University Hospital Sant Joan de Reus, which has 460 beds, has chosen Salto’s XS4 smart access control system to secure its entrances and exits.
One of Spain’s newest and ‘greenest’ hospitals, Sant Joan Reus was jointly designed by the architects’ studios Corea and Moran and Pich-Aguilera. The hospital specialises in treatments such as oncology, bariatric surgery, plastic surgery and repair, vascular medicine and thoracic surgery.
Marc Handels, vice president marketing and sales at Salto, said: “Its power efficient technology means its needs no hard wiring saving time, materials and funding on installation.
Stand alone electronic handle sets
“Working in consultation with the hospital we were able to design a highly secure and flexible access control system consisting of 100 doors within the main buildings secured with XS4 stand alone electronic handle sets and 1,400 lockers protected by XS4 locker locks. All of them use Mifare proximity technology so the same ID card can be used with all locks.”
A wire free and networked electronic locking solution, the heart of the system is the Virtual Network (SVN) software. This has been designed to enable the locks and key cards to be updated remotely and access profiles to be changed quickly.
It is also hoped it will ‘eliminate’ the physical restrictions of traditional stand alone electronic locks and integrate with other third party systems to allow ID cards and locks to be updated, restricted or deleted remotely.
The smart ID cards build up on-card audit through normal use giving University Hospital Sant Joan de Reus complete control over access, Salto said. Any ID cards that get lost or stolen can be ‘quickly and simply’ deleted from the system just by visiting the readers with updated cards.
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