📘 Access Control Systems Handbook: Design, Integration, and Sample Layouts for Commercial and Residential Security

Unlock the full potential of modern security with this comprehensive guide to access control system design, installation, and programming. Whether you're a security integrator, electrical engineer, IT professional, or facility manager, this handbook is your go-to resource for building code-compliant, scalable, and future-ready access control solutions.

✔ What You'll Learn:

• Fundamental principles of access control and physical security

• Detailed breakdowns of components: readers, controllers, locks, REX, DPS, power systems, and software

• Wiring schematics, device schedules, and panel programming logic

• Full sample layouts for homes, offices, schools, and enterprise environments

• Code references including NFPA 101, IBC, and ADA for compliant design

• Practical templates: planning checklists, symbol legends, and panel configurations

• Vendor-specific insights including Lenel OnGuard, Software House C•CURE 9000, Genetec, and more

Whether you're designing a two-door office system or an enterprise-wide security platform, this book arms you with the tools, standards, and diagrams needed to do it right—from concept to commissioning.

🔧 Includes:

• Sample floor plans with annotated access device layouts

• Schematic wiring diagrams and logic flow for intelligent controllers

• A complete comparison of top industry vendors

• Programming examples for Lenel panels

• Design checklists, code references, and professional symbol libraries