Thanks largely to the Internet and wireless communications, today's multifamily security solutions offer unprecedented flexibility, easy installation, and protection.
Make sure your properties are adequately protected from security threats and lawsuits by conducting a formal assessment of your risk and installing products such as the ones we showcase this month.
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Residents at a Greenwich Village, N.Y., condo community say hello and goodbye to their doorman everyday as they pass through the building. But get this—they've never actually met the doorman.
Residents who choose to live at The Prime, a luxury mid-rise condo development in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, won't have to deal with the jingle-jangle of a bunch of keys to get into their homes. Instead, they'll swipe their fingers on a biometric fingerprint scanner.
Stroll through the University of Georgia campus in Athens, and you'll get a glimpse into the future of security at student housing communities. The university uses hand-geometry readers to grant access to its residential buildings.
It's all too easy to get caught up in the buzz of the latest high-tech security gadgets and gizmos. But it's often the cheap, simple strategies that have the greatest impact on a property's safety.
Biometrics, formerly available only in spy movies, has moved into multifamily housing. Residents of one Archstone-Smith property in New York must have their palm print accepted by an electronic reader to get into the fitness center. But that's unusual for the Englewood, Colo.-based company—and most...