Armatura AHSC-1000 Multi-Biometric Access Control Panel

Overview

The Armatura AHSC-1000 is a central access control panel for large places such as campuses, multi-building offices and sites that have outgrown small fixed-door controllers. Rather than being a two or four door panel, it grows door by door: one AHSC-1000 expands to 129 access points, 258 readers, 32 door units and 12,801 inputs and outputs through add-on modules.

It matches faces, fingerprints, palms, cards and phone credentials on the panel itself, and talks to readers and the server over encrypted links.

Is it right for you?

• Suits an organisation planning a large, growing access control system managed from one platform.
• For a single door or a handful of doors, an AHDU door unit on its own is the simpler choice.
• It is a bare board for a wall mount housing, so plan an enclosure such as the Armatura ENC-1B.
• The usable configuration depends on how many doors, readers and expansion modules you need, so it is sized per project.

Key features

• Expands to 129 access points, 258 readers and 32 door units, with 12,801 inputs and outputs through expansion modules; 1 access point is on board.
• Multi-biometric matching on the panel: 100,000 faces and 100,000 fingerprints in 1:1 mode, 50,000 of each in 1:N mode, and 5,000 palms (1:1) or 3,000 (1:N).
• 800,000 cards (1:1) or 400,000 (1:N), plus 400,000 BLE, NFC or dynamic QR code mobile credentials (1:N).
• EAL6+ secure element, AES-128 encryption on the reader side and AES-256 with TLS 1.2 to the server.
• TCP/IP, RS485 and Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP), so it takes OSDP readers rather than Wiegand only.
• Powered over Power over Ethernet (PoE) IEEE 802.3at or 9 to 24 V DC, plus or minus 20%, which simplifies cabling in a comms room.
• Works and stores from -30 to 70 °C, in a wall mount ABS-PC UL-94 V2 housing.

What else you need

AHDU door units for each door beyond the one on board, AHEB expansion modules for extra inputs and outputs, and OSDP readers.

A PoE 802.3at switch port or a 9 to 24 V DC supply, and an enclosure such as the Armatura ENC-1B.

The Armatura One platform and its licences, which scale with the door and reader count.

Installation

An access control installer or integrator should fit it. The job involves mounting the panel in an enclosure in a comms room, connecting PoE or DC power, networking it to the server, wiring or networking the door units and expansion modules, and enrolling credentials in the platform.

Software and licences

Managed by the Armatura One platform, where licensing scales with the number of doors and readers.

Before you buy

• Send us the door count and reader types so the panel, expansion modules and platform licence can be sized together.