A case study of the access control from Intratone in security fitted by Added Security Technology (AST) London for residents to the premises in Elton Close, Teddington, west London.
Elton Close is a five-block development, with a total of 68 flats, car access, parking and garages. AST was recom mended to the management who required access control of people to the residential buildings and preventing vehicles from parking illegally in the Close.
People are managed through the use of a fob-based, GSM Intercom door entry system from Intratone installed alongside five new and secure aluminium doors – also specified by AST. Residents are issued with the fobs that are presented to a proximity reader to grant access, with data from the fob being recognised (and recorded) by a central management system.
Visitors can enter a flat number into the keypad on the door entry system at the main entrance door that automatically dials the resident’s landline telephone. Should there be no answer, the system will revert to dialling a mobile phone, or other designated number, where residents can remotely grant or deny access. Using Intratone’s management system, the fobs can be monitored and cancelled, or re-assigned online, if a resident moves on. This solution is administered, for Elton Close, by AST.
To prevent the unauthorised parking of vehicles within the Close, AST also specified a new barrier using Intratone’s Intrabox RF Receiver.
Residents are issued with transmitters whose RF signals are received by the management system to open the barrier. Every time the barrier is raised, the information is reported to operators to record an overview of the barrier’s activity. The technology is again remotely programmable through Intratone’s management system to accommodate changes in vehicles or residents.
Philip Hornsby, Managing Director of AST London, says that he has been working with Intratone technology for the last ten years: “The technology is proven and highly reliable, and well received by residents and management alike. Residents feel safer, and we have all-but eradicated the issue of problem parking.”
Sylvia Junge from the Elton Close Residents Association, says that the installation of security equipment and the barrier were delivered as promised: “We need regular changes for new residents, fobs to be programmed and telephone numbers to be inputted. This is always dealt with speedily and efficiently.”
“All our regular maintenance is carried out with the minimum of fuss, and the few occasions that we have had a problem, AST has dealt with any issue promptly and to a high standard.”
