Friday, 15 August 2008

UKB International invite the media to see UK’s first gated community with total biometric security

Media invitation: To attend the launch of the UK’s first mixed residential and commercial development to employ biometric ‘fingerprint entry’ access throughout. Meet developer Housemartins Ltd and UKB International Director’s Joy Phillips & Denis Kelleher.

Thursday 11th September, from 6pm.
Housemartins Ltd
40-41 Alpha Road
Surbiton
Surrey KT5 8RP

SURBITON GATED COMPLEX FIRST IN UK TO SPECIFY BIOMETRICS THROUGHOUT

A mixed residential and commercial development in Alpha Road, Surbiton is the first new build development in the UK to replace keys, swipe cards and fobs with biometric ‘fingerprint entry’ access and security. The system has been installed by the Chiswick office of UK Biometrics Ltd.

40-41 Alpha Road comprises 9 luxury apartments and four separate air conditioned offices on 2 floors. Developer Housemartins Ltd has specified biometric locks as the finishing touch to a prestige gated complex.

Ian Martin, Partner in Housemartins Ltd says:

“40-41 Alpha Road is a luxury development offering a high specification which is perfectly complimented by the elegance and security of biometric locks. Owners can access their homes or offices by simply swiping their finger over a reader. Guests can be temporarily registered then quickly de-registered. Traditionally a development of this size would require over thirty keys, at Alpha Road there are none”.

The biometric locks scan a fingerprint and convert patterns into data which is encrypted and stored for future comparison. No actual fingerprint is stored and the data is not shared with third parties.

UK Biometrics Director Joy Phillips says:

“Our biometric locks are offered as an option by a number of UK volume home builders, but Alpha Road is the first new build mixed use development to plan a biometric solution from the drawing board. Property owners at Alpha Road will be using the only key that cannot be lost, stolen, forged or hacked – their own fingerprint”.

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