Access Control Capabilities

Open System Controller II
Tomorrow’s Technology Today

The Open System Controller II delivers tomorrow’s technology today for  access control and intrusion detection system solutions.  The OSC II provides software based access control and intrusion detection solutions using  commercial-off-the-shelf computing hardware.  Lower costs, including total cost of ownership, are achieved using the OSC II  because of its extreme scalability, unbelievable flexibility, its industry-wide interoperability, and completely open architecture.  The OSC Software is designed around ANSI and other industry approved standards (current and emerging).  This makes the OSC II, an American made product, the right strategy for Enterprise-class access control and intrusion monitoring systems. 

Complete adherence to emerging information technology models for system architecture, compliance with national and international standards, accessible APIs to enable adaptation of the OSC II to other needs by others is standard with the OSC II.  The highly capable OSC II software performs in one module all of the usual access control functions including special applications like mantraps, elevators, vestibules.  Plus, it provides compliance with FIPS-201, TWIC, and related HSPD-12 emerging identity management and access control practices and can support both read and write interfaces with smart cards. 

The OSC II continues the innovations of the OSC I by expanding the supported hardware environments to include PCs and special computers.  But, the VertX family of edge components by HID is the environment of choice for deploying the OSC II.   VertX brings the greatest modularity of any hardware environment available to solve the complexities of deploying access control and intrusion detection to meet diverse requirements.   With HID’s world-wide distribution, spare parts and hardware service is always available. This COTS operating environment is available from many sources, world-wide.  

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OSC Software Architecture and the OSC II

To the outside world the OSC II is a hugely powerful, distributable access control and intrusion detection component of an Enterprise security solution.  It is built by integrating the proven OSC Software with a powerful operating environment.  

The OSC II is connected to the outside world through two interfaces that insulate the OSC Applications programs from the details of the communications methodology and enable its easy adaptation to many different types of field devices by localizing changes to the communications interfaces.  It utilizes an open, public-protocol interface called the Open Protocol Interface to connect to PC based applications and enable the data administration, commands processing, and event reporting requirements of security solutions. OSC II connections to field devices represent a family of interfaces provided by the OSC Software.  The bindings used to connect to networks, serial ports, specific sensors, locks, outputs, and reader devices are typically standard but may be customized to meet special needs.  They are implemented in a communications layer. 

The OSC Software may be deployed in multiple operating environments.  Core OSC Software applications receive transactions from devices and higher echelon systems and process them.  The OSC Software includes an indexed database that supports the multi-key access and record-by-record additions, deletions, and updates required of sophisticated access control and intrusion detection processing. 
Remote diagnostics and the ability to monitor application module diagnostics on-the-fly are supported.  Complete visibility into the operation  of the OSC II  and the OSC Software is available to any authorized remote network user.  An array of effective diagnostic commands are supported for system administrators to use to diagnose field hardware problems.  As always, all OSC Software is downloaded and managed by the EnterpriseSMS VertX AccessSIM. 

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VertX As The Operating Environment

The OSC Software operates in a variety of operating environments including VertX.  A VertX-V1000 module provides the base computing environment.  This 100MHz,32-bit RISC processor running LINUX offers a huge processing advantage over other products.  VertX was designed from the ground-up for network based deployment and supports both 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet communications.  Configured for the OSC II, the VertX-1000 has 40MB of flash memory, 32MB of SDRAM and 256K of SRAM.  This is many multiples of increased power over the OSC I and means that this generation of OSC is positioned to handle today’s and tomorrow’s needs.

VertX components provide the specialized communications ports needed to meet demanding security requirements and VertX supports the connection of 32 I/O modules making it a hugely scalable solution for an Enterprise.  These modules are completely distributable so that the physical architecture of a deployed system may be matched to the existing infrastructure of the Enterprise eliminating the need to conform to the passé rigid architectures imposed by other products.  In the figure at the right the small footprint VertX components may be placed in a central enclosure in one location and/or distributed over a RS485 buss over huge distances.  Only the V1000 must be connected to the network reducing network chatter and sparing the number of switch ports needed for a system.

Modules like the VertX V100, a two reader, one or two door controller with all of the required inputs and outputs needed for operating two portals; the VertX V200, a 16-input module capable of monitoring up to 16 independent inputs with a variety of supervision configurations; and the VertX V300, a 16-output module capable of independently controlling 16 outputs provide the specialized communications ports needed for any security system.  Any VertX can support any mixture of 32 such modules.  All of these system elements may be updated by network download just as the OSC II Software is updated.  Visit www.hidcorp.com for additional details on this very available commercial-off-the-shelf hardware operating environment that is the OSC II.

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OSC Software Capabilities and Security Standards Compliance

The OSC Software provides all of the capabilities needed for access control and intrusion detection in simple and very complex situations.  The OSC Software supports the operations of typical alarm panels; mantraps; vestibules; visitor escort; minimum and maximum presence rules; supervisor minimum and maximum presence rules; soft, hard, timed, and zoned antipassback; area opening and closing; card, PIN and card plus PIN access; extended access; adaptive and learning modes; elevators; multiple threat levels; simple and complex commands; if-then and scheduled operations; multiple access privileges per identity; customizable huge encoded IDs and PINs as needed for TWIC and FIPS 201; bi-directional (read/write) communications with smart card readers; and many, many more features.  
The OSC Software Open Protocol Interface and Field Devices Interface Protocol are published openly.  Further, upon final certification by ANSI, the OSC Software will also support the security industry’s Open, System Integration and Performance Standards family of security component standards.  These include:

ANSI/SIA OSIPS-APC-01-200x Access Point Controller Interface Data Model,
ANSI/SIA OSIPS-ACR-01-200x Access Control Role Interface Data Model, and
ANSI/SIA OSIPS-01-200x OSIPS Framework Data Model

This family of industry sponsored standards are defining the future of security products for access control and intrusion detection monitoring at the system edge.  They are a part of the Security Industry Association’s Roadmap for security product evolution.

Other relevant open, public standards including access control, alarm monitoring, computing, and communications standards are supported as the OSC II, VertX, and the OSC Software are standards based products. 

• User definable portal device configurations from Simple to very complex multi-door portal configurations dependent on multiple devices for operation
• Customizable event reporting
• Customizable commands executed by external command, local event, schedule, or remote request
• Commands may be of any size and involve multiple steps
• Some capacities may be altered by the Administrator.  Others are determined by hardware configuration. The defaults are:
• Personal Identities: 25,000 and expandable
• Access Privileges: 40,000 and expandable
• Access Areas: 100 and expandable
• Commands & Command Steps: 1000 and expandable
• Floors: By Hardware (Inputs and Outputs)
• Portals or Alarm Zones: By Hardware
• Schedules: 1000
• Holidays: 1000
• Input Points: By Hardware*
• Output Points: By Hardware*
• Readers: By Hardware*
• Event Log Capacity: 10,000 and expandable
• Advanced Applications On The Same OSC II Including:
• Mantraps,
• Vestibules,
• Elevators,
• Extended Access Portals,
• Vehicular Gates,
• Alarm Panel Operations
• Antipassback (Timed, Zoned, Hard, Soft)
• Counting Controlled Access
• Threat Levels

*  These capabilities may be extended using network connected remote devices that play the same role as their local equivalents

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