Combining security and building management gives an additional layer of information and operational capabilities. A growing number of network-based solutions will increase the benefits of building management systems and security integration.
There are some hospitals which are called ‘digital hospital’. Robots travel the hospital, deliver supplies from storage rooms to the wards and clear waste. However, unlike human employees, these robots can't swipe an access card or press an elevator button. Technology came up with a solution: The robots are guided by the hospital's building management system (BMS) which is linked to our access control system. The access control system is in charge of opening the doors when a robot approaches, and operating the elevators to take the robots to the right floor. This is an example of how integrating security systems with BMS can add an additional layer of information and management capabilities to answer both security and operational needs.
The main products integrated with BMS include access control systems (including readers, cards, controllers, and software used to create, manage, and use secure identities) and visitor management systems.
Access control and video surveillance are the two systems integrated the most. Video is a valuable tool when combined with access control data, as it provides visual verification of alarms and a variety of access control events. The correlation of the data from these two systems also allows for an additional level of situational awareness.
Currently, most systems are just integrated but not really smart. Using big data analytics, we can use security devices, which collect the data and have daily interaction with people to predict situations and automate intelligent decisions. This is very different from current solutions that are very rigid and mostly ignore human inhabitants for the sole sake of efficiency and energy saving.
IP Integration
Most companies and institutions today have installed a variety of generally disparate and isolated systems, ranging from security, access control, and video surveillance to incident response, perimeter detection, and alarm monitoring. Although these systems typically cannot easily share information, if at all, there are natural synergies between each of them. IP-based solutions make it easier to integrate the information and provide the opportunity for a single new system that can be much greater than the sum of its individual, disparate parts.
Integrating access control with BMS on a single network delivers better facility management. Today's IP-based access control systems enable facility managers to bring intelligence to each door for streamlined system monitoring, management, and reporting via standard web browsers.
Source: asmag Magazine