Roebuck Castle houses more than 100 beds of student-catered accommodation. Each unit is made up of 12 single en suite rooms with a shared kitchen, lounge and study room.
The advanced system design incorporates wireless XS4 E9451U85IM48W RF electronic mortise locks as well as standard E9450U00IM48 units, with wireless gateways and repeaters, standard CU50ENSVN units, WRM9001 wall readers and WRM9001E wall readers.
“Something new for students”
Richard Brierley, manager of residential services at the university, said: “Further to the renovation of accommodation at our Merville Student Village apartments that we did last year and a second phase of refurbishment we did earlier this year, Roebuck Castle was a brand new build offering something new to students.”
Stephen Foley from Doorware, Salto’s Irish distributor who carried out the installation, said: “As specialists in the field of university access control systems, the Salto solution was ideal for Roebuck Castle student accommodation”
“Working in consultation with Richard and his team we designed a highly secure and flexible networked access control system to meet all of the requests of the university.
The system has been designed to provide wireless real time access control.
It uses AES128 bits encrypted radio frequency communication based on IEEE 802.15.4 at 2,4Ghz to transfer information from escutcheons to the PC through strategically located gateways or repeaters.
Gateways and repeaters act like aerials
The gateways and repeaters are sited in various points throughout the building and designed to act as antennas, collecting and sending information from the PC to the stand alone wireless locks. A single gateway can manage several repeaters and electronic escutcheons.
The solution means users have real time audit trail information, real time door and battery control, which enables users to monitor battery maintenance by viewing the lock battery status in real time. Access card issues should be able to be resolved in real time as the locks receive updates as soon as they are generated, Salto said.
The system is compatible with several RFID technologies including Mifare/DESfire, Inside Picopass, Legic and HID iClass.
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