Most Aiphone jobs are decided by the cable already in the wall
An Aiphone retrofit rarely fails on product selection. It fails on pathway. The older platforms still running in Georgia schools, clinics and office buildings were wired as analog systems, with dedicated station cable home-run back to a central exchange. The current IX and IXG platforms are IP devices that live on the building network over Cat6. Those are two different infrastructures wearing the same faceplate, and a survey has to establish which one the building can support before a station list means anything.
What to look for behind the plate
Pull one door station and one interior monitor before quoting. The questions that matter are whether the existing run is in conduit or free-air, whether that conduit is continuous and has room for a new pull, where it terminates, and whether the head end location still has power and space. Conduit is often reusable when the conductors are not. Where a masonry corridor or a finished lobby means no new pathway exists, the honest answer may be to keep the analog system alive at some openings and stage the IP conversion where cable can actually be run.
Sequencing a cutover in an occupied building
Nobody gets to close a front entrance for a week. The order that keeps a building working is: pull and terminate new cable while the old system stays live, stand up the network segment and the IX or IXG configuration on the bench, load the directory and prove call routing before a single door station is disturbed, then convert openings one at a time with the old hardware still hanging until the replacement answers. A school office or a clinic front desk should never be without a way to see and speak to whoever is at the door, not even for an afternoon.
Schedule the cutover around the building rather than the crew. A Macon distribution office off I-75 has a shift change that decides when the employee entrance can be touched. A campus building in Athens has a move-in week that rules out August entirely. Ask before the schedule is written.
Where the platforms land
IX is the commercial and institutional line, built around IP video door stations and master stations for controlled entrances, staff doors and any area that needs a supervised path to a person. IXG covers multi-tenant properties, where a tenant station and an entrance station with a directory carry most of the daily traffic. GT remains widely installed on apartment and mixed-use buildings, and a failed tenant station there is usually a repair decision rather than a rip-out. The JO, JP and JV families are the smaller-site answer, appropriate for a single reception point that needs to see, speak and release.
AC Nio is Aiphone’s access management software, and it is the piece that turns an intercom into part of the door program instead of a parallel system. When an entry release and a credential event land in the same record, an incident review takes minutes rather than a morning.
Georgia conditions that change the hardware call
Exterior door stations face humidity most of the year and hard, wind-driven rain in summer. A flush unit in an uninsulated exterior wall will sweat, so the back box detail and the gasket matter more than the finish. Any station on a detached structure, a gate pedestal or across a parking area sits on a copper run that thunderstorms will find. Ground it properly and protect it where it enters the building. On the coastal plain, add salt exposure to the fastener and enclosure selection.
What you should hold at handover
- A station schedule listing every device, its location, its address and its call group
- The programming file and the administrator credentials, in the owner’s possession
- A marked-up wiring record showing pathways, head end and power sources
- The written sequence of operation, including behavior during a power loss
Send the building’s current setup and the openings in question. KSEDCO can tell you what the pathway will support before a proposal is drawn. Call (888) 360-0035 or use the contact page.
Equipment we supply and install
Aiphone is what we specify for Georgia public buildings, campuses and clinics: wired, durable, serviceable years later, and something a procurement officer can name in a specification.
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Aiphone solutions for government and institutional buildings
Aiphone turns up repeatedly in government, education and healthcare work for a simple reason: the systems are wired, durable and long-lived, and a great many public buildings need an entry system that will still be serviceable in fifteen years and does not depend on a subscription remaining current.
For a public-sector buyer that is often the deciding factor. Procurement can specify it, the estate team can maintain it, and replacement parts exist years later.
Where Aiphone government solutions fit
- Controlled public entrances — a courthouse, city building or clinic where the public must be seen and spoken to before a door releases.
- School and campus entry — the vestibule arrangement where the outer door is open and the inner door is not, and somebody makes a decision in between.
- Staff and after-hours entrances that need to work when reception is closed.
- Areas of refuge and emergency communication, where code requires a fixed, supervised path to help rather than an app.
The IX and IXG series are the usual specification for this work — IP-based, expandable, and able to integrate with door access so an intercom release and a badge event land in the same record. Our IX and IXG design notes go into the layout in more detail.
Where a project carries federal funding conditions, the equipment question is not only about preference — see NDAA and Section 889. Specified and installed across Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Columbus.