Instructions

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WHERE AND WHY “GOING OUT” NEEDS ATTENTION
Examples for some areas may need an Intelligent Egress Button:
Hospital:
Some of the patients are not allowed to leave the ward without doctor’s permission. An egress button with exit delay
and warning beeps will help the nurse or warden to get attention to the door when the egress button is pressed.
Further setting of the egress button with holding contact delay even gives higher level of security to a controlled door.
Kindergarten:
Young children are always active. Some of them may be willing to go out to explore their ways of playing. For safety
reason, teachers have to watch all of them in the attended area. Leaving school alone without the companion of
parents or teacher is dangerous to young children. An egress button with delay and warning beeps will be helpful to
prevent the children trying to go out without getting the attention of the teacher.
Elderly Home:
The elderly needs constant attention and care. Some old people have poor memory. They may forget the way to
come back if they leave home alone. An egress button with delay and warning beep will easily get the attention of the
warden before the door is open.
Convenient Store:
Most of the convenient stores have just only one or two shopkeepers on duty. They are usually the cashier. Shoplifting
may easily happen while the shopkeeper is busily serving customers at the cashier desk. A holding contact egress
button with delay and warning beeps may help to stop most of the shoplifting. As the thief knows that he is gotten
attention by the shopkeeper before the door is open.
High Trafc Passage:
A short buffer time may be necessary for opening a door outward after pressing the egress button for those exits open
to a high trafc passage. An egress button with short delay and warning beeps helps the user to pay attention to the
people passing by to prevent hitting them when the door is pushed outward.
Emergency Exit:
Emergency Exit is not open to the public for daily use. It is for emergency case only. It is usually closed and watched
by guards. The egress button of this keypad can be programmed to offer exit delay with warning beeps and even gives
alarm output to trigger an alarm system when the door is forced to open or the door is open after the exit delay expired.
It is an useful tool to get attention of the person on duty.
Do not enable Egress Delay if instant door open for leaving is the main concern in your area.
Make sure the Egress Delay does not affect the safety in your service area before enabling the function in
Location 90.
The default setting of the system is NO DELAY.