Port Macquarie fitness club upgrades 24/7 security

The Your Life Fitness club in Port Macquarie has looked to upgrade its security and the security of its members with the purchase of an HPJ Anti Tailgating door from PathMinder.

The largest 24/7 gym in the area, offering a full range of classes, Your Life Fitness is supervised by staff between 6 am and 8 pm and then switches in to unsupervised 24/7-hour mode through the night.

The gym was mindful that tailgating (where someone follows an authorised person in to the gym once a first person has opened the door) had become an issue. While, at its most innocent tailgating is just another member unable to get their card out, in other situations it’s a mate who isn’t a member of the gym who is using the facilities for free rather than signing up for an annual fee.

In more worrying situations it may be someone unknow to the first person who waits for the door to close and just before it latches sneaks in.

In this situation, the intentions of the tailgater are unclear, with a risk of theft and damage to people and property.

The HPJ Anti Tailgating door from PathMinder that Your Life Fitness is installing is designed to stop this. The HPJ will ‘cap’ the existing door way to stop any tailgating or unauthorised entry attempts through the entry point. The HPJ anti tailgating door creates a 2-door interlocking system with the existing door.

The intelligent controller in the HPJ makes sure only one door is open at a time thereby restricting access. A highly sophisticated ultra-sonic tailgate detection system scans the door to ensure only one person gains access. If there is more than one person, the second door doesn’t open and access is thereby prevented.

Commenting on this installation, Gavin Wilcox, owner of Your Life Fitness, explains “we have looked at several systems ranging from simple IR and camera based systems that just created an alert but we found the benefit of the HPJ Anti Tailgating door from PathMInder was that it actually stops the events from occurring.

“This gives me peace of mind that my customers in the centre out of hours are safe. In addition, we believe this will stop any damage or theft at the facility out of hours.

“Additionally, we think that the sophisticated ultra-sonic tailgate detection technology as opposed to the easier to defeat IR beam or contact pressure point type solutions mean that the PathMinder anti tailgating door will continue to provide effective security.

“With those other low tech solutions, members quickly learn how to defeat the system thus making it redundant.

“The PathMinder solution is already proven in over 500 doors in the 24/7 gym market worldwide.” 

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