Barton Square Shopping Complex Is Securely Open For Business With AC2000 SE
The state-of-the-art Barton Square shopping complex is linked to the
Trafford Centre. With the expectation of over 30 million visitors a
year, Barton Square required a highly flexible security management
system to secure areas such as the communications rooms, access gates,
and back of house areas.
CEM® Systems has announced that the
UK’s new £76 million Barton Square shopping complex has chosen its CEM
AC2000 SE (Standard Edition) access control system to provide security
for its 200,000 square meters of shopping space. Advance Integrated
Systems, an approved reseller of CEM products, installed the system.
“CEM
AC2000 SE offers the client a flexible and fully integrated IP solution
that allows the client to use existing ID cards at the Trafford
Centre,” said Alan Inkster, Managing Director of Advance Integrated
Systems, UK. “AC2000 SE, using CEM’s advanced S600e IP card readers,
takes advantage of the Trafford Centre’s existing fibre-based IP
infrastructure to form part of an overall building management system.”
The
S600e reader has a keypad, LCD graphical display screen, and on-board
Ethernet connectivity to provide intelligence at the door and connect
directly to the AC2000 SE server over Ethernet. The reader also
features a large internal database that uniquely reassures clients
that, even if offline, the S600e will continue to provide card
validation at secured doors.
“AC2000 SE provides Barton Square
with many feature-rich software modules,” said Andrew Fulton, Business
Development Director for CEM products. “The CEM AC2000 Alarm Event
Display (AED) module provides the client with a graphical
representation of alarms and events, while the optional CEM AC2000
Visual Imaging and Pass Production System (VIPPS) enables them to
professionally design and print colour ID passes/permits for staff and
contractors.”
As a scalable system, AC2000 SE offers the
benefit of virtually unlimited expansion. With the simple addition of
S600e readers at each secure door added, AC2000 SE can be expanded as
the Trafford Centre requirements grow.