ssmith10pn 0 Posted February 21, 2012 Who here does Lenel? We are doing training this week and I'm not impressed with the hardware. We have been a GE/Facility Commander/Picture Perfect/ Secure Perfect shop for a long time. One of our customers hit the group limit in Picture and is going to Migrate to Lenel. "Supposedly" They are working on making Lenel talk to Micro 2000/3000/Direct Door boxes. Lenel will not talk to a supervised FC reader but if they can talk to the micro the micro can handle that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fa chris 0 Posted February 23, 2012 GE's end of life is around 5 years from what we've seen (for the micro 2000/3000's, basically all of the old CASI stuff), so your migration to Lenel is a must. We're slowly heading down this direction... but haven't done so yet. Lenel is just a software company who OEM's Mercury boards, exact same boards Bosch Readykey Pro (and many others) use. http://www.mercury-security.com/ I really think it's a lot better than the GE stuff, over the years with zero updates to the hardware it's become extremely limited compared to other systems. With the mercury boards you'll have a lot more flexibility, but if you have a lot of the proprietary F/2F readers in the field it'll be tough to switch existing systems over. Going forward you'll be better off using any industry standard weigand card reader like HID. You'll have a box mounted above each door (similar to the direcdoor interface or a wui-4 interface) for all the controls. From a business standpoint, the only issue with Lenel is because it uses OEM hardware, anyone can come in and take your system by simply replacing the Lenel head end with something else. Nobodies ever going to take over your GE systems except for another GE dealer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ssmith10pn 0 Posted February 23, 2012 but if you have a lot of the proprietary F/2F readers in the field it'll be tough to switch existing systems over. It's going to happen. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fa chris 0 Posted February 23, 2012 good luck! Hopefully Lenel support is a lot better than GE's and get it talking to the micro's soon. Worst part is you can't even swap out the reader with a weigand reader without rewiring the whole door to add a controller above it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
