Manage access, intruder detection and attendance

Honeywell's EBI Temaline products and architecture provide a new system for integrated access control, time and attendance recording, and intruder detection

Honeywell's EBI Temaline products and architecture provide a new system for integrated access control, time and attendance recording, and intruder detection for customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

EBI Temaline brings enhanced performance and reliability to security installations through peripheral controllers called TemaServers and a wide-range of LON-based field-mounted user devices, TemaKeys, which include a variety of card readers, pinpads, keyboards, digital I/O devices and user terminals.

With EBI Temaline, users benefit from the highest levels of system availability and reliability - a solution that is dependable and scaleable, which meets the exact needs of their facilities today and is readily expandable for future growth.

EBI Temaline manages access control, intruder detection and time and attendance using a systems architecture, which matches users' IT standards.

Native Ethernet communications protocols allow real-time event management and direct peer-to-peer communication across an Ethernet backbone and a LonWorks*-compatible field-bus network.

TemaServers and TemaKeys are an integral component of Honeywell's Open Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) environment, which provides seamless interoperability and "single window" operator access to a variety of Building Automation subsystems.

This "integration by design" provides benefits that reach across the automation application spectrum to include integrated security applications - such as Access Management, Intruder Detection, Digital Video Management and Photo ID - HVAC (heating ventilating and air conditioning), Safety Management Solutions such as Fire Detection and Audio Evacuation, as well as Personnel and Payroll management with Time and Attendance recording.

A Honeywell survey of customers identified system availability and reliability as their primary concerns.

A failure of the supervisory system or loss of communications can cause serious problems to a user's facility operations.

In developing the EBI Temaline system, Honeywell has three-way redundancy capability, up to now never achieved by any Security solution.

Firstly independent modularity frees the peripheral and field devices from reliance on the central supervisory system for all access control operations, thus relieving the supervisory system of card transaction processing.

Secondly, Honeywell's unique "Shared Load" concept virtually guarantees continuity of the system.

Should a TemaServer fail, another takes over management of its field device TemaKeys without degrading the performance of the EBI Temaline system.

Finally, a removable Flash EPROM cartridge in each TemaServer further guarantees complete data recovery of employee card transactions in the unlikely event that all management systems should fail.

As an open environment, EBI allows users to use their own company database to manage cardholder information and share this with Enterprise Resource Planning systems such as SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft to address the broadest of Enterprise management requirements.

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