When equipping the new Nelson Health Centre in Merton, South West London, the brief for electronic locking system specialist, Salto, was to manage the design and installation of ‘a secure, flexible, and cost-effective access control solution that was simple to use to meet both NHS and end users’ needs’.
A new access control solution for the centre, which opened its doors on 1 April, was supplied, installed, and commissioned, by local Salto partner, TMB Systems Group, based on the supplier’s battery-operated, wire-free XS4 platform. The system’s smart cards can be programmed to allow access to specific rooms or areas within the centre for selected periods only, with the doors ‘auto locking’ at pre-specified times if required.
TMB Systems Group MD, Tony Burton, said: “A couple of features of the system that staff at the centre particularly like are ‘blacklisting’ and staff roll call, and the fact that if key security is breached due to loss of a card, it can be instantly deleted without the need for, or cost of, changing locks – saving both time and money.”
