ACT Access Control Software.

[Rob_D]

Hi.

We've got at ACT door/access control software for managing access to the site. For the most part it works well for staff access (ID badge access) and student/general access (mag-lock release times).

But visitor and letting management is super clunky and hard work, and I can't help but feel there has be a better way to do this that we're not seeing.

For example, today we were asked to set up access through the carpark gates for an evening meeting 17:00-21:00.

Standard setup for this would be:

• create a time-zone for 17:00-21:00 on Tuesdays.
  
• create a user group that applies this time-zone to the carpark gate
  
• create a user in this group with the PIN attached and a validity period that just covers this Tuesday.
  

This is a lot of work for what is ostensibly a one off event and leads to us having dozens of time-zones and groups for every little event or letting group (as they all want slightly different combinations of access times/days and doors). For safety and security, we try to keep access to the minimum required.

 

Is there anyone who's using the ACT, who knows if there's a better/easier/more efficient way to this sort of thing? Or is this just a case of the software not really being designed with this kind of thing in mind?

 

Thanks for any help!

[bald_pig]

We tend to just have the doors unlock for events here, all the doors are grouped already, and we keep blank timezones attached to each door group, and just update the times for each event and remove afterwards. We don't have on site parking so don't have to worry about that aspect, but I imagine you could do the same with users and user groups.