Johnson Controls introduces Tyco Illustra Insight, an intelligent frictionless access control management solution

Johnson Controls, the globally renowned company for smart and sustainable buildings, has launched Tyco Illustra Insight, an intelligent frictionless access management solution for work environments, where there is a requirement for a high level of security, without disrupting the constant flow of employees, contractors and visitors.

The solution offers an unobtrusive, stress free way for authorised people to smoothly move around buildings, places and spaces, and yet provides security personnel with a highly effective solution for controlling and visually verifying who has access to restricted areas.

Tyco Illustra Insight

Enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning algorithms, Tyco Illustra Insight combines the functionality of access control management software and a leading-edge facial recognition camera, to simultaneously recognise multiple people, as they approach an entrance.

The device’s integrated LEDs, combined with audible ‘Welcome/Deny’ messaging ensure employees, contractors and visitors intuitively know, if they are authorised to enter an area.

Other important features include:

• Anti-spoofing technology utilises two lenses and a combination of IR and RGB video, to distinguish between an actual person and a printed image or video of them.
• Faces can be accurately detected from up to three metres away, with simultaneous multi-face processing in less than one second, improving the flow of approved users.
• The cameras can be deployed at the optimal height of five to six feet for facial recognition within a wide field of view and varying heights, including wheelchair and taller users.

Versatile access management solution

Tyco Illustra Insight removes the need for access control cards or buttons to be pushed"

Rafael Schrijvers, the Access Control Product Manager, Security Products, Johnson Controls, said “The range of applications where our new technology will be able to significantly contribute to enhancing a safer working environment is extremely wide and varied.”

Rafael Schrijvers adds, “In healthcare and cleanroom environments, Tyco Illustra Insight removes the need for access control cards or buttons to be pushed, both of which are highly relevant to our customers, amid the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.”

Integrated access control system

At airports, it negates the risk of card sharing and tailgating into security sensitive areas. In addition to facial recognition, Illustra Insight can flag persons of interest for an integrated access control system to action, for instance, generating an alert when a VIP is identified.

Installers and system integrators will no doubt find many other imaginative ways, in which this innovative combination of access control and video surveillance technologies, enabled by artificial intelligence, can deliver real-life benefits to their end-user clients.

Part of OpenBlue dynamic platform

Tyco Illustra Insight is part of the OpenBlue dynamic platform from Johnson Controls which, through its OpenBlue Healthy Buildings set of solutions, provides access to technology, such as smart equipment, infection control, contact tracing and social distance monitoring and other connected devices to make shared spaces safer, agile and more sustainable.

OpenBlue was designed with agility, flexibility and scalability in mind

OpenBlue was designed with agility, flexibility and scalability in mind, in order to enable buildings to become dynamic spaces for customers that deliver environments that have memory, intelligence and unique identity.

Seamless integration

Although designed for seamless integration with Johnson Controls access control brands, the Tyco Illustra Insight solution can also be interconnected to any access control system, with on-board traditional and modern wiring protocols.

Additional features include:

• Sleek form factor with full colour customisable LED light ring and configurable audible messages maintain an inviting environment, with intuitive visual and audible responses for visitors and employees.
• The unique two-piece design of Tyco Illustra Insight ensures that the network interface is in a safe, protected area, with encrypted protocols used, in order to ensure secure communications between the Tyco Illustra Insight camera head and the Insight control unit.
• Tyco Illustra Insight has been engineered in line with the Johnson Controls OpenBlue Cyber Solutions Product Security Programme, designed to minimise the possibility of introducing vulnerabilities into electronic security solutions.

New standard for automated video and access control

Tyco Illustra Insight’s light ring and the option to record personalised greetings in a number of different languages are just two ways, in which design engineers have endeavored to create a unique user experience, which enhances the device’s ability to facilitate the free flow of people and set a new standard for automated video and access control.