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Atlantic Beach Golf Estate is set among undulating, fynbos-covered dunes, overlooking Table Bay, opening to the world-renowned backdrop of Table Mountain. This is a luxury estate offering 850 upmarket homes adjacent to a stunning 18-hole links-style golf course.
Atlantic Beach had a radio frequency identification device (RFID), card-based system. Promanage, the managing service providers for Atlantic Beach, after consultation with Timetraq, an access control specialist company, and a risk management assessment found the system to be flawed in a number of areas.
Steven Lampel, managing member of Timetraq, says, "A number of issues with the RFID system were identified - it was unreliable and very difficult to administer; the technology had been phased out and as a result additional hardware and cards were becoming scarce; lost cards and difficulty of tracking the allocation of cards was a security risk; and there was no way of effectively controlling visitors, contractors, domestics and tenants, other than a paper-based system, which does not provide the level of security the homeowners wanted on this estate."
Another important issue for the company was the many contractors arriving each day to provide services to the estate. "The solution had to be able to enrol and immediately grant access to any employee of the contractors as well as provide reliable reporting," adds van Wijk.
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