Kastle Systems, a provider of property technology and managed security, and PointCentral, a subsidiary of Alarm.com, a platform for the intelligently connected property, are combining decades of expertise to provide comprehensive security and smart space solutions that meet the unique needs of multifamily buildings across the country, the two announced.
Multifamily owners and operators have long wished for a single solution that enables them to manage their properties from perimeter access to individual unit smart apartment control. This new integrated platform delivers on that vision, giving them a combined set of innovative benefits such as streamlined operations, frictionless user convenience, automated workflows, water damage risk mitigation, increased control over costs associated with operating vacant units and more.
This partnership represents a single key solution that multifamily operators can offer residents, combining seamless, property-wide access convenience and personal home automation all in one smartphone app. This app will give users Kastle’s hands-free access from building entry to shared amenity spaces, and the ability to grant temporary access privileges for visitors and deliveries directly from the interface. Additionally, the app presents a menu of PointCentral’s market-leading property automation features, including smart thermostat control, water leak detection, intelligent lighting and remote HVAC management with predictive equipment maintenance monitoring.
This offering combines Kastle’s smart access management with 50 years of success, currently serving 2,500 commercial and multifamily buildings with 47,000 businesses and 1.8 million users and Alarm.com’s smart home security and automation technology with over 8.4 million subscribers and two decades of consistent growth.
The combined feature set will give property managers unprecedented performance visibility and remote management efficiency, the companies said. It will simplify the administration of resident access rights, monitoring of resident credential distribution, tracking of access traffic, and granting of temporary access to model units. Additionally, it will help mitigate risk of asset damage with water leak detection and predictive equipment maintenance monitoring, as well as optimize utility usage of vacant residences within their communities.
