Managing Access Control For 3 Locations With A Single Interface?

We have client that has 3 buildings, one with 6 doors, and two remote buildings with 1 door each. The remote buildings each have their own DSL service. Existing access control is an old DSC system. The desire is to have a single interface to manage all three. We have reached out to several manufactures and have yet to get a response(frustrating). Do most modern systems have the capability to manage multiple sites as if they are one?

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Steven Ballard

IPVMU Certified

Brivo OnAir should work well for you. Paxton will also work for that application. I can suggest a parts list if you need.

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

In reply to Steven Ballard

Brivo is a subscription based? I have seen some very positive reviews on Paxton. I am all ears...

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Steven Ballard

IPVMU Certified

Brivo OnAir is subscription based as well as Paxton. Brivo has stand alone panels but your customer will appreciate the subscription based services. Isonas that was recomended is also subscription based. The cloud or subscription based systems allow you to complete as you described without having a local server and software.

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Undisclosed Integrator #2

Take a look at ICT Protege WX or GX.

We have GX working with multiple clients at multiple buildings. I managed to get WX working on multiple sites, but it's a little more cumbersome to achieve the desired results.

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

In reply to Undisclosed Integrator #2

I was initially looking at ICT as the "modular" equipment for access and security is a compelling approach. I have made multiple attempts at contacting ICT with no real response, so I look at that as a warning sign. If getting the WX version to do what we need is in fact cumbersome, then that product is basically off the list.

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Undisclosed Integrator #2

That's really unfortunate. If you are in Canada or the USA, you can reach out to Inaxsys (http://inaxsys.com) and see if they can help you.

Mark McCrae, one of the owners of Inaxsys, is on this forum and should hopefully chime in if he see this.

Also, WX is not subscription based. The web interface is on the controller itself.

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Clint Hays

Use Isonas. It will be extremely easy and the entire interface is done through a web browser, so the end user can manage it from anywhere.

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

In reply to Clint Hays

I will take a look at Isonas. Are you saying that the end user could actually login to a single interface and manage all 3 sites as if they were 1 or something like that?

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Clint Hays

Yes. Reach out to Isonas and talk to their team, but each reader-controller can connect to the cloud individually and share a database. You don't have to have the devices installed at the same physical location.

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Paul DiPeso

Feenics is a cloud-based access control solution, and is designed to run multiple locations out of one instance/headend software.

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Undisclosed End User #3

Unless things have significantly changed in the last year, Isonas is garbage. Currently spending a lot of time and money to shed the nightmare that is RC-03 and their IP Bridge controller. I haven't messed with their cloud solution but with as painfully unstable as the reader-controllers are, i wouldn't dare try it without an on-prem backup to wipe and reload.

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Daniel S-T

I think just about any system has this ability. I think the hardest part may be making sure the customer is paying for a static IP at the remote sites.

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Paul DiPeso

Actually, any of the true cloud-based systems (i.e. Brivo, BluB0x, Feenics) use IP client (an outbound port) and DNS service, so no static IP needed.

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

All 3 buildings have static IP’s. Client not interested in a subscription based service. I would think there must be a way to do this?

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Undisclosed Integrator #4

Where is your project located?

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Oregon

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You could use the Isonas RC-04 PureAccess readers along with an on-premise software made by Blue Access called Cobalt. they have a hosted version of Cobalt as well, but if you want an on-premise solution, this is a pretty easy system to program and use and the RC-04 readers are readily scalable for the size system you describe, especially the single door sites.

www.blueaccesstech.com

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Michael Miller

You have lots of options. We would use Avigilon or ICT.

With Avigilon you install a networked mercury controller at each site which would connect back to your ACM manager which would allow you to control all sites in one interface.

If your going to use ICT this would be more of a GX solution then WX. With GX you install a GX controller at each site and network them back to a server running the GX software.

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In reply to Michael Miller

There is a WX-compatible PCB with built-in Ethernet (PRT-RDE2-PCB). It can do everything a controller can in terms of credentials, independent operation, etc. It cannot be a controller, that's the only drawback.

We managed to network a system with the WX over static IPs just fine. The problem comes in with the firewall restrictions.

The annoying part with GX is the need for a server. Otherwise, I would use GX in every install.

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Undisclosed Integrator #1

•Oct 16, 2018

In this case would you need a single door controller and the PRT-RDE2-PCB at each of the remote locations?

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Undisclosed Integrator #2

•Oct 17, 2018