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Mark Sennett
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Kelly Rose
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Reliable access for hospital
02 June 2017
Evolution, the integrated security and fire solutions business, is helping to improve the security of patients, visitors and staff at one of Scotland’s largest teaching hospitals thanks to the installation of a sophisticated, fibre optic-based access control technology.
Evolution worked with the team at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE), a major acute teaching hospital, to upgrade the cabling infrastructure to fibre optic as a more reliable way of ensuring access for the hospital’s thousands of pass-holders.
The new card-based access system has now been installed to manage some 227 doors throughout the RIE, further improving the hospital’s security and reducing the need and cost of unnecessary maintenance. The cards are proximity readers and used at controlled doors, while each card also contains a photograph, name and department – acting as an identity card too.
Scott Lawson, operations manager at RIE, said: “The system has to manage the demands for access of the 10,000-strong footfall that the hospital experiences daily, and it consistently performs well across the hospital’s entire estate."
