Elevator Control Configuration Guide

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1 Elevator Control Configuration Guide Date: 11/01/2016 Revision A

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3 IMPORTANT INFORMATION - MUST READ 1) Verify you have enough spare relays prior to configuring elevator control. The console relay (#73) is not available for elevator control. 2) Elevator Control is a standard feature in CardAccess and is available in all versions of CardAccess. 3) Prior to configuring elevator control, read this document thoroughly and determine the exact functionality that s needed. 3

4 Scope This document contains information regarding programming the CardAccess software for elevator control. Prior to starting this configuration, verify you have enough spare relays on the Continental Controller. In general, you will need at least one relay for each floor (call button). The console Relay (#73) is not available to be used for elevators. Related Documents CardAccess 3000 V2.9.x software manual 4

5 Elevator Control The Elevator Access tab will be visible only when the following options are enabled for a Reader record: The Using Elevator Readers check box is selected in Panels screen General tab. Fig The Using Elevator Readers check box in Panels screen General tab. Note: Unless the Using Elevator Readers check box is selected, the Elevator radio button option will not be available for selection in the Readers screen. The Reader type is set to Elevator in Readers screen General tab. Fig The Reader Type section in Readers General tab- Elevator option selected. A click on the Elevator Access tab will display Readers screen similar to the figure shown below. 5

6 Fig The Readers Elevator Access tab. The tab is divided into an upper half and a lower half. The upper half lists the access groups that have the current reader included. The lower half of the screen lists all of the relays that have been defined in the Relays screen (for more information refer the section Relays ). Generally, for a given reader you highlight a selected access group in the top half of the screen, and you click whichever relays you wish to activate for that access group in the bottom half of the screen. Functionally, you are first setting the mode of a given reader to Elevator. Then, you are using the Elevator Access tab to assign selected relays to selected access groups for that reader only. You have then created a situation where a card holder who belongs to a given access group can access a reader that has relays assigned for that access group, and fire each one of those relays simultaneously upon the presentation of a valid badge. In this way, elevator call buttons can be activated for selected floors. See the section titled Elevator Control at the end of this chapter for more detailed information on Elevator Control. You can elect to assign relays to all access groups listed or none of the access groups listed. First, select an access group on the top half of the screen by clicking it. Then click the checkbox for each relay that you wish to fire when a card with that access group is presented. 6

7 Elevator Control Continental Instruments access control panel can be used to perform the function of Elevator Control. Elevator Control implies the following: The ability of the Continental access control panels to limit access into and out of the elevator cab (call the elevator and open and close the elevator door) The ability of the Continental panels to limit access to a given floor or set of floors (enable or disable selected floor selection buttons). In general, the above limits can be assigned on a per person basis or can permit everyone access based on a time schedule. Before you can apply Continental hardware to an elevator control situation, it will be helpful to define the problems you wish to solve. In the case of an elevator control application, you must decide on the following: Do you need to limit access to the elevator cab? Do you need to limit access to a given floor or set of floors? Who is to have access to the elevator cab? Who is allowed access to each floor? Once the problem set is defined, Continental s line of sophisticated hardware can be applied to solve each of the elevator problems in turn. Let s create a few examples to illustrate the configuration issues. 7

8 Example 1 Summary Full Control In this example we want to limit access to the Elevator cab and we want to limit which floors a given rider on the elevator has access to. Example 2 Summary Limited Floor Access Only In this example, we want to allow anyone into the elevator cab, but we want to limit which floors a given rider on the elevator has access to. For both examples let s say we will have ten floor selection buttons inside the elevator. The lower five floors will be available to anyone who enters the elevator cab, and the top five selection buttons will remain unavailable unless you are specially authorized. In other words, there are a number of unrestricted floors in the building and some restricted floors too. Hardware Considerations The hardware you choose for the application will depend on the problem definition. Let s talk about some generalities first. In the simplest CardAccess installation, our panel may be connected to a switch, which is mounted at a door. When that switch is activated, the panel activates a built in relay, which is connected to an electronic door lock, which unlocks the door. So, Continental panels can be viewed as intelligent switching devices. Activate an input; the panel activates a relay based on rules you set in the CardAccess software. The type of input device used to control a Continental panel is optional. You can use a switch, a keypad or a reader. The panel is flexible enough to accept any or all of those devices as input devices. All of those input devices have but one mission inside the panel hardware when an input device is triggered, a relay or a group of relays will be activated based on rules that you as the CardAccess Administrator set up in the software. Note: Whenever you go to Configuration->Readers and create a new door definition on any panel, some automatic input and relay assignments are already made for you on the Readers screen Door Control Tab. You need to keep this in mind when you start to assign relays and inputs for your elevator application. Look in the readers screen to 8

