TetraGate

  
TetraGate physical access control is a powerful, yet easy to implement security tool to be used for protecting enterprise assets. An employee or contractor is enrolled and issued an ID badge that contains no personal information. All information is stored in a secure database as this is where exceptions are generated. Red, Blue, Yellow, Green are used to provide a simple and efficient exception based system indicator to the guard.

• Red equals no face match and no ID badge detected.
• Blue equals a facial match and no ID badge read.
• Yellow equals ID badge read and no facial match.
• Green equals ID badge and facial match has taken place.

SET UP – Setup Wizard
epcSolutions has designed a Setup Wizard with ease-of-use for the end-users in mind where each successive screen guides you through entering all the information you need to configure your entire RFID solution.   The wizard walks you first through the configuring Security Check Points and Badge Printing Stations.  After selecting the hardware at each location you set up your dome or fixed cameras, fixed and handheld readers, stack lights and ID badge printers where you enter IP addresses, reader roles, and antennae settings etc. so the hardware can be provisioned on the network.

The Hardware setup is completed now it is time to go to runtime to create badges and enroll users in the system. 

RUN - Create Badges

Enroll Image With Camera
The Virtual ID Badge will contain a snap shot taken with the camera.

Import Image
High Quality Images with 50 pixels between the eyes may be imported into the badge.

Search Badges
You can search through al previously enrolled users so you can update their information, delete a user, reprint a badge or update the image.   You can limit your search criteria by the ID number or any of the ID badge text fields.

Get Image
Right clicking on any badge entry allows you to bring the saved image in the database.  This can be replaced or updated

RUN – Main Control

The Main Control shows the security camera viewfinder and tags read from the reader.  As ID badge holders approach the facility the fixed reader will read the ID Badge RFID tag.  TetraGate will find valid ID badges and pull up the biometric features associated with it.  When the badge holder approaches the camera their image will appear in the view finder. TetraGate will scan the image and look for a match with all the images saved in the biometric database. 

ID Badges picked up by the reader and images picked up the camera will appear in the list with a color coded status light to indicate the current security risk. 

Camera Options
You can set the camera to many preset options including Motion Detection, Frame Rate, Audio and Video Recording, and Snap Shots.

RUN SCENARIO 1: A Person Approaches Without A Badge
A person approaches the security area. No badge is read by the fixed reader.

• The camera picks up the image.
• The image is not in the database so the exception is displayed as Tag ID Not
• Found and ID Not Found.
• Facial & ID Badge Negative

 RUN SCENARIO 2 A Person Approaches With His or Her Security Badge
The user approaches the security area

• The fixed reader picks up the badge first
• The ID read is yellow because teh badge matches an ID badge in the system but there is no image to match yet.

• The camera picks up the image.

• The system matches the image to the ID badge
• Facial & ID Badge Positive

 RUN SCENARIO 3 A Person Approaches With Someone Else’s Badge

• The fixed reader reads the ID badge first.
• The tag read is yellow because it is in the system but there is no image to match yet.

• The camera picks up the image.

• The camera matches the image to another ID in the biometric database.
• The match will be blue because the ID badge is not present.
• Facial Match Positive