Managing access

The reading unit PITreader from Pilz is just this type of flex­ible system with which access to plant and machinery can be clearly con­trolled. The machine oper­a­tors carry their indi­vidual per­mis­sion on a key in this case and use this to autho­rise them­selves at the reading unit PITreader. The fact that this is based on a com­plex per­mis­sion matrix or spec­i­fi­ca­tions reg­u­lated across the com­pany is not apparent when you look at the small key.

So how do the data get onto the key? The user uses the inte­grated PITreader web server to easily pro­gram the asso­ci­ated PITreader key ­transponder key and stores the user data and per­mis­sions on it. All impor­tant set­tings are made directly at the PITreader, which speeds up ­com­mis­sioning, including the con­fig­u­ra­tion of inter­faces.

After set­ting up the keys, man­age­ment now plays the impor­tant role of main­taining the per­mis­sions and keeping them updated. The PIT Transponder Man­ager (PTM) is avail­able to help with this task: On the graph­ical inter­face, the admin­is­trator ­man­ages their PITreader key user set­tings, block lists and user data. With pre-con­fig­ured tem­plates, indi­vidual user per­mis­sions are written to the PITreader key in just a few steps. The import func­tion allows infor­ma­tion to be quickly read directly into the inte­grated data­base.

If sev­eral reading units PITreader are in use at a com­pany, these devices are organ­ised using the User Authen­ti­ca­tion Ser­vice (UAS). It enables the con­nec­tion of man­age­ment sys­tems such as the PTM or a dif­ferent user man­age­ment soft­ware in the com­pany with PITreader. UAS has a cen­tral autho­ri­sa­tion data­base for users, thereby enabling the import and assign­ment of data from the PTM or even the dis­tri­b­u­tion of block lists to all PITreaders. Admin­is­tra­tors can view the cur­rent status of all PITreaders and dis­play a diag­nostic list. In this way, a quick overview is also pos­sible with the use of sev­eral PITreaders.

Whether indi­vidual machines or a machine park used world­wide: with these dig­ital tools, an effi­cient access and per­mis­sion system based on PITreader can be easily imple­mented and ­man­aged.