Working with installation partner, SCCI Alphatrack, ISM has designed, supplied and commissioned projects for Lambeth Living, the south London housing association, at high-rise installations in tower blocks at Amesbury and Durrington.
The door entry operating across both buildings and 160 flats has been replaced with ISM’s Ultimate 3000 audio and video telephone. After many years of use, the old system was deemed non-serviceable, as spare parts were no longer available. Renewal was the only option for the housing association if operational and maintenance costs were to be kept down.
The Ultimate 3000 system is designed and made by ISM in the UK. Both towers can be configured as a single exchange, but it is also possible to network them using Genesys, ISM’s patented control room management software. The housing association can reduce in manpower on-site, and integrate CCTV, digital recording, fire and intruder alarms.
ISM says that it was able to reduce installation costs by making bespoke chassis that could be fitted into the decoder boxes on each landing. Video door-entry phones, available with a concierge call button, were replaced in each flat using Cat5e cable. At the entrance to each building, Ultimate 3000 digital vandal-resistant panels were installed.
Grant Jenkins, Sales Engineer at ISM, said: “We’ve built up an enviable track record over 25 years of installing this type of system into large residential buildings for many local authorities in London. We’re naturally the first choice when any of these tower blocks come up for tender.”
