| |
Softcon products are installed in more than
29 countries, in over 2500 sites (more than 1700 being PC
based on-line systems), with more than 22000 controllers in
the field. Distributors of Softcon products are located in
Australia, France, Namibia, South Africa, U.K. Netherlands
and Zimbabwe.Hardware (HW products are all primarily micro-processor
based, ranging from small stand-alone readers, to single and
multi-door access controllers, input/output (I/O) controllers
of various sizes, mimic and terminal drivers, vending machine
controllers and cash loading units. A variety of communication
drivers / converters are produced to fulfill installation
requirements. These include fiber optic converters (for both
multi- or single mode fiber), RS232/RS422, Wiegand/RS422 and
serial/ Wiegand/ data clock/ touch. Products are CE and UL
compliant..
::On-Line Systems::
The variety of Softcon controllers can be inter-linked in
systems to allows the configuration of controllers from central
(or multi) PCs and facilitate the movement of status information
and control data between system components.A Softcon ‘Mux’
card installed in the PC (PCI bus) provides the interface
from PC to Softcon SW. This card connects to Softcon controllers
via an RS485 or Fiber optic LAN cable, or via a RS232 link
to a modem. The LAN is multi-drop configuration (cable loops
in and out of each controller – no stubs, T-pieces or
star network), with the PC installed at any point on the LAN.
Up to 4 mux interfaces per PC can each interface to a maximum
of 254 controllers. System configuration is entered at and
downloaded from the PCs. Transactions are sent to the PCs,
displayed and logged to hard disk and printer..
|
