Communications technology for buildings

DoorCom-IP enables Siedle customers to turn their PCs into call stations, replacing or combining with conventional in-house telephone call stations, without reducing functionality or quality.

Siedle, one of the leading manufacturers of communications technology for buildings in Europe, can now link its door communication systems to IP-based computer networks with DoorCom-IP.

This enables Siedle customers to turn their PCs into call stations, replacing or combining with conventional in-house telephone call stations, without reducing functionality or quality.

Building communication is entering a dynamic market.

Commercial buildings are generally completely networked and even in private households networks are now gaining ground.

DoorCom-IP enables users of Siedle's communication technology to take advantage of two important changes in this rapid-growth technological sector: the Ethernet turning into a transmission channel for door communication and the PC into a call station.

The door station feeds its call, audio and video signals into the Ethernet via DoorCom-IP.

There they are relayed to the network PCs, received by the client software and indicated on the monitor.

The computer assumes all the functions of an indoor call station including video transmission, picture control and switching functions.

An additional in-house telephone is no longer required - but can be added at any time because DoorCom-IP is both flexible and scalable.

In this way, a lawyer's chamber or doctor's surgery can fulfil all its door communication needs using a PC and software while the residential apartments in the same building are still fitted with classic in-house telephones.

Mixed-use is just as feasible as subsequent adaptations if the building is later used by other tenants.

A option if the users don't want to communicate via their PCs or if they don't have the required headsets is to have the video image displayed on the PC while the public network telephone assumes both speech communication and the door release function.

This combination can also completely replace - or at least complement - the conventional in-house telephone.

DoorCom-IP adjusts door communication to both individual user needs and the existing infrastructure.

In this way, it provides ideal conditions for sophisticated projects and tailor-made systems.

System-free link: pure Ethernet operation.

In a system-free link, door communication neither requires its own call stations nor separate installations.

Instead, the door station is connected to the Ethernet via DoorCom-IP.

Everything else is taken care of by the network and up to 50 connected PCs.

The system can optionally be combined with another communication technology system already in place at each work station: the public network telephone.

In this case, the telephone provides both speech communication and the door release function.

The video image from the door camera appears synchronously with the call tone on the PC monitor.

From October 2007, a version capable of cascading up to 14 DCIPs will be available.

This will permit connection to a maximum of 700 PC users.

Flexible and powerful: Ethernet and Siedle-Multi.

Used in conjunction with Siedle-Multi, DoorCom-IP provides a system capable of meeting the most stringent demands of performance and flexibility.

The Multi link offers the same performance features as the system-free link - plus the entire capability of Siedle-Multi.

For instance, with the free combination of Siedle in-house telephones and PC clients in a single system, planners are able to address flexibly different application variants within a single system.

The Multi link is available in two different versions.

In the first, DoorCom-IP supplies up to 49 PC users assigned to every door.

Typical applications include large building complexes with mixed-use units.

In the second version of the Multi link, a single DoorCom-IP links a maximum of 254 inputs with up to four PC users.

Typical applications include properties with multiple access points that are monitored from a control centre, for example, by a caretaker or security service.

This type of property generally has a comprehensive data network.

With DoorCom-IP, the building communication makes use of this infrastructure.

This makes its application more convenient, more flexible and usually more affordable, too.

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