Complex is safe and sound.The Bay Club, a 1,037-family residential condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. apartment complex in the Queens neighborhood of Bayside bay·side adj. Situated very close to or on the shore of a bay: bayside cottages. , has completed an upgrade of its security system that saved it hundreds of thousands of dollars over the alternative. The retrofit ret·ro·fit v. ret·ro·fit·ted or ret·ro·fit, ret·ro·fit·ting, ret·ro·fits v.tr. 1. To provide (a jet, automobile, computer, or factory, for example) with parts, devices, or equipment not in , by New York-area security integrator Nortronics Corporation, added new capabilities and reliability, and made full use of the tens of thousands of linear feet of existing wiring that had been installed with the original system. Throwing out the existing wiring, or alternately rewiring the entire complex, could have added approximately $350,000 to the cost. Dozens of buildings installed similar systems in the 1970's and 1980's and have let them fall out of use due to a lack of parts and maintenance. Nortronics can make them work again by customizing a retrofit and upgrade. The original existing alarm system was almost 25 years old. Known as an intrusion alarm, it was managed by a keypad A small keyboard or supplementary keyboard keys; for example, the keys on a calculator or the number/cursor cluster on a computer keyboard. See programmable keypad. in each apartments. "The problem with this type of system is that parts aren't available when it needs to be repaired and the system becomes unusable," said Maria Gonzalez, vice president of Nortronics. "But we use the existing wiring to make them work again, and with more capabilities than before." In the retrofit, Nortronics brought the existing wiring in each building down to a central point in the package room and connected it into a computer-based alarm system. The new model has LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters, allowing a natural background color to show. screens that are so small two would fit into a shoebox shoe·box n. 1. An oblong box, usually made of cardboard, for holding a pair of shoes. 2. Something resembling or suggestive of such a box, as a plain, rectangular building or a cramped room or dwelling. Noun 1. . |
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