Command

Centre
Complete site control from one
central management platform

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 This is Command Centre
Command Centre is the powerful software at the heart of Gallagher security’s integrated
solutions, providing a central management platform designed to give you complete site control.

You’re in control

Command Centre is fully configurable to meet the unique needs of Fully scalable and supported by continuous investment in research
your site, from perimeter solutions, intelligent access control and and development, Command Centre will support your future
building management right through to critical sites with some of growth and changing security requirements. Compliant with many
today’s highest security requirements. requirements and standards globally, Command Centre also allows
you to roll out the same security solutions in any location.
Command Centre provides centralized site visibility and
monitoring, ensuring situational awareness for all buildings and the This is Command Centre, designed with your people, site, business
perimeter on both local and remote sites. Information is displayed and building management in mind.
in real-time, allowing a quick and accurate response to security
threats, while data visualization and reporting enables you to make
operational decisions with greater precision.

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 People management Site management
Keep people safe with intelligent access Protect your people and assets with
control management, powerful emergency enhanced site monitoring and situational
response capabilities, mobile access awareness, alarm management, effective
solutions and simple, effective cardholder perimeter security, advanced reporting
and credential management. and flexible mobile solutions, all controlled
from one powerful platform.

Business management Building management

Ensure business continuity and operational Create efficiencies through integration
flow through efficient management of with building management systems to
workforce compliance and safety. Provide reduce energy costs, identify critical
proof of compliance with accurate, timely faults early, and support modern work
auditing and reporting. environments.

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 People management

Command Centre ensures your duty of care is met with a high degree of control and
certainty when it comes to people, their location and movement on site.

Get the peace of mind that comes from intelligent access control management, powerful
emergency response capabilities, and efficient credential and cardholder management.
Combined with Command Centre’s advanced reporting and auditing features, you can be
confident that the right people are in the right places at the right times.

Intelligent access control Visitor and contractor management

Whether there are 10 or 100,000 cardholders in your system, Command Centre features offer easy, seamless management of
Command Centre allows you to efficiently and reliably manage contractors and visitors to your site.
all access permissions for employees, contractors and visitors to
your site. • Manage and control access for visitors with extensive pre-
registration and reception-based functionality.
Seamless integration allows Command Centre to interface to and • Allow sites to share host, visit and visitor configuration so that
exchange information with third-party systems, from HR systems visitors arriving on site can be managed from either a reception
to CCTV and elevators, allowing you to automate access decisions workstation or a kiosk.
and proactively manage site access from one software platform.
• Automatically remove access on visit completion, or when a
Schedules can be conveniently configured to control access to
visitor badges their card at an off site reader.
rooms and resources.
• Customize the sign in process to allow greater flexibility in the
visitor experience. Notify the host or escort via email or SMS
when a visitor arrives.
Easy credential management • Quickly identify pre-registered visitors using QR or barcodes.

• Efficiently manage time and attendance reporting to help

Command Centre integrates with your HR system to allow you to
reconcile contractor time on site against what is invoiced.
simply and efficiently manage your people, saving time and money.

Record details of lost, stolen, disabled, expired or active card

status against individuals in Command Centre, creating irrefutable
audit trails. Manage cardholder access, biometric credentials,
cards and photo identification, and record any number of
personal data fields (PDFs) against individuals for easy access to
information.

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Powerful emergency response

In the event of a site lockdown, emergency situation or serious place. The Broadcast Notifications solution provides fast, relevant
security threat, every second counts. Command Centre relays communication to cardholders via email, text message or push
everything that happens on site in real-time, enabling a swift notification.
and accurate response that supports emergency management
processes and significantly improves evacuation times. Command Centre also supports off site monitoring, with the ability
to immediately transmit alarms to a remote monitoring station
When an emergency, threat or breach is detected, Command using industry standard Contact ID data format. When a security
Centre allows you to quickly identify where people are on site breach occurs the monitoring station can dispatch guards to re-
and communicates important information to them, to keep them secure your business or call emergency services.
away from danger and ensure the right people are in the right

Mobile Connect App

Gallagher’s Mobile Connect App allows you to use a mobile device just like
an access card. Harnessing the power of Bluetooth® wireless technology,
Mobile Connect software interfaces directly with Gallagher Command
Centre, resulting in a highly secure access credential.

