BEST Monitoring Ltd has been providing a remote monitoring service, Cyberdoorman, for apartment buildings since 2001. As
of December 2005, they have now incorporated the MESHT touch screen telephone entry panel as a part of the service. Currently the MESHT panel is contracted in 16 buildings throughout the five boroughs of New York, with buildings in Chelsea, Tribeca, the Upper West Side, Harlem, the Financial District, the Flatiron District, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Hastings on Hudson and Williamsburg.
Cyberdoorman has recently been profiled in both the New York Sun and the New York Times. "The way BEST Monitoring has integrated MESHT into Cyberdoorman shows the inherent benefits of the technology as security migrates to a more IT and centralised approach," noted Stephen Pineau, President and CEO of Viscount. "BEST has found a powerful way to replace the cost of on-site security with remote management. We are now developing additional web based software applications to make these benefits even more pervasive. BEST Monitoring truly understands how the newest security technologies are disrupting traditional markets and Cyberdoorman will be a big winner."
"The MESHT panel has proven to be a great vehicle for seamless audio communication for visitors at the building to our remote monitoring facility. The stored data of the transmission of each call is a valuable asset which will be useful in the event that the security of an entry point has been compromised," stated Seth Barcus of BEST Monitoring.
"In addition to the benefits that we as a vendor have seen, the benefits to the residents are also prevalent. With the factory installed access system that the MESHT panel comes equipped with, residents now have the built in luxury of card readers and access control at a fraction of the cost of a traditional access system. At the very minimum, a card reader can be mounted at the main entry to the building and residents can use a keytag that they can have on their keychain and wave within inches of the card reader to gain entry to the building. This is a built in access system, ready to be used if desired. In summation, the MESHT panel has become a modern, cost effective solution for building security, entry and access that at this point is unparalleled in the industry. With MESHT, Viscount has truly turned the corner and brought a new level of quality regarding the integration of entry systems in the security industry today."