Convergent Systems

In a typical work or enterprise environment, there are selected areas that have restricted access. For example, payroll may have confidential records that should be protected from prying eyes. In other cases, some employees may need off-hours access to your facilities on certain occasions. What happens when an employee leaves? Do you change all the locks or codes? Access control simplifies these environments.

It is an interlocked system designed for a specific environment - a business, a school, an office building, a storage facility, a manufacturing plant. It may simply prevent access, but more often it means detecting unapproved access and reporting intrusion in a timely manner, so that a specific and pre-defined action can take place. This could be as simple as notifying police when your facility has been broken into. It could also mean that you protect employees from unwanted entry in a not-so-friendly neighborhood.

In many cases, CCTV systems are used to view and record activity at specific entrances so that illegal intrusions can be recorded and viewed at a later time. This is the common scenario often seen on TV, where an illegal entrance is captured on video and the police track down the perpetrator. In reality, the physical presence of a camera is often a deterrent by itself.