Requiring no prior knowledge, this popular course offers a perfect mix of classroom study and ‘hands-on’ practical workshop activities, giving you a deep insight into access control from the installers perspective. Covering site surveying and system design, the course will provide you with the fundamentals skills to design, install, operate, repair, maintain and commission fully networked access control systems that are ready to meet the challenges of the modern world. This course has no prerequisites and is aimed specifically, though not exclusively, at those wishing to change their careers.

What will you learn?

• Associations, standards, inspectorates and documentation
• Overview of access control risk assessments, site surveys and system design
• Access Control locking types and applications
• Powers supplies and Door hardware (closers, contacts, exit buttons etc.)
• Access controllers:- Standalone and Networked (Single/Multi Door)
• Recognition equipment, tokens and readers (proximity, mifare, biometrics etc.)
• Single, dual and multi factor authorisation
• Tailgating & Passback – methods to defeat
• Cable types and their application
• Vehicle access – barriers, gates, bollards etc
• Maintenance agreements – preventative and corrective
• Methods and types of cables to use in various environments
• Commissioning and fault finding