Bticino installed reborn West End |
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Summary:
At West End on the Brisbane River Catchcam has installed a Bticino Sfera hands-free intercom solution integrated with a Challenger access control panel to support 76 residential units and 7 riverfront homes in the Flow development. 
Background: A classy new residential development called Flow on the river in Brisbane’s reborn West End. Built as 2 separate towers complete with their own electrical risers, this low-rise structure blends excellent design with uncompromising function. Residential systems like Flow are more complex than commercial jobs due the large number of handsets and entrances. Commercial systems normally combine PABX with intercom and have fewer points. They’ve got 76 units and 7 riverfront homes giving a total of 83 door stations linked to any system. On the access control side they have need a couple of hundred prox cards. The cards let residents in through the front door and then into the appropriate tower via card readers at the lifts – and back – as well as down to the carpark. The access cards also allow access to the theatre. Contract:  The Bticino product was definitely superior when interfacing with access control systems via the Weigand interface and its scalability from a small system encompassing several apartments to hundreds makes it an excellent solution across the board. Catchcam found DAS an excellent supplier. The Brisbane branch are always ready to answer any questions and they even visited the site a number of times during the course of the job to see if they could be of any service and to offer advice. Direct Alarm Supplies, which supplied the Bticino product for the job, has a long term relationship with the site’s developer and he says the attractiveness of the Bticino solution played a big role in ensuring the customer achieved what they wanted to achieve. The developer is very particular about quality and looks and that made Bticino ideal for them. A key element of the Bticino Sfera intercom solution is its modular design with the overall system built around an 8-wire comms bus and expandability up to 4000 apartments. Impact: The heart of the intercom and access control system is a combination of Bticinio Sfera entry panels and a Challenger access control solution, with HID prox readers thrown in. Most importantly, for this development, the result is a capable and good looking system. The Flow site has 4 of Bticino’s Sfera entrance panels on key external and internal doors, while each of the 76 residential units has one of Bticino’s Terraneo hands-free 2-way speech wall stations installed inside. The Sfera panels are wall mounted and their removable connection terminals make for an easy installation. Approaching the main entrance of the development you meet with a Bticino Sfera entrance panel complete with an HID prox reader installed on its housing. These Sfera units aren’t just very neat, their IP-54 weather resistance underscores a design that combines function with form. The entry panels at West End are protected from the worst of the weather in covered foyer areas but their moisture resistance still has value in Brisbane’s humid climate. Overall this is a quality installation, with node zero being spotless, all cabling (which was pulled during construction) being beautifully bundled. It’s an install that’s completely in character with one of Brisbane’s newest and finest residential
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