Managing Larger Residential Communities: myQ Community Software

MyQ Community: Larger Communities, Larger Needs, New Solutions

Gated communities and residential multi-unit buildings strive to create secure environments for their residents. However, achieving this goal presents several challenges. Balancing resident convenience with robust security measures and easy access can be tricky. Implementing and maintaining security systems, including perimeter fencing, access controls, and smart intercoms, can be expensive, especially when retrofitting existing buildings. Furthermore, resident education is crucial to ensure they understand and utilize these security protocols effectively. Adding even another layer of complexity is the issue of scalability.

As these communities grow or their security needs evolve, integrated security softwares need to adapt seamlessly and quickly. Additionally, transferring data between different systems or brands when upgrades are necessary can be a cumbersome process, creating security gaps during transitions.

Residents and community managers expect a building or gated community access solution that’s secure and convenient for all involved. Since safety and security start at the front gate a smart access system can help empower entire communities to easily control and monitor who and how people are entering and exiting their homes, as well as present a considerable added value property.

Here at All Security Equipment we connect you to some of the most renowned brands when it comes to technologically advanced, cloud-based and app integrated, perimeter and intercom systems. Most notably the LiftMaster brand and its state-of-the-art patented myQ Community Software.

myQ Community Software: the cutting-edge for multi-residential communities.

As access controls evolve, multi-dwelling community residents and their managers are beginning to expect more robust and smarter solutions. When people have package delivery issues, get locked out, or have trouble letting guests in and out, the number one thing they want is video calls because of the security and ease factor.

While tenants love not having to leave their couch to let their friends or food delivery driver in, building managers enjoy not having to be on-site to confirm the identity of, and grant access to, new tenants, delivery personnel, and service providers.

The LiftMaster myQ Community Software represents the pinnacle of software solutions for community property managers and all the requirements listed above. It is, in short, a platform and app integration software that offers a centralized solution for access control in gated communities and multi-unit buildings.

With myQ property managers gain a streamlined approach, managing all entry points – gates, doors, amenities – from a single, user-friendly dashboard. This eliminates the need for complex, multi-system setups.

Residents benefit as well, utilizing the myQ Community app to transform their smartphones into secure keys, not only eliminating the hassle of physical fobs but also integrating seamlessly with existing security infrastructure, reducing implementation costs. The platform boasts scalability, allowing for the addition of new access points as the community grows.

With LiftMaster’s unrivaled combination of reliable hardware and cutting edge myQ technology, tech-savvy residents will enjoy the features and controls offered by the myQ Community app, and non-techies will appreciate how the Community by myQ app makes building access simpler and more convenient than ever before.

myQ Community App Notable Features

Whether your property needs access control solutions for your perimeter gates, front door of your personal property, or any of the many amenities a residential building is expected to house, myQ® Community offers a cloud-based software solution integrated with LiftMaster’s cutting-edge hardware.

This outstanding technology presents the following notable features:

• Security Enhancements: Manage how and when residents and visitors can access each entrance across every community you manage. Plus, real-time notifications and remote diagnostics give you the ability to detect and address issues before your residents are even aware. myQ Mobile Credentials also eliminates the need for additional key fobs while allowing you to specifically track who is entering.

• Video Clips Management: Store and manage video clips within the app's event history. This feature allows you to access recorded segments of video content, ensuring privacy by excluding audio in the historic video clips.

• Smart Locks in myQ Community: With Smart Locks, residents can seamlessly use the myQ Community app to open their own apartment or access their residency within the gated community, while simplifying key management and increasing traceability for property managers.

• Streamline Your Operations and Integrations: Complete your smart community experience by connecting myQ Community with leading automation platforms. These software integrations help property managers centralize control and use other property technologies from our platform, as well as making switching services as easy as a quick and painless data transfer. This streamlines operations, saving you the time of managing multiple systems separately, it also minimizes errors and simplifies workflow.

myQ Community and large residential communities.

Time and time again myQ Community Software has proven the ideal digital tool for integrating gated communities and large apartment buildings or complexes security and intercom systems, providing a seamless access point for residents and property managers.

Here we’ll outline just three ways in which property managers can expect this impressive technology to handle the complexities of such large sites.

Resident Data

Building owners and community managers who rely on spreadsheets and manual entry of resident data are wasting valuable time. As the information needs to be updated often, the likelihood of introducing errors is high. With myQ you can automate the management of resident data by entering the information into your access control system software just once. Then, edit from the convenience of an access control dashboard on your computer, laptop, or tablet. Or, if you use prop tech software like Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, or others, you can import your resident information with just a few keystrokes. You can also easily remove residents from the system and cancel their access credentials.

Resident Smartphone Entry App with Smart Video Intercom

Today’s renters expect modern convenience in the form of smart thermostats, appliances, and smartphone apps that simplify their lives, including an app for keyless entry and guest management. Residents can simply download the myQ Community app to access their building with their phone. When you automate access management for your residents, you’re giving them the flexibility to control who can enter their apartment with recurring guest passes for friends and family or one-time passes for delivery drivers or takeout food drop-offs. Furthermore residents can manage access remotely from wherever they happen to be. Also, when residents have their hands full they can ask Siri to open the door.

Advanced Access Control Security Options

Responsible property owners are concerned about the safety of their residents and the protection of the property itself. With myQ Software implementation, owners and managers can worry less and automate more with their video intercom access control system. The Chamberlain Group, Inc. plays a crucial role in providing advanced security solutions, enhancing community safety through innovative app features and customer support. Get real-time notifications and alerts about issues at an entrance, such as door ajar or repeated attempts to enter with outdated credentials.

Users and admins can get remote diagnostics that address potential system issues before residents even know about it. And with the stunning high quality video cameras and touch screens from the CAPX series capturing every entry event, you can check the video log to see what’s happening at the building entrance — day and night, even while offsite.

myQ in the field. Proven results.

All of these updates and enhancements have not only occurred in a vacuum, there’s already real world properties and users whose quality of life have been greatly increased by LiftMaster’s products.

Such is the case with Versailles on the Lake, a luxury apartment community near Chicago, which recently upgraded their system to include the LiftMaster Smart Video Intercom integrated with the myQ Community Software. They already appreciate the value it has brought to their residents. “Upgrading our system to has given us the ability to make guest management a standout amenity for our residents by offering the myQ Community app to help them manage property access from their smartphone,” said Yolanda Pawula, property manager at Versailles on the Lake “Not only can they grant or deny guest access from anywhere, but they also get a sense of added security when they can actually see who is at the entrance.”

With all of this and more it’s evident that any serious property manager considering security and entrance upgrades for their large residential communities need not look further than the LiftMaster series of products and the myQ software. For any other queries or similar needs, we here at All Security Equipments have a dedicated team ready to help.