User Manual

Time Profiles
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12. Time Profiles
Time profiles are a powerful tool for restricting access of personnel or for automating the
opening and closing of doors.
Typical examples are:
1. A public access door through which anybody can pass between 9:00am and 5:00pm,
Monday to Friday, but outside these hours a key is required.
2. Some staff are only allowed access between 8:30am and 5:30pm, Monday to Friday;
8:30am to 12:00pm Saturday.
3. Cleaners are allowed access only between 7:00am and 9:00am Monday to Saturday.
4. Shift workers can gain access between 8:00pm and 6:00am Monday to Friday.
Note
If you give a door a time profile of 0, it will require a key 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If
you give a key a time profile of 0, it will have access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If
you are never going to use time controls of any type, there is no need to set up any time
profiles at all, just use a time profile of 0 for both doors and keys.
12.1 How They Work
There are 8 different time profiles. Each time profile consists of up to three time periods. A time
period consists of a begin time, an end time and the days of the week to which it applies. For
instance, example 1 above requires just one time period, 9:00am (begin time) to 5:00pm (end
time) Monday to Friday (days of the week); example 2 requires two time periods, 8:30am to
5:30pm Monday to Friday plus 8:30am to 12:00pm Saturday only.
Time profiles applied to doors will automatically open the door at the begin time of each time
period and automatically close the door at the end time of each time period. Doors can also be
manually locked and unlocked, see Section 14.4.
Time profiles attached to a key will allow access only when the time at which the key is
presented falls within the time profile.
It is recommended that different time profiles are used for doors and personnel even if they are
identical. This means that if a change is required to the door opening times at a later date,
these can be achieved without affecting the personnel access times and vice versa.
When using time profiles, it is important to check the time and date at regular intervals, say
once a month, to ensure that the system operates accurately, see Section 8.1.
Notes
1. A time profile always starts at the beginning of the first minute of the time period. That
is, in example 1, when the time changes from 8:59 am to 9:00 am. A time profile
always finishes at the end of the final minute of the time period. That is when the time
changes from 5:00pm to 5:01pm.
2. A time period cannot cross midnight. When, as in example 4 above, it is necessary to
cover such a time, two time periods are required, one from the begin time up to
midnight (use 23:59), with another time period from midnight (use 00:00) to the end
time.
In addition to the 3 time periods, each time profile has a status setting, either ON or OFF. When
a time profile is in use, its status will be ON; when it is OFF, the effect depends on the
application:
• When applied to personnel, a time profile that is switched OFF will lock out all personnel with
that profile until the time profile status is switched back ON.
• When applied to a door, a time profile that is switched OFF will stop the door automatically
opening. It will also lock a door that is currently open according to that time profile.