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MONITOR AND CONTROL WORKPLACE POPULATIONS
WITH DOOR DETECTIVE PLUS As people gradually return to the workplace, business owners and facilities managers need to assess and prepare their buildings to be reoccupied, within the limits set by social distancing guidelines.
Managing and controlling population to optimise flow can be achieved with Integrated Design Limited (IDL)’s Door Detective Plus, which monitors pedestrian movement in either direction through access- controlled doorways, passageways and corridors.
When used in conjunction with IDL’s Fastlane Connect Multilane Controller, the Door Detective Plus system can resolve the challenge of having too many people in one area, during the lunchtime rush in the canteen, common spaces or even toilets.
The Multilane Controller facilitates the convenient monitoring and control of up to 63 lanes of Fastlane turnstiles or Door Detective Plus doorways, via a small desktop touchscreen console. A threshold feature creates a total population count over a chosen number of access points, and once the threshold is reached, the display turns red and bleeps as a warning.
The adapted Multilane Controller helps facilities managers enforce a limit on numbers with the addition of a ‘lock’ feature. By setting a maximum limit on the selected Door Detective Plus doorways and choosing ‘lock’, the chosen doors will automatically go into ‘no entry’ mode when the threshold is reached, ignoring further authorisation signals and showing a red light on entry until the number count drops to a safe level. The Door Detective doorway will lock for entry, but can still be used to exit in the normal way. As people exit and reduce the population count, the entrance control will reset and allow additional people to enter.
This system could apply to multi- tenanted offices and large single company offices with shared facilities. By creating office ‘bubbles’,
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facilities such as kitchens and toilets can be assigned to groups of employees, and this information controlled via the access control system. Anyone attempting to enter the assigned facility from outside the bubble would be denied access, limiting numbers and preventing cross contamination between groups.
Many offices have already implemented one-way systems for people moving through buildings, which avoids having to pass too closely along a corridor. Able to detect direction of travel, Door Detective Plus also offers an effective way to ensure the one-way rules are adhered to, by sounding an alarm when there is a violation.
Even seemingly innocuous behaviours such as propping open emergency exit doors or internal access-controlled doors can present safety issues. Although hard surface touchpoints are minimised, your organisation and people could be exposed to risk from unauthorised intruders gaining access. Simple modifications to doors to make them contactless, for instance installing
footplates, can help reduce the risk of infection. Even enforcing the use of hand sanitiser before an employee can touch the door to gain entry is an option. We offer flexible customisations to help solve the challenges that have arisen for our customers as a direct result of the pandemic.
One of the key benefits of the Door Detective Plus is that it is unobtrusive. Easily installed both sides of a doorway, it does not require any floorspace and comes in a range of finishes to complement your existing décor.
Tony Smith, Major Accounts and Marketing Manager at IDL, commented: “Customers where Door Detective is already installed are finding it’s helping them enforce best-practice as people return to the workplace, and we’ve seen increased demand for this product, especially when integrated with the recently updated Multilane Controller.”
Email:
info@fastlane-turnstiles.com
www.fastlane-turnstiles.com/
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