Dyfed Alarms is installing access control equipment from ACT at a mixed comprehensive school in Wales. Ysgol Dyffryn Aman has 1,600 pupils studying across a campus with a sixth form of 300. In use are ACTpro 4000 door controllers and ACTpro door stations on interior and perimeter doors. ACT says that its hardware uses low bandwidth and auto-discovery and features timed anti-passback and counting areas.
Staff at the school activate doors using 13.56MHz MIFARE fobs and ACTpro MIFARE 1030PM readers which, unlike many competitor brands it’s claimed, can read data from any of the 16 sectors on a card. Typical usage at the school is for specialised teaching areas such as science laboratories and infrastructure including plant rooms.
The system is configured with time zones so that doors to common areas open automatically during breaks and lunchtime and then re-lock. The access control system at the school has been extended to secure a link with a public leisure complex featuring two swimming pools, an athletics track, Astroturf pitches and a gymnasium. School administrators are able to use ACT management software to track door usage and analyse trends in movement around the site as well as designing and printing identity cards.
Dyfed Alarms has secured 50 doors with ACT units while the school conducts phased refurbishments block by block. Ysgol Dyffryn Aman is a co-educational non-denominational school in Ammanford at the foot of the Black Mountains in Carmarthenshire.
Des John, Business Development Manager at Dyfed Alarms, said: “The fact that we have been using ACT on successive modular installations over three years at the school is testimony to the build quality and reliability of the products. For this kind of educational installation, ACT is the only company we specify. The technical support is first-rate and in the rare event of a problem, engineers always come to the site promptly. We are currently using ACT equipment at another school in Whitland, also in the county of Carmarthenshire.”
About the installer
From a Carmarthen base, Dyfed Alarms covers West, Mid and South Wales. Founded in 1977 and an independent company, Dyfed Alarms’ operations include education, healthcare, office space and retail. The company is NSI-approved and a member of NICEIC.
