An industrial access control system is designed, installed and serviced in compliance with the applicable EN 60839-11-2 and EN 60839-11-1 standards.
The adoption in the company of an electronic access control system may provide an effective prevention and protection measure. In fact, there are many cases in which an accurate and secure control and monitoring of accesses and exits allows risks to be mitigated and specific legal provisions to be complied with.
Typically, in the industry and logistics sectors, numerous authorizations are required to access the various areas, such as design, production, administration, human resources, and IT departments. These may also have further specific needs:
- Use of a unique “key” support for all accesses
- Reduce complex and anachronistic replacements of cylinders and uncontrolled key copies
- Authorize only enabled employees to access certain areas
- Manage complex hierarchies and multiple competencies
- Protect high-safety level areas, such as design laboratories, executive floors, data centers
- Manage temporary accesses for visitors, auxiliary staff, external staff in general (e.g. cleaning staff)
- Problematic restructuring of specific areas/buildings (difficult wiring)
- Existence of other organizational systems, e.g. those for the collection of working times and canteen data
- Need to integrate/interconnect various sites located in the national territory, but also abroad, virtually without geographical limits
The technology used includes several new-generation identification devices, such as:
- Access PINs
- Badge\Tags
- Smart Cards
- License plate recognition systems (LPR)
- Biometric systems
- RFID identification systems
- QCode
- Indoor/outdoor bars and turnstiles
In this context, an access control solution also becomes an important source of additional information, concerning, for example, the occupancy of the building, which helps optimizing consumption and automatically activate security procedures and systems.
Access control systems can be combined with a presence detection service, an electronic system that detects the presence of employees in order to manage all the data related to their payroll, which replaces the traditional time and attendance management system.
Presence detection substantially uses the same access control devices used for the recognition of persons; however, their aim is not to activate systems for the release of physical barriers, but to record the name of the individual and the start and end time of his/her work activity.
