Security Sales & Integration

September2013

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grammed with a special NLSS code) and controllers integrated into the university's SAP database. Prior to the renovation, students, faculty and staf were issued a diferent card for multiple purposes. Nearly all campus buildings were still being accessed with keys. Today, a single "Wildcard" credential features multiple pieces of embedded technology, including a computer chip for iClass readers, proximity, bar code and magnetic stripe. Beyond access control, the cards are used to purchase food and merchandise. "UK is almost a cashless society, even the employees use the meal-card system and cashless card," says Pyles. "Tey have to have a multitechnology card to carry them through this transition. Someday, hopefully the prox goes away and it will all be iClass." Pyle and other team members initially expected that integrating the university's CBORD cash management system into the NLSS unifed platform would present the biggest challenge in the entire project. However, much preparation and work has been performed by the university's own programmers and others to ensure a smooth transition. Because the SAP database is so cumbersome, the university uses a Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) program to simplify management challenges associated with SAP. Migrating student, faculty and staf information from CBORD to the new system would be necessary, in part, for printing the new 40,000+ badge credentials. "What we have done is kept a line of demarcation between CBORD and Next Level," Pyles explains. "CBORD enrolls the student and prints the badge. Out of that it reads the iClass number from the badge and feeds that to a table. So, Next Level gets from the FIM database the cardholder information and the iClass information." Te database integration allows individual colleges or "business units" the ability to set access levels and open times for their respective facilities. Common buildings that do not belong to an individual college will fall under the domain of the police. Te adminis- trative capabilities allow users to only manage and monitor doors in their respective facilities. Users will not be able to add people into the database. "It's not a top-down, single management structure. Tere are 36 diferent organizations within the university. It is what I would call an enterprise architecture," says Jacobs, who is providing consultative and database management services for the project. "To the university's credit, there is going to be a single, unifed security platform across 400+ facilities by the time they are done." Rodney Bosch is Managing Editor for SECURITY SALES & INTEGRATION. He can be contacted at (310) 533-2426 or rodney.bosch@securitysales.com. www.securitysales.com/freeinfo/19101 SEPTEMBER 2013 / SECURITYSALES.COM / 115

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