Under Lock and Keypad

Jun 1, 2003 12:00 PM

The University of Connecticut Health Center, with 35 buildings covering more than 2 million square feet and 8,000 doors, has chosen standalone electronic access control systems from IR Security and Safety's Electronic Access Control Division, Forestville, Conn.

The System includes computer managed (CM) locks from Schlage.

“The entire floor of one building is a lab and the only access to it is with a CM lock,” says Bruce McPherson, locksmith at the health center. “Often, our labs are used for a short period of time, maybe up to six months. Because we use CM locks here, we don't need to rekey locks or worry about how many keys are out there, just waiting to be improperly used after the students and researchers leave.”

McPherson says the health center also employs the standalone Schlage systems for doors that need to provide after-hours access for staff, allowing access to their designated work areas while leaving an audit trail to identify who comes and goes and at what time. The systems also help with general access control.

“They are used in areas of general access, such as the student lounge, where it is too impractical to issue a key to every student,” McPherson says. “Instead, we simply recode the lock every year.”

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