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ACUS Quick Start Guide
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• Door Settings: The Door Side Settings such as the situations when the event should be
generated (for example, Door Enabled, Forced Door Events, Door locked-unlocked,
Conditional Sensor turned On and so on) should be configured. While configuring door
settings, you may also assign schedule to the door, fixed and custom rules and authorized
persons who will have access to the door. For more details, visit the chapter Configuring
Doors in the ACUS User Manual .
• Relays and Sensors: Configuration of external Relays and Sensors in ACUS.
• Events and Alarms Configuration: After configuring the Persons, Doors, and Rules, you
can view events for the situations that you selected. You can configure the events in
ACUS. Events are notifications that ACUS system receives from the firmware whenever
the actions take place. For example, you can configure in ACUS that an event should be
generated every time someone forcibly opens a door. For more details, visit the chapter
Configuring Alarms and Events in the ACUS User Manual .
ACUS allows you to apply filters to access for Doors, Events, Persons, Alarms and Zones.
Tasks which you will perform often, you can set automations in ACUS. The tasks will be
performed automatically based on the schedules.
Apart from managing access for persons, ACUS allows you to manage access for Visitors.
Visitors are persons who are not the part of the company however keep visiting now and then
for various purposes. You may provide permission to Persons to manage their own visits and
visitors. At a broad level, you can manage access for visitors and apply rules for visitor
access.
When an account is created, the Main User ID is created. The Main user has access to
complete application and can perform any tasks in ACUS. The main user creates other user
ID’s and assigns profiles to them. The user’s access to ACUS (the functions that can be
available to the user) is decided by the user profile that the user belongs to.
1.4 Who will use ACUS?
The user profiles in ACUS are of the following types:
• Receptionist: Responsible for handling the office related routine tasks in the Access
Control system such as handling visitors, setting new appointments, managing existing
appointments and managing persons.
• Security Guard: Responsible for monitoring events and handling alarms. This includes
operating on the RAC elements such as closing a door or activating a relay or a command
in the process of handling an alarm.
• Security Manager: Responsible for the system configurations and settings including
managing persons and rules, managing other system users’ permissions, managing alarms
and events configurations, defining door groups and so on.
1.5 What are the dashboards used for?
The ACUS application is also organized based on the user profiles. When you log on as a
Main User, you can view three dashboards, they are: