A case study of IP video door entry and access control system at a new-build apartment complex in south London, Cobalt Place, pictured.
It’s described by the developer Lend Lease as an eco-friendly project in the heart of Battersea Village. The site will use the Urmet IPervoice door entry product which requires only one Virtual LAN (local area network). IPervoice meets Lend Lease’s aim of single-platform control by operating from the site’s main managed fibre network.
Resident and visitor access is via communal entrances serving each block of apartments. The buildings will feature an Elekta Steel IP PoE vandal-resistant video entry panel with a 3.5-inch colour display. Entrance for residents and pre-approved visitors can be by proximity device or the alpha-numeric keypad. A wide-angle colour camera (activated by a passive infrared sensor) lets residents view their visitors, who can leave video messages if required. Other features include audio message recording, absence function, duress alerts and assistance for elderly or frail residents.
When inside the apartments, residents receive or play back video and audio calls on the Urmet iModo seven-inch touchscreen, which is integrated with a camera and double-speaker stereo. Residents can receive their video calls remotely on their tablets and smartphones by configuring an intuitive call-forwarding service using the Urmet App. The product manufacturer’s engineers tocanoversee and programme the system from head office.
The video entry panels are integrated with panel-mount readers and comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). These panels are vandal-resistant to IK09 impact resistance standards and have IP45 protection against dust and other contaminants. Flush moving elements minimise the risk of the units being compromised and possible pry points have been factored out of the design making it resistant to acts of vandalism.
Other controlled doors at Cobalt Place are being fitted with Urmet’s P60 readers, which sit within the site’s IPervoice platform and thus use the same single Virtual LAN. The Urmet interface for the apartment lifts communicates with the LAN in a similar manner to the access control procedure, allowing integrated installation within the common managed network and the ability to restrict visitors to certain floors.
Lend Lease’s contractors are providing an IP address range for video door entry and related functions that allows Urmet engineers to install IPervoice with the system’s DHCP server controlling IP addresses to avoid conflicts. Urmet has ensured that IPervoice meets the communal dwelling requirements of the ‘Secured by Design’ scheme, the UK police flagship scheme on the principles of ‘designing out crime’. Cobalt Place has 102 apartments within four main cores. Crucially, IPervoice has the facility to allow each block of apartments to start with the number ‘one’, but enables the concierge at the central control point to use a single handset.
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Mark Hagger, Urmet’s Sales and Marketing Director, said: “A diverse residential development will be using the system for multiple access and security-related requirements, all from a single platform within the site-wide structured cabling.” Urmet’s ability to pre-configure IPervoice off-site was invaluable for the client as they coped with the logistics of coordinating multiple contractors within tight deadlines. Our previous work with developers Lend Lease has included the London 2012 Athletes’ Village, so we’re accustomed to collaborating with them on prestigious projects!”
In London alone, Urmet equipment has been specified recently at high-profile residential projects, including Chelsea Creek, 375 Kensington High Street, One Tower Bridge, Fulham Reach and Goodman’s Fields.
