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Access Control Overview
Gallagher caters for all levels of security from fully monitored access control for a critical infrastructure site to cost-effective wireless and data on card options for securing dormitories and lockers.
The Gallagher security platform monitors and controls authorised personnel and visitors on site via electronic card readers, RFIDs, fingerprint readers and keypads. The system provides automatic access control across multiple zones within a single site and multiple facilities.
With full control over where and when your staff, visitors and vehicles can move around at all times, the Gallagher system delivers beyond traditional access control (based on Who, Where and When) and also automates compliance with operational and regulatory policy (the What).
Access can be based on individual’s competencies such as safety induction and training, security clearances and regulatory compliance. Validity periods and competency expiry can be factored into the access decision.
The benefits of competency-based access management are:
• Automatic enforcement of business OH&S rules and policies
• Reduction in production stoppages due to non-compliant staff being in the wrong areas
• Tangible evidence of ‘duty of care’ to staff and customers
• Automatic compliance with government regulations.
Controller based decisions based on an individual’s competency are delivered via screen feedback on the door reader or display monitor. Once configured, all of this is achieved independent of Server and IT Network connectivity.
Card Production and Enrolment
With cardholder photo ID an increasing requirement for businesses focused on on-site security, the optional licensed feature of Gallagher Photo ID is the solution.
This integrated cardholder management tool is used to design and produce cardholders’ photo ID cards and features an extensive range of layout options, including importing of logos and images and incorporating barcodes and personal data.
It enables users to encode only or to print and encode simultaneously. It also provides the capability to encode magnetic stripe and MIFARE technology (MIFARE Classic, MIFARE Plus and DESFire) cards from within Gallagher Command Centre.
As it is totally integrated into the system, only one cardholder database is required.
Cardholder Management
Gallagher Command Centre has a cardholder database which retains and manages cardholders’ personal and access information including:
• Unlimited personal data fields for an employee’s ID number, department, location, email, a photo or signature
• Access groups to which the cardholder belongs
• Competencies such as training, licences, clearances or medical assessments which can be used to enrich access decisions
• Detailed information of card/s held such as card number, facility code, technology type, issue level, expiry date and time
• Notification filters determining the notifications the person receives
• Roles and relationships between cardholders, used to determine who receives card or competency expiry notification
• Biometric template information for fingerprint ID
• Notes.
Access Groups
Access Groups is a powerful and efficient cardholder management tool which divides cardholders into groups depending on criteria and determines access privileges. Group information can include:
• Where and when the group has access
• A list of members of the group
• Personal data fields for group members
• Whether group members are allowed to act as escorts for visitors
• Authorisation to arm and disarm alarm zones
• Whether group members can change the state of access zones.
Access groups are displayed as a tree, branches having more specific access. A cardholder may belong to one or more access groups to have full access privileges.
For example, there could be an ‘All Cardholders’ group for commonly required access – the entrance, cafeteria etc – but a cardholder has more specific access by being a member of another group such as ‘Head Office Managers’. Bulk changes can be easily applied to all members of a group.
Competency Based Access
Access can be based on individual’s competencies such as safety induction and training, security clearances and regulatory compliance. Validity periods and competency expiry can be factored into the access decision.
The benefits of competency-based access management are:
• Automatic enforcement of business OH&S rules and policies
• Reduction in production stoppages due to non-compliant staff being in the wrong areas
• Tangible evidence of ‘duty of care’ to staff and customers
• Automatic compliance with government regulations.
Controller based decisions based on an individual’s competency are delivered via screen feedback on the door reader or display monitor. Once configured, all of this is achieved independent of Server and IT Network connectivity.
Digital Intercom
The Gallagher Intelligent Door Terminal (IDT) features an integrated digital intercom to allow a visitor to contact the operator. The pressing of the F3 button on the reader generates a ‘call operator event’ which is logged by the system. The operator can then speak and listen to the visitor. The digital intercom can also be used as an alarm-monitoring tool.
