When fully integrated with the Lenel Onguard platform, Compassplus offers additional benefits to building owners and tenants alike. The Onguard platform, which seamlessly integrates a full suite of security management technologies tailored to each customer's specific needs, determines a user’s destination point through access card identification. When users swipe their card, the access control system will direct users to the appropriate lift. This integration offers the end user and customers a single solution, according to James Wheeler, regional sales director, Lenel UK.

“Through the Lenel Onguard integrated platform, we are able to give our customers the best possible opportunity to deploy a seamless integration solution within the facility,” said Wheeler. “In addition to managing user access, the system can notify an operator monitoring the system and generate reports to determine who requested access and when. Should a CCTV system be integrated, a short video can be accessed showing the event to the operator, thereby improving security.”

The Onguard platform provides enhanced intrusion-based features including local area alarm state, burglary verified alarm support and late night support. The platform also boasts innovative configuration settings such as destination assurance, whereby lift users are monitored and allowed to get to the correct destination within a given timeframe.

“We can direct visitors to the right elevator and to the correct floor that they are authorised to go to at a specific date and time,” said Wheeler. “If they do not make it to their destination within a specific time, the control room receives an alarm. This manages the flow of people to the building and ensures they get to their destination.”

Wheeler notes evacuation and emergency functionality as another major benefit of the integrated platform. “The platform supports functionality like mustering, a raw core system in the case of an emergency that enables us to see people who may have entered the elevators,” said Wheeler. “We can see where they are in that particular zone and that feedback is forwarded to the fire marshals in case of an emergency. At the end of the day, a customer is able to deliver a highly efficient and fully comprehensive service with the integration of Compassplus and the Lenel Onguard platform.”