Improving Resident Access Alongside Hyde Housing

0​6 September 2024

The Hyde Housing Group manage 50,000 properties across 3,500 apartment blocks in London and across the South East of England, from Peterborough, to Dover, to Southampton. With a vision for “A great home for everyone” exemplified by the Bolanachi Building in Southwark, London.

Focussed around a central, “winter garden” style atrium, the property is one of the early medium-rise, high-density schemes designed under the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Greater London Authority initiatives. A mix of private-sale and shared ownership/affordable housing units, this large complex scheme features 30 doors with access control or intercom requirements.

A previously installed system ran on a closed protocol that was causing repeated problems and regular downtime. With experience of CAME Entrotec and CAME KMS systems being installed on 600 blocks over the past 6 years, the decision was made to upgrade the Bolanachi Building in collaboration with CAME Entrotec and CAME KMS. The improvements would reduce downtime with the robust centralised system CAME KMS SimpleKey Web provides and ultimately allow residents to enjoy their property more.

Leonidas Leivadiotis, Technical Surveyor at Hyde Housing describes a few of the benefits :

• Reliability – with hundreds of installed systems, Hyde Housing is able to measurably assess the high reliability of the CAME system
• Product Quality - CAME Entrotec door entry panels are UK built and provide a robust, reliable and Equality Act inclusive product
• Streamlined Installation – both the CAME Entrotec entry panels and the CAME KMS controllers and IOMs are supplied ready built and programmed ensuring reduced install time and less disruption to residents.
• Backwards Compatibility – whilst perusing innovation and improvements, our UK based R&D team ensure flexible backwards compatibility, ensuring replacement apartment stations work with older door entry stations and vice-versa.
• Unparalleled Levels of Service – the UK based CAME team strive to offer a superior service to customers providing a seamless process from specification to delivery.

As one of Hyde Housing’s larger blocks with intricate demands for the control of access, the centralised solution provided by the powerful CAME KMS SimpleKey Web software brings advantages such as fob management, that can be carried out off-site, alongside remote monitoring that helps protect vulnerable residents and adds an additional layer of security for everyone in the building.

By choosing CAME, Hyde Housing have also streamlined their maintenance demands both through improved downtime issues, product reliability and having reduced van stock for their teams. The training provided by CAME, both online and in-person guarantees any unexpected issues can be dealt with by Hyde engineers, all of which provides a better service to the residents of their blocks.

Leonidas describes positively of the CAME service and system “It just works! I would defiantly recommend CAME… they are second to none.”