Integration of multivendor ACS
The solution combines several access control systems (ACS) operating simultaneously.

This solution is for You if it is necessary:

  • To use multivendor systems, achieving goals most accurately and at minimum cost.
  • To add a united electronic system of passes registration to multivendor ACS.
  • To reduce pass issuance time by creating a united database and by removing data duplication in several systems.
  • To provide the administrator, badge room’s specialist and monitoring operators at the local and central guard posts with a united interface to work with the program.
  • To draw reports simultaneously on the basis of all ACS’s event journals.
The advantages of the solution
  • Monitoring and management of multivendor ACS from a united software interface of the operator.
  • Multivendor ACS’s controllers’ configuration from a united administrator software interface.
  • Integration of videosurveillance system simultaneously with all multivendor ACS.
  • Software development of other systems’ reactions to ACS events and ACS’s reactions to events of other systems.
  • Creating reports throughout the ACS, including automatically scheduled e-mail reports.
    • The characteristics of the solution
      Multivendor ACS integration can be carried out in two ways:
    • ACS controllers’ integration via the lower-level protocol.
    • ACS system integration via software.
      Comparison of variants:

    Capabilities

    Variant 1: integration of ACS controllers

    Variant 2: integration of ACS at the software level

    Ap setting from the integrated system’s interface

    Yes

    No, "native" software is used to configure ACS controllers.

    Eliminating data synchronization problems

    Yes, a united database is used

    No, synchronization problems are possible. ACS works with its database, which is synchronized automatically with the database of the integrated system

    Creating, activating and deactivating passes from the interface of the badge room’s integrated system

    Yes

    Yes

    Rights assignment to passes from the interface of the integrated system

    Yes, the rights and time zones are also created in the integrating software automatically

    Yes, the rights and time zones are created in the "native" software, which are compared with the rights of the integrating software

    Possibility to use electronic system of order and approval of passes

    Yes

    Yes

    Monitoring and management using native ACS software interface

    Native software is not used

    Yes, this possibility exists

    Monitoring and management using the integrating software interface

    Yes

    Yes

    Software development of other systems’ reactions to ACS events and ACS’s reactions to events of other systems

    Yes

    Yes

    Creating reports
    throughout the ACS

    Yes

    Yes