The access control manufacturer PAC has announced new versions of its Access Central and EasiNet Residential software management platforms. With these upgrades to both systems, PAC says that it has introduced a range of features that will enable commercial and residential premises to maintain high levels of occupant safety as lockdown begins to ease.
Pete England, PAC’s global product manager said: ‘Access control technology has a significant role to play in helping to protect building occupants from infection, alongside its ability to configure smart and reliable strategies to help alleviate anxiety, enhance confidence and maintain regulatory compliance. Over the last year we have been working hard to leverage the power of our technology. As a result, Access Central v5.3 has been designed to help limit person to person contact, control occupancy levels, reduce surface touches and swiftly initiate contact tracing procedures.’
Designed primarily for the commercial, educational and healthcare sectors, Access Central acts as a central resource for key-holder records and access privileges, with the ability to set preconfigured alarms, track activities and maintain an audit trail. Access Central v5.3 now has more occupancy management features including managed entrance, occupancy tracking and global anti-passback for tracing of key-holders. This will help make sure occupants adhere to designated one-way flow systems through buildings and do not over-populate specific areas. A key-holder’s access privileges can be temporarily disabled if they do not read out when exiting an area.
As for building management and security features, Access Central v5.3 also offers a guard tour that configures set routes around a building for security officers. Using pre-configured parameters, automated event notifications send PC pop-up notifications when occupancy limits are reached and/or exceeded, restrict entry and provide a live display of the number of people in an area. This can form part of a broader health and safety policy, for example, temperature and mask checks or use of sanitisation stations, and can be used to configure a ‘traffic light’ system, while time periods are configurable to enable one or multiple managed entrances per day.
Similarly, EasiNet Residential v5.3, combines security access control with key-holder configuration and management, which can be supported through PAC’s secure Residential Cloud. EasiNet Residential v5.3 enables expansion into building management systems through the use of PAC input/output controllers to allow third-party equipment integration, for building services such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems to be centrally managed. Lift control means that keyholders are only assigned access to specific floors, to maintain social distancing. These features can all be managed via Control Centre – PAC’s new ‘single pane of glass’ management tool for operators.
For the consolidating of CCTV and access control, both Access Central v5.3 and EasiNet Residential v5.3 offer options for 3xLOGIC VIGIL integration. Cameras can be directly configured and monitored through the software, with access to VIGIL’s business intelligence capabilities achieved via integration with a VIGIL server. As such video verification through CCTV actions can be captured through pre-sets that, for instance, move a pan, tilt, zoom camera as an event is taking place.
PAC’s Pete England added: “As people emerge from their homes and begin to return to their workplaces, building safety and security needs to be rethought, reconfigured and adapted to meet a complex set of challenges. Access control technology must be used in smarter ways than ever before to help protect building occupants and achieving this objective is now possible thanks to Access Central v5.3 and EasiNet Residential v5.3.”
PAC will be hosting two webinars for the commercial and residential markets. For more details visit http://ow.ly/Joxj50E2wsX.
