All properties are not the same part 3: Multifamily properties
All properties and all access challenges are not the same. Luckily, iLOQ has a range of smart-access solutions that are designed to maximize security, minimize administration and lifecycle costs and optimize the user experience in all properties. In the third part of our series of blog posts, let’s take a look at the benefits of iLOQ’s smart-access solution in multifamily properties.
There are several challenges for the people who are responsible for access management in multifamily properties:
- The large number of apartments in the building.
- Many different access points in the building both individual and shared.
- Tenants moving in and out throughout the year.
- Tailormade and often time-limited access rights needed.
- Access needs frequently changing.
- Keys getting lost, shared with unknown people, stolen or simply not returned when they move out.
The pain points are also clear:
- Security risks for the properties, the assets contained in them and the tenants themselves.
- High maintenance costs, particularly with mechanical or battery-powered systems.
- A high number of keys are in circulation.
- Complicated key logistics and administration to keep access rights up to date.
- Challenges keeping track of who has access to where and when.
- Difficulties for tenants to move smoothly around all the places they need to access.
With iLOQ’s innovative, keyless, smart-access solution, a smartphone is the only key tenants need. They can use it to securely and conveniently move around their property from the main entrance door to the door to their apartment and all the shared spaces such as the garbage rooms, warehouses and garages. All the access rights they need are shared to iLOQ’s app running on their smartphone. They can be updated remotely and in real time (24/7) as needs change.
iLOQ’s solution is also unique in that it is battery-free. The power needed to recognize the tenant’s access rights and open the locks comes from electricity generated by the NFC (near field communications) induction of the smartphone when it is held against the lock. In addition, no cabling, Wi-Fi or internet access is needed eliminating the need for a complex electrical infrastructure and worries about not being able to get access in a power outage or if batteries in the lock have run out.
There are a huge number of benefits of this smart-access solution for all relevant parties – the building owners, the locking system administrators and property managers and the tenants themselves.
- There is no need to carry around large bunches of keys.
- Access rights are quickly and easily programmed using iLOQ’s cloud-based software platform. They are sent remotely and in real time to iLOQ’s app running on the tenant’s smartphone.
- If the places they need to access change, their access rights can be quickly, easily and remotely updated in real time.
- There are no security risks related to physical keys that can easily be lost, stolen or shared with unknown people.
- If a phone is lost or stolen, the tenant’s access rights can be reloaded to the app on their new device. And, in the meantime, temporary access rights for their locks can be given to one of their neighbors to ensure they are never locked out.
- Audit trails make it easy to track and manage who has accessed where and when.
- There are no costs related to purchasing batteries and no maintenance fees to change them.
- iLOQ’s solution is also cable-free and needs no Wi-Fi or internet connection which reduces costs related to the locking infrastructure.
- There is no need to renew the entire locking system or rekey locks if a key is lost or stolen saving a huge amount of time and costs.
- Tenants have a fast, easy and convenient way to move around all the places they need to access.
- When a tenant moves out, their access rights are quickly and easily cancelled avoiding the hassle of getting keys back to keep security levels high.
iLOQ’s smart locks are extremely quick, easy and cost effective to retrofit in existing properties and equally as easy to install in new buildings. There’s no need for special tools, drilling or to make changes to the infrastructure.
iLOQ’s wide portfolio of hardware includes cylinders, camlocks, key tube locks and padlocks. They are robust and operate reliably in the harshest environments and weather conditions – both hot and cold.
Take a look at how Wold & Waard – a housing association in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands – uses iLOQ’s smartphone-based access sharing solution to maximize security while minimizing administration time.
Watch this video to see Robert Mancuso (CBO, iLOQ North America), Diana Ordonez (Property Manager, Allure at Vosseller) and Mike Singer (President, Protection Technologies) discuss the benefits of the iLOQ 5 Series+ solution for multifamily residential properties.
So, if you want to be savvy, reduce lifecycle costs, make life safer and improve the user experience for your tenants, then be smart and choose iLOQ’s smart-access solution.
Watch this space for:
All properties are not the same part 4: Commercial properties
