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Overview
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A video entry system lets residents or staff see, hear and admit visitors before opening the door. We design and install both traditional 2-wire systems (ideal for retrofits) and modern IP video intercoms that push calls to a smartphone as well as an indoor monitor. Suitable for single dwellings, HMOs, apartment blocks, offices, industrial gates and mixed-use developments.
Landlords and letting agents managing HMOs and apartment blocks, developers commissioning new-build entry systems, homeowners upgrading front-gate or communal-door entry, and commercial premises needing controlled visitor entry with visual verification.
During a new build or refurb, when an existing multi-tenant intercom has failed, when a HMO or apartment block needs upgrading to comply with fire escape and access rules, or when a business wants to control visitor entry at reception without a permanent front-of-house presence.
Cheap doorbell-style entry systems don't scale to multi-tenant buildings, don't hand over cleanly between residents, and don't integrate with the access control the fire brigade might require. Professional intercom design solves the whole building's entry — cabling planned, monitors sited, apartments individually addressable, and everything linked to your access control and CCTV.
What's at stake
Multi-tenant buildings with unmaintained legacy intercoms create tenant complaints, missed deliveries and — worst case — fire escape issues.
Systems where each new tenant needs an engineer visit to reprogram their call button waste money on churn.
Audio-only intercoms let residents buzz strangers in blindly — most opportunistic apartment-block break-ins start exactly this way.
Commercial and residential gates without proper intercom + video make deliveries, visitors and contractors a daily friction.
Our Process
Four decades of installs has taught us exactly what works. Every customer follows the same well-tested path from first call to long-term aftercare.
We walk the entrance points, count units, check existing cabling (2-wire, Cat5/6, coax) and confirm whether IP or traditional 2-wire is the right fit.
Recommended manufacturer, monitor spec per unit, entry-panel spec, cabling plan and integration with any existing access control — all quoted fixed-price.
Entry panel mounted, monitors installed in each apartment or reception, cabling routed cleanly, PoE switches added where IP.
Every unit tested, resident names programmed, smartphone apps set up where supported, letting-agent handover pack issued.
Named engineer for future tenant changes, faults and expansion — no call-centre roulette.
Benefits
Every resident or receptionist sees the visitor before opening the door — the single biggest anti-tailgating win in shared buildings.
IP systems (Comelit, 2N, Akuvox) push the door call to residents' phones wherever they are — no more missed deliveries.
Web-based programming means letting agents can update tenant names and call routing in minutes, not engineer visits.
Entry panels with keypad and prox reader unify intercom, key-fob entry and code entry into one panel.
One system can cover front door, rear door, car-park gate and reception — with different permissions per user.
For older buildings we specify 2-wire systems (Comelit Simplebus) that reuse existing cabling and avoid expensive rewires.
In Depth
Plain-English deep dive into the equipment, methods and decisions that go into a properly engineered install.
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For new builds and full refurbs we specify IP intercoms (Comelit Ultra, 2N IP Verso, Akuvox R29) on Cat6 with PoE — full HD video, smartphone call-forward, cloud-managed tenant lists. For occupied buildings where rewiring isn't practical, 2-wire systems (Comelit Simplebus 2) reuse existing pairs and deliver reliable colour video without new cabling.
Multi-tenant buildings need audio-visual entry at each communal door, individually addressable per unit, with in-apartment monitors that can also call between apartments (useful in student HMOs). Fire-brigade override, disability-compliant induction loops at entry panels and door-hold-open functions during fire alarm activation are all designed in.
For offices, industrial units and gated commercial sites we integrate video intercom with Paxton or Net2 access control, so a receptionist can grant entry from their desk PC, and after-hours calls forward to a duty phone. Vehicle-gate systems include number-plate-recognition options for supplier and staff automatic entry.
Intercom entry events log into the same Paxton or Net2 audit trail as key-fob entries, and every door-open event can be linked to a CCTV clip from the entry-panel camera. One reporting surface for every door event in the building.
For managed HMOs and blocks we set up web-based tenant management so your letting team can rename buttons, re-route calls to new tenants' phones, and revoke access codes without needing an engineer callout. Every change is logged.
Yes — 2-wire Comelit Simplebus systems reuse existing intercom pairs in most older HMOs and apartment blocks.
IP intercoms (Comelit Ultra, 2N, Akuvox) push the door call to residents' or staff smartphones as well as the internal monitor.
Yes — entry panels with built-in keypad or Paxton prox reader unify intercom, code and fob entry on one panel.
Yes. IP systems have web-based tenant management so agents can add, remove or re-route residents without an engineer visit.
Yes — vehicle-gate video intercoms with optional ANPR are one of our standard commercial installs.
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