C•CURE 800/8000 Monitoring Station Guide - Tyco Security Products

Using the Monitoring Station for Security ManagementUsing the Monitoring Station for Security ManagementTo determine who may enter or exit a facility, C•CURE 800/8000 lets eachcompany define a “profile,” a personnel record, unique for each person usingthe system. Within this profile, your system administrator has definedclearance codes to restrict individuals to certain parts of the facility.The personnel record also contains information about how the system willrespond to access requests on special days, such as weekends and holidays.C•CURE 800/8000 Activity Monitoring and AnnunciationC•CURE 800/8000 also performs activity monitoring. When an alarm deviceactivates, an input then activates, sending information to the system. Thesystem, in turn, may trigger an event which can trigger an action such aslocking or unlocking a door. (Events are security objects that can be invokedwhen a security violation or other administrator-defined activity takes place.)Or an input can trigger an output directly. Outputs can set off physicalactivities (for example, turning on a siren).Time SpecificationsTime specifications can trigger events. Your system administrator has createdtime specifications that can be mapped to specific events, thereby creatingtime-activated actions. An event tied to a time specification activates or armsat the beginning of each time span in the time spec. The event returns to itsprevious state at the end of each time span (if there are no higher priorityactions intervening). When an event is armed, the system pays attention to it;when the event is activated, the actions associated with the event occur.Readers and DoorsReaders are physical devices that respond to access control cards and to codesentered into a keypad on the reader. Each card reader’s physical propertiesare defined in the system.A door is the passageway through which the system controls accesses. Eachdoor can be associated with up to four readers and/or a Request to Exitbutton (RTE), and/or a DSM, and/or a Door Latch Relay (DLR), and/ordirection inputs.C•CURE 800/8000 Monitoring Station User Guide 1–9