For apartment buildings
Secure for strangers, effortless for residents.
An apartment entrance has to do two contradictory things at once, all day, for years — and it's the first thing every resident judges the building by.
A brand of FAAC Technologies
Residential entrances take a punishing duty cycle. Every resident, every visitor, every delivery, every day — and unlike a commercial lobby there's nobody at a desk to help when something sticks. The entrance has to work unattended or it becomes a body corporate complaint.
It also has to hold a security line without making residents feel like they're breaking into their own building. Access control integrated properly means a door that opens for a valid credential and stays shut otherwise, rather than one that gets propped open with a fire extinguisher because it's annoying.
Then there's the accessible route: residents' circumstances change over the years they live in a building. A lobby that works for someone at 45 should still work for them at 80, and automating the entrance is what makes that true without a retrofit project later.
What matters to you
- High duty cycle, unattended
- Operators specified for constant residential traffic with no one on site to intervene when something goes wrong.
- Access control integration
- Entry on a valid fob or credential, so the security line holds without residents fighting the door.
- Accessible lobbies
- Entrances that stay usable as residents' mobility changes, with low-energy operation on the main route.
- Body corporate maintenance
- Planned servicing and clear reporting for building managers and committees answerable to owners.
Apartment Buildings
Talk to us about your building.
Whether it's a new development or an entrance that's had enough, tell us what you're dealing with.
Auckland & Christchurch — servicing nationwide