Key management - Case studies
ZeroEyes, the creators of the only AI-based gun detection video analytics platform that holds the US Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act Designation announced that Adrian Public Schools of Lenawee County, Michigan, has deployed ZeroEyes’ solution across all of its school campuses to protect students, staff, and visitors from gun-related violence. school funding history Adrian Public Schools is the largest school district in Lenawee County, serving more than 2,700 K-12 studen...
Accrington Stanley Football Club Community Trust’s new £2m sports hub, is fire-safe thanks to the installation of Comelit-PAC’s LogiFire addressable system by GB Integrated Systems. Indoor and outdoor facilities The completion of the state-of-the-art sports and community complex, associated with the world-renowned Accrington Stanley Football Club, promises to improve facilities for up to 20,000 users every year. The hub stands as a multi-purpose site that provides indoor and...
Orion Entrance Control, Inc wanted to remove friction and frustration for their integrators and end users with a single-source reader that could support any RFID technology and fit seamlessly into their turnstiles and other physical access control (PAC) products. The reader needed to be able to: Provide reliable and secure user identification and access control with excellent read range. Read all of the RFID card technologies their clients might be using. Have a compact form factor and sl...
Founded in 1989, Beechdean Dairies is a prominent player in the UK's vibrant and diverse ice cream industry. Its unwavering commitment to producing premium dairy ice cream has earned the company a trusted reputation among specialist retail outlets and prestigious high-profile venues nationwide. In need of addressing pressing security concerns at its Cheshire-based ice cream manufacturing plant, Beechdean Dairies specified Jacksons Fencing to provide a robust and tailored fencing solut...
Makita, one of the world's major manufacturers of cordless, electric, and garden tools, has opened a completely new headquarters in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. At this location, Makita stock and distribute batteries for cordless tools plus run wholesale supply logistics from their warehouse. At a facility like this, simplicity and clarity for both security managers and daily site users were essential. They demanded a single, intuitive system to control every access point for...
Caron Engineering needed a smart, secure RFID reader that would allow them to add operator authentication and log-in to their solutions for US and international CNC machining market customers and to enable those customers to use their current employee badge system. The reader needed to: Provide secure and accurate user identification, authorization, and access control. Read all of the RFID card technologies their clients might be using. Be easy to reconfigure for new technologies of functi...
Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, energy sectors, and agri-business. Adani Group is the largest port developer and operator in India with Mundra being the country's largest commercial port. With multiple ports, branches, manufacturing units, and corporate offices at various locations, Adani Group is one of the largest business units. In all, this business group has 15,000+ emp...
Florianópolis-Hercílio Luz International Airport (FLN), commonly known as Floripa Airport, is the main airport serving the second largest city in Santa Caterina in the South of Brazil. The airport welcomes about 3.5 million passengers annually and is operated by Zurich Airport Brasil, a company of the Zurich Airport Group. While the group ensures the airport is secure, and passengers are safe, they also focus efforts on providing a top-notch leisure and shopping experience. T...
St Paul’s Square, located in the iconic 201 St John Street, offers a nine-block development of 85 modern one, two, and three-bedroom apartments and maisonettes in the heart of London, with the benefit of an underground car park and a day porter. Door entry system Comelit-PAC was the door entry system of choice for Greywood and has a close working relationship with London Block Management as the dedicated managing agent for the development. The specification included a digital panel al...
A manufacturing facility is a tough testing ground for any access control solution. By their nature, premises usually require multiple types of locks, including a range of cylinder types and sizes, as well as padlocks. They often need locks that work both inside and outdoors. For this reason, many manufacturing plants retain outdated mechanical locking solutions, sacrificing the added control of an electronic solution. Programmable key solution criteria The right programmable key soluti...
Interface Systems, a globally renowned managed service provider delivering business security, managed network, UCaaS, and business intelligence solutions to distributed enterprises, has announced that The Old Spaghetti Factory (OSF), a family-owned and operated restaurant chain with over 40 locations across 13 states, has chosen Interface’s suite of managed services to transform its network, voice and security infrastructure. Network upgrade The OSF IT team wanted to standardize network...
Saint Jacut de la Mer, on Brittany’s Côtes d’Armor, faced growing difficulties with access management for their public buildings. As in many other towns across Europe, they looked for a more cost- and time-efficient way to operate. Keys were being lost — and the costs of rekeying put even more pressure on budgets. Town staff needing to hold and track multiple keys was inconvenient and further contributed to key loss. And because different access solutions had been instal...
The GMB was founded in 1982 under the Gujarat Maritime Board Act, 1981. Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) is a government agency of the Government of Gujarat, a state of India. It controls, manages, and operates a total of 44 minor ports in Gujarat including some with private companies and 10 offices. From 3% of the total national port traffic handled by minor ports of Gujarat in 1982-83, they grew to handle 31% of total national port traffic in 2016-17. They also handle 71.3% of all minor port traf...
Many businesses know this problem. Securing dispersed sites poses specific problems for facility managers. Cylinder replacements when a key goes missing often involve travel and high expense. Any alternative access control system which relies on electricity can be hard or impossible to use in remote locations. Battery-free, wireless electronic locks, managed remotely via cloud software, help meet these challenges. Access control challenge Näsijärvi Sailing Club in Finland has...
ASSA ABLOY, the pioneer in access solutions, has received approval to utilize its integrated locking solutions on U.S. federal government access control Federal Identify, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM) applications. This significant milestone was reached after a lengthy and detailed government and third-party security vulnerability and interoperability testing process. Products The following products are on the General Services Administration’s (GSA) FIPS 201 Evaluation...
