Over the past fifteen years or so, building security has become increasingly digitalized. Today, there is a plethora of connected security systems: digital cameras, access control, fire alarms and more. Nevertheless, it is often difficult to manage and control all the installed systems using a single platform. Yet it is crucial for operators to have an overview of all their systems, through a PSIM (Physical Security Information Management) application. A platform like the one developed by CODRA can help you meet these challenges.
Integration of systems IN A SCADA PLATFORM
The Panorama E2 SCADA platform can integrate a large variety of safety devices into your SCADA application. To do this, it is necessary to overcome the first difficulty: communications. Each manufacturer develops its own communications protocols.
To overcome this problem, Codra offers two solutions:
- The security pack: this all-in-one package enables the native integration of CCTV, intrusion and access control equipment within your application. With this pack, you have the fundamentals you need to manage the safety and security of your facilities.
- Integration of specific objects: our teams of experts develop custom connectors to implement a security system in a PSIM application. CODRA has a large number of specific objects already developed for its customers’ projects.
Here is a list of security systems that can be integrated into the Panorama platform. Once these systems have been integrated, the PSIM application can :
- Receive information from these systems: operating status, alarms, notifications,
- Control these systems remotely.
To give more context, CODRA has associated each system with the uses made of it by Panorama current customers. The list is not exhaustive, and CODRA can adapt to each project.
VMS
Panorama easily integrates VMS (Video Management System) into a PSIM application.
Numerous functions are available in the video display of these VMS:
- Display of video streams
- Camera recording control: play, pause
- Viewing and managing alarms and events
Use the full potential of VMS in a supervision system. Manage several VMSs from different brands, or contextualise an event with video: remove any doubt and optimise your teams’ response
Access control systems
Panorama easily integrates access control systems into a PSIM application.
A wide range of functions are available:
- Badge tracking
- Alarm reporting
- Equipment status feedback
- Commands: opening doors, changing reader modes, controlling exits, etc.
Create a real synergy between access control and supervision: Contextualise an evacuation, Integrate equipment into overall maintenance. Supervise a single system to rationalise everything!
Detection and intrusion systems
Panorama easily integrates intrusion detection systems into a PSIM application.
A wide range of functions are available:
- Communications status
- System status
- Sending commands: arming, disarming, acknowledging alarms, inhibiting sensors, etc.
Create a real synergy between intrusion detection and supervision:
- Contextualise an intrusion
- Integrate equipment into overall maintenance
- Supervise a single system: rationalise
By integrating all your security systems together, you’ll be able to quickly scrutinize your information and react more easily and effectively. The time has come to stop using individual systems: there is no longer a need for a multiplicity of platforms, Panorama aggregates all the information needed to manage an infrastructure. The integration of these systems. By integrating these systems, we can move beyond simple PSIM to Integrated PSIM solutions for safety and security. These approaches will also benefit other building operators, such as maintainers, users and owners: BMS and security / safety are fields that are bound closer together in the coming years.