• Store access credentials for multiple sites.

• Eliminate the replacement cost of lost/stolen cards.
• Remote provisioning allows access to be set up in advance of a user
visiting a site.
• Optional two-factor authentication for added security (PIN or fingerprint).
• Reduce expenses with a subscription that allows for reissued credentials.
• Open doors and use long-range readers to access car parks.
• Arm and disarm alarms with triggered actions.
• Activate heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and lights.
• Access both Gallagher and Salto BLE* readers
*Requires Gallagher Command Centre v8.10 or later
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 Site management

Effective management of your total site security creates

a more efficient operating environment and helps ensure
business continuity. Reduce traditional security-related
costs and improve productivity, with reliable automation
and smart integrations provided by Command Centre.

Effective site monitoring

Command Centre Site Plans provide you with centralized site Use the Notifications solution in Command Centre to send email
management visibility and monitoring, for increased situational or text messages to cardholders about events; expiry notifications
awareness across both local and remote sites. Your Command of cards or competencies; select reports (scheduled); and send
Centre operators can easily see activity on site, giving them the Broadcast Notifications to defined lists of cardholders using push
tools to manage any situation that arises and ensuring a fast, notifications to their mobile device.
appropriate response to identified breaches.

Command Centre Mobile App

The Command Centre Mobile App securely connects your mobile device to
Command Centre. Get the flexibility to monitor and manage your systems
from any location, providing greater control and maximizing productivity.

• Manage alarms, respond to open door requests and perform common

overrides anywhere on site or off site.

• Manage temporary entry/exit points with the Mobile Access feature,

allowing secure access control anywhere on site.

• Trigger pre-configured actions, for example site or zone lockdowns.

• Allow guards to be more mobile and spend more time out on patrol.

• Use the Spot Check feature to challenge cardholders at a location, quickly

determine if they are authorized, record the reason for a fail, the location
details, and disable the card to prevent further use.

• Scan QR and barcodes for quick information display on cardholder or asset.

• Use the Mobile Evacuation feature to move cardholders into access zones
from a mobile device and monitor cardholder counts in monitored areas.

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Perimeter security Alarm management

Gallagher’s advanced perimeter security solutions are configured Monitor and acknowledge alarm activations anywhere on your site
and controlled by Command Centre, to provide effective with ease, including access control events, perimeter breaches
deterrence and detection on your site. and building management system alerts. Set entry and exit delays
for intruder alarm zones, program perimeter security fencing
Reliable, robust perimeter status reporting removes the alarms, and use schedules to automate access and alarm state
requirement for manual inspections and reduces the need for changes.
traditional physical security guards. Continuous measurement
and intelligent monitoring detects unauthorized entry or exit into Command Centre’s seamless integration with complementary
defined areas on your site, triggering instant alerts. False alarms third-party video systems provides you with a visual and audible
are reduced, allowing your guards to focus their attention where record of events associated with an alarm. You can view video as a
it’s most needed. live stream or use pre-event, during event and post-event footage
as reliable evidence if required.

Advanced site management reporting

Command Centre’s advanced reporting features allow you to

identify where hardware is operating well and make informed
decisions about where to focus your resources. For example,
sections of perimeter fencing where breach attempts are most
often detected may require more security presence.

Reliable door, zone and perimeter status reporting removes

the need for manual inspections, while integration with imaging
systems provides you with a visual and audible record of events,
which can be relied upon as evidence if required.

