Brivo Opens Up, Adds Mercury Support

By: Brian Karas, Published on Mar 16, 2017

Brivo's cloud-based access control was built around the companies proprietary hardware controllers, and was often seen as a limitation by customers. Now, the company has shifted strategy, by embracing hardware from perhaps the most well-known open platform access control company, Mercury Security.

IPVM spoke with Brivo CEO Steven Van Till [link no longer available] about their decision to embrace open hardware and what this means for Brivo's own hardware line.

In this report we share details of the conversation and analysis of this move.

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Comments (2)

Undisclosed Manufacturer #1

03/16/17 05:26pm

This reminds me of when mobotix decided to support H.264. Long overdue decision that makes sense.

Matt Barnette

03/17/17 05:05pm

Nice article!

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