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Value proposition
Challenges
Securing your people and assets is mission critical to the success of any organisation. Businesses need to comply with security regulations, reduce risk, mitigate liability, protect revenue streams, and reduce operating costs and insurance premiums.
Solution in brief
With wide ranging building management integration and interfaces at all levels of our systems, Schneider Electric offers some of the most comprehensive security solutions on the market. And thanks to our scalable architecture, and secure yet open networks, the system can be cost effectively expanded as needed. The scalable Schneider Electric Security Domain architecture permits a simple one- or two-door access control system to be expanded to an enterprise-wide, multi-site integrated security management system with millions of doors, cameras, fire alarm points and intrusion detection sensors.
The Schneider Electric security management system goes well beyond traditional security systems in its integrated approach. By combining everything from video monitoring to access control, intrusion detection, fire safety, and emergency lighting, we deliver a more comprehensive view of your security landscape. For example, you can create reports for any event, with details down to the exact access point, so you can troubleshoot security breaches more effectively, or you can recognize and correct faulty equipment more rapidly than before. You can also connect security systems with personnel information and recorded video, so you know exactly who accessed what areas and when.
Value Proposition
• A single user-friendly dashboard decreases training time. Security personnel can rapidly learn to understand and operate the multiple security systems that are represented on this interface.
• A shared infrastructure lowers installation and expansion costs and provides the platform for integrating not only security systems, but also other building management systems.
• Integration enables security components to serve more than one function. A motion sensor that detects intrusion during unoccupied hours also can save energy by controlling lighting and temperature based on occupancy status.
• An integrated system delivers highly effective security coverage, and efficiency and effectiveness in meeting customers' needs.
• The security team has actionable information in the form of an audit trail that aids in proof of loss and ultimately in prosecution. The audit trail includes video records that law enforcement personnel may employ in visually identifying perpetrators.
• Solutions are vendor-agnostic. Therefore, customers have a choice in the selection of the best-in-class security products that comprise their solutions..
• Our integrated systems are delivered by one vendor, Schneider Electric. The company holds single-source responsibility for the entire system.
Architecture
This is a sample architecture showing integrated security using an Andover Continuum system. We also offer integrated security solutions based on our TAC Vista system.
Main characteristics
ACCESS CONTROL
The Andover Continuum access control solution blends proven experience in access control with the latest technology to bring you a feature-rich solution. Our access control systems are designed from the ground up to meet the most stringent security requirements and government regulations. They are easy to network with Ethernet support, and they provide encryption and authentication to enable tamper-proof communications between controllers and Andover Continuum workstations.
Easily control access points such as:
• Doors
• Gates
• Parking garages
• Elevators
• Production areas
Personnel Records can be entered and badges printed from the same workstation that graphically monitors the site, downloads access rights, and receives alarms and events for instant response and long term storage.
The Andover Continuum access control hardware is available in two form factors:
• Access Controllers: These multi-reader controllers store their own personnel records and have their own CPU to make access control decisions. Ranging from 4 to 8 reader models, Access Controllers communicate via the Ethernet to offer a high-performance, high-reliability solution for access control.
• Access Control I/O Module System: Add only the readers, supervised inputs and digital outputs that are required. The modules share a common CPU module and may be mounted locally or remotely from the CPU. Each module in the AC-1 series is designed with a single reader input and a variety of supervised inputs and digital outputs. Other I/O modules are available to provide intrusion points or digital alarm outputs.
VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
Schneider Electric offers a full suite of solutions for video management and analysis. You can view live or recorded video on-demand for any alarm or event. To quickly pinpoint potential security breaches and significant events, our video content analysis software provides real-time alarm and forensic tools for tracking events, thus eliminating the need for constant monitoring.
As a part of an integrated security network, our video management systems offer powerful benefits such as:
• Link multiple cameras per alarm or point for automatic display
• View live or recorded video on-demand for any alarm or event
• Easily store, search and control digital recordings on hard disk
• View every area effectively with pan-tilt-zoom controls
• Enjoy easy connectivity thanks to IP support
Schneider Electric, through its Pelco by Schneider Electric brand of video security systems, offers a wide array of industry-leading technologies that provide some of the most advanced video security solutions available. Typical systems include, but are not limited to:
• Video Security Cameras: From standard-definition analog cameras to HD, PTZ, Thermal Imaging and Specialty surveillance systems, Schneider Electric offers a broad selection of cameras, ideally suited for a variety of applications. Specifically designed for security deployments, the development of these cameras incorporates the latest advances in imaging science to deliver the detailed video images that today's installations demand.
• Recorders & Video Management: Capturing the video is the first step. Having the ability to manage, record and archive it is the next. From Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) for purely analog installations and Hybrid Video Recorders (HVRs) for combined analog/IP deployments to Network Video Recorders (NVRs) and Software-Only Management Systems, tailored solutions are available to meet the wide array of needs in the marketplace.
