Access Control Monitoring

Access Control Monitoring is a service that is provided by wholesale monitoring companies. Essentially, it consists of ensuring entrance is not granted to unauthorized persons. When entrance is forced or fraudulent in some way, the central station acts to alert predetermined officials of the incident.

Access control is most often applied in commercial business settings where access needs to be regulated to authorized personnel. Distinct from the traditional access-control method where a guard or padlock protects an entrance, technology makes unmanned entrances possible. Its applications vary in depth of application and security protection. Some monitoring methods can be monitored while others are not. And on that same vein, some technologies are more effective at intrusion prevention than others. Of course, not all are entirely designed to prevent human entrance. Some are merely designed to serve as visually appealing signs that not everyone is invited to enter.

An access control point can be a door, turnstile, parking gate, elevator, or a number of physical barriers. These can all be regulated by any of the technologies listed above and are only limited to the architecture they inhabit.