Aeroturn Takes ‘ASTORS’ Gold for Best Entrance Pedestrian Control

Aeroturn designs, manufactures, tests, delivers and installs the world’s only Zero-Maintenance standard and custom turnstiles that are 100% Made in the USA.
'ASTORS' Award Winning Aeroturn designs, manufactures, tests, delivers and installs the world’s only Zero-Maintenance standard and custom turnstiles that are 100% Made in the USA.

Aeroturn LLC, a leading turnstile manufacturer that offers 100% Made in The USA turnstiles, today announced that the company is the proud recipient of the 2020 Gold ASTORS Award from American Security Today for the Best Pedestrian Entrance Control Solution for its third consecutive year.

American Security Today’s Annual ‘ASTORS’ Award, now in its fifth year, is the preeminent U.S. Homeland Security Awards Program, that highlights the most cutting-edge and forward-thinking security solutions in the market today.

The program is specifically designed to honor distinguished government and vendor solutions that deliver enhanced value, benefit and intelligence to end users in a variety of government, homeland security, enterprise, and public safety vertical markets that help keep our nation secure.

Aeroturn’s commitment to securing the government sector is second to none with quality turnstile solutions that continue to set the bar in the industry.

Since 2004, Aeroturn’s integrated turnstile solutions have been proven in GSA buildings with a perfect track record; creating an easy choice for government agencies.
Since 2004, Aeroturn’s integrated turnstile solutions have been proven in GSA buildings with a perfect track record; creating an easy choice for government agencies.

The company established its national footprint by working with high profile security integrators nationwide on deployments of robust turnstile solutions in both regional and national GSA state and federal courthouses.

“Our fully-locked module low profile deterrent turnstiles have been customized by each location to match the increasing level of required security and life safety in government courthouses,” explains Michael Stoll, VP of Technical Sales & Marketing.

With a performance specification of 10-million cycles, 5-year warranty, zero-maintenance mechanics, 100% Made in USA turnstiles, 10-Year MTBF (mean time between failures), no preventative maintenance requirements, factory direct delivery & installations, and a 20-year minimum expected service life; Aeroturn turnstiles meets and exceeds all GSA requirements.

Michael Stoll, VP of Technical Sales & Marketing for Aeroturn LLC accepting an 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Award at ISC East
Michael Stoll, VP of Technical Sales & Marketing for Aeroturn LLC accepting an ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award at ISC East

Since 2004, Aeroturn’s integrated turnstile solutions have been proven in GSA buildings with a perfect track record; creating an easy choice for government agencies.

“We are honored to be recognized for the third consecutive year for our achievements in American Security Today’s distinguished 2020 “ASTORS” Awards Program for our work with state and federal government agencies,” says Stoll.

“2020 has been a very challenging year for everyone due to the COVID-19 pandemic however, the 2020 “ASTORS” Homeland Security Awards Program was again a huge success with many new categories added that included a section for COVID-19 detection and innovation,” said Michael Madsen, Co-founder and Publisher of AST.

When it comes to quality perimeter protection products and engineering at its finest,  Aeroturn, a 2018 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Award Winner, is at the top of  its game. (Image courtesy of William Horne)
When it comes to quality perimeter protection products and engineering at its finest,  Aeroturn is at the top of  its game.

“Today, the United States is increasingly focusing on protecting public spaces, as well as IT/cybersecurity networks and they are calling on innovative companies like Aeroturn to help them do so,” added Tammy Waitt, Co-founder and Editorial Director of AST.

‘ASTORS’ nominations are evaluated on their technical innovation, interoperability, specific impact within the category, overall impact to the industry, relatability to other industry technologies, and application feasibility outside of the industry.

Aeroturn, LLC Takes Gold in Third ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program

American Security Today’s ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards program is in its Fifth Year and continues to recognize the Outstanding Innovations of top firms and agencies in the Homeland Security and Public Safety fields.

2020 has been a very challenging year for everyone due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the much heralded AST ‘ASTORS’ Awards Winners Presentations and exclusive Luncheon at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC has been canceled and rescheduled for 2021 due to the virus.

Mike Madsen, Publisher, American Security Today
Mike Madsen, Publisher, American Security Today

However, the 2020 ‘ASTORS’  Homeland Security Awards Program was again a huge success and many new categories were added including a section for COVID-19 Detection and Innovation.

Aeroturn, LLC

Best Pedestrian Entrance Control Solution 

  • Hardened Zero-Maintenance Turnstiles

  • Aeroturn worked with a national footprint security integrator to provide the most robust turnstile solution available to be deployed in both regional and national GSA State & Federal Courthouses, where location must be customizable to match the increasing level of required security and life safety content and at the same time be part of an overall integrated national footprint solution.

  • With a performance specification of 10-million cycles, 5-year warranty, zero-maintenance mechanics, 100% Made in USA, 10-year MTBF, no preventative maintenance requirements, factory direct delivery & installations, 20-year minimum expected service life, Aeroturn was the only manufacturer who met GSA requirements.

  • The integrated turnstile solution has also been proven in GSA buildings since 2004 with a perfect track record as the basis for this most recent decision.

Courtesy of Aeroturn
Courtesy of Aeroturn
  • *Aeroturn LLC was also recognized in the 2019 and 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Programs.

Based in USA Oxford, CT location, Aeroturn offers integrators and end users a comprehensive range of this century’s turnstile products.

With an engineering team second to none, the team has been together for over two and a half decades in product design, development and manufacturing.

Since its inception in 2001, Aeroturn offers every customer a 5-year warranty, zero maintenance mechanisms, 10 million passages guaranteed, site specific cabinets, 10,000 cycle factory burn-in, and industry unique-factory direct delivery & installation.

The company installed its first turnstiles in 2003 and 2004 and has not stopped delivering quality turnstiles and services over the years to its high-profile customers in a wide variety of vertical markets that includes commercial, private, government, industrial, bio-pharma and education.

Working closely with the architect, consultant & engineering community, Aeroturn understands the specific needs of its customers and continues to exceed expectations on every project.

For further information on Aeroturn’s turnkey turnstile solutions, please visit visit http://www.aeroturn.com, or send an email to sales@aeroturn.com.

The 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program is sponsored by ATI SystemsAttivo NetworksAutomatic SystemsDesktop Alert, X.Labs and Reed Expositionsevery one a returning Sponsor from 2019.

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The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

American Security Today is uniquely focused on the broader Homeland Security & Public Safety marketplace with over 75,000 readers at the Federal, State and local levels of government as well as firms allied to government.

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AST provides a full plate of topics in our AST Monthly Magazine Editions, AST Website and AST Daily News Alerts, covering 23 Vital Sectors such as Access Control, Perimeter Protection, Video Surveillance/Analytics, Airport Security, Border Security, CBRNE Detection, Border Security, Ports, Cybersecurity, Networking Security, Encryption, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Campus Security, Security Services, Corporate Facilities, and Emergency Response among others.

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It will be your Go-To source throughout the year for ‘The Best of 2020 Products and Services‘ endorsed by American Security Today, and can satisfy your agency’s and organization’s most pressing Homeland Security and Public Safety needs.

From Physical Security (Access Control, Critical Infrastructure, Perimeter Protection and Video Surveillance Cameras and Video Management Systems), to IT Security (Cybersecurity, Encryption, Data Storage, Anti-Malware and Networking Security – Just to name a few), the 2020 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS EDITION will have what you need to Detect, Delay, Respond to, and Mitgate today’s real-time threats in our constantly evolving security landscape.

It also includes featured guest editorial pieces from some of the security industry’s most respected leaders, and recognized firms in the 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.

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