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New SAP solution from Kaba: Consistent access control system right up to the office door 

For the connection of a Kaba sub-system to SAP, Kaba is presenting at the Systems its new solution B-COMM® ERP for SAP ERP CardLink™. This makes it possible for all SAP users to conveniently integrate mechatronic stand-alone access components into existing access control systems ‘online’ without any cabling effort. The key feature of this software application is the SAP-certified interface, which ensures faultless data transfer between the individual SAP modules and the peripheral collection devices. The new solution guarantees the integration of digital stand-alone components such as the Kaba elolegic digital cylinder or the Kaba elolegic c-lever in the SAP world and thus supports future challenges of a modern organization. Its great scalability means that the system grows with the company and adapts to the respective processes. The concept facilitates a consistent access control system right up to the individual office door. 

With the new Kaba solution, SAP customers save costs for cabling and other infrastructure effort. With the mechatronic components, access points can be secured quickly and at a high level of safety without great planning effort. The integrated management and the access authorizations of the online access system as well as the stand-alone components in one system mean that the transparency of the authorizations and thus also the general level of safety is increased.                 

In case of stand-access control systems with mechanical lock cylinders, the missing data connection from the authorization system to the doors represented a weak point to date. With changes to the access authorizations, the cylinders had to be re-programmed in a time-consuming manner on site. With the CardLink solution from Kaba, this cost-intensive process is no longer necessary. Here individual access rights for the digital components are saved on the personal access medium (e. g. badge, key tags or keys). The data are transmitted to the stand-alone components via the RFID medium and are used during the identification process, unnoticed by the user. The system works in practice like this: When an employee enters his office in the morning, he first books his starting time for work in the entrance area of the building at the Kaba Benzing time recording terminal B-Net 93 xx. The access authorization data valid for this week are transmitted to his badge during the booking in a matter of seconds. This means that he can e.g. pass through the door to his floor and by holding his badge up to the digital cylinder open his own office door by turning the door knob. Whether it’s the Kaba elolegic digital cylinder or c-level, both components can be installed at the door without the need for conversion measures and are absolutely independent of the lock used. They are sabotage-proof with drilling protection according to VdS category B and are also suitable for fire protection doors. 

In addition to this comfort, the CardLink system offers a particularly important safety function. Instead of a general badge or key authorization, the operator can define a validation of the data carrier that has a time limit. If, for example, a validation period of two days is defined, the identification medium cannot be used any longer after these two days unless it has been validated again in the meantime. This new validation is done at the time recording terminal or at the Kaba authorization scanner B-Net 91 07. 

New employees, employees from external companies and visitors can be incorporated quickly and conveniently into the access system. Visitors thus receive a visitor badge at the reception that has been validated via the authorization scanner. They receive authorizations for certain lifts, areas and doors. Consequently, users can move freely within the authorized areas and within a precisely defined time frame. Employees also need to regularly validate their badges. If authorization data change, an update will be requested at the terminal or via the Intranet/Internet.