Lee Frazier of Allegion sent me this Fixed-it Friday photo, which once again illustrates the age-old problem of security vs. convenience. This door serves as a secondary entrance for a school building, and the latch was taped by summer camp staff. As students and teachers head back to school, closed and latched doors are critical to a building’s exterior security layer. A latch monitor switch can help to ensure the latch position – I recommend this type of switch vs. just monitoring the door position.
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This also points out another truism about security… If you don’t take into account how your population uses a building and place access control at the points they need (or will use due to weather, convenience, time, and the like), your system is going to get bypassed.
User behavior creates risk, but users have tasks and needs that must be understood.
Lori. You are singing my song. If you want to do it really right you will have both a door position switch and latch position. Additionally, the DPS should be adjustable and as far as i know only Flair Electronics makes such a thing. Is anyone aware of others? At last check Allegion does not make such a switch.
If I had a nickel for everytime I saw this ,I’d be rich …lol . Almost every factory ,
commercial or industrial, school , university, hospital has a door like this. And they wonder why they have security breaches. STAND ALONE door alarms that force security to go to the door to silence the alarm are a great deterrent. Or have it integrated into the access control system for door or latch positioning albeit that is sometimes the deterrent due to the additional cost .
But better understanding of your security system is the key here