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ACCESS CONTROL
SOLUTION FOR
QUEEN’S AWARD
HOMELESS CHARITY Nortech Controllers
Manage Access at
Shared Parking
Facilities
» » THE CHARITY, WHICH
was established in 2009 in
West London, now serves
disadvantaged communities
in Oxford, Reading, Milton
Keynes, Birmingham, Slough,
Windsor and Lancashire as
well as London. It’s ran by
volunteers and the charity
currently has 1,300 volunteers
across the country, serving
those who need it most.
Randeep S. Lall, Global
Operations Director at the
charity, said: “We provide
3,000 meals per week to those
in need which means our
main warehouse in London is
extremely busy 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. Security
and appropriate access
and entry are so important.
Although we have a secured
electric gate that drivers have
to report to in order to gain
entry, it meant someone had
to permanently stay at the
warehouse to grant delivery
and collection vans access.
This wasn’t sustainable given
we are a completely volunteer
led organisation. We needed a
more flexible and convenient
access control solution that
still provided a high level of
security too.”
NiskhamSWAT, who has
recently won a Queen’s Award
for voluntary service, worked
with leading access control
and door entry distributor,
ADI to overcome its entry
challenges. » » THE CPC202 AND CPC204
Shared Occupancy
Controllers from access
controls specialists Nortech
are compact, standalone,
intelligent units that control
access for groups of users
sharing the same parking
facility.
A single CPC204 Shared
Occupancy Controller can
provide full access control
to a parking facility that
is shared by up to four
independent user groups.
As well as validating user
credentials, it will monitor
usage and prevent each user
group from exceeding its
allocated number of parking
spaces and will work almost
any barrier/gate system.
The CRC202 Shared
Occupancy Controller can
be used to control access to
a parking facility by a single
group of users, preventing
over occupancy of the
facility. It can also be used
to manage the sharing of a
facility by two user groups.
Both Shared Occupancy
Controllers provide a
comprehensive range of
access control functions
such as restricting parking
to certain times of the day,
preventing the abuse of
pass cards (pass back),
and supporting visitor
management using group
specific PIN codes.
The controllers support
independent readers and
gate controls for entry and
exit gates/barriers and
work with most types of
card reader/vehicle ID
reader. They have capacity
NiskhamSWAT, a leading charity that
provides hot meals and everyday essentials
to homeless people in the UK, has
partnered with Videx Security, to overcome
access control and entry challenges.
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Joseph Davies at ADI
explained: “We recommended
a GSM access control system
to NiskhamSWAT to help
solve their entry issues. After
researching which solution
would work best, we advised
that the charity used a Videx
two-way GSM audio kit with
code lock and proximity access
control in a 4000 series style
panel.”
For NiskhamSWAT
this means that no one is
required to remain at the
warehouse 24/7 to authorise
access. If a van arrives for a
collection or delivery and no
one is there, the system will
call the designated number
for access and has the
facility to divert to another
number if the first call is not
answered, with a maximum
of up to four numbers per
button. Programming the
entrance panel can easily
be carried out either by SMS
or dialling into the system
using a telephone without a
keypad.
www.videxuk.com
for up to four count groups
(CPC204) or two count
groups (CPC202) and can
accommodate for up to 9,999
users per group.
The CPC202 and CPC204
devices also have capacity for
up to 65,000 cards/tokens,
provide a choice of counting
methods and can control up
to four message signs, Space/
Full signs or traffic signals.
The compact and easy to
install controllers optimise
parking capacity, maximising
return on investment and
help to prevent parking in
unauthorised areas. This not
only improves safety but also
avoids disputes and minimises
disruption to an area.
Other benefits include
the saving of fuel and
reducing of pollution by
preventing drivers from
entering the car park when
spaces aren’t available and
the comprehensive range
of access control features.
The visual indication of
which companies have
spaces available also helps to
avoid queuing and enables
each tenant company to
manage their own parking
allocation.
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SEP/OCT 2019
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