Residents of a new Welsh housing co-operative will soon be unlocking their front doors with the touch of a finger. The Newydd Housing Association has announced plans to implement fingerprint scanning systems on newly refurbished homes in Shakespeare Gardens, Rhydyfelin.
The biometric access control will be enabled in the form of the Connective Touch SmartPro system, developed by England-based Connective Touch, a founding member of the Global Biometric Centre of Excellence. Commenting on the Shakespeare Gardens deployment in a statement, company founder Devi Sohanta said the biometric technology “can change lives,” explaining, “It’s safe, fast, easy and secure, providing tenants with complete peace of mind,” and adding, “There’s no possibility that the security of the home is compromised simply because a key has been lost or stolen.”
While biometric access control used to be a technology available only to the business and government sectors and for luxury residential deployments, reductions in costs have now allowed for the emergence of more affordable systems, and even plug-and-play biometric door locks. Now, the Shakespeare Gardens project is set to demonstrate how it can be leveraged to benefit an entire community at a co-operative housing complex.
That could be the start of something bigger, with Newydd New Business Manager Elise Coalter asserting that after its completion and consultation with housing co-operative members, “we will be in a position to consider how we could then roll out this innovative new technology to more properties if successful.”
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August 17, 2016 – by Alex Perala
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