• Analytics: Behavioral and Pattern Analysis; Motion Detection; Object Tracking. These are just some of the many analytics that can be applied to video security to provide additional information for security personnel. The end result is the ability to extend the reach of and to maximize your video security investment.
INTRUSION DETECTION
The Schneider Electric security management system integrates easily with most burglar alarm panels via serial interfaces. The integration allows users to monitor intrusion alarms, arm and disarm security zones, create reports, and graphically view security incidents at workstations. Intrusion events can be configured to trigger automatic responses. For example, a glass-break alarm or motion detector can cause a camera to pan, tilt and zoom to a preset alarm zone, while the live and recorded video feeds pop-up on the remote workstation. Through this integration, an access control card reader can be used to simultaneously unlock entry doors and disarm the alarm when a valid credential is presented.
Example of intrusion detection components are:
• Motion detection
• Cabinet tamper switch
• Glass break detector
• Duress
• Arm/disarm zones
• Digital dialer integration
FIRE SAFETY
Eliminating the need for costly hard-wired interface panels, custom software, and duplicate networks and controllers, Schneider Electric offers seamless integration with fire safety systems. This integration is achieved either by using either traditional serial interface drivers or industry-standard interface protocols, such as BACnet®, LON®, MODBUS® and OPC®. Over the years, Schneider Electric has developed interface drivers with almost every major fire alarm system in the marketplace.
Integration enables users to access the alarm and point information of the fire safety system through the Andover Continuum system. One user interface provides users with the transparent "look and feel" of an entire system. Advanced integrated functions can be programmed to provide automated responses. For example, a fire alarm can trigger a whole series of events, either automatically or from your security management station. You can seal off areas, activate smoke evacuation, direct video monitors to record key events, and use access control to know who is still in the building. Later, you can use all of the information gathered by the system to improve operations, safety and security.
EMERGENCY LIGHTING
Schneider Electric offers both self-contained and addressable emergency lighting systems in the European market. Dardo Plus is the addressable system for the centralized control of emergency lighting. It integrates seamlessly with our security management system using industry-standard LON protocol. This integration allows the security management system to closely supervise and promptly identify any faulty light fixtures. It also helps plan maintenance operations and schedule routine system tests. Reports can be generated and printed on a printer attached to the network.
A Dardo Plus system typically is comprised of:
• Interface module: Provides easy integration with remote management software or building management system
• Control unit: Delivers centralized control and troubleshooting of light fixtures. It automatically performs periodical tests on self-contained fixtures, checking them for working efficiency and autonomy and providing immediate indication of faults directly on display.
• Self-contained light fixtures with internal battery
• Light fixtures equipped with a Dardo Plus version conversion kit.
• Dardo Plus Printer: An optional component with a printer. This component makes it possible to print a report about the system state and all the significant system events.
WEB SOLUTIONS
Schneider Electric web solutions provide anytime, anywhere access. web.Client extends the security management system to the web. Using the same database as CyberStation, web.Client gives the operator the freedom to access the security management system either from anywhere on the network or over the Internet. Many of CyberStation's editors and features are available in web.Client. web.Client even uses the same graphics as CyberStation so there is no need to create or convert a specific graphic for web use.
Reduce software and upgrade costs, as well as training time. Retrieve real-time security events and reports, handle alarms, door override, and perform system diagnostics and routine maintenance instantly. Decrease your maintenance costs with software that's secure, yet intuitive.
BENEFITS
A fully integrated building—from security to fire to HVAC and lighting—is not only more comfortable, productive and cost effective, but also more secure. The integrated approach provides single-seat control of the entire security landscape, regardless of whether it includes one or multiple facilities. Situational analysis can happen from a single user interface, giving the operator deeper understanding and far more control over the security domain than ever before.
Example of use cases are:
A highly secure government facility links its Human Resources database to its cardholder access system with Andover Continuum. This integration ensures that each individual's access rights are fully up-to-date at all times, and that each person who enters the facility has the proper clearance. This enables facilites management personnel to meet government mandates for security. The cardholder access system is also linked to the stockroom, improving control and reporting of parts removal and inventory.
A transit authority uses security cameras integrated with video analytics software and other intelligence capabilities, to count the number of people waiting at its subway stations at different times of the day. This actionable data helps officials optimize train schedules and alleviate crowds, thus reducing security risks and improving profitability and user comfort.
A nationwide retail chain used a combination of video monitors and employee information from the Business Management System to uncover an employee theft operation that involved the stealing of returned goods. The integrated systems helped the firm detect the unusual losses resulting from returned stock and pinpoint and document the actual crimes.
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