Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, Virginia, was one of many organizations whose access control system was soon to reach end-of-life. After numerous issues, the hospital decided that it was time for a change. After extensive evaluation of their needs, we engineered an open-architecture solution, assuring the hospital that a complete “pull and replace” would never be required again. A plan was formulated to perform the conversion with little to no disruption to the hospital staff. This was no simple task given the tight time frame.
Within 30 days, the entire system (which spanned across 4 buildings with over 120 readers) was replaced successfully. Other system enhancements were included such as:
- Long-range vehicle tags for gate operation.
- Consolidation of the variety of DVR’s into a hybrid CCTV solution. This allows the customer to later migrate to 100% IP video.
- Multi-technology card readers which allowed the customer to utilize their existing cards. This simplified the conversion and allows migration to a more secure technology moving forward.
- Automated reporting functionality.
“Thank you, thank you for making my job so much easier! One of my duties as a Human Resource secretary is to maintain current employee badges and to issue badges to new hires. This new badge system software has taken that function from a “many step” process down to two quick steps. And can I just brag on the reporting capabilities of this software? Wow, any information you need to be able to report on is basically accessible thru this system. I know I teased one of the technicians during installation and told him he was my fairy godfather. Anything I wished the software could do, he made it happen. What a wonderful staff you have, always available to answer questions, eager to offer suggestions and listened to my needs. Thank you for making the set-up and transition of this software one of the smoothest ones I’ve ever experienced!”