Are You Better at Access Control than ADI?
Author: Brian Rhodes, Published on Mar 07, 2014
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Comments (7)
Undisclosed #1
Let me see what the next monthly issue of [SECURITY MAG] tells me and I'll get back to you in mid-April.
If this is a low-demand application, there are consumer options that are pretty cheap:
For about the same price as the original ADI solution, the customer could likely get a more advanced lock, which would give them some amount of access-card options and audit trails:
(note the RF remote pushbutton looks like it's an additional $65, but these are also retail prices).
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Mike Reding
You left out the cost of having the fire alarm provider back to add a device to connect your mag lock based system to the alarm system which is required by every AHJ I have ever dealt with......and not required by your Trilogy based system.
As you, Brian, I would like to find a less expensive, dependable single door system than what you proposed but so far, I have not.
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Daniel Tyrrell
Why do they need both an RTE motion AND a pushbutton? They're doing the same job, yeah it's a relatively small amount of money, but you only need one of those devices...
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Jason Fitch
In some state the Remote Relaese has to be a hard wire connection. You would also have a hard time doing this type of intallation in a elevator lobby because of all of the fire codes.
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Andrew Bowman
If you have to call your ADI or SDC sales guy to figure out what to use for this door, then you probably shouldn't be licensed to do the work in the first place. This is a prime example of the traditional ADI customer profile, and a great example of why we don't fit in with their sales model.
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