City of Fayetteville Uses Schlage CM Locks to Secure City Hall, Police & Fire Departments.

FORESTVILLE, Conn. -- Locks Protect Employees, Secure Sensitive Areas, and Allow Immediate Lockdown of City Facilities

IR Security & Safety today announced that the City of Fayetteville, Ark., the sixth largest municipality in the state, is using Schlage computer managed (CM) locking systems and PRO Series programmable locks to protect City Hall and its police and fire departments.

"We are using the locks mostly on entrance doors, but we do have a couple inside the buildings that we are using to restrict access to high security areas," explains Larry Rennie, Building Maintenance Supervisor for the city. "We chose the Schlage locks because they had the exact features we were looking for."

Schlage PRO Series programmable locks are stand-alone, microprocessor-based, battery-powered locks that let building managers quickly add new codes and delete old ones via the keypad within seconds. Up to 120 unique, individual access codes can be programmed into the locksets. Installation is easy for standard cylindrical, mortise latch and mortise dead-bolt locksets. No external wiring is required. The locksets require little maintenance, providing greater than 80,000 activations, equivalent to 2 to 3 years battery life.

Schlage CM standalone locking products provide features found traditionally with online, networked systems. Whatever the credential used, a user-friendly software programs the locks, access trim, and offline hard-wired controllers, which manage strikes and magnets, from a laptop or PDA. New users, access points and access privileges can be entered into the system in seconds. They also provide an audit trail capability.

"We started with the PRO Series locks and then moved into the CM locks," Rennie notes. "We add new locks all the time. I just purchased four more of the CM locks."

The City of Fayetteville uses Pro Series locks on buildings such as the prosecutor's office, where there are not enough employees to warrant a CM lock. The city's Police Department is also using eight PRO Series locks. Employees use a PIN to access those locks.

Over 20 CM locks are used in City Hall and at the city's various fire stations, on the front doors and in some higher security areas within the fire stations. The Fire Department employs about 250 people in four major divisions. Employees use a keyfob to access the CM locks.

Rennie uses a laptop computer to program the locks. He has also taught his counterpart at the fire department how to program them and that person has trained two other people. The locks have been easy to use, they report.

Judging by the silence, employees also seem to like the locks. "They must like them because I don't get any complaints on them," Rennie says.

The locks have improved operations and increased security at the city, he adds.

"We can lock down all our operations in a heartbeat. We're a municipal government, so the public has access to all of our buildings. In just a matter of minutes, though, we can lock down a building so that only employees have access to it."

About IR Security & Safety's Electronic Access Control Division

Since 1969, IR Security & Safety's Electronic Access Control Division (EACD) has provided premium electronic access control solutions, including electromagnetic locks, monitoring consoles, electromechanical locks and strikes, electrical and electronic exit devices, power supplies and controllers to security professionals and their customers. Leading brands such as Recognition Systems, Schlage and Von Duprin comprise the Electronic Access Control Division of IR Security and Safety, which serves an international clientele from its headquarters in Forestville, Conn. Phone is 866-322-1237. The IR website is www.irco.com.

For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of a CM or PRO Series lock, go to www.brighamscully.com and click Photographs/IR Security & Safety.