An effective visitor management system enhances the security of your shared building by providing a high-level overview of all types of visitors and giving them different levels of access. Our smart video entry systems use state-of-the-art technology to automate the tasks of traditional visitor management systems, delivering a contactless check-in experience that can more accurately and efficiently handle more visitors.

KeyCom® is MVI’s state-of-the-art apartment building video intercom system. Securely operated on an intuitive web platform, KeyCom® allows you to control your building’s activities and features. With leading-edge facial recognition, artificial intelligence software, and touch-free access, KeyCom® is designed to keep your residents, tenants, and visitors safe.

MVI’s innovative team of designers and engineers have integrated increasingly sophisticated technology to their smart video door systems. These improvements have enhanced the functionality of these building entry systems, further upgrading the experience for residents, visitors, delivery personnel, maintenance, and management.

Residents 

Residents of multi-family buildings use either their smartphones or MVI’s Web Portal to grant access to the building, send digital visitor keys, receive video and voice calls, send and receive text messages, retrieve video and voicemails and manage their accounts.

Visitors

Visitors use MVI’s KeyCom® touchscreen to scroll through the directory of the multi-tenant building to make a selection using the apartment or office number, tenant or family name, or any image uploaded to the multi-tenant video intercom system by the resident or tenant. Visitors are able to video-chat with residents or tenants or leave a video voicemail using the video intercom system.

Delivery

An access control system like the MVI KeyCom® directs delivery staff to an apartment or office building’s secured package room. Drivers use a touchscreen on the building entry system to access the secure package room, greatly reducing the number of lost or undelivered packages. 

Maintenance

Repair and maintenance workers can be granted access to the building via the KeyCom® touchscreen in advance, making it unnecessary for them to be in constant contact with the superintendent while on the premises. 

Management

MVI’s video intercom system for apartment buildings allows managers to update tenant records and send residents messages, notifications, and schedules of upcoming events through the system’s Web Portal. Building owners and property managers have access to detailed building access events and reports.

An increasing number of shared buildings and multi-family properties are updating their approach to visitor management with leading-edge building entry systems like MVI’s KeyCom®. Ease, convenience, and thoroughness of access control matters to tenants, residents, and visitors. Getting ahead of the curve with a state-of-the-art, user-friendly video intercom building entry system like MVI’s KeyCom® will save you money, improve efficiency, and keep your residents, visitors, and staff happy!

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From Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day, when tenants are likely to be busiest, more guests are coming and going, and the number of deliveries to the building skyrockets, MVI’s KeyCom® system helps apartment buildings stay safer and more secure by:

1. Monitoring Guest Access

There are dozens of reasons to get together over the holidays, and that means a steady stream of visitors—many of them first-timers—coming in and out of your building. MVI’s KeyCom® allows guests to scroll through the building’s directory, select an apartment number, name, or icon, and request access to the building from the resident they intend to visit via video chat. 

2. Managing Package Delivery

Starting the week of December 10th, the USPS expects to deliver 200 million packages before Christmas Day—that’s a jump of 33% over last year. As e-commerce sales continue to climb, KeyCom’s® ability to deter package pirates, those thieves who take advantage of unattended packages sitting in hallways, lobbies, and foyers, becomes all-important. With our Package Room Solution, delivery drivers and couriers simply access the building using the touchscreen and deliver the parcels to a secure package location for later pick-up by residents. No more lost or undeliverable packages!

3. Maximizing Resident Communication

The holidays bring with them a variety of situations that probably aren’t at play as often throughout the rest of the year: things like maximum occupancy limits, adherence to fire codes for indoor and outdoor décor, and the use of appliances like deep fryers that come out once a year to cook the turkey for a holiday meal. Savvy apartment managers use KeyCom’s® web portal to send building-wide messages to all residents, reminding them of the importance of adhering to holiday safety codes.

