Intercoms and access for Houghton's walled properties and heritage areas
Houghton is about 6 km south of Sandton City. Houghton's mix of large freestanding homes and upmarket apartment complexes, many with high, established walls and mature gardens, presents specific challenges for gate access. For a homeowner on a large stand, a visitor at the street gate can be out of sight and earshot from the main dwelling. Similarly, complexes along busy roads like Riviera Road or Oxford Road require clear communication to screen visitors effectively, while the historical significance of Upper Houghton can influence installation approaches.
To address this, we recommend video intercoms for homes, allowing residents to visually confirm visitors before opening, with multiple indoor monitors if needed. Where cabling across a large property is difficult, a GSM intercom can connect directly to registered mobile phones, needing only power and signal at the gate. For both types of property, separate access control systems using tags, codes, or fingerprints are important for residents, staff, and regular service providers.
Managing a changing roster of residents, domestic staff, gardeners, and contractors is a key consideration for Houghton properties. Our systems enable individual access credentials to be added or removed easily, meaning that when someone moves out or a service contract concludes, their specific tag or code can be deactivated without affecting others. This provides control over who may enter the property, making sure only authorised individuals have access at any given time.
Everything we install and repair, and how a job runs from first call to handover, is on our intercoms and access control page.
Questions from Houghton
How can we manage access for our domestic staff and service providers without issuing gate remotes?
We can set up individual keypad codes or access tags for each person. These can be removed or changed for one person without affecting anyone else's access.
Our home is set far back from the street gate. How can we see who is there?
A video intercom system allows you to see visitors from inside your home. It can also connect to multiple indoor monitors or ring your mobile phone if a cable run is difficult.
If something on your intercom setup in Houghton is not working as it should, the quickest fix starts with a call. We will ask a few questions, book a visit and quote in writing before any work starts.