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Guard Tour
WinDSX Real Time Guard Tour
The WinDSX
Guard Tour feature is a great addition to any proprietary guard service. It
allows the user to define specific routes, or tours, for the guard to take with
time restrictions. The guard, in making his rounds, must check-in at
predetermined Tour Stations within specified times. If the guard fails to
check-in at the specified time, an alarm is generated at the PC. All activity
is automatically logged to the computer's hard disk for later reporting.
The Tour is initiated at the PC
when the guard is ready to begin his rounds. The guard must check-in at the
predefined Tour Stations in the order and time specified by the Guard Tour. If
the guard arrives early, the system reports he checked in and how early he is.
If the guard fails to check-in or is late to a Tour Station, an alarm message
appears at the PC that indicates which station he failed to check in at. Along
with the “Failed to Check-In” Alarm an optional user defined response plan
(Action Message) can be displayed for the operator or security personnel to
follow. This type of real-time system ensures a quick response if the guard is
compromised or incapacitated by alerting the operator or guard at the PC to the
first sign of a problem.
Guard Tour is an integral part
of the WinDSX System. It allows user controlled
systems to make use of existing Access System hardware to perform guard tour
management in a real-time fashion. The user simply defines a tour in the
database and at anytime can start or stop the tour from the Workstation
program. If there is an exception, the PC will beep and alert the operator that
a guard has failed to arrive at a Tour Station, or simply display how early he
has arrived.
There are 999 possible Guard
Tour definitions with each Tour having up to 99 Tour Stations. A Tour Station
is a physical location a guard must reach and perform an action showing that he
has arrived. This action, performed at the Tour Station, can be one of 13
different events with any combination of events in the same Tour.
A Tour Station can be one of
the following event types:
Access Granted
Access Granted Passback Violation
Access Denied Code
Access Denied PIN
Access Denied Time Zone
Access Denied Level
Access Denied Facility
Access Denied Code Timer
Access Denied Anti-Passback
Input Alarm
Input Alarm Restoral
Input Abnormal
Input
Combinations of these events
allow Tour Stations to be defined according to specific situations and needs or
equipment available. In some cases, the guard may be checked-in by using his
card or PIN to enter a door. In other situations it may not be necessary for
the guard to gain entry but use his card or PIN just to check-in without the
door unlocking. Another possibility would be for the guard to turn a maintained
key switch to one position at one point in the tour and later, in the same
tour, turn the same switch back to its original position. This flexibility
allows the user to construct the tours to meet their specific application
utilizing existing access control and security hardware.
By assigning the same minimum
and maximum times to all stations in the tour the Guard has to check in at all
stations in the defined order but without specific minimum and maximum times
for each station. The
The system, by integrating
Access Control with Guard Tour, is cost effective since it uses the same PC and
hardware. Both systems operate simultaneously in real-time with no effect on
each other.
The Tours are started in the
Workstation Program by selecting the Tour to be run followed by a selection
from the list of Guards. At any time the tour can be stopped or paused and
restarted.
Below is a sample of the Guard
Tour Definition Screen that is used to define the possible tours. The Tour Name
is entered followed by the Station numbers and definitions. To add more
stations into the same tour, select Add from the screen list and select the
existing tour name. Each Tour will support up to 99 Stations or check points.
Card Defined for use with Guard Tour
Station Definition Screen
How to Start a Tour
