Arming, Postponing and Disarming

Each VASP can be defined with an auto-arming schedule for each day of the week including holidays. At the programmed arming time, the exit delay warning will sound for a minimum of 4 minutes. Any employee in the area who is not allowed to stay later than the arming time will have to leave the area. At the end of the exit delay, the area will arm and will be monitored for intrusion and, possibly, for turning off or changing the settings of the air conditioning or heating system. During the exit delay, if an authorized employee wants to remain in the secured area later than the arming time, that employee can use his / her card at any of the readers of the area defined as a “postponement reader” in the system. This operation will initiate the postponement of the arming. The postponement delay can be pre-programmed for each area, up to eighteen hours and twelve minutes (18h22). After the postponement period, the system will attempt to arm again and sound the exit delay. The same scenario of postponement will be available to employees wanting to remain in the area unless a maximum number of postponements (if programmed) or a “no disarm” scheduled time has been reached. Each card of the system can be programmed to allow or limit the use of this feature.

When an area is armed, it can be disarmed by authorized cardholders (who share the right to disarm the alarm partition) by presenting their cards at a disarming reader (as defined in the system). If the cardholder is authorized in that area during that specific time, the door will unlock and the partition will be disarmed as soon as the cardholder opens the door. If disarming happens at a time when the system would be normally armed by a schedule, the system will attempt to re-arm automatically after the postponement time described earlier. In addition to those tasks performed by cardholders, an authorized operator (such as a guard) can manually operate the partitions from any of the system's workstations (disarm, arm or modify the postpone delay time).