When officials were unable to lock down a building during an emergency due to technical issues and the company who installed it said they could not provide on-site support for two days, Ken Ferguson, information specialist 3 and system administrator for the city of Madison, knew he needed to replace the system.

Kaba Access and Data System Americas, Winston-Salem, N.C., acquired Keyscan Inc., Whitby, Canada, a specialist in innovative, wired access control solutions. Kaba stated that the acquisition will allow the company to strengthen its product offering in North America by offering Keyscan’s wired solutions for complete access control in virtually any commercial building, in addition to its traditional standalone and wireless systems.

Kaba Access and Data System Americas, Winston-Salem, N.C., acquired Keyscan Inc., Whitby, Canada, a specialist in innovative, wired access control solutions.

Whitby, Ont.-based Keyscan, a provider of integrated access control systems, and Affiliated Monitoring of Union, N.J., are collaborating in an effort to allow security dealers to offer cloud-based hosted or managed access control solutions to their customers.