SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
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1.3 Important terms and concepts
This subsection includes important terms and concepts used in the advanced innias access control system, which is a signicant
departure from traditional access control systems. Please become familiar with the following before conguring and using your
Intelli-M Access system.
Door vs. zone
In former access control systems, a Door was congured to grant certain access privileges to that Door. Intelli-M Access introduces
the concept of a Zone. A Zone can viewed as the physical space which the Door occupies in a facility, oor, or room. Simply put, a
Door borders two areas of a room, oor, or building. Each of the two areas is called a Zone. Therefore, when you apply privileges to a
Door Intelli-M Access, you’re granting access to the Zone that the door protects.
During installation, Intelli-M Access creates two default Zones: Inside and Outside. These zones represent the inside of your
building or oce, and the outside of your building or oce - your perimeter door or doors already border these two zones. Inside
your building, you may have interior doors that you need to secure. Each door to be secured also borders two zones: the interior
of the oor or building, and the side you wish to secure. You could re-use the Inside Zone for the unsecured side of the door, and
create a new Zone, for example IT Server Room, to serve as the name of the secured side of the door. During conguration of access
privileges, you will grant access to the IT Server Room Zone, not the Door that borders it.
You can re-use Zones in more than one way. The previous example demonstrated how you could re-use the Inside Zone because it
happened to represent the same physical space that your perimeter doors also occupied. Another way to re-use a Zone name is if
the same people will always be given identical access privileges to multiple areas. For example, if you are a hospital, and you have
3 operating rooms, and the same people always have identical access to those 3 rooms, then you can create a single Zone, such as
Operating Room, to represent the secured side of the operating rooms.
As you plan your system conguration, consider useful names for the Zones to which you will be applying access privileges. Once
you have congured your Zones, it will be much easier to maintain and re-congure access privileges to the Zones than compared to
the old mechanism of per-Door privileges.
Muster zone
A Muster Zone is a Zone that has been tagged with the In or Out Muster attribute. When you tag a Zone with the In Muster attribute,
Intelli-M Access will keep track of all users that have entered that Zone. You can also tag a Zone with the Out Muster attribute to
keep track of both sides of a Door if you wish. A special Muster View on the Events Page displays the location of all cardholders in
these Muster Zones in real-time.
