Authors
Aitov V.
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Degree
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Postgraduate, Moscow State University of Food Production |
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E-mail
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aitov@mgupp.ru |
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Location
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Moscow |
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Articles
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Real-time integration of campus management system and e-learning platformHistorically automation of various business areas in universities was implemented not as holistic
and integrated information systems. On the contrary these systems were isolated from each other. But
all of them could require data of other systems, often in real-time and furthermore with support of write
operations. In many universities attempts were made in order to eliminate the problem of integration
by creation a single holistic system, but all of these attempts were unsuccessful. Thus, integration is
necessary to combine individual systems into a unified information system of university. For example
the access control system must be integrated with main information system. Besides, this integration
must be in real-time. Access control system also can make many connections (sql-queries) to
database of main information system. In this article the integration of main information system and elearning
platform was considered. MOODLE acts as the e-learning platform, 1C: Enterprise
acts as
the main information system. Administration of users in manual mode is difficult and ineffective when
too many users are in a system (more than 7000 in our case). The e-learning platform uses the main
information system as a provider of user database. Any record in this database contains username,
password, photo, etc. As a result of this integration, transfer of user`s photo between systems in realtime
was achieved in a high load environment.
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Access control system in a higher education institution
Access control systems (ACS) currently available on the market are presented as universal. Initially,
they were developed without taking into account the specifics and problems of universities. Moreover,
they are self-sufficient and can be deployed and implemented without any integration with the corporate
information system (CIS) of the university. Many business processes of the university are built on
the assumption that the ACS operates with actual data during the deciding on admission.
The access system of the university when making a decision on admission should have up-to-date
information on the financial balance of residents and students on a contractual basis, acting as a powerful
tool that improves financial discipline, and reduces payment arrears. Development of the ACS as
an integral part of the university’s unified information system is a relevant objective.
The architecture of the ACS of the university in terms of software can be implemented as a centralized
or distributed one. In a centralized architecture, the ACS software is installed on a dedicated
server, in a distributed architecture — directly to controllers (microcomputers). The article discusses
the advantages and disadvantages of the centralized and distributed ACS architectures, it is shown that
the developed ACS contains elements of both architectures.
A library for reading electronic cards using the wiegand protocol is presented. The process of controlling
the turnstile from the microcontroller point of view is described. The scheme of interaction
of microcomputer and microcontroller is given. The mechanism of controller data synchronization
with the central database is considered. The ACS presented in this article was introduced in 2013 and
is now successfully used at the Moscow State University of Food Production, as well as in several
other universities.
At the moment of this article publication there are about 23 million records in the event log, 72 access
control devices (turnstiles, auto barriers, electronic locks) are registered in the territorially-distributed
system. Based on the results of its deployment, the management stated the increase in the efficiency
of the university’s work in a field of personnel discipline, business processes integration, and
time savings due to ease of use.
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