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...and interior doors on the first floor. You want real-time alarm notification and recording of all access attempts. Your current building has the original mortise locks with skeleton keys on the interior, and you would like to migrate to proximity cards and standardize on an HID Corporate 1000 format.

Creating a wireless access control system for this application isn't as difficult as you might think. Follow this wireless access control design exercise and see for yourself.

Wireless technology should be considered for just about any door access control application -- if for no other reason than a wireless locking solution takes 45 minutes to install vs. an average of eight hours for a wired solution. That produces savings in materials, as there is no wire to install, and labor, as workers are in and out within the hour.

System Design Guidelines

Wireless systems typically operate up to 200 feet between the door and the wireless panel interface module (PIM) for indoor applications. The PIM is an important element of the system -- it ties the door you are installing to a new or existing access...

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