Quick Tutorial: Time Schedules and Access Groups

Who Can Go Where, and When Keri’s products do much more than just what the moniker “access control system” suggests; providing the ability to create complex hardware input/output or software procedures that are initiated by designated trigger events, automating these procedures and other functions, designing and printing ID badges, integration with various subsystems such as video surveillance, biometrics, wireless locks, and graphic maps, etc. At its core, an access control system’s most important functions are to limit who can go where and when and track the person’s use of their credential (“comings and goings”) for later reporting. Creating Time Schedules In order to allow/restrict an individual’s access around one or more facilities, parameters must be configured that make this an easy process when enrolling people into the system, whether it be for a brand new system with thousands of people, or one individual at a time as new hires are brought on board. Typically with most access control systems and as with Keri, this is done by creating time schedules (sometimes called zones) that are later associated with readers/doors to create “access groups.” People are ultimately assigned to an access group when enrolled into the system. These predefined access groups are what gives or denies access privileges by location and time of day.

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