Westbridge Residential School Gets Smarter, Safer Locks

By ASSA ABLOY

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Massey, Auckland
Year of completion
2021
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Westbridge Residential School
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Westbridge Residential School Case Study

As one of the directors of Western Lock Services, Kylie Bray has project-managed the school’s hardware maintenance for years. ‘The school were managing eighty-odd doors with locks from different eras – from the original knob handles to commercial sets,’ says Kylie. ‘It was a difficult site for them to manage and not fit for purpose for their needs.’

Kylie knew about ASSA ABLOY’s wireless electronic locking systems, so she and Joanna met with ASSA ABLOY’s Nitin Nambiar and Jason Furlong on site to look at the current situation and the school’s ideal situation. It was quickly clear that the SMARTair wireless locks and proximity cards were the natural fit in terms of school needs, costs, ease of installation and ongoing management.

‘SMARTair has given the school a simple control interface where they assign which doors can be opened by which cards,’ says Nitin. ‘The software sits on the school’s server and is connected to a network of nine hubs around the school. With such a system, the school can control access to areas within the school and even go for a complete lockdown should such a situation arise.’

‘Each member of our team now has one proximity card with personalised access rights,’ says Joanna. ‘We now have the ability to set higher security for specific areas of our site, especially over the school holidays when students have gone home. Our regular maintenance contractors have their own access keys, so they can just get straight on with their work without calling us to meet them for access. This keeps both our time, and their costs, down.

‘From a facilities management point of view, the solution has done absolutely everything we wanted it to do in terms of safety, security and monitoring. It has been a massive improvement.’

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SMARTair<sup></sup> Wireless Online is a revolutionary access control platform that combines wireless-enabled escutcheons and wall readers, connected hubs and intuitive management software, while still retaining the benefits of not having dedicated data cables. Having each door connected via wireless allows the user to monitor events in real time, remotely open/close doors and automatically update access privileges.

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