How a fresh application to an existing automatic door entrance system can significantly reduce costs and also ensure that the doors are working efficiently and safely for all the residents and caring teams employed within the building.
Automatic Door Situation:
Oakland Care Home in Hereford has recently added another six bedrooms and an activities area to their family run care home in Hereford. The care home boasts a superb relationship with the resident’s families and actively encourages visitors from the local community along with school children to come and partake in activities with the residents. With the increase in visitors as well as residents at Oakland Care Home the proprietors decided it was high time indeed to have their existing automatic swing door openers replaced. The wear and tear was evident and the current automatic door operators did not have enough functionality to meet the care homes new objectives of ensuring a smooth entry and exit to and from the building for their employees, visitors, as well as of course and most importantly the residents of the home and to ultimately improve security. Concerns arose with the old automatic door openers as the sensors were often unable to detect objects or people that were in the path of the sensors.
Automatic Doors Solution:
As a solution to the care homes issues with their old automatic door openers, ADSF UK LTD did not need to replace the existing door but instead they installed a new set of Premis 120 automatic swing door openers that consisted of a package that included;
Pull arms that are designed for inward opening doors.
A key switch that has three settings: "off" to turn off the automatic function, "hold “to keep the doors open, and "auto" to turn on the automatic mode.
Access control - this only allows entry to authorized personnel who are provided with an access card. This is designed to be used by employees and regular visitors such as hair dressers, occupational therapists and doctors. This is especially useful for individuals that need to enter the care home in the evenings when most of the residents have retired for the evening.
Push pads - providing a push to open function, which is perfect for use during the day so that residents and visitors can easily enter the care home.
Activation sensors will automatically open the door when someone intends to exit.
On-Door safety sensors will detect if there are individuals or objects around the back of the door.
Oaklands Care Home Outcome:
ASDF UK LTD conducted full testing after the installation of the operators to ensure that all the parts were working efficiently and above all safely for the users. All the residents that were alert to the new changes, the employees and visitors alike were more than satisfied with the outcome. Now, the owners of Oakland Care Home can relax, safe in the knowledge that they do not have to worry about injuring any of their residents, visitors or staff due to faulty automatic door sensors. In addition, everyone involved with the Care Home was pleased that the security system had been updated and this was especially greatly received by employees working through the night.
In spite of the increased number of people visiting the care home every day, there has been no congestion in their entry/exit way. The automatic door openers are made of a high quality and durable material; therefore, it will be a very long time before the care home has to think about replacing them. The key switch is very useful too, especially when the need arises to hold the doors open, maybe for bringing an elderly resident out to a waiting ambulance or for delivery drivers. The delivery people can easily come in and out by themselves without asking for assistance from the employees.
The Premis automatic door openers were in addition helpful in helping the environment as they use less power having a direct impact on the environment, whilst the aluminium is made up from at least 40% recycled material.
ADSF UK LTD were pleased to be able to rectify the issues that Oaklands Care Home were experiencing and after replacing the door operators offered a twice yearly maintenance contract to ensure that the Automatic door operators were well looked after and serviced properly.
If you would like to learn more about automatic door entry systems are any of the other products that ADSF UK LTD supply then click on our customer friendly web site or call us on 01275 871787 and we will happily assist you with your enquiries.
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