Area configuration tabs - Security Center 5.12

Adding a door to the area automatically sets the Access control option to ON and makes it read-only. If you only configure elevators for the area, the option is automatically set to ON, but can still be turned off.

Access rules

Add access rules to grant or deny access to the area to cardholders and cardholder groups based on a schedule.

Cardholders

Add cardholders and cardholder groups to define who has access to the area at all times.

NOTE: Only grant access directly to cardholders for temporary situations or exceptions. If a group of cardholders should be allowed to access the area at all times as a regular setup, define an access rule with the Always schedule.

Status

Turn the antipassback feature on or off.

Schedule

Select Always if you want antipassback to be applied at all times.

Type

Type of antipassback to apply.

Soft

Soft antipassback only logs the passback events in the database. It does not restrict the door from being unlocked due to the passback event.

Hard

Hard antipassback logs the passback event in the database and prevents the door from being unlocked due to the passback event.

Presence timeout

Set how many minutes a cardholder’s presence in the area is remembered for the purpose of passback detection (not used for counting people). Past that period, a cardholder who never left the area can re-enter without triggering a passback event. The default value of zero (0) minutes means that a cardholder's presence never times out.

NOTE: When global antipassback is enabled, the presence of a cardholder in an area is forgotten after seven days if no entry or exit from this area is reported for that cardholder during that period. This means that cardholders can re-enter an area that they never left, or leave an area they never entered, without triggering a passback event if no movement was registered for these cardholders on that area for seven days. This applies even if the Presence timeout is set to infinite (=0).

Strict

Turn on this option to generate passback events for both types of access violations: when cardholders try to re-enter an area that they never left, and when cardholders try to exit an area that they never entered. Otherwise, the default is turn it off and antipassback logic is only verified on area entrances, and passback events are only generated when cardholders try to re-enter an area that they never left.

Best Practice: If you choose to enable strict and hard antipassback on an area that is not controlled with turnstiles or similar devices that only allow one person through at a time, grant the Forgive antipassback violation privilege to the operators responsible for monitoring this area.

NOTE: With strict antipassback turned off, you can have Card-In/REX-out perimeter doors, but the Presence timeout parameter must be configured (> 0). With strict antipassback turned on, all perimeter doors must be configured as Card-In/Card-Out, Presence timeout must be set to infinite (= 0), and no REX can be configured.

Status

Set it to ON to enable the max occupancy feature. Enabling a Max occupancy limit on an area generates the following events:

• Max occupancy reached when the area reaches the configured limit. This event sends the area into a warning state.
• Max occupancy exceeded when additional cardholders enter the area.
• Below max occupancy when the number of occupants drops below the configured limit.

Type

Select from the following:

• Hard: When the max occupancy limit is reached, it will deny the next access request on the area's perimeter door.
• Soft: Will not deny subsequent access requests.

Max occupancy limit

Enter the number of people the area can hold before triggering the limit.

NOTE: Cardholders with the Bypass antipassback rules option active are granted access even if the area's occupancy limit is reached or exceeded.

Status

Turn the interlock feature on or off. When this feature is on, only one perimeter door of the area can be open at any given time. To open a door, all others must be closed.

Priority

When both the override and lockdown inputs are configured, select which one has priority when both inputs are active.

Override

Select the input that is wired to the override key switch or flip switch. When the switch in on, the interlock feature is disabled.

Lockdown

Select the input that is wired to the lockdown key switch or flip switch. When the switch is on, all perimeter doors remain locked until the switch is back to its normal position.

Enforce on door unlock schedules

Set to ON to ignore all door unlock schedules until a supervisor is granted access to the area. The first-person-in rule has no effect on elevator unlock schedules.

Enforce on access rules

Set to ON to ignore access rules until a supervisor is present in the area. You specify when the first-person-in rule applies with a schedule.

Supervisors

List of cardholders who can act as area supervisors.

Exemption list

List of cardholders who continue to follow the access rules even when the first-person-in rule is in effect.

Enforce visitor escort rule

Set to ON to require the host to present their credential after the visitor, if the visitor has a mandatory host assigned.