SPS access control system: a new user interface

This document describes the project to implement at CERN new trends in industrial control systems and integrate new requirements and functions requested by users. This project will be the testing ground for the specification of procedures in the Access Control and Machine Interlock of LHC. The last modification in the Access Control System to the primary beam areas was made in 1995, and this new project is to improve the fields of personal security, access security and the introduction of modern communication networks used in the industrial control systems. Inside the cycle model of project life, it is at the present time in the test phase in terms of security and exploitation inside the Accelerator Decelerator (AD) project. The presence of Authorization Management System (AMS) to guarantee the automatic information distribution of authorizations to controlled areas is in line with this project.