July 28, 2004—Andover Controls, a manufacturer of “Smart Building” facility management systems, announced that the company has been selected by Verizon Communications to provide a fully integrated access control and alarm monitoring system for 527 sites across California.
Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States.
Several local Andover Facility Automation Representatives will install Andover Continuum card access control with full alarm monitoring in Verizon Central Offices, Administration spaces, and remote switching facilities all across California. All sites will be networked to an existing central database at Verizon’s Alarm Response Center in Irving, Texas via Verizon’s IP backbone. At many of the sites, the new card access control system will be added to an existing Andover environmental control and alarming system or will serve as a platform to add environmental control and alarming at a later date for a fully integrated facility management solution. The state-wide project is expected be completed in 18-24 months.
Andover Controls’ Global Accounts Group will manage and engineer the Verizon California project. Global Accounts creates partnerships and provides engineering solutions for many of Andover’s larger customer accounts with multiple facilities worldwide. Andover is able to provide their Global partners with reduced up-front engineering and system operating costs, accelerated project implementation, and lower maintenance and training costs long-term.
For more information, contact Andover Controls Corporation.