Command Centre gives you the ability to configure reports that

run on a repeating schedule, or in response to ad hoc events
such as a fire alarm. This easily customized, accurate and timely
reporting functionality reduces both administration time and cost
for your business.

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 Business management

Keep your employees safe, healthy and compliant, with the added benefits of reduced operational
disruption and increased productivity. Integrations between Command Centre and your HR systems,
alongside comprehensive reporting and audit functionality, allows you to efficiently implement,
enforce and report on business policies and processes at every point.

Ensure your workforce is competent and fit for work, proactively minimize risk, comply with policies,
regulations and standards, and meet health and safety requirements, using Command Centre and
physical security infrastructure.

Compliance Health and safety

Effectively manage compliance with your business policies, as well Make the wellbeing of your people a priority, with Command Centre
as a range of standards and regulations, by ensuring individuals functionality that automatically enforces business health and
accessing your site have the required clearances, credentials, safety policies, and helps you meet your duty of care to employees,
inductions, permits and licenses, and other competencies. contractors and visitors.

Business integration between Command Centre and your HR Ensure your employees are in a fit state to work and reduce the
system creates a single source of truth when managing data, risk of physical injury, damage to equipment, fines or production
ensuring competency-based access control decisions can be downtime. Command Centre’s Fatigue and Exposure Management
made using correct, regularly updated information. Integration with solution monitors the time cardholders spend in designated areas
Microsoft® Active Directory (AD) seamlessly links physical access and ensures they follow best practice requirements regarding shift
permissions to existing logical access permissions, eliminating and exposure time. The Alcolizer integration eliminates the serious
duplication of data entry, minimizing data errors, and allowing risks associated with employees working under the influence of
your operators to swiftly disable both logical and physical access alcohol, by measuring breath alcohol levels and denying access
permissions with the click of a button. upon a failed result.

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Advanced business management reporting

Command Centre’s flexible, powerful auditing and reporting capabilities

help you easily and quickly produce information to prove compliance with
regulations and requirements, while reducing administrative time and cost.

Real-time audit trails provide prompt and reliable decision-making

information, and a reference in the case of health and safety matters.
Automate and schedule reports to distribute information for those who
need it, analyse efficiency across your system and configure reports to run
on a repeating schedule or as a response to alarms or events.

Configure reports including page layout, file output type (.doc, .xls, .pdf or
.csv), filters within the report, and more. Command Centre uses industry-
leading standards and levels of encryption, so you can be confident your
data is protected.

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 Building management

Discover a smarter, more cost-effective way to operate. Command Centre ensures full visibility and
control of building management services at all times, with the confidence that resources are used to
their full potential and facilities are effectively managed.

Command Centre reporting allows you to fully track and monitor resource and room use, ensuring
full utilization of your lockers, and reducing the ongoing costs of heating, ventilation, air conditioning
and lighting.

Reduce energy costs

In a cost-driven and energy-conscious operating environment Make use of Gallagher’s online booking interface to schedule and
you need to be sure that your building management services are timetable rooms and resources. Via the online platform, rooms can
running correctly and not consuming power and resources when be searched, bookings can be made or rescheduled and course
they are not required. Integration with resource booking systems timetables can be planned and auto-scheduled.
identifies when a room is not in use and grants the ability to turn
off lights, air conditioning, heating and locks the door, creating High level communication between Command Centre and building

significant cost and energy savings. management systems using the BACnet protocol allows you
to streamline site operations. Monitor and control your HVAC
(heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), air quality and other
building management systems, saving you time and money.

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Identify critical faults early Support modern work environments

Early discovery of generator faults, refrigeration failure, Personalized access to office resources and car parking, agile
filtration pressure alerts, fuel control system overflow or general access control management, flexible locker solutions and the
mechanical fault alarms gives you time to respond before an ability to use mobile devices as credentials makes it easy for
issue becomes more difficult – and expensive – to fix. people to work in different ways and access the resources they
need, when they need them.

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