9 see what inputs and relays have already been used before you try to assign them to your elevator. Read and understand the entire Panel Installation and Service manuals. All the specifications and connection information for the panels and all of their accessories are in those manuals. Let s look at a typical elevator. It has a push button on the outside of the cab so you can summon the elevator. Once you enter the cab, you usually find several floor selection buttons. Thus, to add security to the typical elevator you will perhaps limit who goes into the elevator cab and/or you will limit what selection buttons are made available to a given rider. Example Elevator Control Implementations Example 1 Full Control General Considerations Since we want to limit access to the elevator cab in this example, we can t permit a push button on the wall outside of the cab. We will want to replace the button with a card reader or a keypad. This will require that anyone who wishes to gain access to the elevator, present the system with some means to identify them before being permitted to enter the elevator cab. Since the elevator call button is a very simple device that basically shorts two wires together, we can replace that button with a relay that performs the same function. Generally, you will disconnect and remove the elevator s floor call button, and bring that call button s wires back to a relay on the Continental panel. When we activate that relay, it will short the call wires (in place of the button). When you turn off that relay it will release the short across the call button wires. The relay will mimic the operation of the call button. Except now, we have software control over the function of that relay. The elevator call button input will see what we want it to see, and we will gain control over when we want it to happen. Input Considerations 9

10 Our goal in example 1 is to place an input device on the wall in place of the call button. You will be required to run the appropriate wire type from the reader to wherever the panel is mounted. Regarding input device types, you have three options: Card Reader Keypad Button A card reader or keypad are commonly used. This will force anyone wanting to gain entry to the elevator to identify themselves to the CardAccess system. This is very useful for creating detailed reports of who was using the elevator, how much they used it and when. Note that you could also connect a button to the Continental panel in place of a keypad or reader. You may think that this was exactly what we had originally, why do it? It is not really what we had originally. When you insert the Continental panel in between the call button and the elevator control circuits, it allows you to have more control over the call button s operation. You can create history files of when the button was used. You can disable the button outside of specified hours of the day. Those functions may not be available from the elevator manufacturer, so you pick up some rudimentary control of granting access to the elevator cab. By far the biggest reason to insert a CardAccess system into an elevator control application is to gain identity control capability. You can prevent unauthorized use of the elevator and you can identify who was in the elevator, at what time of day. So for example 1, since we want to be able to identify the elevator occupants, we will add a reader. There are several types of card readers available. We will choose a proximity reader available from Continental Instruments (with a 36 bit output, say). Output Considerations The second half of the problem for this example stated that we wanted to control the floor selection buttons inside the elevator cab. Again, a floor selection button is simply a momentary switch. 10

11 Our goal here will be to splice a relay into one wire (the hot wire, say) of each floor selection switch. We only need to put relays in the circuits of the switches that we want to control. These relays will hold the line open unless the relay is energized by the panel. With the connection between the elevator circuits and the floor selection switches now broken and normally open, the floor call button will be dead to anyone entering the elevator cab. Now we have software control over whether that switch will be active or not. In the CardAccess software, you now have several choices of how you want to approach control of these switched floor selection buttons. Regarding the Operation of Relays Relays can be energized on a time schedule Relays can be energized based on some input change of status Relays can be made to energize when a particular badge or group of badges are presented at a reader. Relays can be made to energize on certain types of badge or door events (see the section on virtual inputs). Our example 1 project requires that we use a reader at the elevator door to activate the floor selection buttons. Since we are using access cards to gain entry to the elevator cab, let s create a situation where we activate a floor button or a group of buttons based on which cardholder presents their card. What this means inside the CardAccess software is that we will program a card to activate a number of relays. If you present a valid card, and that card is allowed at that elevator, at that time of day, then we will allow the relays that are connected to (some or all of) the elevator floor selection buttons to be energized (completing the floor button circuits). Example 2 Limited Floor Access Only General Discussion 11

