Essential Install | Security
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Biometrics are on
the rise via platforms
such as Invixium
Select cameras from the range incorporate Intelligent
Video Software (IVS) with functions such as tripwire, scene
change, object removal/abandonment, facial detection
and auto-tracking, which enable automatic detection
under rulemaking. The installer just needs to define the
target and the trigger (recording, alarm, email alert) in
the software. These smart functions provide the integrator
with more precise video analysis capabilities, making
surveillance easier and more efficient, says the supplier.
For control and integration, Dahua’s DMSS smart
phone and tablet Apps for Apple iOS and Android
devices allow multi-site accessibility across all devices.
They support live view, retrieve playback and control
devices via smart phone or tablet. In addition, Dahua
Technology offers integration with third-party control
systems including Control4, Compass, RTI, Enado, AMX,
Crestron and Savant.
Pro-Vision distribution provides access to several
key brand including Videx, the door entry experts.
The manufacturer has recently enhanced its vandalresistant door panel range by including a new selection
of proximity, fingerprint and coded access readers.
These enhancements mean door systems can include
a sophisticated access control solution which can be
managed centrally by those responsible for building
management in residential areas and commercial spaces.
Users have a choice of access control technologies whether that’s fingerprint access, proximity access (both
Mifare and EM technologies) or coded access. It also
enables integration with other access control doors that
do not require intercom, but need to be managed as one
with the intercom system. The readers provide their own
unique benefits to the door panel range. For example,
there are proximity readers available for Mifare and
EM technology cards and fobs as well as a fingerprint
reader and a back lit coded access keypad. The proximity
readers and fingerprint readers have a tri-colour halo
illumination to indicate a ready state (amber), access
granted (green) and access denied (red). All readers have
an industry standard Wiegand output so they can be
connected to the Videx Portal Plus access control system
or any third-party access control systems supporting the
Wiegand protocol.
RGB Communications is another supplier offering
access to biometric entry systems, this time via Invixium
Merge fingerprint readers. With Invixium Merge
fingerprint readers a key is no longer necessary for
controlling access to a home, or individual rooms.
Multiple fingerprints can be stored, so each resident
no longer needs to remember keys, fobs, cards, PIN
codes or smartphones. Fingerprints that don’t match,
or are outside of scheduled access periods are refused
entry. Rather than being a barrier to one time or
occasional users, RGB says that in fact temporary or onetime authorisations are stand-out benefits of biometric
access control.
The distributor says that it is important to understand
that the Invixum Merge is not itself a physical door lock,
but rather a secure way of operating conventional and
electro-mechanical door-strikes. So, if necessary, a door
can always have a conventional lock and key as well as
biometric access.
The Merge is a compact and vandal resistant
IP device that uses Android based touch screen
technology, capable of integration with Savant, Control4
and others using the included free drivers. Users can
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