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General Meters Corp.
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General Meters Corp.™ Installs Beta Wireless Door Lock System at Mount Holyoke College
General Meters Corp.™ installed the first wireless door lock, an on-line, real-time access system at Mount Holyoke College. Mount Holyoke College founded in 1837 is a very prestigious all women’s school located in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The campus has the latest technology and is a frontrunner in using technology to protect their students. Douglas N. Vanderpoel of Mount Holyoke College, a veteran user of the University One-Card System™ agreed to serve as the beta site for the Wireless On-Line Door Locks™. The system installed is based on the Multi Door Controller™, an access control system devised by General Meters Corp.™ which controls up to 32 doors. The addition of the Wireless On-Line Door Locks™ as a component of the system allows doors to communicate on-line without running wires to the door. Another advantage is that the Wireless On-Line Door Locks™ are low power and run on batteries. These long lasting batteries are rated for up to 4 years with up to 10,000 transactions per year, eliminating the need to run power lines to the doors. The Wireless On-Line Door Locks™ are a fully integrated component of the full University One-Card System™ and the Access & Security Module. All alarm conditions detected by the locks are passed to the Master Security Monitor™, where the alarm condition is sounded and displayed. For campuses that do not have full time security monitoring, the system can activate a pager or even call selected telephones to deliver a message regarding the alarm event.
Mr. Douglas N. Vanderpoel, the system administrator at Mt Holyoke, had the following to say about the beta site installation: “Last week we set up our wireless readers. Haris came in on Thursday and stayed through Saturday. The installation was flawless; we had things up and running very quickly. In fact it went so well I decided I wanted to try and break it (while Haris was here, in case I succeeded), but I failed. This is was a great effort on everyone’s part at GMC™, from concept to design, production, testing etc. I am supposed to be beta testing this and expecting some problems, but have found none. I have found this to be true with all of the new things I have tried with GMC™ in recent years. GMC™ is really raising the bar on product development and delivering a product that works the first time. I just wanted you to know how much I appreciate the effort.” Mt Holyoke installed 16 wireless door locks, which are run from a single Multi Door Controller™. The Multi Door Controller- IV™ can accommodate up to 4 banks of Wireless On-Line Door Locks™, with a maximum of 32 doors in total. Mt Holyoke has been utilizing the University One-Card System™ and the Master Security Monitor™ component for many years. The new Wireless On-Line Door Locks™ recently has been added as a seamless, integral part of the overall system. According to Mr. Vanderpoel, all of the system capabilities and functions previously used are maintained, such as determining who may enter each of the doors, including the days and times they are permitted to enter. The system verifies each request with the File Server in a fraction of a second, recording each and every transaction at the same time. Mr. Vanderpoel said that for this operation they chose to continue using the magnetic stripe card, but the system does offer proximity card capability.
Leon S. Gottlieb, president of General Meters Corp.™ stated that the Wireless On-Line Door Locks™ is another step in the development of the ultimate Access & Security System™, designed for the University and College market. The system fully integrates security features with access, and provides everything the campus needs in both areas. The system can be run as a part of the University One-Card System™ or as a completely independent system with the aim to bring an affordable system for numerous doors to the campus environment. According to Mr. Gottlieb, “if motels have card activated locks, eliminating the lost and duplicate key problem, so should college and university campuses. The Wireless On-Line Door Locks™ provide an affordable system which can work even in the most difficult buildings.” Of course by eliminating the cost of wiring the project cost is cut substantially, and on-line real-time locks become affordable. The wireless locks combine all the elements required at the door for complete access control into one modular, yet integrated package. The card reader, electric lock, request-to-exit sensor, door position switch, power supply and RF communications are all included. Reliable communications are achieved via Spread Spectrum wireless technology. The battery pack lasts up to four years with as many as 10,000 card swipes per year. Although distances vary depending on the number of walls and materials involved, one can expect up to 200 feet in normal building construction, same floor and 600 feet line of sight. Each transmission is encrypted to provide virtually uncompromisable security.
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