Panel / Controller
The intermediate hardware that aggregates one or more readers, makes the local access-grant decision, drives the door strike / mag-lock, and reports events upstream. Panels are the "brain" of the PACS in the field — even when the central PACS server is unreachable, the panel can still authorize a known credential against its local cache (called "offline mode" or "stand-alone mode").
Different vendors expose panels at different levels of abstraction. CCURE 9000 exposes panels and door controllers as discrete objects via Software House's intelligent controller line (iSTAR). Pro-Watch panels include Honeywell's PW6K and PW7K series. Lenel uses LNL-series intelligent controllers. PACOM uses 8000 / 8003 series Network Access Modules.
AE Guardian reconciles panel definitions as part of asset reconciliation for soc-insights coverage — important because a panel going offline is one of the most operationally critical PACS events to detect and surface in SOC dashboards.
What other systems call it
Per-vendor / per-standard terminology for this same concept.
| System | Term / Notes |
|---|---|
 AlertEnterprise | Panel / Controller (in Guardian Asset model) |
| LELenel | Panel (LNL-series controller) |
| SHSoftware House C·CURE | Panel (iSTAR controller; objects in ACVSCore.Access) |
| HOHoneywell | Panel (PW6K / PW7K series) |
| PAPACOM | NAM (Network Access Module) |
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Connectors in the catalog that reference this concept.