Rush Fitness is a chain of membership gyms, that offer 24-hour access. Like other clubs that allow access with cards or fobs or PIN numbers, those can be abused; members can pass them to non-members.
Rush Fitness sought to avoid such abuse with biometric access; and required biometric enrolment kiosks for paying members to enrol and manage their memberships. Vistec Systems won the tender for access control for the Uxbridge gym branch, pictured. The installer selected ievo’s ultimate biometric products, to integrate with the Paxton Net2 access control system. Only paying members with registered fingerprints are permitted to enter the gym. Other ultimate readers are in use at enrolment kiosks, which allow members to self-register their fingerprints.
Paul Palmer General Manager, Rush Gyms – Uxbridge, said: “Upon starting my role here at Rush Fitness Uxbridge it was clear that members knew how to abuse the pin code system. Once the refurbishment was confirmed I requested biometric access to make us a secure gym. This ensures all users are genuine members of the gym, and ensures our members safety. It is has also caused the club live to peak to its highest ever by over 400. I fully recommend anyone concerned about access abuse in a health club to install biometric access.”
And Jon Hardaker, Business Development Manager, Vistec Systems, said: “Vistec’s biometric systems, using ievo products, offers extremely secure and ‘hassle free’ access into gyms and clubs. This low cost and simple alternative is the perfect answer for the leisure industry.”
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