Group authorisations - LSM 3.5 SP3 Basic

A group authorisation enables you to authorise an entire transponder group for a whole area. This allows you to create basic authorisations in the locking plan very quickly in a clearly arranged way. It is useful to be clear about the planned use of the building and the company's organisational structure in advance when issuing the authorisations. A clearly structured system helps significantly to establish facts about possible access events quickly and precisely during day-to-day business at a later stage, allowing the company or organisation to run smoothly on a daily basis. You can add exceptions to group authorisations at View/Doors/Persons at any time at a later date by removing or adding an individual authorisation cross.

Areas and transponder groups

The following use case is quite frequently: A company consists of several departments with employess which need access to one, several or all departments. Of course it is possible to assign every employees' transponder to every door in the corresponding departments. However, this has a downside: The effort for managing such a locking system rises with the number of transponders and doors.

It's much more comfortable to use areas and transponder groups instead. Doing so, you only need to assign a transponder group or a door once. Every transponder in this group has the same rights as the group. The same applies to doors: Every door in an area has the same rights like the area which the door belongs to. This means: If you assign a new door to an area, then every transponder which is assigned to this area is also able to open this door.

Example: Facility management staff shall be allowed to enter the rooms of the support department. The company is split into several departments:

• Development
• Marketing
• Sales
• Support
• Restricted area
• Manufacturing

All transponders which belong to facility management staff are grouped to a group called facility management staff. Also all the doors which belong to departments are assigned to the corresponding departments (during their creation), for example support. For example, let's say the company has ten locks in the support department and the facility management team consists of ten persons. If one wants to assign everyone of this team to every door in the support department, then one has to assign and handle a whopping hundred authorisations (Ten transponders to ten doors).

Instead, one can use our transponder group facility management staff and assign this group to the area support. Thus, the number of authorizations to be assigned shrinks down to exactly one authorization.