Bosch has launched an update of its Building Integrated System (BIS) software. BIS 4.4 offers, for access control, central cardholder management.
Corporate security operators can centrally create, update, and delete cardholders and assign and withdraw authorisations. With BIS 4.4, the operator can centrally monitor all access events and alarms from every connected site, such as across the network of stations of an underground public transport system. It is also suitable the company says for energy and oil enterprises, which typically operate from geographically spread sites.
BIS 4.4 ensures that all multi-site cardholder information and access authorisations are created on a central server but also replicated on all connected site servers. This ensures that the same cardholder information is available in every location. All access events from connected sites are also replicated back to the central server for central monitoring.
BIS has a three-layer architecture. The purpose of the third layer, the Master Access Controller (MAC) is to manage scenarios across multiple Access Modular Controllers (AMCs) without the need for management software.
For resilience, BIS 4.4 further enhances this third layer with a redundant Master Access Control server, so that in the event of a host system failure, central security operation can continue. Also, in the unlikely event of a server failure, a redundant server can take over operations, communicating with all local AMCs. This ensures that authorized personnel have uninterrupted access in the event of a MAC failure, but also that centralized security personnel continue to maintain access control.
In the new software version, as all cardholder information and access authorisations are stored and maintained on a central server, and can be replicated to all connected local site servers, data is streamlined, eliminating the duplication of information ensuring optimal license requirement estimations, according to the product developers.
In addition to the 12 languages that the BIS user interface already supports, BIS 4.4 provides an Arabic Operator User Interface for users in the Middle East.
