User's Manual

Chapter 2: Architectural overview
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How B.A.S.I.S. G ‘Guest’ locks work
B.A.S.I.S. G offline locks are designed primarily for the col-
lege and university dormitory. But they can be effectively
used in any application where a room has continuous occu-
pancy change over a period of time, or where the lock loca-
tion is remote or isolated enough that going out to reprogram
the lock becomes undesirable.
Guest functionality then is the lock feature that enables you to
add and delete users to and from the lock without having to
go out and visit the lock to reprogram it.
Operation
B.A.S.I.S. G allows that a range of badge numbers be pre-pro-
grammed into the lock unit securing a dormitory room. These
badge numbers are available for issue and reuse as students
are assigned to their dormitory accommodations. The badge
number is automatically issued to a student when the lock for
the room is chosen in the cardholder setup screen. The card
number from the assigned range can then be encoded and
presented to the student for use in his or her assigned room.
New students may be assigned access to a particular room by
using badge IDs from the same range without ever needing to
re-program the lock. By taking advantage of the issue code
look ahead feature, a badge ID issued with an incrementally
higher issue code will deactivate any other like badge ID for
the lock.
The following diagram describes the design and process that
B.A.S.I.S. G locks use to achieve the guest functionality.