DoorLink Systems – Doorlink – Simplifying the Hook-up for Hardware Integration to the Electrified Door

Our story …………...

After many years of continually relating to the same issues of applying electrified product and installations to control doors in building projects an idea formulated into a product design.

Our challenge was to find a solution that would service all the conditional application issues encountered on the jobsite while relating incrementally to the complexity and resulting cost burden that enhanced functionality brings to the installation.

How to lockstep functionality and cost proportionally, while creating a flexible configuration process presented the design dilemma. We needed a design that could be enhanced by simply adding standard components to enable expanding wire accumulation and logic, if required. The design had to be a modular plug-in concept. The SIP28 is the result.

This long awaited product as created ensures consistent, high quality installations in commercial markets, as well as promoting decreasing installation deficiencies, maximizing product performance and minimizing callbacks, thereby lowering the overall service cost to all trades involved and for future service, if required, by the building owner.

In addition, the product provides employers of installers an additional method of evaluating a potential employee’s knowledge, thus improving the credibility of practicing installers by verifying the measurement of a specific body of knowledge, while promoting installer safety practices."

Experience has proven that jobsite access/egress integration and how it comes about requires trade coordination and for coordination to be effective a common point or stage is necessary. For electrical work the common facility is an electrical box. A box for integration without a specification is not appropriate as the task, like the whole process, is dependant on the functional complexity and the number of devices to be integrated. We adopted the term System Integration Point (SIP) to identify the enclosure. The SIP box.

What goes into the box besides all of the conduit and device wire coming to it is the heart of the configuration process. There can be as many relay and terminal configurations as one can imagine and eventually the integration process will be completed.

How and who specifies what level of component product for a particular portal setup is needed if the integration is created on the jobsite by an installer that has no relationship to the project until after tender or employment?

If the specification writer of the electrified devices adds the integration base or SIP device into their specification, the positioning to the electrified portal will be resolved. If the specification writer can also incorporate the hookup base building block into the same specification then both the SIP positioning and the SIP integration component are incorporated. This will provide the basic infrastructure package for electrified applications from a single source. Electrical has a box to connect to and the installer has a wire termination base to work from when integration commences.

As the demand for functionality and automation create the growth in access/egress applied product, device management spans from a single locking application to multiple operational devices and processor driven control systems that are all applied into a single portal.

The SIP28 is the product that builds out proportionally to parallel the increased functionality that has to be satisfied. In this way the cost only increases as components are added by the installer to reflect the actual integration need.

The diversity of functional requirement is a dynamic sector that is continually expanding and where and how the logic for integration is applied into portal configurations is often an area for lively discussion. Our goal is to provide a competitive cost base that performs as a simple termination point for device wire with a continuity that relates to the whole project. The installation can be as simple as two connectors and a base. If, relating to the opposite end of the installation spectrum, the functionality is demanding and relay logic is required, there is the ability to add relays and a timer module with additional connectors by simply plugging the components into the base.

We distribute only through this on-line supply channel to qualified dealers and integrators as a means of reducing our sales and marketing expense that in-turn enables a low cost for our customers.