by Rebecca Walker — October 9, 2009—The Royal Manchester School for the Deaf, which first opened its doors in 1825 and is now known as The Seashell Trust, has chosen Net2, from Paxton Access, as an access control system.
The PC-based system allows the school to control the flow of people around the building and its perimeters without concern about missing keys or changing locks .
The school, for students with an increasingly complex range of communication and physical difficulties, uses the system to control access on 31 doors around the site. Access tokens have been issued to 450 staff members and some of the more able students.
The external doors on the college and the school are all controlled using Paxton Access Long range readers which allow access tokens to be read from some distance away. Automatic door openers have been fitted. Wheelchair users and staff find this a great help when entering the building. They have the hands free fobs fixed to the wheelchairs and when they approach, the system reads the fob and unlocks the door.
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