Emergency Lockdown
This article goes over how you can trigger an emergency lockdown event on your access controller
Updated over a week ago

Verkada access controllers are capable of emergency lockdowns events to help protect you, your colleagues, and your assets. During a lockdown event, all selected doors and/or buildings will be locked down, and access will be restricted to these doors to only authorized user groups.

Requirements

The user must be an Access Admin and an Access Site Admin to create the lockdown scenario.

Note: Lockdown outputs and inputs require that a lockdown scenario has been created for the site that the controller is installed in.

Process

Creating A Lockdown Scenario

To create a lockdown scenario follow the steps below:

  1. Select Access from the All Products menu in the top left-hand corner

  2. Select the site by clicking on the location button

  3. Select Lockdown

  4. Under the Lockdown Scenarios section, click on + Add Lockdown Scenario

  5. Follow the configuration window to configure the lockdown scenario

Initiating A Lockdown

Once a lockdown scenario has been created, users that have access to the scenario will have a new Lockdown button at the bottom left of their navigation bar. In the event a lockdown is needed, follow the following steps.

  1. Click the Lockdown button at the bottom of the navigation bar

  2. Select the type of lockdown you wish to initiate

  3. Select Activate to begin the lockdown

Releasing A Lockdown

This can be done by any user that has access to release the lockdown using the following steps.

  1. Click Release Lockdown on the red banner at the top of the page

  2. Click Confirm

Here is a short video showing how to initiate and release a lockdown.

Adding a Lockdown button using an AUX port

In addition to the options through Command seen above, you have the option to use auxiliary inputs to install physical buttons that can trigger lockdowns.

Buttons will need to be wired into the AUX cassette on your access controller (positive IN1 or IN2 and negative to GND). This is expected to be in a normally open (NO) circuit.

To add a lockdown button, you first want to navigate to your AC41's details page. At the bottom, there is an Auxiliary devices section.

  1. Click on + Add AUX to start the process to add an auxiliary device

  2. Select Input Lockdown in the dropdown menu

  3. Click Add

  4. Set a descriptive name

  5. Select the respective input the button is connected to on the AUX cassette

  6. Select the lockdown scenario you want the button to trigger

  7. No saving is needed, this page autosaves

AUX output ports

The NC, COM, and NO outputs are used for lockdown events. You can configure this in command in the Auxiliary devices section.

  1. Click on + Add AUX to start the process to add an auxiliary device

  2. Select Lockdown Output in the dropdown menu

  3. Click Add

  4. Set a descriptive name

  5. Select the lockdown scenario

  6. Select the AUX Output

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