The Alpro keypad, made with an ingress protection rating of IP68, is ‘robust in a demanding environment by providing protection against airborne contaminants including brake pad particles which are a familiar problem at railway stations even in areas away from platforms’.
The keypads have been fitted to ensure that operational areas of the station are restricted to particular personnel.
A spokesman from the company said: “Alpro’s bright aluminium keypads are vandal-resistant and suitable for up to 200 users.
They are available as self-contained or two-part units and there are surface or mortice-mount variants for both. Benefiting from piezoelectric technology, whereby pressure on the sensors is converted to an electrical charge, the keypads have no moving parts. The numbers are hard-anodised into the case; they will not wear off and cannot be stuck down with gum.”
At St Pancras, the keypads have been deployed internally but they have also been designed for the outside.
Keith Parry, divisional sales manager at Alpro, said: “There are very few keypads with IP68 certification in the marketplace and still fewer with the levels of vandal resistance and aesthetic appeal offered by Alpro. These keypads are proving a default choice in environments where protection against contaminants, reliability and maintenance-free performance are vital.”
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