ACRE BRIDGE

Computer hardware systems for migration, integration, and centralized management of multi-vendor physical security infrastructure, the system being comprised of computer hardware and embedded software for unifying and operating access-control systems, intrusion-detection systems, video-surveillance systems, alarm panels, and visitor-management terminals; electronic security devices, namely, multi-protocol access-control controllers, edge controllers being computer hardware, intelligent door controllers, electronic card readers, RFID access cards, biometric identification terminals, and electronic access-control panels all for managing and controlling entry to facilities; computer hardware, namely, hardware gateway routers and hardware protocol-translation devices for connecting legacy and next-generation access-control, intrusion-detection, video-surveillance, and alarm-monitoring hardware to common security platforms; computer hardware, namely, migrator modules and bridging hardware for facilitating migration from analog to IP-based security devices and from proprietary to open-protocol access-control and intrusion systems; field-programmable hardware interfaces for computers and input/output computer expansion boards for integrating multiple physical-security subsystems; computer hardware, namely, rack-mount and panel-mount integration controllers for routing, switching, and translating signals among access-control readers, alarm inputs, relay outputs, and video devices; computer network hardware comprised of computer hardware and downloadable and recorded operating software for centralizing multi-system configuration, user-credential management, and event reporting; apparatus for transmission of communication, namely, security-grade wired and wireless data-networking hardware devices for transporting and aggregating voice, data, and video communications across multiple network infrastructures and protocols; Computer hardware, namely, secure data pathway devices for encrypted communication between legacy and cloud-based security subsystems; Downloadable and recorded computer software embedded in the foregoing computer hardware for device discovery, mapping, configuration, firmware updates, diagnostics, and migration of credentials and system data; downloadable and recorded computer software for device discovery, mapping, configuration, firmware updates, diagnostics, and migration of credentials and system data sold as a unit with the foregoing computer hardware; downloadable and recorded computer software for monitoring, testing, and optimizing cross-system interoperability among access-control, intrusion-detection, and video-surveillance devices; downloadable and recorded computer software for real-time system-health monitoring, event-logging, alarm-routing, and the generation of audit and compliance reports for integrated physical-security networks

Design and development of physical-security integration hardware and embedded firmware for unifying access-control, intrusion-detection, alarm, and video-surveillance subsystems from multiple manufacturers; migration and conversion services, namely, providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for migrating credential databases, event histories, and system configurations from legacy access-control and intrusion-detection systems to updated hardware platforms and technical consultation in the field of migrating credential databases, event histories, and system configurations from legacy access-control and intrusion-detection systems to updated hardware platforms; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software development tools for discovery, mapping, and onboarding of legacy devices, configuration of protocol-translation hardware, and centralized management of multi-system physical-security environments; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for remote monitoring, diagnostics, firmware management, and health-status reporting of integrated hardware devices; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for real-time data exchange, interoperability management, and event-routing across heterogeneous access-control, intrusion-detection, alarm, and video-surveillance platforms; software as a service (SaaS) services featuring software for unified administration of security hardware, credential life-cycle management, multi-system user-rights synchronization, and automated migration of legacy hardware networks; platform as a service (PaaS) services featuring software platforms for unified administration of security hardware, credential life-cycle management, multi-system user-rights synchronization, and automated migration of legacy hardware networks; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for role-based policy enforcement, compliance logging, and the generation of analytic dashboards for multi-system physical-security hardware; cybersecurity services, namely, providing temporary use of non-downloadable software for secure onboarding, encrypted communication, and ongoing vulnerability monitoring of networked access-control and intrusion-detection hardware; technical consultancy in the field of system-level hardware migration, physical-security device integration, and multi-vendor platform consolidation