Virtual network - AXM Plus

The virtual network is an alternative to a direct wireless connection of your locking devices to the WaveNet (see WaveNet).

Benefits of the virtual network

Instead of using the programming device to go to locking devices or identification media, you can use the virtual network to carry out the following tasks and others from a convenient location:

Identification media as data carriers instead of radio

Normally, people enter a building at a few centrally located entrances. For example, a sliding entrance door. The identification media of these persons are therefore very often used at the entry terminal at this entrance door.

There is also usually still some free memory space on the identification media.

You can take advantage of these characteristics with the virtual network. To do so, connect the locking device at the entrance door directly to the database of your AXM Plus. This entry terminal thus becomes a Gateway.

When you block an identification medium, a blocked ID is created and stored in the database.

A person now wishes to enter the building and therefore activates their identification medium at your gateway. At this point, the gateway checks if the database has any info that must be available around the building and locates the blocked ID. The gateway writes the blocked ID to the identification medium.

The person who has entered the building will open multiple doors during the course of the day and thus operate their identification medium with the blocked ID at different locking devices. The identification medium transmits the blocked ID to each of these locking devices and in return receives confirmation that the blocked ID has also been delivered.

The next time the person operates their identification medium on the gateway, the gateway reads the confirmations and saves the information that the blocked ID has also been delivered to the locking devices concerned.

All types of virtual networks require an AV card template when using cards (AV = audit trail/virtual network).

Information transmitted in the virtual network

  • Blocked IDs
  • (Maximum of two per identification medium. When there are more blocking IDs in the database, a random selection will take place.)
  • If you create a substitute transponder, the blocked ID of the blocked transponder is automatically assigned to it.
  • Blocking confirmations
  • (A blocking confirmation serves as validation that a locking device has received a blocked ID.)
  • Locking device battery levels
  • Card's physical access list (function not supported by transponder)
  • Assigning/changing time groups
  • Assigning/changing time budgets

Authorisation changes are not transferred; instead, they are changed directly on the identification media concerned by the gateway.

Dynamic time window (time budget)

The more frequently identification media are used at the gateways, the more effectively the virtual network works. The entrance sliding door might need to remain open permanently during opening hours. From a user perspective, there is therefore no compelling reason anymore for users to present their identification media at the gateway. The door is already open.

You can limit the validity of identification media so that they have to present them. After this time has elapsed, validity at the gateway must be renewed. The duration may be specified, either by the hour (e.g., 8 hours from topping up) or until a fixed time (for example, after charging until 5:00 p.m.).

The advantages of a dynamic time window are:

  • Persons with identification media are forced to go to the gateway at regular intervals. This improves the virtual network’s function.
  • Blocked identification media will, of course, not receive a new time budget.
  • This means that stolen and blocked identification media can no longer be used after the time budget has expired, even if the thief deliberately does not go to the gateway.

If you do not introduce the time budget in your virtual network until a later date, you can also write this change directly to the identification media using the virtual network. You do not need to explicitly program each identification medium individually. The prerequisite is that all identification media go to the gateway; otherwise, the change cannot be written onto the identification media.