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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. |
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