4. Maximizing Communication with Maintenance

Inclement weather and colder temperatures that often come with holiday time can cause frozen pipes, slippery sidewalks, and damage to roofs and gutters. Apartment managers can use the KeyCom’s® web portal to instruct maintenance staff to make sure that all their building’s safety equipment, from fire extinguishers to carbon monoxide detectors, is in good working order. This busy time of the year is also bound to bring with it more maintenance requests, including emergency work orders that need to be dealt with immediately for safety reasons. Again, apartment managers can use KeyCom® to communicate these requests to their maintenance staff and manage their status to ensure that the complex stays safe and secure.

While residents may be aware of an apartment complex’s emergency plan, visitors or partygoers who are in the building for the first time likely do not. Take a few minutes to post a notice pointing out additional emergency exit signage. List essential phone numbers, including ways to contact property management in case of crisis no matter what time it is.

If it’s time to upgrade your apartment complex’s security strategy in 2023, request a demo from MVI to learn about some of the best options on the market. MVI is an industry leader in enhanced security for apartment building security year-round, and its state-of-the-art ability to audit door events, monitor package delivery, track and resolve maintenance requests and make communication effortless among residents and staff is especially valuable during the holidays when traffic skyrockets. Equipping a building or complex with MVI’s KeyCom® provides the best apartment security available and lets residents know that management values their security—24/7, 365 days a year.

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1. Decreased Liability

By having an automated system provide access control to your buildings, you decrease your liability if an incident does occur. You also increase the chances that a bad actor will be caught by law enforcement when your system allows recorded surveillance records from your entrances.

2. Reduced Theft and Vandalism

Video intercom systems deter theft and vandalism by making it more difficult for criminals to break in or damage the property undetected. Having these systems installed will most likely result in a would-be burglar moving on to a different, unprotected location.

3. Decreased Need for Security Personnel

Buildings without a controlled access system often find themselves paying for security services. Having an updated system monitoring parking lots and entrances means a lesser reliance on security personnel, which will ultimately save the property owners and managers money.

4. Perceived Safety

A building that feels safe is a welcoming space for tenants and building occupants, and nothing provides that sense of security like an access control system. Tenants will actively search for properties that provide updated security features, choosing them over properties that don’t. They’re often willing to pay more to lease these properties.

5. Ease of Use Will Attract More Residents and Tenants

A security system is only as good as the platform that fuels it. The days of struggling for keys, replacing lost keys, and having to change locks after residents move out are long gone thanks to upgraded security technologies. For MVI clients and customers, access control is at the tip of their fingers…literally. MVI’s patented KeyComⓇ solutions offer touch-free building access through the technology that everyone has in their pockets already; their smart device.

To see how our solutions will enhance occupant safety, automate your access control, and increase your property value, book a free demo today.

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Smart Doorbell Technologies Aren’t Enough

Smart doorbells are a good deterrent, but they can’t stop theft. A smart doorbell may detect the theft in progress and even record the porch pirate in the act, but the thieves will seldom be caught from this footage. Smart doorbells are a good way to prove that a package was stolen, but not very effective in eliminating the theft to start.

Vendor Lockers

Large companies like Amazon feature lockers throughout their delivery areas, ensuring that the packages are left in a safe place. For many customers, these are inconvenient, requiring a special trip to the location to pick up a package. You’ll find that smaller businesses who ship directly to your home or office can’t offer these lockers, putting these packages at risk for theft.

Scheduled Deliveries

Scheduling a delivery for a specific time you will be home is not practical. With increases in postal delivery times and the inconsistent nature of delivery services with even the big carriers, there’s no guarantee your packages will be delivered at the expected time.

Commercial and Multi-Family Properties Benefit from MVI’s KeyCom® Solutions

Property managers and building owners using MVI’s patented entry technologies are actively stopping package thefts every day. MVI system stops would-be porch pirates at the front door, denying them access to delivered packages via our KeyCom® solutions.

Grant and Deny Access to Your Building

KeyCom® technologies provide complete remote access to your building, stopping unwanted visitors that could be looking for the opportunity to steal delivered packages. Delivery personnel can contact the package recipient or the building manager to authorize building access.

Audit and Track Door Activity

MVI’s technologies continuously track all entrances and exits from the building, minimizing the chance for an unauthorized person to enter. If a theft should occur, there will be a record of the event to share with law enforcement.

