Guides
Step-by-step walkthroughs on access control data, alarms, reporting and AI.
The Builders Hub for physical security
Practical guides, tools and sample data for people who build with access control, video and alarm systems.
What you'll find here
Hands-on material from people who work on these systems every day.
Videos
Short screen recordings that show the work, not slides.
Tools
Free tools such as query templates and an open event schema.
Sample data
Synthetic datasets for testing ideas without touching production records.
Topics
Browse by the part of the stack you work on.
PACS
Controllers, readers, doors, credentials and alarms.
VMS
Cameras, recordings and video events.
Edge hardware
Camera analytics, sensors, intrusion panels and the devices around them.
Operations
In-house operators, third-party monitoring, PSIM and the procedures that tie them together.
Anatomy of an alarm
Access control, cameras and tickets each record part of the same event. Lined up on one timeline and labeled by an expert, they become something you can learn from, and train AI on.
incident_2041synthetic example
ACCESSDoor forced open · East Entry, Lab Building
CAMERAPerson detected · Cam E-03 · 1 track
ACCESSDoor held open 2m31s · East Entry
TICKETGuard on site: door propped for a delivery
↓ lined up and labeled by an expert
label: operational_exception
response: confirm delivery, secure door, no escalation
why: scheduled delivery window, one person, no repeat events
Building in the open
Shared resources for the field, starting with these.
- Open event schema · coming soon
- Synthetic datasets · coming soon
- Benchmarks · coming soon
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