[committee] UWA security checkin iButton

[Matt Didcoe]

Hi Nick et al.

The guards are now required to comply with a series of patrol check points
as part of the contract with the third party provider to ensure UWA gets
what it pays for - I believe the ones in Cameron Hall would have likely
been done no earlier than some time in December but given I didn't notice
it the other week when I was in I'd say even more recently since UWA staff
came back.

What you're see are iButton's as you suggested which are read into a piece
of software called UniGuard. It was first rolled out at UWA over at
University Hall when security started patrolling over there.

I can't imagine why someone would touch one so perhaps it did just fall off

Have fun
[MRD]


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Nick Bannon <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> UWA security has a check-in method for doing their rounds - anyone know
> how long it's been in place?
>
> There's random undocumented iButton's glued to various campus walls,
> which seemed a little odd to me:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire
>
> ...apparently security guards walk around with a reader wand that can
> record a visit log when they contact the button. There's one downstairs
> at Cameron Hall and there _was_ one at the clubroom door - now a small
> round patch on the plasterboard.
>
> One of the guards was talking to [AMS] about it: but of course it probably
> wasn't actually one of us that levered the button off. Unless it fell
> off due to bad contact to the plasterboard? Anyway, if they have a log
> of when it was last checked, maybe we'll at least see if our internal
> clubroom door was open since then.
>
> Nick.
>
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