Integrated security system having network enabled access control and interface devices
View Patent ↗An integrated security system operating over a network includes a network security controller coupled to the network having a relational database including portal objects and related resources represented in at least one table in the relational database. The system further includes at least one network node having a local database coupled to the network adapted to receive predetermined resource information from the relational database, an event generator coupled to the local database to provide at least one portal event in response to the predetermined resource information received by the local database, and a finite state portal controller coupled to the network and the event generator for providing at least one of an action and a global event in response to the at least one portal event.
1. An integrated security system operating over a network comprising:
a network security controller coupled to the network comprising:
a relational database including portal objects and related resources represented in at least one table in the relational database; at least one network node comprising:
a local database coupled to the network adapted to receive predetermined resource information from the relational database;
an event generator coupled to the local database to provide at least one portal event in response to the predetermined resource information received by the local database, the event generator further comprises a protocol normalizer and a data stream converter coupled to the protocol normalizer and adapted to receive data from a field device; and
a finite state portal controller coupled to the network and the event generator for providing at least one of an action and a global event in response to the at least one portal event.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the field device is at least one of:
a reader module;
an input module;
an output module;
a communications module and
a panel.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the event generator comprises:
a supervision controller;
an I/O controller coupled to the supervision controller and adapted to receive signals from at least one of:
an input extension;
an output extension;
a temperature extension; and
an access extension.
4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a network node controller coupled to the database and coupled to the at least one network node.
5. The system of claim 1 wherein the network security controller further comprises an extensible markup language generator and the at least one network node local database downloads an extensible markup language representation of the predetermined resource information.
6. The system of claim 5 wherein the extensible markup language representation comprises XML.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one global event is represented using an extensible markup language representation.
8. The system of claim 7 wherein the extensible markup language representation comprises XML.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein the network security controller further comprises a web server coupled to the network and the database to provide at least one user interface to the integrated security system in at least one browser.