Abloy UK has supplied its SMARTair access control system to a new 'aparthotel' in Milton Keynes.
Developed by growing serviced apartment and hotel operator Your Apartment, the hotel is the largest property in a portfolio of more than 300 serviced apartments in Bristol, London and Milton Keynes.
Your Apartment required a flexible and integrated access control system for the aparthotel that could grant access to residents, team members and contractors with the relevant credentials at the right time, with the added benefit of audit trails for enhanced security.
The building contractor approached Abloy UK for advice during the specification stage, and the SMARTair system was suggested as the ideal solution, to offer wireless door entry and provide a detailed security overview of the building: who entered, where and when, in real-time.
SMARTair provides facilities managers with control over user rights and sets access limitations, time schedules and permissions calendars for different user groups, so people can only access areas in which they have authorisation to do so at a specific time.
The system is integrated with Openow, a smartphone app that opens doors with Bluetooth functionality, meaning the user’s mobile phone becomes a secure virtual key.
The Facilities Managers update virtual keys over the air from anywhere - eliminating delays in issuing new credentials or revoking lost ones.
We wanted to incorporate the latest technology
“By integrating SMARTair into Your Apartment – Milton Keynes, we offer residents the latest in cutting edge access control, which not only ensures the security of the facilities, but offers easy access and adds to their experience while staying with us.
“It is so simple to adapt access rights if needed - residents and contractors can move freely and easily in areas throughout a time frame, but when that time is over, the area becomes restricted again.
We also like the additional layer of security provided by the audit trails.”
