Become an Aether RF distributor
Wireless access control your dealers already get asked for
Aether RF builds wireless access control hardware in Phoenix. A KNECT wireless bridge puts a reader on a door or gate the access panel can't reach, without trenching or new conduit.
Your dealers already get asked for this
An installer is asked to put a reader on the far gate. The panel is in the building, the gate is four hundred feet out, and the trench quote is most of the job. He either prices the trench and loses the bid, or he finds a radio.
- Gated communities
- Apartment gates, HOA entrances, and new gates on a property people already live on.
- Commercial and campus
- A door in another building, across a courtyard or a parking lot from the panel.
- Industrial and yards
- Truck gates, yard entrances and outbuildings, where the runs are longest.
What Aether RF makes
The KNECT wireless bridges, by the job they do, with every part number a branch would stock.
One door or gate
One gate or door. Retrofits, self-storage, small gated communities, historic interiors.
| Product | Model | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| KNECT Endpoint Pair | KEP-202 | Two Endpoints, which is one complete point to point link. |
| KNECT Endpoint | KEP-200 | One Endpoint. Wiegand at 4 to 64 bit, OSDP, or two relays, from the same unit. |
| KNECT Endpoint in Enclosure | KEP-203 | One Endpoint already fitted in a can, with the antenna mounted outside it. |
Several doors and gates on one property
Industrial sites, distribution centers, larger HOA and build-to-rent communities.
| Product | Model | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| KNECT One to Many Kit | OTM-K | A Gateway in its enclosure, an ARF Tether and two Endpoints. Where most One to Many jobs start. |
| KNECT Gateway | KGW-100 | The unit that wires to the access panel and covers up to four doors or gates. Bought on its own it comes as a bare board. |
| ARF Tether | ARF-T100 | The Gateway's radio. It mounts up to 400 feet from the board, so the antenna goes where the signal is. |
| KNECT OSDP Hat | KGW-H | Mounts on top of a Gateway so a One to Many system can run OSDP readers. |
The Wiegand Wave 150 is outside the KNECT series. It's Wiegand only and costs less. KNECT Core Access is a controller rather than a bridge, and it's coming soon.
One to Many adds a category to your catalog
A point to point bridge is probably on your shelf already: two boxes, one link, one door. One unit at the panel running four doors and gates usually isn't, and the closest competitor sells pairs only.
- The line item
- A KNECT Gateway at the panel runs up to four doors and gates, and eight with a second Gateway
- What a dealer buys
- The One to Many Kit, which covers two doors or gates out of the box
- The reorder
- A KNECT Endpoint for each door or gate the site adds after that
- Range
- The same at every door, however many Endpoints are on the system
Who takes the first support call is your choice
Distributors split on this, and both ways work for Aether RF.
Your counter takes it
Aether RF keeps your people trained, and the install guides on this site are written to be read on a phone at the door.
You send it to Aether RF
Phone support runs weekdays, 8:30am to 5:30pm Arizona time, and support requests come in through this site at any hour.
Either way, Aether RF will look at a site plan before anybody bids the job, and a hard technical question goes to the people who built the radio. Support
How Aether RF prices direct orders
Aether RF sells direct to buyers without a distributor account, and prices those orders above what a branch charges, so a direct order doesn't undercut your counter.
- Direct orders
- Priced above the branch, for a buyer who wants one unit and has no account
- On this site
- No prices on the pages. A direct buyer sees the price at checkout
- Your dealers
- Buy on the account they already have, at your price
- Warranty
- Two years, limited, on every unit, however it was bought
What Aether RF does for its distributors
The support a branch gets from Aether RF once it stocks KNECT products.
- Counter days
- Aether RF comes to the branch and runs them with your team.
- Dealer training
- A dealer webinar, built together with Controlled Products.
- Material for the counter
- Datasheets, install guides and wiring references, all public. Downloads
- A service dealers bill monthly
- Dealers charge their own customers for monitoring in the portal, so the sale continues after the box. Aether RF IoT
Talk to Aether RF about stocking
Tell Aether RF which branches you run and what your dealers keep asking for. That's enough for a first conversation.
Aether RF products are stocked today by Brooklyn Low Voltage Supply, Controlled Products Systems Group, IML Security Supply and Southwest Automated Security. Where to buy