access control system, using a unique "crisis level" management approach, can provide everyone with a fast and effective solution, the specific features are as follows:

When the user prepares an emergency plan, the cardholder's trust level can be divided into 8 levels. This level can be planned based on the nature of the employee's department, the nature of the work of the employee, or the credibility of the employee. When access permissions are set for employees, the access control system provides an additional “crisis level” configuration option that sets the employee’s crisis level according to the plan. Similarly, special crisis levels can be assigned to different channels.

In the event of an emergency, according to the nature of the incident in the plan, in the crisis-level quick operation interface provided by Amadeus5 management software, directly modify the corresponding crisis level value (0-7), and click download, the system will follow the new crisis The standard level operation, all pre-set cardholders below the current crisis level value will be temporarily restricted access, the relevant channels will be temporarily closed. According to the plan, after the event is disposed, the crisis level value is set back to the normal operation value in the quick operation interface of the system and downloaded, and the normal operation of the system can be resumed.

For example, temporary personnel may be set to a relatively low crisis level in the plan. When a theft occurs in the area, the crisis level of the access control system is raised above the crisis level of the temporary personnel. At this time, the temporary personnel's authority will be Restrictions can only stay in the corresponding area, and the management personnel are inspected for suspicion. After the matter is processed, the crisis level of the system is restored to normal, and all personnel resume traffic. By analogy, the level of crisis authority can be carefully divided.

Fourth, fire linkage

In addition to the need to limit the passage of people during emergencies, it is necessary to release the escape passages when the fire occurs, so that personnel can escape from the scene. Most of the escape routes are also the key to the control of the access control system to prevent unrelated personnel from entering the control area through the escape channel. Therefore, when a fire occurs, the control of escape routes is very important.

When the access control system targets a fire, the power supply to the access control system is generally used to open the door of the corresponding area. The regional design will be set according to the fire district and escape route. This linkage can be achieved through integration at the software level or by direct control of the access control power supply by the fire protection system.

Fire fighting linkage through access control management software is to link the fire fighting linkage signal to the alarm input point of the access control controller. The access control management software programs this input point to link the corresponding doors. When receiving the fire alarm, The software sends open-door instructions to the corresponding controller to implement the function. The advantage of software linkage is that it can accurately select the corresponding door to release, but because of the need to manage computer and communication participation, when the fire causes the communication line to fail, the linkage will not be able to be executed, which has certain risks.

The method of directly powering off the access control system through the fire linkage signal is more direct and effective, but the linkage point is inconvenient to set accurately, and at the same time, the power supply of the controller is cut off, and the control center also loses the monitoring of the front end state. The ideal solution is that the power supply of the access control system separates the electric lock from the control system (access controller and card reader) and divides the power supply according to the fire district accurately so that the fire signal can only cut off the power of the evacuation channel door lock. It will not shut down the entire access control system and maintain the management and monitoring functions of the access control system. The power supply of the access control system designed by using a two-way power supply provides the necessary conditions for this type of linkage.

Regardless of the method used to achieve fire-fighting linkage, it is recommended to install a glass broken emergency escape button on the inside of the escape direction. The function of this button is that when the escape personnel reach the evacuation channel, the fire-fighting linkage has not been implemented because the fire caused the card reading. And press the button to open the door can not open the door lock, press the broken glass broken button, forcibly manually power off the lock to achieve the purpose of escape. At the same time, it is also necessary to provide sound and light prompt information in the fire exit channel. In case of fire or smoke, the escape route may be indicated.

For an electronically controlled lock with a power-off lock applied, a manual door-opening knob needs to be configured, and the installation height must satisfy the requirement that the person stands can directly operate.

Fifth, server and database backup

For important industry users, such as financial institutions, research institutes and group companies, a large-scale network access control system has been gradually established. The scope of management covers the whole province and even the whole country. The system data is very large and important. The software service operation is not hopeful because of some disasters. The interruption of the event, backup of the access control system server and database, especially off-site backup, is very important.

The access control management software supporting the dual-system hot backup and database remote storage can flexibly set the storage location of the software server and the database server according to the user's plan for information security, such as the bank user, the main server and the backup. The servers are located in data centers in different regions. When an earthquake or other disaster occurs, the data center in one place is running. The server installed in the backup data center can take over the management of the system at any time. In addition, automatic backup of the database can be based on customer needs, the database will be a complete backup to the designated server as a backup.

6. Access Control System Server and Database Backup

In summary, the access control system provides a variety of means for handling emergencies, but it also requires further exploration and application of functions in the design, construction and implementation of the system plan, as well as in operational use, so that it can be produced by the user. Play the biggest role in business.