Access Control System in Water Utilities
The modern threat landscape has become more and more diverse. For example, the attempted poisoning of the water treatment system in Florida, the hacking of colonial pipelines, these security incidents for the public sector have shown that it is urgent to upgrade the access control system.
Problems with access control
The location of water infrastructure is remote and large. This means that effective security is a real challenge. At present, most water plants use brass padlocks and keys. The problem with using traditional mechanical locks is that absolutely no one can specify who has been there and what they have done. Even before the next physical inspection of the site, you cannot tell if anyone else has broken in.
In addition, employees will spend a lot of time traveling to and from a site, fetching and returning keys back and forth. The frequent flow of keys increases the chance of loss or theft. In addition, water plants often need to cooperate with third parties, usually for inspection, service or maintenance, and the compliance process has also become a major issue.
Solution
The best solution is to use the Vanma smart lock management system.
Audit function
Unlike traditional mechanical locks, Vanma smart lock system has an audit trail function. In other words, managers can check who unlocked the lock at when, and which door was unlocked through the website. This solves the problem of untraced ability. Between two physical inspections, if someone breaks in, it is clear by checking the records.
Flexible authorization
Vanma smart lock can set the unlocking time in the system. For example, employees can only be unlocked from 10 am to 6 pm from Monday to Friday. Then he can only use the key to unlock the lock during this time period. Once this time period is exceeded, even if the employee has the key, he cannot unlock the lock. This solves the problem that employees need to frequent the site to retrieve and return the keys.
This also provides a solution for cooperation with third parties.
Blacklist
Don’t worry about losing the key. Vanma smart lock has a blacklist function. After the lost key is added to the blacklist, it will not have permission to unlock it.
