Access Control

To view your current access permissions, please click here (log in with your RZ ID and RZ password).

Note: The page mentioned above is only accessible from within the university’s wired network. From outside the network (including when using eduroam Wi-Fi), you’ll need an OpenVPN connection.

Information on Access Control for Buildings and Rooms

On behalf of the university, the Computer Center operates a specialized system—known as access control—to grant authorized individuals access to buildings, rooms, the computers within them, and parking lots. In addition to protecting the equipment in the rooms from theft or unauthorized use, this access control system also facilitates access to the rooms, exterior doors, and barriers without the need for a cumbersome key management system. In addition, the access of authorized individuals is recorded anonymously to enable the tracking of any potential misuse.

The following rooms, buildings, and barriers are connected to the access control system:

  • Computer rooms / laboratories / lecture halls / seminar rooms:
    • Data Center: H Building, 2nd floor
    • Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering: C Building
    • Faculty of Electrical Engineering: A and E Buildings
    • Faculty of Design: K, L, and M Buildings
    • Faculty of Computer Science: J, M, and W Buildings
    • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering: D and F Buildings
    • Faculty of Economics: W Building
    • ITW and IBI: H2 Building
    • Seminar Rooms: H2 Building
  • Exterior doors:
  • Barriers:
    • No. 1: Staff parking lot near the H Building (access via Brunnenlechgäßchen)
    • No. 2: Staff parking lot at the A Building (access via Brunnenlechgäßchen)
    • No. 3: Employee parking lot at Building B (access via Brunnenlechgäßchen)
    • No. 4: Employee parking lot near Building C (access via Brunnenlechgäßchen)
    • No. 5: Staff parking lot south of Building D (access via Baumgartnerstraße)
    • No. 6: Student parking lot at Building U (access via Baumgartnerstraße)
    • No. 7: Staff underground parking garage at the KLM / J Building (access via Schülestraße)
    • No. 8: Delivery zone near the W Building (access via Friedberger Straße)
    • No. 9: Staff parking lot: lower parking deck at the W Building (access via Friedberger Str.)
    • No. 10: Student parking lot: upper parking deck at the W Building (access via Friedberger Str.)

The library and the computer labs of the Computer Center are generally open to all members of the university; however, computer lab H3.10 is accessible only to members of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Access to all other rooms is generally restricted to members of the respective department or those with special authorization. For special access permissions, please contact:

  • Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering: Secretary’s Office
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering: Access to the labs is granted by the responsible lab engineers. Applications for the A and E buildings can be submitted here.
  • Faculty of Design: Secretariat
  • Faculty of Computer Science: Administrative Office
  • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering: Office
  • Faculty of Economics: Office
  • Parent-Child Rooms: Family Services
  • H2 Building: Ms. Schwarz for ITW, Ms. Kroen for IBI

How It Works

The controlled doors are normally locked but can be opened with an Augsburg Campus Card registered in the access control system. For more information about the Augsburg Campus Card (features, purchase, etc.), please click here.

The following personalized card types issued by Augsburg University of Applied Sciences are automatically registered in the access control system:

  • Student ID
  • Employee ID
  • Library card
  • Parking pass

The non-personalized “guest meal cards,” which can be obtained from the Student Services vending machines (dining hall, cafeteria), cannot be registered in the access control system

Next to the secured doors, there is a card reader mounted on the wall. It is located at approximately the same height as the door handle, but not necessarily right next to it—sometimes it’s on the opposite side of the door. The reader is light gray. You can recognize it by a bright yellow indicator light (LED). Simply hold the card close to it and wait for a response. Then remove the card from the reader. You can even leave the card in a pocket and hold the pocket up to the reader. However, you must ensure that there are no other cards in the pocket that also use RFID technology (e.g., a new ID card with an RFID chip). To ensure your card’s long service life, you should never bend or crease it.

Normally, only the yellow circular light on the card readers is lit. When the door opens, a short beep sounds and the green light in the shape of a checkmark lights up. You now have four seconds to open the door. If you do not have access authorization, a long beep sounds and the red light shaped like an “X” appears. If you leave a room and want to re-enter it after a while, the door opener may not respond at first; it will only respond when the chip card is held up to the reader a second time. A longer beep will sound, and the green and red lights will illuminate simultaneously.

This is because opening a controlled door for the “first time” means you are registering your presence in that room. This is logged in the access control system, so that the system “knows” at all times who is in or has been in which room. Of course, this is difficult to achieve or maintain in practice. That is why we rely on your cooperation and your own best interests.

First and foremost, you should log out of the room whenever possible! Since we have only one card reader per door (due to cost considerations), we simply assume that a “second” swipe of your card at the same door constitutes your logout from the room. Therefore, the door opener is not needed in this case. We’ll have to put up with the inconvenience of having to swipe your card twice when re-entering the room (e.g., after using the restroom). However, if—which shouldn’t actually happen—the door is left open, you don’t need a card. You’re already checked in to the room, and for a short time you don’t need to check out or check back in.

For longer absences from the room, such as going to lunch in the cafeteria, you should properly check out and then check back in. Otherwise, if something unauthorized were to occur in the room during your absence, it could be mistakenly assumed that you were present at the time. For example, there have been instances where people from outside the university entered our computer labs and engaged in “misuse” of the computers. This is also why the computer lab doors should always be kept closed.

By the way, you can skip logging out if you go directly to another monitored room. The system will then automatically re-log you in when you log in there. It’s important to us: Please be wary if someone does not log in to a room using a card!

To “encourage” proper check-in and check-out procedures, the login process has been expanded on the computers in the computer labs. When you attempt to log in to Windows or Solaris, the system not only verifies your credentials (username, password) but also checks whether you’re logged into the room. If you’re not, the login attempt will be aborted without further notice.

Guidelines

As a member of Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, you can obtain an Augsburg Campus Card, which is registered in the access control system. This card grants you access, among other things, to the computer labs of the Computer Center and the computers located there, as well as to the library, during their respective hours of operation. Depending on your degree program or faculty, you will also receive access permissions to certain rooms in your faculty’s buildings, as well as to building entrance doors and gates.

This chip card functions as a key. It may only be used by you personally and only for its intended purpose. In particular, you may not pass the chip card on to others or use it to grant others access. Your access to buildings, rooms, and computers is recorded anonymously (chip card number). In this context, Augsburg University of Applied Sciences expressly points out that in cases of misuse, damage, theft, etc., your presence in the rooms in question and at the times in question can be traced. In the event of improper use of the chip card—particularly if the chip card is passed on to third parties—Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (THA) may exercise its right to manage its premises and restrict access privileges geographically and/or temporally, or revoke them entirely.

The chip card thus replaces a key but does not waive any of the conditions under which you are permitted to use the rooms as well as the computers and equipment within them. In the rooms of the computer center and so-called open labs, you may use the computers and printers, but only in accordance with the guidelines for using Technical University of Applied Sciences Augsburg’ IT infrastructure.

You will only be granted access to so-called “closed labs” in specific cases, namely for project work, theses, or similar purposes. In such cases, you may only use the computers and equipment expressly designated for your work. The applicable security regulations must be observed in all cases.

HSA-Application-for-Extended-Access-A-and-E-Buildings-v1.0.pdf (1.2 MB)