Chester County, Pa., Finds the Perfect System to Safeguard Cell Tower Sites
ECKey, Lancaster, Pa., announced that Chester County, Pa., chose ECKey access control technology to install at its cell tower sites to provide more effective protection for such critical infrastructure. The Protection Bureau, in Exton, Pa., is overseeing the planning and installation for this ongoing project.
In the United States there are more than 100,000 cellphone tower sites that house expensive telecommunications and other radio technologies. Chester County has 32 cell tower sites and until recently relied on padlocks or keypads, which offered no activity log and were easily compromised. The county was experiencing copper theft, vandalism and graffiti, which concerned officials. The county also had no way to grant access to technicians arriving at sites unannounced and no audit trail of who was coming and going. The county reported that with a limited budget, network connections were out of the question.