Esbjerg’s new “A Place To” housing complex focuses on sustainability. It aims to maintain a green profile throughout its life cycle. The developer is a Premium Member of Green Building Council Denmark, an organization that promotes sustainable construction and sought efficient access control in keeping with A Place To’s contemporary style and sustainability ethos. Over 300 apartments are divided between three towers. These connect with common areas which offer multiple o...
Located in Northern Finland, by the sea in northern Ostrobothnia, the Municipality of Liminka was founded in 1477 and is internationally known for its breath-taking nature and being the main route for several species of migrating birds. With a population of more than 10,000, the majority (56%) of whom are between the ages of 16 and 56, Liminka boasts the services, safety and nature settings that make it particularly attractive to young families. Optimizing physical and data security The cost...
The new Tekirdağ City Hospital represents a landmark in medical care for northwest Türkiye (Turkey). With almost 500 beds – more than 100 for intensive care – 124 clinics and 18 operating theatres, it is the Thrace region’s most advanced health facility. It sought a modern access management solution suited to such a prestigious development. The chosen system would need to efficiently handle a large number of doors and users - around 3,000 Euro cylinders were required, a f...
When one medical clinic in Belgium extended its premises, it looked for modern, hassle-free door security to protect the practice and its team of five doctors and administrative staff. Alongside security and convenience, the major issue Dermatologie Nijlen wanted to address was patient privacy. “What we do most is to examine patients from top to toe. They need to take all their clothes off,” explains Dr. Nele Cattaert, dermatologist co-founder of Dermatologie Nijlen. “You see...
Food safety, employee health and site security must all work in harmony, in order to ensure the efficient operation of a large-scale food producer. At LFC Milling in South Africa, ASSA ABLOY’s CLIQ key-operated electronic access control helps to ensure that happens. Access control for LFC Milling LFC Milling manufactures maize products and sells a range of prominent brands in the South African market. Maize is received from farmers, undergoes several cleaning stages, and is then milled....
More than 70 schools and early learning centers in Renfrewshire, Scotland, are benefitting from improved security, key control and key management, as a result of upgrading to ASSA CLIQ Remote. With schools previously using complex master key systems, Renfrewshire Council faced a number of challenges, including consistency of approach, who had access to keys, and how this was managed. ASSA CLIQ Remote solution To address these challenges, the ASSA ABLOY Door Hardware Group recommended its ASSA...
As home of the renowned St Andrews Prize for the Environment, the University of St Andrews has sustainability at the heart of its ethos. For student accommodation, university managers sought an energy-efficient access control solution, which respected and reflected these principles. A major challenge facing the university was that multiple different standalone access control technologies had been installed piecemeal at student halls over the years. To upgrade the accommodation, university manag...
The Great Northern Tower is an impressive 72-meter (236 feet) high-rise tower block, which has been tailor made for residential living. With 25 floors, it is home to 287 self-contained apartments, located in the heart of Manchester, United Kingdom. An effective door entry system plays a critical role in convenient, secure and flexible access control, as well as the safety and well-being of residents. The tower block has a concierge service that also requires specific authorization for entry int...
Securing valuable outdoor locations and managing their ever-moving team of service contractors is a challenge common across the infrastructure sector. It demands an electronic locking system with robust hardware and simplified key management, which saves administrators’ time and cuts the number of wasted journeys contractors must make. EV charging stations Comfort Charge is a Bonn-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary that operates charging stations for electric vehicles throughout Germany....
The Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games have come to a successful end, with China setting a new medal record in its history of the Winter Olympics. Dahua Technology took on the responsibility of securing Yanqing's Olympic Venues and Shougang Park. Guided by the ‘Winter Olympics of Science and Technology,’ Dahua fully integrated many digital intelligence technologies, such as video Internet of Things, universal sensing, AIoT, and AR, into this grand event, making great c...
When businesses need to change, their access control must change with them. Flexibility, scalability, service packages, easy integration of new hardware: These are all critical when choosing an access system, whether for a small business or a multinational organization. The choice may impact the business in all kinds of ways. For example, security is maximized by finding locking devices for different types of opening doors or lockers, outdoors and indoors, high security and low. The ability to...
Marie-Vincent foundation is a Montréal-based nonprofit organization committed to supporting children, adolescents, and families by providing specialized counseling and intervention. With a large number of families, social workers, and law enforcement officers entering their inpatient treatment center, Marie-Vincent needs to monitor their premises to establish a secure environment for everyone – especially the patients who have suffered trauma and need to feel safe and cared for. Th...
G4S manages the toll station operation of the Storebælt Link in Denmark, also known as the Great Belt Bridge in English, ensuring the smooth and efficient movement of up to 56,000 vehicles a day. Storebælt Link The Storebælt Link in Denmark straddles the Storebælt strait - or Great Belt in English - a stretch of water which divides Denmark into two. Danes are extremely proud of their bridges, which are some of the greatest civil engineering wonders of the modern world....
In the town of Mistelbach, close to Austria’s borders with Czechia and Slovakia, a voluntary fire service has been in operation for 140 years. In that time, they have not only fought the dangers posed by fire, but also provided first aid in special operations, such as vehicle recovery and rescues. Disaster assistance service A disaster assistance service is also in place, in order to provide regional aid in the event of a disaster and to support, or relieve fire brigades on major assignm...
Becorp is a disruptive force in Barcelona’s domestic rental market. At a growing portfolio of multi-home complexes, they offer contemporary apartments with inclusive on-site resident services, such as concierge, swimming pool, gym and co-working. Having used mechanical lock-and-key security in past projects, Becorp are aware of its drawbacks, in both cost and management time. For a planned new build-to-rent development in the city, they sought a modern electronic alternative. A keyless so...
