Every apartment building will have an intercom to phone system. When someone rings the buzzer for the tenant, the visitor will hear a phone ringing. The tenant will answer their phone, and select the * button to grant access into the building. This will eliminate the intercom buzzer that would otherwise have been used. Since it will be the tenant’s phone that would. ring, this will mean that the tenant will be required to have an active phone line, and will be willing to answer the phone when someone rings their door.
Since there is no intercom speaker for the unit, this will save on infrastructure cost – however, every apartment building will need its telephony server to route the calls from the intercom system to the telephone. Because of this, every apartment building will need a minimum of a 300MBPS WAN connection. This is not an issue since a WAN connection is needed in order to handle the snow melt system, and the RFID card system. By using the tenant’s phone, this will allow the tenant to have the ability to leave a voicemail message if they choose to not answer their phone. The tenant will be required to provide the appropriate telephone number for the intercom system. This could be a cellular phone, or a home phone. However, it must be a phone. To use a voicemail service will mean that the phone will never ring.
For houses, there will be ring doorbell system. This is simple, and to the point. As one may know with Ring, there will be no telephone integration. Instead the Ring doorbell will ring a doorbell system in the house, and allow the tenant to use an app on their phone to see who’s at the door. This will allow everything to work out with minimal fuss. While I would rather have the same system throughout all units, it just makes sense to have a Ring Doorbell for houses instead of running a second internet connection, and a telephony server for the house.