Keeping residents and the facility safe and secure is a serious undertaking at the Promenade Condominium. For the past 17 years, management has relied on Morse Watchmans’ key control and management systems to help achieve this goal.
Keeping residents and the facility safe and secure is a serious undertaking at the Promenade Condominium. For the past 17 years, management has relied on Morse Watchmans' key control and management systems to help achieve this goal.
Located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, The Promenade Condominium is a residential high-rise luxury condominium with 191 units on 38 floors. It is distinguished by spectacular views and full amenities including a health club and pool. The building offers an outdoor jogging track and a fitness center, wrap-around roof terrace, conference room, party room, children's playroom, billiard room, bicycle and storage room and a garage – all with controlled access. Building management holds keys for these areas as well as keys for each unit and uses the Morse key control and management system to secure, control and track keys.
"Holding the keys in the KeyWatcher eliminates any issues of unmanaged access," said Dominick Camilleri, Resident Manager at The Promenade Condominium. "The system works very well and over the years we have never had a problem." The Promenade's original key system was recently updated with the newer Morse Electronic Key Cabinet system, along with the complementary key control software to enable improved tracking of key usage.
Similar in appearance to the original, the new Morse system offers several convenient features that make controlling keys for a large residential property easier and improve accounting and tracking. Built into a rugged steel cabinet with highly illuminated key slots, the improved design makes it easier to locate keys and maximize wall space. The illuminated two line by 16 character screen clearly displays messages and user prompts for a variety of different functions, including removal and replacement of keys. The cabinet is wired with a tamper-proof mechanism and alarms can be sent automatically via email to designated managers.
The Key-Pro software enables Camilleri to monitor activity from any desktop connected to the network. He can also trace key movements by time, date and user code. The automated record keeping software can also help to reduce the number of man hours spent searching for keys or following up on incidents.