Access Control for Care Homes That Prioritises Safety, Dignity, and Control
Care homes require a careful balance between security, accessibility, and resident wellbeing. SimonsVoss digital locking systems are designed to support safe, efficient care environments, without the limitations of traditional keys.
Manage access across your facility, protect residents, and give staff the flexibility they need to respond quickly and confidently.
Designed for the Realities of Care Environments
Care homes operate in dynamic, sensitive environments where access control must support both safety and daily care routines.
SimonsVoss systems help you:
- Protect residents without restricting movement unnecessarily
- Ensure only authorised staff access sensitive areas
- Respond quickly in emergency situations
- Reduce the risks associated with lost or shared keys
- Maintain clear oversight of access across your facility
Is This Solution Right for Your Care Home?
This solution is ideal if you:
- Manage access across resident rooms, staff areas, and restricted zones
- Need to balance open environments with controlled access
- Require audit trails for compliance and accountability
- Want to reduce operational risk linked to physical keys
- Need flexible access for rotating staff and care teams
It may be less suitable if:
- You operate a very small facility with minimal access control needs
- You do not require user-based access management
Common Care Home Challenges — Solved
Your challenge
Lost or shared keys create security risks
Staff need fast access in emergencies
Protecting medication and restricted areas
High staff turnover
Compliance and accountability
How SimonsVoss solves it
Access can be instantly revoked and reassigned
Immediate, reliable access via digital credentials
Controlled access with defined permissions
Easily update or remove access without changing locks
Full audit trails of access activity
How Access Control Works in a Care Home
SimonsVoss systems are designed to integrate seamlessly into care environments without disruption.
- Install digital locking devices
Doors are equipped with digital cylinders or smart handles — typically without wiring or major alterations. - Define access permissions
Set access levels for staff, management, and service providers based on roles and responsibilities. - Use secure credentials
Staff access doors using transponders, cards, PINs, or mobile devices. - Monitor and adapt in real time
Adjust permissions instantly and maintain full visibility over access activity.
Control Access Without Compromising Care
A key priority in care environments is maintaining a sense of openness while ensuring safety.
SimonsVoss systems allow you to:
- Secure medication rooms and sensitive areas
- Restrict access to staff-only zones
- Enable smooth movement for authorised personnel
- Maintain a welcoming, non-institutional environment
Recommended Setup for Care Homes
A typical care home system may include:
- Digital cylinders for resident rooms and external doors
- Smart handles for internal access points
- Access control software for centralised management
- Flexible credentials for staff and authorised users
This combination ensures both security and ease of use across the entire facility.
Why Care Homes Choose SimonsVoss
- Improve resident safety without limiting independence
- Reduce risks associated with lost or shared keys
- Enable faster, more responsive staff movement
- Maintain compliance with access and security requirements
- Adapt quickly to staffing changes and operational needs
- Scale easily as your facility grows
Part of a Complete Access Control System
Care home solutions are part of a wider digital access control strategy.
SimonsVoss systems integrate with:
- Digital locking systems
- Keyless entry solutions
- Centralised access management platforms
This ensures your system remains flexible and future-ready.
The all-inclusive solution: System 3060
Requirements:
- The main entrance is automatically open for everyone only during visiting hours
- Granting of time-dependent access to service and administration rooms for doctors, nursing staff, craftsmen and cleaning staff
- Protection against theft in residential units, nursing stations and service and administration rooms
As you can see, there is always highly intense activity in elderly care facilities, meaning many factors need to be taken into account, although circumstances may change greatly at any given time. It is thus beneficial to be able to provide a prompt, flexible response.
Both time restrictions and different access areas need to be taken into account: different people need to be authorised to enter at different times as authorisations and responsibilities vary. A conventional locking system is scarcely able to cope with such requirements.
The solution:
System 3060 can meet all the requirements that elderly care facilities impose on a modern locking system:
- Access control with simultaneously automated documentation
- Improvement in hygiene standards thanks to contactless technology
- Quality assurance through automatic event logging and automatic processes
- Active security thanks to mapping of restricted access areas (e.g. drugs cabinets)
- Passive security by deterring theft and abuse
- Low costs thanks to sustainability, durability, minimal power consumption, upward and downward compatibility, connection to third-party systems and more
