To help ensure the security and safety of its patients and staff, the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London is now benefiting from the installation of Bewator’s Entro 5 access control system.
The state-of-the-art children’s hospital is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and boasts 140 bed spaces – including a 20-bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit for the sickest children and three operating theatres. The seven-storey, glass-fronted building is themed around the natural world and designed – at least in part – by the children themselves.
This hospital’s management team places safety and security at the top of its agenda. Entro 5 – the latest variant of Bewator’s popular Entro series – was chosen to be the security solution for the hospital due to its extensive functionality and scalability. It’s a modular access control system which can be used to control more than 500 doors with 20,000 access cards. At the Evelina, the Entro set-up is being used to secure 118 access points (for example, at entrances to wards and theatres and for high level security).
The latest edition of Entro brings a range of additional functionalities for end users. A fundamental feature is the segment controller, which has been designed to give database retrieval and upload in emergency situations. There is also global anti-pass back with no PC.
