Industries We Serve
Malibu runs doors in apartment communities, city firehouses, memory care facilities, K-12 school districts, HOA gates and everything from a single-door storefront to a multi-site operation. Here is what each of them actually uses it for.
Multi-Family
Amenity, elevator and facility access for apartment and condo communities.
Malibu runs the shared doors in apartment and condo communities — amenities, facilities and common areas rather than the unit doors themselves, plus elevator floor control at up to 40 floors per controller. Resident turnover is what makes it pay for itself: a credential issued in software is revoked in software, so a unit changing hands doesn't mean chasing a fob or rekeying a door.
Malibu is a multi-family product, not a residential one — it isn't sold for ordinary single-family homes.
- Elevator floors
- Fitness rooms and gyms
- Pool gates and pool houses
- Clubhouses and community rooms
- Package and mail rooms
- Laundry rooms
- Parking garages and vehicle gates
- Bike and resident storage
- Trash and compactor enclosures
Government
Firehouses, courthouses, detention facilities and municipal parks on one system.
Municipal government is one of Malibu's strongest verticals, and the reason is range: a single city operates a fire station, a courthouse, a detention facility and park buildings with no staff on site at all, and runs every one of them from the same console.
The unmanned sites make the clearest case — doors on a seasonal schedule instead of someone driving a route at dawn and again at dusk.
- Fire stations and apparatus bays
- Courthouses — public and secured areas
- Elevators serving public and restricted floors
- Detention and holding facilities
- Park restrooms, gates and pavilions
- Public works and maintenance buildings
- Municipal offices and council chambers
Healthcare
Adult day care, memory care and residential treatment — where a door event has to reach staff immediately.
Adult day care centers, adult memory care facilities and halfway houses run Malibu for its event notifications more than its access decisions — a door propped open, or an exit by someone not authorized to leave, reaches staff as a text message, an email or an audible alarm at the door.
Which doors should alert, and how, is the entire design conversation in these buildings.
- Perimeter and exit doors with unauthorized-exit alerts
- Door-propped-open notifications to staff phones
- Secured wings and resident areas
- Elevator floors serving secured areas
- Medication and supply rooms
- Staff-only areas and offices
- External audible alarms on critical doors
Education
K-12 districts standardizing every building — elementary through high school — on one system.
K-12 buildings administered as one system rather than one campus at a time: a single console covering elementary, middle and high schools, one credential per staff member across all of them, and exterior doors on the bell schedule instead of a nightly walk-around.
One county-wide district runs every school it operates this way.
- Main entrances and vestibules
- Exterior doors on a bell schedule
- Propped-door alerts on secured entrances
- Gyms and auditoriums for after-hours community use
- Administrative and records offices
- Server rooms, labs and equipment storage
- Multiple buildings under one administrator
Gated Communities
Perimeter gate control plus pools, tennis courts and fitness centers.
Two jobs in one community: the gate at the entrance and the amenities behind it, on one system and one resident credential instead of a gate remote plus a pool key plus a fob for the fitness room.
The amenity rules are where it shows — pool hours enforced by the door rather than by a posted sign, changed by the board or property manager without a service call.
- Vehicle entry and exit gates
- Pedestrian and perimeter gates
- Swimming pools and pool houses
- Tennis and pickleball courts
- Fitness centers
- Clubhouses and event space
Business & Commercial
One door or many sites — storefronts, fitness centers, cannabis cultivation, multi-site operations.
The same platform at both ends of the range: a single-door storefront and a multi-site operation run the same product, so a business that grows adds to what it has instead of starting over.
Unattended access is the recurring reason businesses call — 24-hour fitness centers and laundromats admitting customers with no staff on site — along with cannabis cultivation, where restricted-area control and access records are what state regulators expect to see.
- Single-door storefronts and studios
- 24-hour fitness centers and laundromats
- Pet grooming and veterinary practices
- Cannabis cultivation — restricted areas and access records
- Warehouses, stockrooms and back-of-house
- Multi-site and multi-building operations
- Elevators in multi-tenant buildings
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