Aperio helps reduce environmental impact at a Swedish senior residence

Challenge

The largest city in northern Sweden, Umeå built a new flagship assisted living facility in Teg to provide accommodation and on-site rehabilitation for people with dementia and physical illnesses. Technology is at the heart of the new centre. Hearing loops are built into the floor. A digital signboard showing activities, this week’s menu, and who lives where meets visitors at the entrance. Each room has outlets for cable TV and internet service.

Requirements

∙ A people-centred, secure electronic access control system that would be suited to keeping a vulnerable client group safe

∙ Sustainable technology to limit the carbon footprint and cut unnecessary energy use at the new facility

Solution

Cabled access control doors are expensive: installation requires extensive wiring, and powering the locks needs a permanent connection to mains electricity. The facility in Teg aims to set a new gold standard, and demanded a better, 21stcentury solution.

The choice was Tidomat integrated with Aperio technology from ASSA ABLOY. The 110 Aperio equipped doors connect to the system wirelessly. “Each person has access only to

the areas that person needs – which increases security for everyone,” says Åsa Jernbom, planning secretary at Umeå Social Services.

There is also a locker in every room. Only the correct resident or a staff member can open it, via an electronic locker lock.

“This is the first step,” says Åsa Jernbom. “Because we’re going to build more assisted living facilities, so we need to think in the long term—smart and sustainable. Umeå is setting the standard with this new facility.”

The Tidomat system with integrated Aperio wireless locks is also future-proofed. It will allow for flexible changes and extensions, if the Äldrecentret requires at a future date.