[Swansea Hackspace] TechHub Buzzer/Access Project

[djdavies83]

Paxton do door entry systems that are cross compatible with a large number of existing devices, some of their hardware will also work work with a number of Voip devises, even smartphone apps.

When I did a installation training course on Paxton they said a smartphone with a Voip app will also run over 3G allowing someone who is not on site to buzz people it.

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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> </div><div>Date:05/11/2014  10:06  (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] TechHub Buzzer/Access Project </div><div>
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the existing buzzer system is very clever. There is a buzzer on the outside
gate, and a second buzzer on the inside door.

The victim pushes the button for the floor he wants, and the handset that
is picked up will then know which door release to activate.... the handset
has to be put down to accept the call from the next buzzer at the next
portal.

The audio is fairly crucial as people could be pushing the wrong button for
the wrong floor... and as there are thousands of people passing that green
gate every day, you don't want to buzz anybody through.

The important thing in what I have to say is the putting the device back
'on hook' is very important, and if not done properly, it will impede on
the passage of the victim through the portals and onto into the inner
sanctum.

A VERY easy way over the problem would be a big amplified loudspeaker
attached to the handset, so when the device is brought off-hook, everybody
in the tech hub could hear whoever is announcing himself... so as Justin
suggests, some predefined messages could actually work really well here.

Devices goes 'off-hook' - pre defined message 'who's there please' -
loudpeaker is activated - and the voice booms across the room deafening
everybody in the room and disturbs anybody who was trying to concentrate on
their work... I'm beginning to prefer the RTP streaming audio server
solution... trouble with that is opening a client to monitor the stream can
take some time to establish the connection.

Aren't there existing modules to link these door release systems into
existing telephone exchange systems?

Looking at the specs of these Door systems, most of them have a POTS
interface built in allowing a DECT phone or similar to be used

On 4 November 2014 20:59, Justin Mitchell <justin at discordia.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 18:49 +0000, Paul Harwood wrote:
> > What about http://proto-pic.co.uk/categories/wireless/xbee.html
> >
> >
> > mentioned here:
>
> XBee sell two main kinds of module afaics
>
> ZigBee 10-100m low power modules.
> WiFi modules.
>
> neither help with the audio capture/playback part, which that article
> seems to skip over the detail of, they just talk about saving power by
> shutting down the wireless data when theres no audio to send
>
> List of problems with possible answers
>
> 1. sense buzzer/call, activate door release
> 1a. easy, any I/O capable board will do; Arduino, RPi, Spark.io, etc
>
> 2. capture audio, and play audio to the wired connection
> 2a. an RPi with a USB sound card type device
> 2b. A2D and D2A convertors connected to a your favourite microcontroller
> 2c. A dedicated VOIP convertor device
>
> 3. Digitise the audio
> 3a. The audio will need to be in a suitable format such as RTP used by
> VOIP systems, audio compression/decompression is not trivial, neither is
> the RTP protocol, but there are libraries to help
>
> 4. Transmit audio and control data
> 4a. Zigbee and bluetooth are too short range
> 4b. unlicensed radio bands need more specialist transceivers and tend to
> also be fairly limited range indoors
> 4c. wifi at least is ubiquitous and roaming is easy
>
> 5. mobile handset
> 4a. build more or less a mirror of the base station end, ugly
> 4b. use a smart phone or tablet, pretty but more coding
>
>
>
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