Professional facility management system.
There is no need to remind that integration is a qualitatively new leap in the construction of security systems and facility management. The unification of security systems at the software and hardware level allows:
to minimize capital costs for equipping the facility by reducing the hardware and software;
to reduce the amount of information received by the operator and make it more visual;
to automate decision-making for typical situations;
to significantly reduce the likelihood of erroneous operator actions;
increase the system's protection from external influences, resistance to destruction;
increase labor and technological discipline, thereby reducing production costs;
improve the quality of work of the accounting department, timekeepers, etc. by integrating the security system with virtually any existing management system at the enterprise.
The main advantage of an integrated (multiservice) security system is that all subsystems are interconnected and in response to an event in one subsystem, a corresponding action occurs in another. You can set the required scenarios of response of any complexity to various events. At the same time, there are no restrictions on the description of the interaction logic. Another advantage of an integrated system is the unification of multi-purpose engineering subsystems based on equipment from different manufacturers. This approach allows you to create projects for each customer individually, taking into account all their needs and capabilities. With the initially embedded principle of multitasking components and their interaction in a single Ethernet environment, all systems operate in a single controlled complex at once! The system has a kind of distributed intelligence that allows you to identify potentially dangerous situations and attract the operator's attention to them. This ensures effective protection, minimizes the influence of the human factor and reduces the costs of implementing and operating equipment. Such a system has every right to be called an automated facility management system.
Automated, since it is impossible to do without human participation. And indeed, at a large facility where a security and fire alarm system, video surveillance, access control and management systems, notification, fire extinguishing, power supply, ventilation and air conditioning are installed, the security guard perceives and analyzes a lot of information. It is for a timely and error-free response that a computerized system is needed that collects data from all information systems into a single whole and presents it in graphic form, in the form of specific recommendations in which
possible scenarios for working on reactions, etc. are laid down in advance.
The principle of building an ACS based on the use of industrial controllers with a serial interface and an Ethernet network adapter acting as segment controllers (SC) of the entire ACS provides advantages in managing the entire complex from operator workstations. The presence of access rights with simultaneous autonomy of individual parts of the ACS allows maintaining the operability of subsystems in the event of a malicious disruption of communication with the entire complex. An object controller (OC) can be used as an end system.
Let's summarize. Whatever one may say, integrated (multiservice) security systems are an expensive solution. And it is available, and necessary, to medium, large or especially important facilities, which may include banks, factories, and cottage villages. In any case, it is worth paying attention to a manufacturer that meets the needs of customers by providing the opportunity to gradually expand the system, stretching the costs of purchasing individual modules. In addition, it is possible to integrate equipment already available at the facility. However, solving the same problems in other ways can be much more expensive.