Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart Relies on Brivo
Advanced, easy-to-use access control provides enhanced security for 800+ users
Bethesda, MD, March 24, 2010 – Brivo Systems LLC, the leader in Software as a Service applications for security management, today announced that the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda, Maryland, has deployed Brivo ACS WebService™ to increase safety and security at its metro-Washington DC campus. ResponseTECH is the integrator for the project.
Stone Ridge is a Catholic, independent college preparatory school for girls, serving students from Pre-K through grade 12, and is co-ed for day care, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten. The school is located on a 35-acre campus and has an enrollment of more than 650 students, and 167 faculty and staff. The Brivo system is installed in eight of the school’s 12 buildings.
“Before we installed Brivo, we had one of the competing access control systems,” related Patty Myler, Director of Facility. “If I wanted to make a change in the system, I needed to send an email with the requested change to our provider, and then verify the change had been made—that could take hours. With Brivo, for example, I’ve just been told there is a late meeting at the Upper school tonight; while we’ve been talking, I just now changed the door schedule to accommodate that meeting.”
Brivo ACS WebService controls a total of 17 doors and keypads installed at the school’s swimming pool, three gymnasiums, and four of the academic buildings. School policy is to keep all doors locked except the main entrances, where all those entering can be observed by the front office staff. Students can enter the school at four other locations by entering a code into a keypad and faculty and staff has access to all doors with their access cards.
Stone Ridge rents out its gym facilities on weekends to a wide variety of groups, resulting in different access schedules and privileges on nearly every weekend. In addition, the school runs a large summer camp with a whole new set of access requirements and personnel. Ms. Myler is able to manage all the different groups and access needs with ease, “I can immediately remove or add students, staff, and guests to the system from any computer, anywhere, anytime.”
Recently, the DC area has been hit with a number of major snowstorms, forcing cancellation of several school days. Ms. Myler appreciates the level of control she has with Brivo, “I just changed the door opening schedule from my computer at home when the decision was made to close that day.”
For any educational institution, lockdown capabilities are critical. “In the past, I had to call the monitoring station, give them all the information, and they would do the lockdown. Now, I can lock down individual buildings or the entire school within seconds,” said Ms. Myler.
Stone Ridge uses Brivo ACS WebService to run regular reports to check for any unusual activity. When the system was first installed in August of last year, Ms. Myler detected that someone who was not authorized to enter the buildings tried on several occasions to gain access but was denied because the access card had been “turned off.” This alerted school staff to be on the look-out for any potential issues.
Between heading off potential incidents, saving Ms. Myler and staff significant time and hassle, and the enhanced level of access management now enjoyed, the installation of Brivo ACS WebService gets an A+ from the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart.
About Brivo Systems
Brivo Systems LLC provides an online, open-system security management technology platform that empowers organizations to protect and remotely monitor buildings and perimeter entry points using the latest in Internet and wireless technologies. With Brivo’s security management system, customers significantly expand their physical access control system by customizing functionality to exactly fit their needs and more effectively mitigate and manage security risk. The company’s hardware products and software services enable businesses to control physical access to offices, warehouses, remote/unmanned buildings, as well as sensitive areas such as computer rooms, where real-time control and accountability of entry are critical. 2009 marked 10 years of Brivo making security simple for thousand of end users around the world.
Brivo is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Duchossois Group, 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.
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