Accessories: Control Monitoring
Introduction
Today’s businesses are becoming more and more reliant on their IT infrastructure
to sustain a competitive edge. Businesses are therefore looking to maximise
their capital investments in IT systems by striving to achieve 100% network
availability.
“Human Error” remains the largest threat to network integrity. Something as
simple as
incorrect or unauthorised modification to cable patching can cause systems to
fail resulting in lost time and lost revenues. The first line of defence is
therefore the proactive control of who has access to the infrastructure and
when!
Whilst building control systems have been developed to manage room access,
historically cabinet level security has been managed with conventional barrel
key locks. On larger sites this has required the adoption of complex and
time-consuming systems to manage the authorisation of personnel and the issuing
of keys. Even with these elaborate processes in place the risk from the loss of
keys, not to mention the potential expense and trouble of changing locks, can
make access control and expensive hidden cost.
In response to demand from our customers Cooper B-Line has developed i-PAL, an
intelligent electronic proximity and control solution. Based on proven building
control
architecture i-PAL can deliver either simple configurable local access and
control or, when integrated with i-BOX, a fully scaleable local and remote
access control and monitoring solution with access tracking and alarm function.
In addition the adoption of i-BOX has the added benefit of fully configurable
environmental monitoring solution with a range of SMART sensors complete with
individually configurable threshold alarms.