12 In this example, we will allow everyone access into the elevator cab. However, we want some buttons on the elevator control panel to be available to everyone, and some buttons to be available to only those riders that we authorize. Example 2 is identical in many respects to example 1, except that we will not add a card reader at the elevator entrance. We will leave the call button in place so anyone may gain entry to the elevator cab. However, we will mount a reader inside the elevator cab so that once a rider is inside the elevator, they can present an access card to that reader. We will then control which buttons become available for that user. We will not discuss the similarities to example 1, just the expected differences. The method of connecting relays, readers and inputs is identical to what you have already read in example 1. Below are the differences: Example 2 Implementation We will leave the elevator call button in place outside the elevator door. We will move the reader to inside the elevator cab. The connection for this reader is the same as example 1. There are some floor selection buttons that will be available to every elevator passenger. We will leave those floor selection buttons connected to the standard elevator controls (they will not be connected to the Continental panel) As in the previous example, let s assume that we have 10 total floor selection buttons. Five of those buttons are unrestricted and five are restricted. Further, regarding those five restricted buttons, there will be some riders that have permission to use restricted buttons. Let s also say that there will be no rider who has access to each of the five floors In both examples, only the 5 restricted buttons need to be connected to the Continental panel Software Setup for Elevator Control Step 1 Program the Panel for Elevator Control 12

13 To set a panel up to support elevator readers, do the following. Open Panels screen by clicking on Configuration->Panels menu options in CardAccess main screen. Click on New button to create a new panel definition or the Edit button to edit an existing definition. Click the Using Elevator Readers check box (so it is checked). Fig The Panels Screen Using Elevator Readers checkbox highlighted. Click on Save button in the toolbar. Step 2 Program the Reader for Elevator Control Open the Readers screen by clicking on Configuration->Readers menu options in CardAccess main screen. Click on New button to create a new reader definition or the Edit button to edit an existing definition. 13

14 Click on Elevator radio button in the Reader Type section. Once Elevator is selected, the Elevator Access folder tab will become visible. Fig Readers screen in General Tab showing Elevator button and Elevator Access tab highlighted. Step 3 Program the Elevator Access Groups Open the Readers screen by clicking on Configuration->Readers menu options in CardAccess main screen. Assuming that you have accomplished step 2 on at least one reader, use the scrollbar to locate a reader that has a Reader Type set to Elevator. 14

15 Click on Edit button in the toolbar. Click on Elevator Access tab. Readers screen in this tab will look similar to the figure shown below. Fig The Readers screen in Elevator Access tab Notice that the Elevator Access tab is divided into an upper and lower section. The upper section is a listing of all of the access groups that have been programmed into the CardAccess software that include the reader that you are currently looking at. The object in this screen is to select one or more access groups that already belong to cardholders, to whom you wish to allow access to elevator call buttons. You select the given access group in the top part of the screen by clicking it, and then click on each relay in the Relay Call Buttons section of the screen. Each relay that has a check mark beside it will 15

16 fire whenever a badge with the selected access group is presented to the reader you are currently editing. Fig Maintenance Access Group provided access to all of the elevator call buttons by checking every Relay Call-Button. If your access group section is blank, you need to create some in the Access Groups screen (if none are created). Or, if you see access groups in the Access Groups screen but none appear in the Elevator Access tab of the reader you are editing, you need to include the reader you are currently editing in some of your existing access groups. For example, in the figure above reader 2-1 is highlighted. If there were no access groups visible in the Access Groups half of the folder tab, we would open the Access Groups screen. 16

17 We would then add a schedule to reader 2-1 in some existing access group(s), if there were existing access groups that we wanted to use. Or, we would create a new access group where we would want to make sure that reader 2-1 did have a time schedule programmed. Once reader 2-1 appears in any access group (and has a time schedule assigned), that access group becomes visible in the Elevator Access tab of the Readers screen. The lower section of the Elevator Access tab is a listing of all of the Relays that have been programmed into the CardAccess software. If the lower half of the screen is blank, open the Relays screen, available from the Configuration menu and create some relay definitions. See the section titled Relays for more information. 17