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Physical Access Control Administration Using Building Information Models

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Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2012)

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Physical access control systems play a central role in the protection of critical infrastructures, where both the provision of timely access and preserving the security of sensitive areas are paramount. In this paper we discuss the shortcomings of existing approaches to the administration of physical access control in complex environments. At the heart of the problem is the current dependency on human administrators to reason about the implications of the provision or the revocation of staff access to an area within these facilities. We demonstrate how utilising Building Information Models (BIMs) and the capabilities they provide, including 3D representation of a facility and path-finding, may reduce the incidents of errors made by security administrators.

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  1. Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia

    Nimalaprakasan Skandhakumar, Farzad Salim, Jason Reid & Ed Dawson

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  1. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, 3125, Burwood, VIC, Australia

    Yang Xiang  & Wanlei Zhou  & 

  2. Computer Science Department, ETSI Informatica, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos, 29170, Malaga, Spain

    Javier Lopez

  3. Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Ave., 90089-2564, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    C.-C. Jay Kuo

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Skandhakumar, N., Salim, F., Reid, J., Dawson, E. (2012). Physical Access Control Administration Using Building Information Models. In: Xiang, Y., Lopez, J., Kuo, CC.J., Zhou, W. (eds) Cyberspace Safety and Security. CSS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7672. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35362-8_19

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