Click Add... to enter a new tracking area or Edit... to modify the currently selected tracking area. This will bring up the Tracking Area Detail window.
Tracking Area
Enter a name for the tracking area in the space provided. It can consist of twenty characters including letters, numbers, and spaces.
Type
Areas that can be set up fall under one of three categories: Exit Areas, Tracking Areas, and Muster Areas. Below are a
description of each.
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Exit Area
When you first view the Tracking Areas Data List you will
notice a predefined area called EXIT. It is defined by a reader or group of readers that are used to remove card read records from the tracking and muster areas. The perception of this “area” is that when a person presents a card at one of these readers, they have left the areas of concern (e.g., they have gone home, or to another facility). They will no longer be tracked in reference to a possible muster call. This option can be edited to add or remove readers, but the area itself cannot be deleted.
NOTE: The Exit area is also used in the Attendance Report to indicate an end to a calculation.
Tracking Area
A tracking area is an area containing readers at which presented cards are tracked in case of a muster call. The first time a
person presents a card at one of these readers, the read event for that particular card is recorded and may be viewed in the “Non-Muster Card Transactions” screen. Each time that same card is presented at one of the readers in that area, the previous record for that card is replaced by the new record. The screen will
display the most recent records of card reads from an individual area or from all areas at one time. Reports can be generated in the same manner. All reads from each card will continue to be tracked in a similar manner until the card is presented at a muster reader or an exit reader. When a card is presented at a muster reader, the record of the card is moved to the Muster Area Screen. When a card is presented at an exit area reader, it is removed from the muster system.
NOTE: Tracking area definitions can also be used in Card/History Reports and Attendance Reports.
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Muster Area
Like tracking areas, muster areas are also logical areas, not defined by the hardwiring of the system. They contain readers that will only be used by card users if there is a call for muster (in the event of a disaster, for example). Several different muster areas can be created. The Muster Area Card Transaction screen will display card read events. A report can be run on cards presented in an individual muster area or at all muster areas. In normal conditions there will be no transactions being recorded in the Muster Area Card Transaction screen. It will only be used if there is a muster call (usually in an emergency).
Defining Readers
Available Readers
Along the left of the Tracking Areas Detail Window are all readers that are available to define the area. Click on a reader to move it to the Selected Readers List.
Readers selected for a muster area will not be available for any other muster area or a tracking area. Readers selected for a tracking area will be available for other tracking areas, but will NOT be available for a muster area.
Selected Readers
As readers are clicked on from the Available Readers list, they are moved to this list. These are the readers that define the area.
To remove readers from this list, select them and click the Delete button.
Click OK to save your changes to the Tracking Area or Cancel to exit the Tracking Areas Detail screen without saving your changes.
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Nesting Areas
The concept of nesting is not unique to the muster system, but does take on considerable significance when planning areas for disaster management, and can change the way muster reports will be run. When an area is considered “nested” in another area, its readers are also part of that other area. For example, note the diagram below.
The first general principle of nesting is that readers used to enter an area or move about within the area should be listed under the tracking area in the Tracking Areas Database. If we focus on the B and C areas shown above, we can consider those areas in two ways.
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Not Nested
If they are not nested, then Readers 3 and 6 would be listed for Area B in the database because those are the readers that a card would be presented at to allow access to Area B. Reader 5
would be listed for Area C.
Nested
If we consider these same areas to be nested, we would consider anyone who is in Area C as ALSO in Area B. In that case, we list Readers 3, 5, and 6 under Area B and Reader 5 again under Area C. There can be many levels of “nesting”. There could be another room inside of Area C, which would be Nested under both B and C.
The diagram would have the following Tracking Area definitions when nesting:
Tracking Area A Readers 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
(Presenting at any of these readers shows the person in Tracking Area A. Readers 2 and 7 both leave Tracking Area A.)
Tracking Area B Readers 3, 5, 6 (reader 4 leaves Tracking Area B) Tracking Area C Reader 5 (reader 6 leaves Tracking Area C) Tracking Area D Reader 8 (reader 9 leaves Tracking Area D) Reader E (Exit Reader)
Reader E causes the cardholder information to be deleted from the non-muster or muster view screens. The card holder has exited the tracking area.
Reader M (Muster Reader)
Reader M causes card holders to appear in the muster view screen as per selected filter. It also removes card holders from the non-muster view.
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