IR and CBORD team up to create fully integrated campus security and access solutions

For Immediate Release

Ithaca, New York—Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, a leading global provider of products and services that make environments safe, secure and productive, today announced it has teamed with The CBORD Group, a leading provider of campus-wide management solutions, to engineer a new, fully integrated electronic campus identification and access control system that features simplified operational protocols and increased efficiencies for university administrators and security professionals.

Exclusively sold by CBORD, the new offering seamlessly integrates CBORD's proprietary access control system, CS Access™, with Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies' Schlage^® value integrated platform (VIP) and Wireless Access products into a single, unified access control management database. In addition, integrations of the computer managed (CM) and campus lock (CL) products are scheduled for release in the third quarter of 2007. Ideal for use with CBORD's CS Gold^® campus card program, the new, combined offering greatly enhances operational efficiencies and eliminates the need for security personnel to manage multiple systems. Schools using CBORD’s Odyssey PCS™ campus card system along with CS Access may also take advantage of this offering.

"By integrating our leading electronic locking solutions with CBORD's innovative access control portfolio, we are providing a comprehensive management solution to administrative and security personnel," says Beverly Vigue, vice president - education vertical market, Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. "Leveraging our industry-proven locks with the strengths of The CBORD Group signifies yet another step in our ongoing mission to create safe, secure and productive learning environments at colleges and universities."

CBORD's products are used in access control, campus ID privilege control, electronic security, meal plans, housing services, online ordering, foodservices, catering, nutrition services and other institution-wide activities.

"Millions of students and faculty across the country rely on our one-card systems," said Randy Eckels, CBORD's senior vice president of sales and marketing. "Teaming with Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies to integrate their products into our innovative network of systems will enable us to deliver a new level of convenience and security to administrators and campus security professionals by seamlessly managing all one-card programs on a single database."

About Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies is a leading global provider of products and services that make environments safe, secure and productive. The sector’s market-leading products include electronic and biometric access control systems; time and attendance and personal scheduling systems; mechanical locks and portable security, door closers and exit devices, steel doors and frames, architectural hardware and technologies and services for global security markets.

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies is a sector of Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited, a global provider of products, services and solutions to industries as diverse as transportation, manufacturing, food retailing, construction and agriculture. www.ingersollrand.com.

About The CBORD Group, Inc.

The CBORD Group serves colleges and universities, corporations, healthcare facilities, chain restaurants, supermarkets and a host of other market segments. CBORD's products are used in access control, campus ID privilege control, electronic security, meal plans, housing services, online ordering, foodservice, catering, nutrition services and other institution-wide activities. The CBORD Group serves more than 5,000 clients in the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, New Zealand and Australia.

The CBORD Group was founded in 1975. Today it employs more than 450 professionals. To learn more about CBORD, visit us at www.cbord.com.

“Texas Woman's University has had a very long positive history of using the CBORD systems.”

— Nancy Murphy-Chadwick, Dir. of Univ. Housing
Texas Woman's University