Gallagher Challenge
Gallagher Challenge enables an Operator to double-check cardholders’ identities as they pass through a door by providing a visual comparison of the cardholder’s image from their record and their live image or one provided via video. Features include:
• Fully integrated with DVR/NVR systems
• An inbuilt screen designer allowing sites to select the specific information displayed to the Challenge Operator
• Allows flexible queue management of Challenge events across single or multiple workstations.
Notifications
The Gallagher Notifications feature, enables sending email or text messages to cardholders about events and alarms, as well as the imminent expiry of their cards or competencies (the pre-requisites for gaining access to a specific area or asset such as inductions, training, licences, insurances, drug and alcohol testing).
Individuals can subscribe to particular events of interest and schedule timings for notifications. Commonly used reports can also be automatically generated on a recurring schedule and emailed.
Four main areas are supported:
• Individual subscription to event or alarm messages as they occur
• Acknowledgement of alarms via return email or text message
• Notification of imminent card or competency expiries to an individual, their manager or others who require the information
• Emailing of reports to intended recipients.
Visitor Management
The Gallagher Command Centre seamlessly integrates visitor pre-registration and reception visitor management via its Visitor Management optional feature.
Managing visitor access is historically time-consuming, costly and error-prone, potentially compromising security. Receptionists who are reliant on logbook-based visitor management systems can become overloaded and miss vital steps when receiving a sudden influx of visitors. And while many computer-based visitor management systems have automated most tasks, their inability to integrate with a site’s existing security management system leaves potential security gaps.
Gallagher’s Visitor Management module is a highly configurable, secure and easy-to-use solution. It uses client-server architecture for the Gallagher system, allowing the Gallagher server to communicate with Visitor Management ‘smart’ clients via network services over TCP/IP.
Advantages of a network services-based architecture include:
• Improved client-server connectivity on modern corporate IT networks
• Easier connectivity through corporate firewalls
• One click client deployment: users can install the application via email containing a ‘one click’ URL
• Automatic application updates.
Wirefree Access Control: Aperio
System brand: Aperio (by ASSA ABLOY)
Integration name: Aperio
Interface software developed by: Gallagher
Gallagher software versions interfaced to: v6.02
Contact: Gallagher Business Development Manager
Available and supported: Worldwide
Industry applications: All
The high-level integration between Gallagher and Aperio online readers delivers cost-effective, electronic, wirefree access control. It’s an ideal alternative to keyed doors for customers that require some level of security but cannot justify the cost of a fully wired and monitored door, or customers who do not require door status monitoring or access mode changes.
Data on Card and Wirefree Access Control: SALTO
System brand: SALTO
Integration name: Data on Card and Wirefree Access Control
Software version: v8.3.1.84
Interface developed by: Gallagher
Gallagher software versions interfaced to: v5.21, 6.01, 6.10, 7.00
Contact: Gallagher Business Development Manager
Available and supported: Worldwide
Industry applications: All
SALTO offline readers, when integrated with Gallagher, offer cost-effective, electronic access control for doors that require some level of security but without either real-time monitoring or frequent access mode changes.
Biometric: Morpho
System brand: Morpho
Product name: Morpho
Interface developed by: Gallagher
Gallagher software versions interfaced to: v6.01, 6.10, 7.00
Contact: Gallagher Business Development Manager
Available and supported: Worldwide
Industry applications: All
The integration of Gallagher and Morpho fingerprint readers delivers a fully integrated biometric access control solution. The readers (including the new Morpho MA500+ range) offer seamless fingerprint enrolment and template management from within the Gallagher system user interface, reflecting immediate schedule and access group changes in the Gallagher system. Only the relevant fingerprint templates are sent to each reader, saving database space and cost.
For a complete solution, advanced Gallagher functionality, including Anti-passback, Duress Fingers, Dual Authorisation, Zone Counting, Interlocking Doors and Controlled Challenge, are available with Morpho readers.