How to Configure an Interlock Zone
To provide a secure interlock area, one of the doors must be locked when the external input, such as door status sensor, indicates that the other door is opened. This feature is usually considered important in laboratories or operation rooms where security of dust is of high concern.
Applied version: BioStar2 v2.6
Only Local zone is supported for interlock zone
CoreStation should be a RS485 Master of the local zone
FW : v1.1.0 or higher version
The interlock zone will be supported by CoreStation firmware. It means that you can use any devices for Interlock Zone Configuration as slave devices of CoreStation.
Please note that Corestation does not support FaceStation F2 and BioStation 3 as Slave devices.
1. Activate BioStar 2 AC license as standard or higher level For license inquiries, please contact to our sales representative.
2. Confirm the zone menu
3. Go to Device menu
4. Add CoreStation and its slave devices
5. Confirm the firmware version of the CoreStation is 1.1.0 or higher version
6. Go to [Door] menu and make two doors
7. Confirm if each door is configured for Door Sensor
8. Click [Zone]
9. Add Interlock Zone
10. Configure the door of the Interlock Zone
11. If you would like to make an alert sound or output signal, set an alarm of the Interlock zone
12. To confirm the configuration of the Interlock setting, go to Monitoring
13. Open one of the doors and keep the opened status, then try to authentication to same door
14. Confirm the [Interlock door open denied alarm] as follows
