Case Study : Saudi Arabia - Saudi Telecom

The Saudi Telecom project is one of ELID's most ambitious undertakings; the establishment of an integrated access control and security management system that covers aproximately a thousand remote sites spread out across the country of Saudi  Arabia, all centrally monitored and controlled from the Saudi Telecom headquarters in Riyadh.

Access Control and Security Monitoring At All Facilities Nationwide

The Saudi Telecom Corporation maintains several hundred branch offices, transmission stations and other telecommunication infrastructure facilities throughout  Saudi Arabia. Each of these facilities is covered by a standalone-capable EL5000 Controller, which provides automated door card access control and alarm monitoring services for the entire facility. Approximately a thousand sites are configured this way.

Super-fast Data Communication Via Existing TCP/IP Leased Lines

Using Saudi Telecom's existing high-speed leased line infrastructure, each individual EL5000 Controller is connected to a Matrix V Regional Server located at one of four Saudi Telecom regional telecommunication centers located in strategic locations around Saudi Arabia. The Super-fast leased line connection provides the bandwidth capacity each high-performance regional server needs to manage access control and alarm monitoring at approximately 250 sites hundreds of kilometers away in real-time.

Centralized Monitoring and Control from Saudi Telecom Headquarters

All four regional control centers, in turn, are connected via leased lines to the Matrix V Central Enterprise Server located at the Saudi Telecom Headquarters. Here, each regional Matrix V Server system is integrated into an enterprise-wide Matrix V Enterprise level system. Saudi Telecom Headquarters is able to monitor and perform control functions at access control and security systems at any Saudi Telecom Facility anywhere in Saudi Arabia. Overall, this Matrix V system comprises of approximately 1,000 EL5000 Controllers and their subsidiary access control and alarm monitoring devices.

System Configuration

• 1000 EL5000 Controllers divided into 4 regions of approximate 250 Controllers each.
• Each individual EL5000 Controller controls up to 8 doors, 210 input points and 345 output relays.
• Each EL5000 Controller connects to one of 4 Regional Matrix V Server Systems, depending on the region category it belongs to. Each regional server allows up to 32 workstations to simultaneously monitor access control and alarm activity as well as perfom system configuration and operations on all facilities in its region.
• All four Regional Matrix V Server systems are connected to a single Matrix V Enterprise Server, located at the Saudi Telecom headquaters. Central monitoring and control of the entire system encompasssing all four regions is available here.