Fitted by Vitag Security Solutions, CEM’s AC2000 SE system have been installed at around 60 stores for New Zealand-owned Farmers Trading Company, or Farmers.
To secure and protect fashion department stores, Farmers required a quality IP security management system that could be installed at remote sites and with ‘maximum efficiency to minimise the requirement for cabling and power supplies’. Farmers also required the system to be linked with a company-owned office block in Wellington, where 23 office floors would be fitted with lift and door control.
“The CEM AC2000 SE was selected to meet Farmers requirements as it has been successfully installed at sites throughout the world where security really matters”, said Andrew Fulton, business development director for CEM Systems.
A selection of CEM S610e IP card readers and CEM Power over Ethernet Plus two-door controllers were installed.
The two-door controller uses CEM PoE Plus technology to power readers and heavy duty maglocks on two doors, using an Ethernet network cable. This created sizable cost savings on the Farmers project, according the CEM, as it eliminated the need to fit mains power supplies above each door. The CEM PoE+ solution is unique to the industry as it can reliably deliver up to two Amps to power an entire door set, including access control readers, heavy duty maglocks and associated items, over one CAT 5/6 Ethernet cable.
Integrating with CCTV
CEM S610e IP card readers were also installed on critical doors throughout the stores. S610e readers feature LCD screens to provide staff with instant feedback on the system such as ‘wrong timezone and card expiring messages’. With the added benefit of a keypad staff can also enter PIN codes for additional security. The S610e reader offers the highest level of reliability as it features an internal database for offline card validation. This means that should communication be temporarily lost with the host AC2000 server, staff can still validate cards using the card records stored in the reader’s internal memory.
Other security applications that were added include the CEM AC2000 Alarm Event Display (AED) application for central monitoring of the system. It has been designed to provide a dynamic graphical representation of transactions and events from the various department stores and when they occur in real-time.
“A major factor in Farmers decision to install AC2000 SE was that their existing American Dynamics CCTV system could be easily integrated into CEM AC2000 Alarm Event Display workstations”, said Ric Van Weede, director at Vitag Security Solutions.”As an integrated real-time solution, Farmers will have a central view of what is going on during alarm activation with associated CCTV video linked to access control alarms.”