Over 40 Years in BusinessISO 27001 compliantPublic sector: GSA contract holder
LA 562-298-5000 · Chicagoland 312-432-5300 · Phoenix 602-733-6807 · Client Support
Over 40 Years in BusinessISO 27001 compliantPublic sector: GSA contract holder
LA 562-298-5000 · Chicagoland 312-432-5300 · Phoenix 602-733-6807 · Client Support
BTI Communications Group, LTD. is a commercial security integrator with an office in Santa Fe Springs serving Los Angeles County, in business for over 40 years. We install access control for LA County cities, county departments and special districts, from public counters to yards. CMAS and TESMA contract awardee (California). Licenses ACO #7670 and C-7 807767. Call 562-298-5000.
Requirements
Recommended setup
Most of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County run a civic center, a corporate yard and a handful of parks, library and community buildings, and the access control design follows that footprint.
Public counters, staff corridors, council chambers, records, finance and IT rooms.
Vehicle gates, fleet shops, fuel islands and material storage.
Libraries, parks buildings and senior centers on scheduled hours.
City ID badges that double as access cards, with mobile credentials for field staff.
Duress buttons at counters and lockdown by building or citywide.
Separate administrators and reports for each department on one system.
Axis or Avigilon video at counters, entries and gates.
From a small city hall in the Gateway Cities to a county service center in the Antelope Valley, the challenge is the same: residents walk in all day, and staff work a few feet away. BTI places the public counter on the line between two zones, gives counter staff a duress button that secures the staff door, and lets the city manager's office lock down one building or every building from a phone.
Council chambers get event schedules so they unlock for meetings and lock afterward, and records and finance rooms get a tighter rule set with two-factor entry.
Corporate yards, pump stations, reservoirs and treatment sites are often unstaffed at night. Special districts and city utilities use the same badges at the yard gate as at city hall, and a lost card is removed everywhere at once. Gates get intercoms and cameras for vendors and deliveries.
Cloud platforms suit agencies with many small sites, and owned platforms suit agencies whose IT policy keeps servers in house. BTI installs and supports both.
BTI holds a California Multiple Award Schedules (CMAS) award, which California public agencies use to buy on pre-negotiated terms, and an award on TESMA, the Los Angeles County master agreement for telecommunications equipment and services. Federal tenants and agencies can use BTI's GSA contract (47QTCA21D00BA).
Your purchasing team confirms which vehicle fits the project, and BTI supplies the itemized quote, cut sheets and documents the vehicle requires.
Standards and compliance
| Requirement | Source | What it means for the project |
|---|---|---|
| Electrified egress and accessibility | California Building Code, including Chapter 11B | Doors release for anyone leaving, and readers and intercoms sit at accessible heights. |
| Prevailing wage on public works | California Labor Code | Public works projects can carry prevailing wage and DIR requirements, which BTI confirms with your procurement team during scoping. |
| Workplace violence prevention | California Labor Code 6401.9 (SB 553) | Controlled entries, visitor logs and lockdown give the agency's written prevention plan practical controls. |
| Public records | California Public Records Act | Door and visitor logs are retained and exported to match the agency's retention schedule; counsel decides what is disclosable. |
| Federally funded projects | NDAA Section 889 | Hardware from manufacturers that document Section 889 compliance when the grant or contract requires it. |
Platforms
BTI installs and services every platform below from Santa Fe Springs and recommends one after the survey. HID readers and mobile credentials work across most of them. Not sure which fits? Read the commercial access control guide.
Cloud access control run from a browser or phone, popular with LA offices and multi-site owners. Eagle Eye cloud video is part of Brivo.
Brivo access controlCloud doors with touchless mobile entry, a good fit for creative offices and suites.
Avigilon Alta access controlOn-premises access control for sites that keep servers and video on their own network.
Avigilon Unity access controlEntraPass and KT controllers, common in LA County plants and public buildings that want an owned system.
Kantech access controlAccess It! for campuses and multi-department estates with many doors.
RS2 access controlAxis door controllers, readers and intercoms on the same network as Axis cameras.
Axis access controlInstallation
Public agency projects follow the procurement calendar and are installed around public hours and council meetings.
Public agency access control is quoted from a walk of each site and the contract vehicle you plan to use. Door and gate count, lockdown design, yards and remote sites, cabling in older buildings, labor requirements and platform licensing drive the proposal, which BTI itemizes for your purchasing file.
Industries
Towers, creative offices, suites and garages across LA County.
Aerospace, food and metal plants from the South Bay to the Gateway Cities.
Docks, yards and driver windows near the ports and freeway corridors.
Medical groups, clinics, dental and pharmacy access.
Multi-site badge programs and client-segregated storage.
Secured entries and lockdown-ready doors for schools and colleges.
Access control designed into new builds and tenant improvements.
Water, public works and server rooms with remote gate control.
CPA, title and insurance offices that protect client files.
Scheduled doors for ministries, campuses and community sites.
Proof
BTI Communications Group, LTD. installs and supports access control for Los Angeles County cities, county departments and special districts from its Santa Fe Springs office, on Brivo, Avigilon Alta (formerly Openpath), Avigilon Unity, Kantech, RS2 (Acre) and Axis.
Yes. BTI holds both awards, and California public agencies use CMAS while Los Angeles County uses TESMA. Federal tenants can use BTI's GSA contract. Your purchasing team confirms the right vehicle.
Yes. One platform can run city hall, the corporate yard, libraries and parks buildings, with separate administrators and reports for each department.
It supports it. SB 553 requires most California employers to keep a written workplace violence prevention plan, and controlled entries, visitor logs and lockdown are practical controls that plan can point to.
They can be requested under the California Public Records Act. BTI sets retention and export to match your schedule, and your counsel decides what is disclosable.
Yes. BTI's office is at 12155 Mora Dr, Units 1 & 2, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670, and the local line is 562-298-5000.
Yes. BTI designs, sells, installs, supports and takes over existing Brivo accounts, along with Kantech, Avigilon and RS2 (Acre) systems at public agencies.
Cost depends on door and gate count, lockdown design, remote sites, cabling, labor requirements and platform licensing. BTI provides an itemized proposal after a free site survey.
Tell us about your doors, people and schedules. An engineer replies within one business day.