Importance of electronic access control systems and the need for their testing

The electronic access control system is an integral part of the corporate culture across all types of organizations. In terms of safety, it is one of the alarm systems and due to their nature and importance, we consider them to be the most commonly used alarm systems in commercial practice. The primary role of the electronic access control system is to permit or deny persons or entities access to the protected or guarded area of the organization. Therefore, it is important to ensure that the electronic access control system and all its parts are correctly selected.The correct functionality and hence the reliability of the electronic access control system depends on the correct evaluation of the access request. Therefore, the design should take care to select the appropriate verification technology. In the past, radio communication was the most commonly used verification technology, but there is a trend in the use of biometric identification data. The reason for their considerable expansion is the efficiency and comfort of the verified person, as they do not need to carry any identification elements, i.e. cards and the like. For this reason, at the Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Žilina, we focused our research and experimental activities on the experimental testing of the reliability of biometric readers of electronic access control systems. We also paid attention to various non-standard attempts to overcome and thus unauthorized entry. For the efficiency of experimental testing and the involvement of individual components, we created a test structure in which the system components were mounted during the experiment. The paper points out the achieved value of the reliability of biometric readers of electronic input control systems from different perspectives.