An official company statement says: “ExpansE’s flexible architecture, configuration possibilities and variety of control options – along with an intelligent, easy-to-configure decision-making engine – make it simple to plan for a wide range of deployment environments and solutions.”
All of the ExpansE’s system components are ‘plug-and-play’, using communication options such as Ethernet and RS-485. There’s a “minimum of cabling” involved.
Neither software installation nor computer configuration is required. System configuration is straightforward and realised in a short time without any requirement for specialist training.
Rosslare states that ExpansE “offers several advantages, including significantly higher performance and capacity on account of redundancy reduction; and cost effectiveness, where the more doors and/or interfaces connected to the system, the more cost-effective it is.”
The ExpansE’s user-friendly web interface facilitates the efficient and effective management of access control, video and alarm monitoring from any panel or web browser, and doesn’t require maintenance or highly skilled operators.
The system’s full client-server architecture allows multiple-client usage at different user levels with the ExCloud’s software expansion.
Rosslare Security solutions in action
The North Georgia Christian Academy (NGCA) is a medium-size private School serving grades 1-12 with approximately 350 students in attendance.
The school needed to be able to control external access to all sevn entry points on campus and limit that access to authorised personnel only. Due to a rather tight budget, the NCGA was looking for a fully-featured access control system that would be both cost-effective, expandable and that could be networked from building to building while supporting remote access over the Internet.
In addition, the newly-constructed gymnasium was completely exposed above the main entry/exit doors. The request from the client was to have a relatively small access control system in place which contains all the hardware inside.
To meet the NGCA’s security requirements, Rosslare’s AC-215 networked access controllers with MD-N32 communication gateways were chosen for this project. This solution enabled easy and fast installation, wireless connectivity and special programmable access control features such as automatic interlock control of two doors, automatic relock, first person delay after relock and extended door unlock time for privileged users.
The system’s feature-rich properties and zero cost outlay in terms of the software enabled the customer to achieve their goals.
Access control at the Soyak Olympia Kent site
Soyak Olympia Kent specialises in residential-site management. The company services more than 3,000 apartments and has more than 15,000 cardholders.
The client wanted to use its existing multilevel local area network (LAN) infrastructure. However, most of their locations exceeded the existing LAN’s cable length (more than 100 metres from active units).
There was a massive existing user base with more than 15,000 cardholders. They also didn’t know the card numbers. Any downtime caused by having users return their cards for reprogramming into the new system would create significant bottlenecks.
Therefore, for a smooth and uninterrupted transition, the Rosslare solution needed to enable the users to keep using their existing cards.
The large number of access points made for a challenging system to design. Rosslare needed to use 80 AC-225IP panels. The previous system worked mainly offline and suffered from access problems because of the previous communication set-up. The rest of the system was standalone, so management could not add or remove cards centrally. It was also the installer’s first Rosslare installation.
Rosslare’s technical support team provided first-level supervision and full support for the installer, including:
How did the customer benefit?
Soyak Olympia Kent benefited from an easy and smooth transition from the previous system. The numerous cardholders kept using their existing cards as if nothing had changed.
There is now full control over all access areas and an ability for the end user to manage their entire system on a central basis.
The client later chose Rosslare to look after its car parking system (a project involving a sophisticated 20-panel installation).
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