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- Press Release - 9th June 2009

New Albany Housing Authority Relies on Brivo for Improved Security

Indiana-based housing complex improves staff productivity and residents’ peace of mind

Bethesda, MD, June 09, 2009 ­ Brivo Systems LLC, the leader in Web applications for access control and security systems, today announced that the New Albany (Indiana) Housing Authority (NAHA) has deployed Brivo ACS WebService™ in its three high-rise residence buildings, providing enhanced security for more than 330 housing units. Logical Innovations is the integrator for this ongoing installation.

On any given day, there are more than 700 residents, staff, and guests passing through the doors to the three residential high-rise buildings at NAHA’s federally subsidized housing development. Prior to installing the Brivo ACS WebService solution, NAHA employed a touch key access system, but that system was cumbersome and extremely inefficient. “We experience a sizable amount of resident turnover at our buildings,” said Bob Lane, NAHA Executive Director, “and every time we wanted to update our resident lists, we had to literally take a laptop to each building door to perform the operation. We wasted a lot of time and effort. We knew there had to be a better system to meet our needs.” 

Logical Innovations provided Lane and his staff with a live demonstration of the

ACS WebService, “We quickly determined our system was grossly out of date and discovered the Brivo system was two to three generations past what we were using. Since implementing Brivo, the transition has been seamless—we have not received any complaints from our residents or our staff. The new Brivo system is wonderful.”

The NAHA has residents who range in age from 18 up to 100 in its high-rise buildings. Each building caters to a slightly different age population with many elderly, independently living, residents. “One of the buildings is close to the Ohio River and is also near a busy interstate highway. Safety is a major concern for many of our older residents and so is convenience,” said Lane. “If you’re coming home with an armful of groceries, have a walker, or are in a wheelchair, this system is so much easier for our residents to operate.”

The new Brivo ACS Webservice provides an audit trail of all entrances and exits; NAHA staff can now update and manage the system remotely; and it is integrated with Speco DVRs to provide video images to complement the powerful access control solution. Lane continued, “Not only is the Brivo system much more efficient, our residents feel safer in their homes. Relatives of our residents tell us they feel the buildings are safer for their family members.”

Recently, the federal government issued new asset management rules that have forced housing authorities to manage operations more closely and to become even more innovative in using limited resources to accomplish goals. “With the Brivo system, we have safer homes and we have increased the producitivity of our staff. I would highly recommend the Brivo system; it’s an economically sound product no matter where it is installed. We were looking for the very best solution for our budget. We looked at a couple of other options, but they did not measure up in terms of cost or performance. For the New Albany Housing Authority, Brivo has been a wonderful addition to our operations, it will be more cost effective for us compared to anything else we have seen,” Lane concluded.

Photo above - reproduced by kind permission of Brivo Systems

About Logical Innovations
Founded in 2002, Logical Innovations is built on a foundation of knowledgeable professionals committed to excellence. Our success is a result of this commitment to excellence, for which we were recently recognized by Inc. Magazine as “America's 90th Fastest Growing Privately Held Company” in 2008. The common goal on every Logical Innovations project is to deliver superior process control solutions utilizing value-added technologies and resources. We strive to strengthen our relationship with our customers through improved process control and a deeper appreciation of our clients’ needs, desires and economic constraints. Those needs have led us to include data and network integration along with security monitoring into our portfolio of services. We are your facility’s full-service solution for operations, networking and security.

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 Duchossois Industries, Inc, 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 on the Brivo Online Access Control System, contact Brivo sales[at]brivo.com or to view a demo, visit www.brivo.com/demo

For more information visit http://www.brivo.com

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