Raleigh Police Department Continues Roll-out of Brivo Access Control
Growing installation up to 14 separate sites, covering 59 doors across the city
Bethesda, MD, October 12, 2010 – Brivo Systems LLC, the leader in Web applications for access control and security systems, today announced that the Raleigh (NC) Police Department (RPD) continues to expand the deployment of its Brivo ACS WebService® at a growing number of police substations and other locations. ASG Security is the integrator on this ongoing project.
Prior to installing Brivo, the RPD utilized key pads at the entrances to some of its stations. Officers and staff gained access by entering a code, however if a non-authorized person learned the code, building security was compromised. Raleigh Police wanted to more effectively control access at all their buildings, but they wanted a system that provided both central and on-site administration. In addition to such tiered administration, the initial system design also called for a combination of both existing keypads and new card readers.
Gregory Curtis, ASG Security, met with RPD security and IT staff to demonstrate Brivo ACS WebService and another top-line access control system—RPD came away very impressed with what the Brivo system had to offer.
With the recent system expansion, a single Brivo system now manages access for more than 900 sworn and civilian members of the RPD as well as subcontractors and other personnel, covering 59+ access doors at 14 locations, including their new Administration and North District buildings. System administrators have created approximately 15 different personnel groups to manage access at each location and to provide access across some or all locations for appropriate personnel.
RPD has been steadily rolling out Brivo ACS for over seven years—a strong vote of confidence in Brivo’s technology for such an important function at these high-security installations. As Curtis explained, “Raleigh Police Department is pleased with their flexible, scalable access control management, but another major, on-going advantage is that they don’t have to invest in server capacity or software in order to get up and running at each new site—all of that is managed by Brivo. “In addition to that,” Curtis continued, “all of their daily transactions are kept off-site in Brivo’s geographically dispersed data centers, which provides them with both redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities. These are two very important issues for the RPD in effectively managing their access control system.”
“ASG Security and Brivo have had a long-standing relationship with the Raleigh Police Department in assisting with their security needs, and we are always looking for ways to help them effectively control the cost of installation on their new sites, especially in this difficult economy,” Curtis concluded.
Steve Van Till, Brivo President and CEO, summed up Brivo’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) advantage, “Our end users often start with one building or just a few doors. Then, over time, because of our ease of use, minimal up-front hardware expense, and the simplicity of scaling, an end user like the Raleigh Police will expand as needs increase and budget allows. With Brivo, you have the flexibility to manage one door or thousands of doors spread over multiple buildings and many miles. These days, more and more businesses are seeing the many advantages of managing their access control in the ‘cloud’.”
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. For integrators, Brivo provides simple installation and one-hour end-user training.
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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