Patent ID: 8836470

Claim:
A system for interfacing facility access with control, said system comprising: a plurality of functional devices adapted to receive control instructions and generate trains of digital pulses wherein said trains of digital pulses relate to various facility access functionalities of said devices and at least some of said trains of pulses have different format protocols in terms of one or more of number of pulses, pulse width and time period between pulses; a network including at least one control unit adapted to generate said control instructions; and at least one electronic bridge interfacing said devices and said network, said bridge having input/output circuits adapted to receive said control instructions, pass said control instructions to said devices, and detect said trains of digital pulses from said devices, and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to receive said trains of digital pulses from said input/output circuits, start processing said trains of digital pulses into strings of data signals without first determining said different format protocols of said trains of digital pulses, build packets including said strings of data signals, and send said packets to said control unit via said network.