Building an Energy Efficient Green Access Control System

When planning an access control system, the correct choice of lock and power supply technology can make a significant impact on energy efficiency, cost of ownership and environmental carbon emissions.

Borer Data Systems have, over the last 5 years applied "Clean Design ” concepts to reduce the energy consumption of our products and systems.

The Clean Design Objectives we set ourselves together with our choice of technology have enabled us to integrate the best of mainstream technologies such as the Mifare Smart Cards, Power over Ethernet, TCP/IP and Controller Area Network into our products.

Our design objectives encompass EU regulations such as the RoHS (Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances) Directive and the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Directive and we are in line with the new EuP (Energy using Products) Directive:

• By designing our products to be smaller more compact, the quantity of raw materials by mass and consequently the energy required to manufacture them is reduced.
• Smaller and more compact products use less packaging therefore the cost of shipping and the amount of packaging to ship the products is reduced
• By reducing the complexity of systems the amount and complexity of the infrastructure (data and power cables, mains outlets, batteries and consequently enclosure to house the equipment) and amount of time required to deploy / install the product is reduced
• By designing products to use the available energy more efficiently, the amount of energy consumed is reduced
• By providing monitoring and control tools which enable remedial tasks to be undertaken remotely, the number of post installation service calls (fuel miles) required to service and repair equipment is reduced
• By using less raw materials to manufacture the product and designing in ease of disassembly more of the product can be recycled and the volume of waste to dispose of at the end of its life cycle is reduced

As a result we have reduced product mass (the quantity of raw materials used in the manufacture and deployment of our products) and reduced energy demands in line with the requirements of and in advance of the introduction of the EuP directive. Borer produce systems and equipment that are considerably smaller and more power frugal than competitive systems.

By designing equipment with lower power demands, Borer is able to take advantage of technologies such as “Power over Ethernet” (PoE), to deliver power to a network of devices down CAT5 cable.

Borer provides systems that deliver power across CAT5e data cables from a single central monitored power supply. This eliminates the need, at every door, for a local power supply, enclosure, transformer, battery, controller and AC power outlet and cable.ad, lock, data cable and mains power spur as well as a control box and power supply installed at every door.

Borer only need a CAT5e cable, electric lock and Borer’s intelligent reader to ensure maximum security. Consequently, there is by mass up to 80% less equipment to install, resulting in more rapid installation, lower maintenance charges and less to recycle at the end of the system’s life.

The technology pioneered by Borer allows all but real equipment failures to be resolved by sending a command via email, web cast or mobile text message to a Midspan Bridge, instructing it to remove and reconnect power to the port hosting the failed device. The Midspan Bridge will power reset the relevant port thereby resetting all devices connected to it; often this is all that is needed to resolve a reported fault.

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