O’Regan’s Shifts Gears to Integrated Access and Intrusion System

Problem

O’Regan’s is considered to be one of the largest automotive dealerships in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. With five separate locations to secure and an employee base of 200 people at a new auto mall, O’Regan’s needed to implement an access control system that would be easy to manage, enable managers to limit access to secure areas, such as its IT room and parts departments, and allow each business unit to operate at different hours, if needed.

Solution

When O’Regan’s began the build-out phase for its new auto mall, company officials had the flexibility to build a system from the ground up and work in conjunction with a systems integrator and electrical team to install a hard-wired security system. They selected EntraPass Global Edition software from Kantech integrated with a DSC PowerSeries alarm control panel to enable them to effectively manage access control cards and the overall system remotely, plus integrate the entire alarm system with video. In addition, Kantech’s EntraPass Global Edition works in conjunction with O’Regan’s video surveillance system of more than 40 cameras and three DVRs. Security personnel can monitor the Kantech access control system and the video system simultaneously.

Products

• Kantech EntrePass
• DSC PowerSeries alarm control panel