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Access at RIE

by Mark Rowe

The installer Evolution has fitted fibre optic-based access control systems at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, pictured, one of Scotland’s largest teaching hospitals. The acute teaching hospital has had its cabling infrastructure upgraded to fibre optic as a more reliable way of ensuring access for the hospital’s thousands of pass-holders.

A new card-based access system now manages some 227 doors at the RIE, that’s reducing the need and cost of unnecessary maintenance. The cards are proximity readers and used at controlled doors, while each card also contains a photograph, name and department – acting as an identity card too.

Scott Lawson, Operations Manager at RIE, says the new system is reliable, operationally sound, and easy to use: “The system has to manage the demands for access of the 10,000-strong footfall that the hospital experiences daily, and it consistently performs well across the hospital’s entire estate,” he says.

RIE has over 4,000 employees as well as 400 students from the University of Edinburgh, and receives more than 115,000 patients each year for its A&E department alone. Besides reliability, the hospital also demanded flexibility, in the system and the installation, Scott says: “The hospital regularly sees changes of purposes for buildings and the requirements for access can alter substantially. With the new system, changes can be quickly and easily accommodated; the Evolution solution allows operators to programme and dispense new passes from an easy-to-use portal.”

John Baillie, Area Sales Manager at Evolution, says the installation phase was meticulously planned: “It was essential for the hospital to remain open throughout and with minimum disruption. We therefore worked closely with each department to support their needs while never sacrificing security, and our attention to detail in the planning meant the project ran very efficiently.”

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