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Nov 27 2024 at 6:28 am
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The figure makes you think a few hours ago Black Friday and a few weeks before Christmas, these two periods of the year when we are encouraged to spend and then have our purchases delivered: within a year, more than 3,000 people will experience the access code to your building. Not very reassuring in a city like Paris, where the use of delivery has exploded in recent years and where the feeling of insecurity is at its strongest.
At least three visitors per week
The alarm bell is sounded by Kivala. This young start-up from Proptech (term designating the transformation of the French real estate sector thanks to new technologies) was founded barely a year ago, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine). At the beginning of November 2024, during the 2024 Co-ownership and Habitat Exhibition in Paris, it won the Grand Prix de la Copro, awarded by the Minister of Housing, Valérie Létard, for its innovative and connected property management solution. access to buildings (read box).
Personalized access codes
More precisely, Kivala offers “a personalized access code system for different visitors”, we are told. It includes a touch panel installed at the entrance to the building and a mobile application with several options: validation of remote door opening, video, instant creation of a personalized code of variable duration, consultation of visitor entries , deletion of users…
The installed intercom panel is offered at a price of 1300 euros excluding tax. It is sold with a subscription of 2 euros per month per apartment (access to the access code management application), we are told.
On this occasion, Kivala decided to present to the general public, and no longer just to real estate professionals, the results of a investigation* conducted with 1,103 residents on the question of using the access code of their building. Main lessons:
- 65% of French people consider the classic access code to be ineffective against intrusions
- 69% of French people do not feel protected at all with a traditional access code
- 74% of women feel afraid when a stranger rings their doorbell
We therefore also learn that, on average, an apartment registers three visitors per week (whether it is delivery man, worker, nurse…). Thus, for an average building of 20 housing units, this represents more than 3,000 external visitors each year, who have the access code of a building. Suffice to say that the risks incurred by this lack of security are enormous.
One in two buildings without a code
The survey highlights the fact that the presence of an access code at the entrance to a building is not as widespread as one might believe. If more than 96% of Parisian buildings are equipped with it (source Insee 2019), only very large cities approach this ratio, which drops considerably in small towns.
Across the country, only 51% of French people living in an apartment will have an access code in 2024 (compared to 46% in 2019, source Insee ONDRP-SSMSI). The other half (49%) has access via intercom, which is often outdated and has few features.
“Today, traditional and permanent access codes clearly no longer meet the needs of residents,” says Kivala, whose solution is slowly, but surely, making headway. Currently, 80 Parisian buildings are equipped with it.
*Survey carried out online from March 13 to 20, 2024 among 1,103 people representative of the French national population aged 18 and over, living in an apartment or building. The responses were then compiled and weighted according to pre-established quotas aimed at ensuring representativeness of the targeted population. All weightings are based on administrative data and data collected by INSEE.
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