A global pharmaceutical company and its security reseller tasked Octeum with developing a clean reader/dirty reader application for door access to ensure contaminants wouldn’t be transferred into designated clean rooms.
Company
Global pharmaceutical company
Company Size
27,000+ employees
Project Lead
Peter Saunders
Jay Shepard
The Challenge
Restrict door access to clean rooms
A global organization and its security monitoring partner had a critical need for a custom clean reader/dirty reader application that automatically controls access to specific rooms based on previous badge-swipe activity. The solution needed to restrict door access to clean rooms following any access to a “dirty” room to prevent contamination. No small task, to be sure. But ensuring that contaminants wouldn’t be transferred to these clean rooms was a top priority, and Octeum needed to build a solution that accommodated three levels of restriction.
Put simply, anyone who enters a dirty room can’t enter a clean room until the next business day—after they’ve had a chance to shower, change and remove all traces of potential contaminants. And our client needed a way to automatically ensure that happened every single time someone moved between rooms.
Our task: Create an automatic access system using Avigilon ACM that allows three levels of clean-room access and restriction.
Required Services
- Leverage Octeum’s proprietary SDKs to create the right solution
- Understand the client’s use cases and requirements to build three levels of access
Why Octeum
Experience & Proficiency
Octeum’s deep experience with Avigilon ACM made us the right partner for this complex access solution.
The Solution
Octeum developed a Windows service to receive and log activity data from Avigilon in real time.
- Removes the configured clean role(s) from the swiping badge and timestamps the badge swipe record
- Logs the captured data
- Restores clean roles after the configured duration per the removal timestamp
Developed the ability to configure corresponding “dirty” and “clean” roles
- Set a time limit for clean roles
- Specify clean or dirty “doors”
Badge Behavior Options
- The first badge swipe determines how long a badge will be restricted from the clean room.
- Each badge swipes reset the duration of clean role removal, extending it forward.
