Friendship Children’s Center Uses Brivo to Ensure Greater Child Safety
User-friendly Brivo ACS gives staff and parents peace of mind
Bethesda, MD, September 1, 2007 — Brivo Systems, LLC, the leader in Web applications for access control and security systems, today announced that the Friendship Children’s Center has installed Brivo ACS at their two childcare facilities in the greater Washington, DC, area. Right-One specified and installed the Brivo systems.
The Friendship Children’s Center is responsible for the safety and well-being of more than 100 children, parents, and teachers, along with many visitors and other care providers who need to access the two sites to drop off and pick up children. While the school’s original location had a legacy IEI system that worked fine, as the school’s enrollment has grown, so have the school’s security needs and the old system could not keep up with demands.
The old system worked on PIN numbers for access and such numbers could be transferred from person to person, with little control. “We could change the PIN of course,” said Executive Director Lisa Danahy, “but that involved sending out a notice to everyone and still did not alleviate the control problem. Care providers, friends, and relatives of the families, who on occasion were asked to pick up a child, could have access at any time. While we never had any problems, other than inconvenience, it is our job to provide safety for our students and to assure parents of a secure environment, so we needed the best technology.”
Right-One recommended and installed Brivo ACS at both buildings and Danahy has been impressed. “I can control parent access and print personal ID cards for staff. I wanted a system that is controllable for both locations, and one that I can manage from a single account. Brivo gives me that management control and flexibility and is very user friendly. In fact, the Brivo inside sales staff gave me an online 10-minute tutorial and when the Right-One staff finished putting in the system, they wanted to train me. The installer had to laugh because I showed him I already knew everything I needed to know to run the system.”
Ease-of-use, single account management, and improved access control and flexibility all combine to create a much safer environment and a satisfied end user. Friendship’s Danahy also uses the system’s notifications feature to send an alert to her cell phone in the event of unauthorized attempted access, a pulled door, a door left open, and more.
The benefits for the end user don’t stop there. “The Brivo system has certainly given us and our parents exceptional peace of mind. The system enables me to track employees and assess operations; for example, I can monitor busy periods, like parent pick-ups, and then staff accordingly. It’s becoming clear that I can use the system in many ways to improve security and our service to our customers.”
“We are excited about the success we are having in the education and now childcare markets,” commented Bob Mosler, Brivo Executive VP for Sales and Marketing. “Friendship is also a good example of how access control data can be used for non-security applications to cut costs, improve productivity, and even raise revenues.”
For more information on Brivo and its offerings, contact Brivo toll–free at 1-866-692-7486, option 1, or email sales@brivo.com.
About Brivo Systems
Brivo Systems, LLC, is an online physical access control system provider for organizations that need to protect and remotely monitor buildings and perimeter entry points using Internet and wireless technologies. The company’s hardware products and software services enable businesses to control physical access to offices, warehouses, remote/unmanned buildings, or sensitive areas such as computer rooms, where real-time control and accountability of entry are important. The company's Web-hosted solutions are based on open technologies that connect dispersed facilities to the Internet using secure, wide-area communications.
Brivo is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Duchossois Group.
About the Duchossois Group
The Duchossois Group is a privately held holding company, headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois, which owns AMX, The Chamberlain Group and Milestone AV Technologies. Duchossois also holds strategic interests in Churchill Downs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CHDN), and a number of other diversified businesses.
For more information about Brivo or the Brivo Access Control System, contact Brivo toll-free at 1-866-692-7486, option 1 or by email at sales@brivo.com.
