CASE STUDIES

Real communities. Real results. No stock photos.

Every case study on this page is a real property that switched to Vivo Control — with real numbers, real quotes, and a real property manager who will tell you what happened.

CASE STUDIES

Communities that switched — and what changed.

Gated Community · Colombia · Costa Vista · Cartagena, Colombia · 238 units

Replaced four vendors with one platform — without trenching a single cable.

THE SITUATION

Costa Vista was running a legacy button intercom, a separate CCTV system, a spreadsheet for amenity bookings, and a guard with a clipboard for visitor management. Four vendors. No audit trail. No unified view of what was happening in the community.

WHAT CHANGED
  • ·All four systems replaced by Vivo — single platform, single dashboard
  • ·Zero new wiring — existing infrastructure reused
  • ·Full installation completed in 3 days
  • ·Guard clipboard eliminated — replaced by pre-registered digital visitor passes
  • ·Amenity bookings moved to resident app — zero disputes since go-live
THE RESULT

Vivo Control inherited 11 years of bad wiring and made it sing in three weeks. We were skeptical. We were wrong.

— Marco Salinas · Board President · Costa Vista
4 → 1
vendors consolidated
3 days
installation
$51k
est. annual savings
0
wiring replaced
Multifamily · Florida · Brickell Reserve · Miami, FL · 412 units

Cut visitor wait times from 4 minutes to 18 seconds across 412 units.

THE SITUATION

Brickell Reserve had a high-end lobby and a visitor entry process that contradicted it. Guards logged visitors by hand. Residents buzzed people in blind. Couriers left packages at the front desk because no one answered the intercom. Front desk staff spent four hours a day on access management.

WHAT CHANGED
  • ·Video intercom at main lobby — residents answer from smartphone
  • ·QR visitor passes — guests pre-registered before arrival
  • ·Courier one-time codes — packages delivered without front desk involvement
  • ·Front desk time on access: 4 hours/day → under 20 minutes
THE RESULT

Our front desk used to be a queue. Now it’s an empty hallway — and the residents are happier than we’ve ever seen them.

— Andrea Pérez · General Manager · Brickell Reserve
4min → 18s
visitor wait time
−92%
front desk workload
$84k
est. annual savings
<48h
to live across 412 units
HOA · Caribbean · Hacienda del Mar · Dorado, PR · 186 units

Eliminated guard overtime completely — in 60 days.

THE SITUATION

Hacienda del Mar was spending $4,200/month on guard overtime driven entirely by visitor management. Guards manually logged every visitor, called residents for every unregistered guest, and managed a paper directory that was three years out of date.

WHAT CHANGED
  • ·Visitor pre-registration via resident app — guards no longer call residents for expected guests
  • ·Digital resident directory — self-managed, always current
  • ·Remote gate override for managers — no guard required for known deliveries
  • ·Guard role shifted to patrol and incident response
THE RESULT

The board approved Vivo specifically to reduce guard overtime. We eliminated it completely in 60 days. That alone paid for the platform for the next four years.

— HOA Board Treasurer · Hacienda del Mar
$4,200/mo → $0
guard overtime
60 days
platform ROI
100%
digital visitor log
real-time
resident directory
Commercial · Florida · Midtown Office Tower · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 12 floors · 8 tenants

Six floors of tenant access — unified on one platform in 48 hours.

THE SITUATION

A 12-floor mixed commercial tower with 8 tenants running their own keycard systems. Building management had no visibility into after-hours access, no way to deactivate former employees across tenants, and no unified audit trail for the building.

WHAT CHANGED
  • ·Building-wide mobile credentials — all 8 tenants on one platform
  • ·Floor-level elevator control — each tenant’s floors locked to their credentials
  • ·After-hours access rules set per tenant from building dashboard
  • ·Former employee deactivation: building manager handles in seconds, no tenant IT involvement needed
THE RESULT

We had a building full of keycards that nobody could account for. Now I can tell you exactly who is on every floor right now — from my phone, while I’m at lunch.

— Building Manager · Midtown Office Tower
8 → 1
tenant systems unified
48h
full building live
0
elevator hardware replaced
−78%
after-hours incidents Q1
New Construction · Puerto Rico · Reserva Tropical · Caguas, PR · 224 units

Specified at permit stage. Live at move-in. Not one resident called about access in the first 90 days.

THE SITUATION

Developer brought Vivo in during design phase — before electrical was finalized. Vivo’s specification team worked with the architect and electrical contractor to position every access point, run the right conduit, and plan the platform configuration before ground broke.

WHAT CHANGED
  • ·Access control specified at design — zero retrofit cost at CO
  • ·All 224 units live on app credentials before move-in day
  • ·Amenities operational from day one — pool, gym, and parking all on platform
  • ·HOA inherited a fully configured system — no setup project at handoff
THE RESULT

We’ve done four developments. This is the first one where access control was completely invisible to residents from day one. That’s the goal — and we hit it.

— Developer · Reserva Tropical
$0
retrofit cost at CO
224
credentials before move-in
0
access support calls in 90 days
<2h
HOA handoff
BY THE NUMBERS

Across all Vivo communities — the numbers that repeat.

92%
communities that renew after year one
<48h
average installation time
60–80%
typical cost reduction vs legacy
18s
average visitor processing time
99.9%
platform uptime across deployments
$0
average retrofit wiring cost
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