Secured Package Locations

Building managers can benefit from designating a room or space within the building as a secured package location. Authorized delivery personnel will only have access to the secured package location, keeping your tenants much safer by preventing visitors from wandering through the building.

Affordable Solutions

Delivery personnel can have their own KeyCom® tabs to help streamline the delivery process. MVI features boxes of 25 sets, each with two tabs, for less than $50 per box. This is the perfect solution for frequent delivery services from companies such as FedEx, USPS, and UPS.

My Video Intercom Has the Solutions You Need for Your Properties

MVI uses state-of-the-art video-intercom technology to grant and deny access so residents and building managers can be sure that each visitor is exactly who they claim they are. Our video intercom technologies allow tenants and property managers to communicate easily with all maintenance and delivery personnel in real-time, as well as track their entrances and exits at the door.

Our KeyCom® solutions are the perfect way to streamline package delivery and eliminate package thefts forever. See the many ways MVI is keeping the “safe” in building safety with this downloadable and free no-obligation brochure.

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While intercom security systems have become increasingly more sophisticated, many fall short in convenience, service, and user experience. The result is that many property managers are hesitant to deploy these new technologies.

MVI’s KeyCom® was created with security and reliability in mind, fast becoming a leader in security technologies for property managers in apartment complexes, multi-family dwellings, businesses, and more.

What makes MVI KeyCom® different? Our reliability and proven security technologies have earned MVI the Best Smart Door Video Systems Provider in the United States.

Why are KeyCom® Solutions Beating the Competition?

MVI CEO Samuel Taub understands that added security features aren’t just “nice to have” when managing a building; they have become a necessity. 

“The company was originally founded with the knowledge that 86% of millennial renters in the US metropolitan areas are willing to pay up to 20% more to live in smart buildings,” Taub explains. “MVI’s initial products addressed building security and conveniences. Since then, we’ve been adding increasingly sophisticated technology to our smart video door systems to enhance functionality and further improve the resident experience.”

What makes KeyCom® the perfect security solution is our ongoing commitment to improving the technologies that keep users safe.

How Do KeyCom® Solutions Work for Users and Residents?

MVI’s KeyCom® solutions connect users to the system via their smart device. Through the app or MVI’s web portal, users can send and receive video, voice calls, text messages, and voicemail, as well as manage their account simply and easily.

How Does KeyCom® Work for Visitors?

The intuitive touch screen makes it easy for visitors to search a building directory. Visitors can then video-chat with the resident, or if the resident is not available, leave a video message.

How Does KeyCom® Work for Deliveries?

Packages are delivered to a central, secured location that is accessible to the drivers via the KeyCom® touchscreen. Property managers won’t have to handle misplaced packages or try to find lost parcels.

KeyCom® Grants Immediate Access for Maintenance Teams

Property managers love the ability to grant maintenance teams access to buildings via the touchscreen, eliminating the need for managers to provide entry for them.

KeyCom® Gives Property Managers Complete Access

Management can use MVI’s web portal to send tenant notifications building-wide, and to access reports and logs to keep residents secure.

How do KeyCom® Security Features Increase Safety?

MVI’s patented KeyCom® Smart Video Door Kiosk and Software Platform have an easy-to-use web platform and touch-free access control. MVI uses facial recognition, AI software, and other advanced technologies for layers of protection unmatched by other video intercom systems.  

KeyCom®’s proprietary access control abilities give property managers and residents alike peace of mind, knowing that only people who have been verified will be buzzed into the building. If there is an incident, property managers have access to log and detailed access events.

Property Managers Love Touch Free Access Controls

Property managers find KeyCom® technologies preferable to traditional keyed entry systems, saving money on lost key replacements and round-the-clock manned security desks. KeyCom® is a great addition to gated communities as well, reducing the need to keep guards on duty at security stations.

Schedule a Free Demo

Curious about how KeyCom® will enhance your building’s security, streamline your security systems, improve your building’s safety reputation, and save money? Contact us for a free demo today.

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