Guard Tours can only be initiated and ended from the manual operations of the system.

1 - From the Gateway List drop-down menu, select the gateway where the guard tour is defined.

2 - Select the guard tour you want to start from the Guard tours list. Once you have selected the guard tour, click on the “Start Guard Tour” button. The system will display a card-selection window:

3 - Select the cardholder who will be responsible for the guard tour. A card has to be chosen in order to initiate the guard tour. If doors are defined in the guard tour definition, then a card will have to be presented at the defined reader(s) and this cardholder must also have access to the doors. Once you have selected a cardholder and clicked OK, the system will display the Guard tour window.

Please, remember the following:

•  During a tour, using the “modify” button will reset the time allowed between two stations.

•  Only one (1) guard tour can be run at a time per gateway.

•  A tour must always be completed with the command “End guard tour” entered by the operator after the system displays the “Last station in guard tour” message.

•  During a tour, if the delay is almost expired, using the “modify” button will reset the time allowed between two stations.

4 - Click More to display extended information on the selected guard tour. The system will display the stations to be visited as well as the delays from stations to stations. This button can be used only when a guard tour has been started.

5 - Click the Start guard tour button to start the guard tour sequence. Guard tours can only be initiated from this window. You can also assign a schedule that will generate the event “Guard Tour Scheduled” to warn operators or remind them that the guard tour must be started.

6 - Click the End guard tour button to end the guard tour sequence. When the last station has been visited, the system will generate the event “Last station in guard tour”, then the “end guard tour” button must be used. Once you end a guard tour, the system generates the event “Ending of a guard tour”.

7 - Click the End guard tour button will also cancel a guard tour that has started.

8 - The following buttons are displayed in the right-hand. They provide additional information on the guard tour:

•  Previous station : Provides information (text and picture) concerning the previous station (door or input) that the guard triggered.

•  Next station : Provides information (text and picture) concerning the next station (door or input) to be triggered.

•  Delay to next station : Indicates the time remaining for the guard to reach the next station. If this time expires, a warning will be displayed.

•  State : Displays the guard tour state. The possible states are:

○  Normal : When the guard tour is normal.

○  Pre-alarm : For example, if the delay programmed for a specific station is set to 2:00 minutes, and this delay expires, the system will generate the event “Guard tour station late”, then the system will initiate the pre-alarm delay. After this delay expires, the system will then generate the “Guard tour alarm” event and the status will change to alarm.

○  Alarm : When the pre-alarm delay is over and the guard tour is in alarm.

•  Modify next station : This option allows the operator to modify the next station, for the guard tour currently in progress. When you modify the next station, the system will generate the event “Guard tour sequence modified”.

•  Modify delay to next station : This option allows the operator to modify the time remaining for the guard in order to reach the next station. This modification only affects the guard tour currently in progress.

Note...

When you modify the next station, the system will generate the “Guard tour late time delay modified” event.