The Livestock Poultry Health facility houses four agricultural departments and sees upwards of 200 staff and visitors a day. ADT Security Systems of Columbia assisted Clemson staff in their search for a new access control system introducing the Brivo system and its many benefits and helping to write the bid specifications. Since many of Brivo's features are unique, no other access control system qualified during the bid process.

Prior to Brivo, the Livestock poultry health access control system was a DOS-based, magnetic stripe system installed only on exterior doors. The system had to be run from a dedicated PC, and was unreliable and non-user friendly "Our last system was run on one PC and if that person wasn't there, you were out of luck," says Michael Edwards, information resource consultant for Clemson University livestock and poultry health programs. Once in the market for a new system, Edwards' criteria included a system with a web interface that could be controlled from anywhere and one that did not require the maintenance of servers or other IT infrastructure.

The Brivo system controls five exterior doors and several interior doors to divide access areas within the building. The livestock poultry health building is a research and testing facility but does not conduct live animal research. Nevertheless, Edwards is able to ensure full lockdown of the lab and effective control over which personnel groups have access to the lab, where, and during what hours. In addition, the new Brivo system enables staff to funnel all visitors to the main entrance lobby, facilitating visitor monitoring and proper routing, and ensuring improved control and audit trails for deliveries and samples sent to the laboratory.