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Armory gets new protection.


Nortronics Corp., a New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 metro-area security integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter.

(2) See systems integrator.
, has installed an arsenal of sophisticated video intercoms in a residential apartment building that was created out of the former National Guard Armory at 529 W. 42nd St.

The work took place in a "building within a building," eight luxurious duplex (communications) duplex - Used to describe a communications channel that can carry signals in both directions, in contrast to a simplex channel which only ever carries a signal in one direction.  residences that have a separate street entry, not used by the residents of the structure's other 149 apartments. Despite being located within the former Armory, the eight apartments have their own street address, 534 W. 43rd St.

"The owners of these very special homes wanted to secure their shared entrance as a way of protecting their property," said Maria Gonzalez, vice president and president-in-waiting of Nortronics.

In each apartment, Nortronics installed a video intercom with access control features. Manufactured by ELVOX, the units feature four-inch, wall-mounted, black-and-white LCD monitors A flat panel display that uses liquid crystals. Although laptops have used LCDs as their flat panel technology almost exclusively, LCD is also the most popular for flat panel desktop monitors. Toward the end of 2003, sales of LCD displays for desktops overtook CRTs for the first time.  with matching handsets and volume controls. A black and white camera and handsome brass panel were installed at the entrance of the building.

Nortronics was able to use existing wiring to make the installation economical and timely. Installing new wiring would have been not only more costly and time-consuming, but would have also required opening up the masonry masonry: see brick; concrete; stonework; tile.
masonry

Craft of building in stone, brick, or block. By 4000 BC, Egypt had developed an elaborate cut-stone technique.
 and drywalls in the recently renovated building.

While most intercoms are closed systems that cannot be extended with other manufacturers' equipment and software, Nortronics sticks to its allegiance allegiance, in political terms, the tie that binds an individual to another individual or institution. The term usually refers to a person's legal obligation of obedience to a government in return for the protection of that government, although it may have reference  to open architecture as much as possible.
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Title Annotation:PROPERTY MANAGEMENT; Nortronics Corp. installs video intercoms in an apartment building
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 22, 2005
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