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Access Control by Example Materials Planning | en 9
Bosch Security Systems Introductory Guide | 1.0 | 2009.10
2.4 High tier: Hosting the software for the final system
Bosch offers a wide range of software products for configuring access control systems,
depending on the size of the installation. For our small example one of two products would be
suitable:
– Access Professional Edition: (Access PE)
This product installs on a standard PC. It controls doors via hardware modules called
Access Modular Controllers (e.g. the AMC2 4R4).
– Access Easy Controller: (AEC)
The access control software is resident on the door controller itself (i.e. middle and high
tiers are combined) and is operated over the network from a standard PC. It uses a web-
browser for its user interface.
For the sake of example the following chapters describe two typical combinations:
– RS-485 technology, AMC2 controller and Access Professional Edition software
– Wiegand technology with Access Easy Controller hardware and software
Note: An installation of Access PE / AMC2 with Wiegand technology (a combination not
covered in detail in this document) would proceed similarly to the Access PE chapter, but
with each of the 4 readers connected directly to the access controller rather than “daisy-
chained” to other readers. A suitable AMC2 variant would be the AMC2 4W.
NOTICE! The combination Access PE & AMC2 supports both RS-485 and Wiegand reader
technology through deployment of corresponding variants of the AMC2 controller (e.g. AMC2
4R4 and AMC2 4W).
AEC supports only Wiegand.