Residents of a small local housing association in the Wirral are newly protected by a door entry system.
Wirral Methodist Housing Association (HA) completed works on a residential block of 24 flats over three storeys two years ago, but in more recent times the housing has been upgraded to cater for less mobile residents. Soon after moving into the apartments, electricians were regularly being called to site to relocate the fixed door entry handsets.
Maintec Ltd, a local access control installer, was tasked with trying to establish a more cost-effective and time efficient solution for easy for elderly residents to use. Steve Cranshaw, Managing Director of Maintec Ltd, specified Intratone’s Visio 3G door entry system. Each of the residents is given their own fob; for visitors, the system calls the house phone via GSM, and if no-one answers it then rings a second designated number, normally a mobile phone. Residents press the hash key on their device to allow entry.
David Corran, Head of Asset Management at Wirral Methodist Housing Association says: “The installation was very straight forward – it only took about half a day. We tailored the settings slightly to each resident’s requirements – in one flat, for example, it is set to ring the house phone twice instead of a mobile. Whenever we have had an issue, the support teams respond almost immediately. I would not hesitate to specify this product on other similar sites, especially where there is a predominance of residents with mobility issues.”
Cranshaw adds: “There was a short learning curve while residents got used to the new system, and now everyone is much happier and feels far more secure and accessible. Intratone’s products are innovative and very economically priced so we are able to work on sites like this where the budget can be tighter.”
Anthony Plasse, UK Sales Manager for Intratone, says: “Our access control and door entry systems are installed across Social Housing, Private Properties and HAs all over the UK and Europe, and prove popular for residents of all ages, but especially the elderly, because they are very easy to use. Installers and customers also like them because they are very easy to install and competitively priced.”
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