Door Entry

Call-forwarding app

by Mark Rowe

The door entry product company Urmet has launched CallMe. It’s a call-forwarding system that lets users answer their video door phone remotely, from anywhere, using a smartphone or tablet.

CallMe is aimed at individual homes and small to medium-rise apartment blocks. It enables residents to speak with visitors, open gates and open doors; all using a mobile device. If the visitor is a courier, for example, the CallMe app user can allow partial access to their property, arrange a new time, or request delivery to a neighbour using the video function. This developers say that this offers the functionality of more expensive IP systems at sites that only have a two-wire system installed or for sites that have legacy cabling. The app will be particularly suitable it’s claimed for residential accommodation in listed buildings where cabling work has to be kept to a minimum.

The app allows customers to continue using their Urmet video door phones and is compatible with all units in the 2Voice (two-wire) range. The app’s also available as part of an ‘all-in-one’ kit, including the door phone handset and internal monitor for a small apartment building or a single dwelling.

Installation is by fitting a small extra call-forwarding component employing an ADSL connection to the Urmet indoor station. The link can then be made via Wi-Fi or network cable to the home router. Wired Ethernet connection is also possible through an RJ45 port. Users can download the free CallMe app (for Android and iOS) and configure it on their smartphone. Video signal quality can be defined according to connection speed. Users get call-forwarding to up to four mobile devices and, if desired, can try multiple users in succession if one doesn’t answer. A scenario might involve calling family members one after the other so that a courier can ask for partial access to the property in order to leave a package.

Mark Hagger, Sales & Marketing Director at Urmet, said: “Urmet is always quick to react to market trends and demands dictated by lifestyles. CallMe is our response to the era of connected objects and brings functionality normally associated with IP systems only to two-wire installations.”

The app also lets customers observe a visitor before deciding if they wish to answer the call. This can allow users to monitor activity at the doors of elderly relatives or other vulnerable people and respond on behalf of the occupant as required. And for users who have a second home it allows them a virtual presence at any location with an Urmet video door phone and a home router.

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