SENTRY Full Door Edge Ligature Alarm System
The SENTRY Full Door Edge Ligature Alarm System is the most versatile ligature alarmed door solution available for mental health facilities, designed to help staff prevent service user suicide and self-harm.
- Detects ligatures at all exposed door edges
- Works whatever position the door is in; open or closed
- Adjustable alarm trigger; between 0 & 7 seconds
- Hardwired to avoid interference & excessive battery replacements
- Continuous hinge system for additional strength – no pivots
- Anti-barricade and single-action specifications available
- FD30S certificated by the BM Trada Q-Mark scheme
- Complete, pre-assembled doorset with all anti-ligature componentry factory fitted
- 5-Year Guarantee as standard
- Compatible with the KOSMOS Smart Monitoring System
Anti-ligature by design with anti-barricade specifications available, the SENTRY ligature alarmed doorset features integrated ligature monitors that alert clinical teams when a ligature attempt takes place against any of the door’s exposed edges.
With hardwired, durable ligature monitor alarms, SENTRY provides the robustness and reliability demanded for an assistive clinical product within a life-critical system.
Installation of our SENTRY ligature alarmed door is also smooth and efficient with no modification of the existing floor construction required, making it an ideal ligature-monitoring internal door set for both new build and refurbishment projects.
Fire-Rated Ligature Monitoring Doorset
The SENTRY ligature alarmed doorset is certificated by the BM Trada Q-Mark as an FD30S door for fire-safety compliance. And as a Complete Door System, it arrives on site factory-fitted, tested, and pre-assembled for simple installation carried out by Kingsway’s BM Trada certificated installers where required.
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Key features
Double action
KOSMOS compatible
Fire resistant (30 mins)
High strength tested
Signature finish
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Versatile and hardwired
Anti-Ligature Doorsets with full edge Ligature Monitor Alarms
Integrating with our SWING, SWITCH, STOW and SOLO door systems, SENTRY is able deliver the most suitable ligature alarmed door solution for your mental health facility. With bespoke combinations of Anti-Ligature and Anti-Barricade Door Systems, Vision Panels, Finishes, and Hardware, SENTRY is suitable for any location within the ward environment.
As part of a life-critical system, SENTRY is hardwired to ensure optimum reliability and requires less maintenance than battery powered and wireless alternatives, with all the robustness of Kingsway’s proven-to-perform Tri-Laminate Core Complete Doors.
Anti-Barricade specifications
Both our SWITCH and SWING specifications of SENTRY provide staff with a fast, controlled, and safe means of overcoming service user barricading incidents, saving invaluable seconds for clinical teams and service users in life-threatening situations.
Unique detection
Anti-Ligature Monitor Alarm for Mental Health environments
The intelligent SENTRY system is the UK’s first full-door edge ligature alarm system and is designed to help staff prevent service user suicide. With the unique ability to detect ligatures when the door is in both open and closed positions, SENTRY automatically triggers an alarm when pressure is applied to any of the door’s exposed edges.
An adjustable delay to the alarm trigger of up to seven seconds can be set to prevent false alerts where required, ensuring clinical teams are correctly alerted to ligature incidents to help prevent loss of life.
Seamless integration
Following extensive research with our NHS Trust partners, SENTRY integrates seamlessly with our KOSMOS Smart Monitoring System. The KOSMOS system helps clinical teams monitor and respond to ligature incidents and provides invaluable data for future review by recording an audit trail of patient activity and staff observations. This data can help management teams review patient care quality and highlight key trends on wards, such as service users leaving their rooms at specific times during the night or remaining in their room more than usual.
In addition, SENTRY can integrate with all major legacy staff attack and nurse call systems, including SAS, Pinpoint and Guardian to ensure clinical staff are alerted to life-threatening incidents.
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FAQs
Yes, SENTRY can interface with all major staff alarm systems, including the Kingsway K-Alert Alarm Annunciation System. If you would like more information, simply contact us.
Yes, SENTRY interfaces with our KOMSOS Smart Monitoring System. Together, they provide enhanced ligature and room status monitoring to improve service user safety while supporting management teams with advanced data reporting and analysis.
Yes, SENTRY is available as an FD30S doorset certificated by the BM Trada Q-Mark scheme when specified in SWING, SWITCH or SOLO configurations.
The SENTRY door leaf is made from our FORTUS Tri-laminate hardwood core. If you’d like to receive a sample, simply contact us.
Yes, SENTRY is able to open in both directions when specified in either our SWING or SWITCH anti-barricade configurations. For single action openings, SENTRY is available in our SOLO and STOW configurations.
Yes. If specified in SWING, SWITCH or SOLO configurations, SENTRY is compatible with our concealed overhead closers, including:
- KG35 Double Action Transom Closer
- KG36 Double Action Transom Closer (Mechanical Hold Open)
- KG37 Double Action Transom Closer (Free Swing)
- KG38 Double Action Transom Closer (Electro Hold Open – excluding SWITCH)
We’ll work with you to make sure the correct solution is found for your project’s requirements.
1200mm (w) x 2100mm (h)
SENTRY utilises our 54mm Tri-Laminate Hardwood door core.
Yes, SENTRY is provided as a pre-assembled doorset complete with its frame and anti-ligature componentry factory fitted to exacting standards, making for a more efficient installation process and assured performance.
We offer a range of privacy & clear-glazed anti-ligature vision panels for the SENTRY Door System:
• Duralux Series Privacy Vision Panels (mechanical)
• Duralux Platinum Series Privacy Vision Panels (electronic)
• Visilux Series Privacy Vision Panels (mechanical)
• Visilux Platinum Series Privacy Vision Panels (electronic)
• Pyrolux Series Clear-Glaze Vision Panels
• No Vision Panel
All our vision panels are anti-ligature by design with no visible fixings on the service user side, and they are available with a customised powder coat or wrapped finish to help create a more therapeutic environment. Our Duralux & Visilux Vision Panels can also be fitted with custom imagery, helping to personalise the care setting and aid wayfinding.
No, SENTRY is a hardwired system and therefore does not require batteries. This means maintenance is simplified, and disruption on wards is kept to a minimum as there is no need to frequently replace batteries.
Our ligature monitor alarms are trusted in over 200 mental health environments across the globe to minimise the risk of service user self-harm and suicide.
They are hardwired units that are integrated into the door core and the hinge during the manufacturing process. This allows us to achieve a slim profile design, ensure they are correctly installed, and to provide reliable & robust performance within mental health environments. As such, the SENTRY ligature monitors cannot be retrofitted.
If you would like more information, simply contact us.
No. SENTRY requires no modification to the floor or underground structure. As such, it offers the perfect solution for refurbishment and new build projects alike.
As Your Partner in Patient Safety, we’re on hand to offer expert guidance based on our experience in delivering over 10,000 risk-reducing projects across the globe.
Simply contact us or request a quote to find out more. After all, the best ideas start with a conversation.
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Case studies
North London NHS Foundation Trust: Highgate East
Co-produced with Experts by Experience and mental healthcare professionals, the new 78 bed inpatient mental health facility in North London stands as an exemplar project in user-centred and therapeutic design.
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust: Downshire Hospital
A state-of-the-art new build Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Downshire Hospital in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland.