This Multi-site module allows managing access authorisations to different sites within a company or to independent companies within a site.

A same user may control from any station, several or all the sites following to his authorization rights. Each user may consult the data, the Reports and the Event log of his sites only. For users who control one or more sites according to their defined authorization, like Security guards, the events displayed on the Event Log screen and on the Reports are all alarms from their sites and all access events from their sites’ readers (including accesses from cardholders belonging to other sites).

We distinct between 3 types of cardholders: Local, Shared & Global:

  • Local – Allowed access only on doors of its own site.
  • Shared – In addition to doors of his own site, other sites may allow him pass on their doors (e.g. fitness center). For this purpose, the details of the shared cardholder are viewed for other sites as ‘read only’ with a possibility to add to this cardholder Temporary Accesses at their readers.
  • Global – The cardholder can be managed, modified (including deletion) by any one of the sites. “Global” cardholder is a cardholder that can be edited in read & write by any site.

For buildings that are shared by independent companies:

  • A site may share with one or more sites its Infrastructure assets (Controller networks, Controllers, Readers, Inputs, Relays). If sharing a Reader with others, the other sites may assign this reader in their Access groups. For them, this reader will be displayed as read-only in the Infrastructure tree in order to show its definitions (e.g. door open delay, escort, APB, format, etc.).
  • DAG and LAG may use shared readers in addition to readers owned by the user’s site.
  • Maps may have Symbols or Regions linked to a shared asset (including Alarm Zones) in addition to assets owned by the user’s site.
  • An additional “Master site” is automatically created by default for managing common parts of the installation like building entrance readers. The Master site has the option to share or unshare its owned assets like any other site.