Roofing Feature; Security & Tenant Safety Feature Housing Association Mergers, what is the impact?
In many areas of our society, organisations are merging to improve the efficiencies and reduce costs to deliver their services. Housing Providers are no different. In going through a merger, there are many different areas that need to be considered, some, that might not seem significant to many, can have an impact on the management of housing blocks. This may include how access is managed through the communal doors. Many Housing Providers can have different communal door access control systems and managing two systems can be time-consuming, costly and cause confusion with communal door access control management. The KMS SimpleKey Web communal door access control solution can help overcome these issues. The system can be easily installed with all existing communal door entry systems, without the need to change Doors and Door Entry panels. The benefits including reducing administration costs to the combined Housing Provider are significant. With SimpleKey Web being based in the cloud, quick to install and simple to use, the new association can minimise the impact of the merger and maintain the levels of service to their tenants. To find out more on how SimpleKey Web can help when Housing Providers merge and increasing the levels of service to tenants, please contact the company or visit its website.
www.kms.uk.net Housing association’s switch to Aico
Grove Community Housing Association in Northern Ireland has replaced its existing Smoke Alarms with Aico’s Multi-Sensors and Ei164e Heat Alarms in more than 80 per cent of its properties. The Multi-Sensor Fire Alarms contain two sensor types, optical and heat, to constantly monitor smoke and heat levels, sending and receiving information via its intelligent detection software, for fast response and reduced false alarms; the latter is enhanced through a dust compensation feature. Since the new Aico alarms have been installed, Denis states that he has not had any false alarms reported. Furthermore, the installer confirmed there were no faulty alarms which is testament to Aico’s quality control.
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Fire safety start-up company Lite4Life has adopted Aico’s unique Ei414 Fire / Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarm Interface into its Multiwatch tower block fire safety system and AlightforLife Directional Way Finder Safety Light. The Ei414 is being used to alert these systems in the event of an activation from Aico Fire and CO Alarms. In the case of AlightforLife it activates LEDS pointing to the nearest exit. The Ei414 Fire/CO Alarm Interface from Aico provides a dedicated connection between Aico Smoke and CO Alarms and third party safety systems. Reliable, easy to install and use, it features a ‘test’ setting to test the entire system including a signal being transmitted to the third party system.
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