Urmet’s IPervoice video entry and access control solution has been installed at St Joseph’s Gate, an apartment complex located at a former foreign missionary college in Mill Hill, London. The system was chosen for the redevelopment of the Berkeley Group’s site due to its simple installation process and the ability of Urmet products to blend with the Grade II-listed architecture.
Residents and visitors benefit from Urmet’s digital video door entry panels, which communicate with touchscreen iModo monitors inside the apartments. The Power over Ethernet (PoE) external panels are Urmet’s Elekta Glass units, housed in a design that has minimal visual impact on the building.
IPervoice has been installed across the whole location, with its server connected to a dedicated LAN that routes all communication between the external and internal devices supplied by Urmet. This has produced cost-savings for the property management client and is also a ‘green’ approach, since only one LAN is required for access control and video entry. The iModo monitors make no dedicated cable infrastructure demands and are simply integrated with general network cable.
Access control is managed by Urmet’s PC-based concierge switchboard software, with an intuitive wizard simplifying day-to-day operation. Residents at St Joseph’s Gate use proximity key fob tokens with car-owners also using RF cards. The site manager operating the switchboard is presented with simple screen menu options to search for, add, delete and suspend tokens, as well as to generate reports when required.
Urmet worked closely with the installation company to create bespoke pedestrian and vehicle posts for the entry panels, with the posts finished in a black powder coat to achieve the unobtrusive visual effect desired by the client.
Residents and visitors enter via a gatehouse, which is staffed by a concierge. An Urmet reader with RF capability allows long-range activation by residents while they are still in their vehicles. Visitors have the choice of making a call directly to an apartment from the post-mounted video entry panels or via the concierge’s switchboard.
Occupants answer calls at the entry panels and communicate with visitors using iModo 7” touchscreen monitors within their apartments. But the role of the monitors extends well beyond these functions; optimising the lifestyle of people living at locations employing Urmet’s access control is one of the company’s core objectives. Residents benefit enormously from an ‘away mode’ that allows them to receive calls made to the monitors on their smartphones and tablets when they are off-site. Families are even able to use this feature on up to four devices. The iModo can also record a message, which is then played to visitors at the external entry panel when the resident is away or simply does not want to be disturbed.
Being server-based, the IPervoice system conducts live status sampling on the health of network devices, and network alarms are displayed on the concierge switchboard software with diagnostics presented in real-time for local or remote viewing.
Mark Hagger, Urmet’s Sales and Marketing Director, said:
“An unusual feature of this project is that all of the entry panels at St Joseph’s Place are post-mounted. The building dates from Victorian times and is in the Jacobean style. This meant that the visual appeal of the exterior could not be compromised. We have successfully delivered numerous projects for the Berkeley Group previously, although mainly for new-build projects. Consequently, this restoration project was both interesting and challenging. It’s certainly one that we are proud to have been involved in.”In Greater London alone, Urmet equipment has been specified recently at residential projects including Chelsea Creek, 375 Kensington High Street, Cobalt Place (Battersea Village), One Tower Bridge, Fulham Reach, Goodman’s Fields and the former Walthamstow Stadium.
He continued: “Urmet is fast gaining a reputation for architecturally-sympathetic installations through its agile approach and ability to supply site-specific variants to our standard products, while working to short lead times.”
The Urmet Group was established over 75 years ago and is the largest manufacturer of door entry systems in Europe. Urmet UK specialises in audio and video entry systems and has a range of products to cater for almost every application, from simple one-to-one systems, to sophisticated digital and IP-based systems. Over thirty million systems installed in over 60 countries worldwide are the measure of Urmet UK’s global dedication to manufacturing quality products.
For further information, please visit www.urmet.co.uk or email marketing@urmet.co.uk
Scroll down to read more articles like this which have been published recently
Why not Sign-up to Receive these Articles by Email each Day
Why not Sign-up to Receive these Articles by Email each Day
* Read more current and archived articles on our dedicated website *
Low Cost and Free Publicity - Your company can easily benefit from some publicity like this in return for a contribution towards our layout costs (typically £30 plusVAT), payable via PayPal or credit card or receive the service absolutely free of charge if you advertise (see below).
We post articles up to twice a day and never delete them - we only archive them each year so that they continue to remain visible to search engines.
To have your story published - just send us your news item, logo and image(s) and we will review the material, make any necessary changes to the wording / wordcount and then advise you when it will be published.
If you take display advertising or product and literature features in our printed and online publications, you will qualify for regular free postings on this blog while you continue to advertise with us.
For details on features and advertising rates please contact us or visit our website.
Door Industry Journal is a trading style of Avalon Innovations LLP Company Registration No. 06807833
No comments:
Post a Comment