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detectors,
Volume 27 as well as anti-tailgating/pig- 425,000 passages. September 2018 Edition
gybacking sensors to verify and clear The Main Control sends warnings of impending
the users into the building.
failures to the control console so the end user can
call for service prior to the portal breaking.
This type of mantrap has an average of four
passages per minute for single slide doors Data from the last 1500 cycles can be downloaded
or six passages per minute with bi-parting to assist in the trouble shooting process.
doors.
Since these technologies are the
only means for positive access
control they are mainly used in
high risk facilities but are increa-
sonly become the norm for public
facilities due to the rise of violent
crime in schools, workplaces, and
retail stores.
West Virginia’s American Access
Control Systems (AACS) portals are
manufactured in the US by Veterans
using components that are manufac-
tured in the US.
End users provided huge amounts of in-
put during the development stages with
an end result of extremely reliable, user
friendly, robust and long-lasting security
portals.
AACS portals currently installed in the
field have over two million passages
each over the last nine years, the fail-
ure rate is nominal at one failure every
AACS Series 300 Security Portal
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