Financial institutions throughout Australia and
New Zealand have trusted the Tecom Challenger
since 1990. Forcefield can enhance the security
that Challenger provides with features such as
Automated Guard Tours, CCTV Integration and
Remote Alarm Monitoring.

Forcefield is particularly suited to multi-site
and multioperator deployments. Forcefield can
link all the locations together over secure and
low bandwidth Local Area Networks or Wide
Area Networks for centralised or distributed
management of the security system.

Critical infrastructures such as electricity, water
and waste, by their nature, are often located
across large and remote areas. Forcefield can
provide real-time remote alarm monitoring and
management of these sites while providing
unmatched flexibility and low bandwidth network
connections to each facility.

Government facilities require the ability to
authenticate user access to restricted areas.
When a user access event occurs, Forcefield can
display the event details and the user photo ID for verification against video footage.

Industrial and Mining facilities not only require
protection of assets but also the safety of people. Forcefield may be integrated with OH&S policies, providing critical information on the location of personnel such as On-Site Reports and Muster Reporting, vital in case of an emergency.

Whether a small school or large university, people management and protection of secure areas are key requirements. Forcefield can provide almost unlimited control of users door access, floor access and alarm access, and because Forcefield can manage up to 1 million users, there is always capacity to grow!

Forcefield allows for modular expansion without replacing your existing hardware. You can keep
growing the size of your Forcefield system by adding additional nodes which provide a greater number of panel connections, workstations
and digital video recorders. There are various node options provided, with different levels of connectivity and performance.

Because Forcefield is designed to integrate with Interlogix’s own video surveillance platform, you can have peace of mind that your integrated
access and video system will always work together, ensuring continual integration support
for your solution and investment.

Most systems rely on a single central server. However Forcefield’s Multi Node architecture allows all Challenger panels, DVR video systems and operator workstations in a Forcefield system to be distributed across different nodes preventing one single point of failure. If a node fails only the
devices attributed to that node are offline allowing continued communication with all other devices in the system.

Our robust training and certification programs ensure you can confidently choose from a range
of trained and assessed system installers with the skills and knowledge to professionally deploy and maintain a Forcefield system.

Forcefield allows for modular expansion without replacing your existing hardware. You can keep
growing the size of your Forcefield system by adding additional nodes which provide a greater number of panel connections, workstations
and digital video recorders. There are various node options provided, with different levels of connectivity and performance.

Forcefield incorporates custom site-plans with security devices illustrated on the map as icons that simplify alarm handling and system control. Points in alarm on the map will flash and display their status with the click of a mouse.Operators can even respond to an icon in alarm from the
same graphical interface.

Forcefield reporting features are both extensive and flexible
with filters providing a number of report parameters. Once
a report is produced it can be sent to screen, printer, hard
drive or exported as a CSV file.

An operator can view live and playback camera footage
as well as control PTZ cameras from a graphical site
map of the building. Alarm points on a map flash when in
alarm and can be linked directly to video footage for easy
investigation.

Forcefield provides advanced management of door and lift
access for multiple users and user profiles. Other access
features include door monitoring of selected doors to be
controlled (opened) on a workstation basis complete with
photo ID of the user attempting to gain access. This can be
compared against video footage.

Multi-View maybe used to display one to sixteen camera views * on a single screen, in various configurations.
Programmable dwell times allow automatic switching between camera views. Multi-View also supports the use of multiple video monitors to be connected to any suitable
Forcefield Window’s workstation.

The Hot Standby option allows for a redundant Forcefield node to be added to the system which will continuously mirror the main Forcefield node database. In the event of failure of the main Forcefield node the Hot Standby node will automatically take over to allow for minimum disruption to the security system.

Forcefield has its own facility to design, print and display photo ID information for each system user. Using the Interlogix Smart Card programmer, Forcefield can program
or re-program Interlogix Smart Cards with information from the Forcefield user database. User images can be imported into Forcefield and saved with the user data, or printed onto user cards if required.

Forcefield allows for additional nodes to be added to expand its capacity for Challenger panels and Windows
clients in the system. A Multi-Node architecture allows for distributed processing of events received from the Challenger panels. This eliminates the risk of a single point
of failure.

Triggering automatically performs a pre-defined function based on a specific alarm/access condition or point in time. With video integration triggering can be used to display a
particular camera view or to tag a recording on a DVR. Triggering can also be setup to generate an automatic email from an event condition. Triggering can be used as
an interface to your third party devices, such as duress pagers and CCTV switches, making it one of the most powerful features available in the security industry today.

A Guard Tour is a defined series of checkpoints at which a security guard must check in, within specified time
intervals. Failure to check in on time triggers an alarm or other event. Forcefield allows the programming of 1000 guard tours. Each guard tour contains a list of up to 1000 checkpoints that a Guard must activate within a restricted time.

Multiple site locations or multiple tenants sharing a common security system require the ability to only
manage the part of the security system for which they are
responsible. The Forcefield database can be partitioned into virtual subsystems allowing the software to restrict the operator from viewing records, and controlling and
receiving events that are not within their physical domain or
area of responsibility.

Forcefield can manage operator permissions and workflows only allowing operators system access to their job functions, such as specific buildings, areas or menu functions. This also includes restricting their ability to view video footage of unrelated areas.