CARMEL, IND.
- August 26, 2009 - Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies today announced that
the Gunnison Health Care Center, a 100-employee health care facility in Gunnison,
Col., is using Schlage bright blue web-enabled access control software and
both Schlage wired and wireless proximity card readers to limit access throughout
the facility. With minimal help from his distributor, Access Hardware Supply
(San Leandro, Calif.), Director of Plant Operations Mike Case installed everything
himself within a couple days.
The Gunnison
Health Care Center at Gunnison Living Community has 59 licensed beds. It is
the only long-term residential care facility in Gunnison County. The scope
of business can be separated into three general areas: skilled nursing care,
Alzheimer's/Dementia Care or the "Special Care Unit" and Hospice
& Palliative Care of the Gunnison Valley. An area that is also utilized
much is the rehabilitation services that include both occupational and physical
therapy.
"We
needed to rekey the entire facility and I did not want to have to do that,"
reports Case. "When I talked to Access Hardware Supply, they suggested
that I take a look at the bright blue access control system because it was
designed specifically for applications such as ours. It would let us access,
monitor and manage our system from any computer running a standard web browser.
They said the system's plug-and-play design would make configuration easy
and the embedded application would eliminate the need for special software
or a dedicated PC. They were right."
Case installed
the new readers on three exterior doors and 14 indoor access points, including
the medical room where they store narcotics. He plans to add more doors over
time.
"Some
of the doors closest to the bright blue controller are hardwired but we used
wireless readers to avoid having to pull wire at the far end of the building,"
Case states. "The bright blue system reads both so this made installation
go much faster."
Case set
the system to unlock exterior doors between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. and unlock kitchen
doors between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.
"Our
kitchen staff often forgot to lock up at the end of the day so bright blue
does this for them," Case explains. "Outside of these times, personnel
must use their cards to either enter the facility or the kitchen."
Since some
people had been abusing the break room, Case put in video cameras and access
control readers to have more control. "With bright blue, I have a record
of who has gone in and when," Case says. "I can use this information
to go to the video system and pull up images."
According to Case, "I would recommend this system to others like us. The bright blue system is easy to understand and easy to install."