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Access Control Equipment
Turnstiles
Links Modular Solutions can coordinate your turnstile installation including a range of turnstiles from a range of suppliers. Each fit-out is personally handled by experienced staff who have both knowledge of centre traffic flow and the software capabilities. Links will provide a project manager who will look after your installation from order through to installation, working with builders and the like to ensure the best solutions possible. With both areas covered you won’t find a better access solution on the market today.
Click here for some examples of access set-ups used by our clients.
Door Control
In many cases certain doors within your facility would be much more beneficial if you could restrict certain customers from particular areas. For example, some of our clients have utilized the unique features of access.link to restrict access by gender to change rooms or women’s only areas. Another great feature of Links Modular Solutions!
RFID Access
In the past 2 years the fitness industry has started to adopt new technology for both convenience for their members and increasing the clubs bottom line. Industry leaders including “Recreation Health Clubs”“Fitness First”,“Victorian YMCA” and “Bayfit Leisure Centre” are organisations who have adopted the new RFID (proximity card) technology for their clubs.
RFID cards have a memory chip in the card where industry software programs such as Links Modular Solutions can read write to and store information on them. The use of RFID has been around in various industries but not in the fitness industry as up until now it has been cost prohibitive.
If cards are not included in your business you can instead have rubber wrist bands, watches, key flops or a number of other alternatives. This gives greater opportunity for members to choose what they want to use and also greater promotional opportunity.
Some current key Benefits of the technology are as follows;
The ability for easier full access control throughout the club or centre, including gender specific access to change rooms.
Access control for membership lockers (no more keys or numbers to remember). Locker doors are alarmed if broken into and you can even assign them to a particular member if you wish.
Money can be stored on the cards for internal purchases so that members do not have to bring in wallets etc. This feature is already in use at many of our centres and has proven to increase secondary spending while giving owners a nice slush fund waiting for the money to be spent.
RFID can be used for purchases at vending machines freeing up staff at reception. Gloves, ear phones, health bars etc can all be placed in a vending machine configured for both RFID and traditional payment methods.
If you have swimming pools or do not want to use cards then you can use waterproof wrist bands that have all the same benefits. If you want to reward a member you can even give them a RFID sports watch!
“Ascot Vale Leisure centre has nearly 6000 members and has had the new RFID system for nearly 2 years now. In short, members and staff love the system it as it gives members easier and quicker access within the facility while giving us simpler and more control of them.”
Cain Liddle (Group manager YMCA)
"We will have over One Million visitations this year and we wanted our members to have the easiest and quickest service without having to queue for any service. For this reason we have gone for RFID cards and the Links Modular Solutions Software.”
Tim Hancock (Manager Bayfit Leisure Centre )
"At Recreation our philosophy does not deviate from “exceeding our member’s expectation for service”. With the RFID and the Links system we believe this helps us immensely in accomplishing this. We love the idea of members being able to have cash on their membership card to make internal purchases simpler and easier and do have the worry about bringing in credit cards or wallets/purses. Now the member’s card can be used on vending machines and is fantastic for access control”.
