Grant Lagimodiere, P.Eng. President of Intrepid provided an inciteful description of the development of IP addressable locks for detention centres.
Although many physical security technology manufacturers had pushed IP to the edge with their Ethernet ready devices by 2013, door locks were not one of them. Benefits include reduced life-cycle costs. .In 2013, Mr. Lagimodiere charted a course to eliminate PLC’s by embedding the control electronics into the locks themselves thereby creating a “smart lock”. Mr. Lagimodiere approached the world’s largest producer of detention grade locks - Southern Folger based in San Antonio, Texas with the concept. And so began a 4 year R&D effort to produce the world’s most resilient PoE detention grade smart lock. The R&D method was a blend betweent the "waterfall" and the "Agile", and resulted in a development that was on time and on budget.
The meeting was attended by 15 members and guests with intense discussion of the technology and development which ran the meeting into considerable overtime.
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