The new Silesian Museum in Katowice, Southern Poland is using security and access products from CEM Systems, part of the Security Products business unit of Tyco.
The AC2000 access control and security management system was delivered by CEM Approved Reseller Samaxon, and installed by IB Systems & Budimex.
The new Silesian Museum houses 109,000 items of art, besides archaeological, ethnographic and historical artefacts. The new museum building, opening mid-2015, has all of the Museum’s exhibition space buried underground with glass tower skylight extensions showing above.
Philip Verner, EMEA Sales Director, CEM Systems, said: “As an organisation with a large number of important works of art and other artefacts of historical importance, security is obviously of paramount importance for The Silesian Museum. CEM AC2000 access control system was chosen because of its proven security and reliability in addition to its flexibility to integrate to third party security systems. Integration is an important part of the museum’s overall security strategy, requiring their existing intruder and CCTV security systems to work seamlessly with the access control system.”
CEM says that it worked with Samaxon to develop a software interface between CEM AC2000 and Avigilon video management system and used the AC2000 Galaxy Dimension Interface to integrate the Honeywell Galaxy intrusion detection.
The AC2000 Galaxy interface enables inputs from intruder panels to be placed as icons on the AC2000 AED (Alarm Event Display) application allowing for central alarm monitoring of access control and intruder alarms. AC2000 AED provides a central command and control user interface for the access control, video and intruder systems. AC2000 AED also provides real-time information on all alarms and events that occur on the AC2000 system.
AC2000 comes with a range of software applications for business operations. The Museum will use AC2000 VIPPS (Visual Imaging Pass Production) and AC2000 Visitors. AC2000 VIPPS lets museum security staff design and customise ID badges, and AC2000 Visitors enables staff to monitor and control visitor access to the building. Visitors can be given access levels and traced, allowing visitor movements to be monitored and controlled. Visitor cards can then be reused when returned, saving on visitor card costs.
The museum has also installed CEM S610f integrated fingerprint card readers, pictured left in product group, at high security doors throughout the building. This layer of biometric security allows for triple authentication — card, PIN and fingerprint — for restricted areas.
