Forty families, one entrance, and nobody waits at the barrier.
In the morning, the cars leave one after another. In the evening, they come back, and the barrier lifts for each of them. At the lobby door, the courier rings: you answer from your phone, even from the office.
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Picture it: 7:30 am, at the residence entrance
A residence of forty homes, waking up. Parents head to work, children head to school, a neighbor takes his boat out of storage. At the entrance, it used to mean hunting for the right remote, waiting for the gate to finish its run, letting the oncoming car through.
Today, the entrance moves at the pace of the people who live there. Everyone gets through, and nobody waits.
The concept: an entrance that knows its residents
A condominium is first and foremost a shared entrance. Nice designs barriers and gates to manage parking and control access, in residences as well as car parks.
Nice’s latest sliding gates open in ten seconds. Safety sensors detect an obstacle and stop the gate from closing: a stroller, a bike, a child running by, and the gate waits. A built-in light shows its status in color, green when open, red when closed.
At the lobby door, the Hikvision video intercom takes over. Hikvision designs it for apartments, villas and condominiums. Residents get in with a code, a card or recognition, even completely touch-free.
What it changes for residents
Answer the door from anywhere. With the Hik-Connect app, you talk to the visitor, take the call and unlock the door remotely. The courier rings during a meeting? You answer from your phone and tell them where to leave the parcel.
We told that gesture from a villa’s point of view: Someone rings at the gate. You answer from Paris.
Everyone has their own access. Code, card or recognition: each resident gets in their own way. A family moving in receives its access, a family moving out hands it back, with no keys to collect.
Keys still circulating in a building became an article of its own: Who still has a key to your home?
The entrance, shared with the family. Nice’s MyNice app can be shared with loved ones and sends a notification every time the gate opens and closes. Parents know when the teenagers are home.
Visitors, warmly welcomed. Friends, family, tradespeople: you let them in from home, without going downstairs and without them waiting at the gate.
What it changes for the condominium
Fewer lost remotes. Access is managed from an app, with time slots when needed. The gardener comes in on Tuesday mornings, the cleaning company on Thursdays.
An entrance you can check at a glance. The Hikvision video intercom works with the brand’s cameras. The property manager or the residents’ board can see the entrance remotely, without going there.
Even at the end of the lane. For a car park barrier far from the buildings, Nice offers solar power, with no cables and no trenches.
A barrier that depends on no cable at all is told here: The daytime sun opens the gate at night.
And it is nothing new. Near Verona, in Italy, Villa La Zambonina, a 17th-century villa, entrusted a Nice barrier with night-time access to the private part of the estate, reserved for residents and tenant farmers.
The residence in your pocket
Hik-Connect for the lobby door, the Nice app for the gate and the barrier: the whole residence fits in every resident’s phone. You see who is ringing, you open, you check that the gate has closed, and you get a notification at the right moment.
The line that sums it up
Forty families, forty rhythms, and one entrance that adapts to each of them.
AND HERE AT HOME?
From Sint Maarten to Antigua, from St. Kitts to Barbados:
- Residences on a human scale. Small buildings, residences with a pool or a garden: a well-designed entrance makes the difference from the very first visit.
- Daytime deliveries. You answer the courier from work, and the parcel waits in the right place.
- Owners who rent out. One tenant arrives, another leaves: access follows, with no keys to hand over in person.
- Family life. The children come home from school, a notification arrives: everyone is home.
To equip your home, a certified [ART]IST installer studies your project with you. For any question, write to mail@nice-carib.com.
Evening falls over the residence. The cars come back one by one, and the barrier lifts for each. On the third floor, a family serves dinner on the balcony, while down below, the entrance quietly looks after everyone.Sources: niceforyou.com, hikvision.com
