BSIA member protects Translink’s train cleaning facility

Northern Ireland’s public transport provider, Translink, has installed its £11.4 million Belfast train cleaning facility with the help of one BSIA member’s security system.

The train cleaning facility allows ten trains on a nightly/daily basis to undergo intensive cleaning. The BSIA member’s system has the ability to control up to 32 doors via a web browser. As a web based access control system, the BSIA’s security facility allows full administration of system functions using any networked PC with Microsoft Internet Explorer installed.

Onsite workers can only gain access using a valid proximity card, ensuring that the train wash is free from unauthorised access and threats of vandalism. Central to the facility design was the construction of a dedicated operations room where system administrators can view the entire site.

The user can make use of the system’s features including Real Time Event Display (RTED), which monitors and controls all associated doors and gates throughout the facility. RTED proved particularly useful for monitoring the 7m high electronic roller shutters that open automatically via sensors as trains approach the facility. As the shutters open RTED instantaneously alerts the Translink duty controller of shutter movements thereby signaling train arrivals and departures.

Further benefits of the system include the user remotely opening external entry gates located just off the railway track. This enables contract engineers that have not been issued with permanent ID passes the ability to gain temporary access.

The BSIA member’s security system can be expanded to suit the needs of its user so if Translink’s requirements change in the future, the security system can easily be upgraded.

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