Student accommodations chose flexibility

Challenge

This student accommodation provides a range of premium facilities beyond just rooms with Wi-Fi. Residents can access a swimming pool, gym, laundry facilities, restaurant, games room and a rooftop bar. Funway takes its duty of care seriously. Managers sought a modern, flexible access control solution to protect the young people who live there.

Requirements

• A secure system robust enough to handle high traffic volume in common areas
  
• Devices to fit all Funway’s door types, including rooms and lockers 
• The flexibility to cope with rapid and high turnover in site users
• A solution that requires students and other users to regularly update their access permissions

Solution

Locks & energy saving devices

• Student rooms are locked with SMARTair^® escutcheons. Energy-saving wall devices regulate electricity use, and students have a safe with a SMARTair^® e-motion cabinet lock.
• Students and staff open all authorised doors with the same access card: Funway’s gym, study rooms, games rooms, pool and changing rooms, spa and staff areas are also locked with SMARTair^® escutcheons.

Intuitive & secure

• Wall readers at the main entrance function as updaters. So, all users are “forced” to revalidate access rights every time they enter. The intuitive SMARTair^™ TS1000 software makes day-to-day facilities admin easy. Adding or deleting a user’s access rights is simple — so security is not compromised if a student loses their smart card.

"The system meets the expectations we had and offers very easy maintenance." - Mario Arias, Facility Manager at Funway