Security devices - Case studies

The college installed 200 laptop lockers to encourage students to study outside of classroom Traka intelligent lockers are saving teachers and students up to 20 minutes at the beginning of each lesson at Bolton College. The College has installed 200 laptop lockers along the corridors of its campus to encourage students to study outside of the classroom. This approach, also known as flipped learning, means students can use the lockers to charge the devices and read up on speci...

Traka key cabinets ensure preauthorised contractors gain easy access to areas of the campus at any time Traka, the key and asset management specialist, has helped Coventry University improve the implementation of its contractor control policy, ensuring Health and Safety Standards are met. Introduction With almost 30,000 students, 1,890 staff and 110+ service contracting companies some requiring 24-hour access to the site, Coventry University needed a secure method to manage...

Each turnstile allows one person to pass every two seconds—a very important feature during rush hours With over 28,000 visitors entering the premises each day, the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, is one of the largest education institutions in the country. Such a high volume of visitors requires strict control of who can and cannot enter the institution. To achieve such a level of management, the security staff decided to install four Boon Edam Trilock-75...

Care@Home allows service providers to offer a customisable and upgradable PERS solution to their home-care customers Medical Guardian, a leading American provider of medical alert services, has selected Essence’s Care@Home™ personal emergency response system (PERS) solution for its new monitoring service. Essence is a leading provider of IoT, cloud-based connected-living solutions. As an IoT pioneer, Essence has made a strong push into the home healthcare market o...

Using Connect, the process of deploying electronic room keys to cell phones is fast From now on, guests of The Woodlands Resort & Conference Center near Houston, Texas can open their hotel room with their own smartphone. LEGIC provides its secure and proven trusted service LEGIC Connect. The latter deploys smartcards onto smartphones – at the touch of a button. The Woodlands Resort & Conference Center with its 406 rooms is the first hotel in Texas providing its...

The centralized time-attendance and access control solutions has made the group’s most of the attendance process accurate and faster Introduction: Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, agri-business and energy sectors. Managing employee’s attendance and timing from a central place is critical for them. They wanted to have centralized time-atte...

St John wanted to ensure that their lone workers were better protected whilst visiting and travelling between customers Charitable healthcare organization St John New Zealand have launched the StaySafe smartphone app and surrounding cloud based monitoring service to protect their lone workers. The app will be used to monitor their medical alarm representatives who install, test and service emergency medical alarms for 40,000 vulnerable or elderly customers across New Zealand....

emerald touch screen reader and controller provide clear visual color image indicating card’s status Introduction Whether you’re a frequent international traveler or only use your passport occasionally, chances are, you’ve traveled through London’s Heathrow Airport. This can be said with good reason: LHR has the highest number of international passengers in the world. In 2013 alone, 66.5 million international passengers traveled through Heathrow Airpor...

ISIC France chose HID Global, with its complete portfolio of card issuance solutions and ID card printers/ encoders HID Global®, a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, recently announced that International Student Identity Card (ISIC) France, a leading student ID organization, has selected the company’s FARGO® HDP5000 and DTC4500 card printers/encoders as well as its AsureID® 7 ID Card Personalization Software Development Kit (SDK) for secure card i...

The contract includes supply and installation of Tetra network with 40 dispatcher stations  Airbus Defense and Space’s Tetra technology has been selected as the new standard for the digital radio network infrastructure of the Military Police in Brasília - responsible for maintaining public order in the Federal District. The new Tetra network will replace the old analog radio system. The contract had been awarded to the Brazilian telecommunications company Lig...

For ANPR systems, Dahua 1.4 and 11 megapixel HD traffic cameras are adopted at intersections on main roads Tricity, in Polish Trójmiasto, is an urban area consisting of three major northern Polish cities —  Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot, situated adjacent to one other on the coast of the Gdansk Bay, Baltic Sea; covering an area of 414.81 square kilometres, accommodating nearly 1 million commuters each day. These three cities are tagged with multiple identities, su...

Matrix COSEC DOOR PVR, a palm vein based door controller for attendance marking was also installed at the laboratory Introduction: Started in 1961, Rottapharm is present in 90 countries worldwide with more than 1800 employees in the field of consumer healthcare products, reimbursed prescription products and natural extracts. For its Thailand based research laboratory, they were facing issue of long fingerprint identification and verification time. This was resulting long queu...

Sites with SOAA-compatible offline locks can now run a single access control system Offline access control systems store access rights directly on a card, rather than relying on a database to approve or deny access. Sites with SOAA-compatible offline locks can now run a single access control system using multiple brands of wireless lock without problems, including Aperio® from ASSA ABLOY. The result - More flexibility and choice for customers—as long as they choose...

The site is now equipped with padlocks, cylinders and keys from the ABLOY Protec2 CLIQ range A critical public utility that also attracts 190,000 tourists every year provides the ultimate security challenge. Infrastructure safety is paramount, but so too is the flexibility required to welcome hundreds of daily visitors. At Llyn Brenig Reservoir and Visitor Centre, the answer was ASSA ABLOY`s CLIQ® technology. ASSA ABLOY UK, Technical Sales Manager Comments “Cri...

Network Security drew up detailed suggestions to protect the facilities, residents, staff and visitors Arts University Bournemouth - AUB (formerly the Arts University College Bournemouth and the Arts Institute at Bournemouth) is a university that specializes in art, performance, design and media, which is based in Dorset. Initially established in 1885 as a specialist institution, the university is one of a small number of higher education institutions in the UK devoted solely...

AEOS access control system can operate different buildings from one central point at The University The University of Nottingham is renowned for its research innovations. Its system to control access and to secure the facilities no longer reflected its commitment to excellence in the advancement of technology. Over the years, the University acquired several systems for access control, each with their own card technology. Additionally, it had various platforms for its daily ope...

iluminar’s IR919 series provides illumination for the scene most populated by the bears for their fishing activities Named after Mount Katmai, an active volcano situated in the region, Katamai National Park & Preserve in Southern Alaska is famed for its native Alaskan brown bears. The area was awarded national park status in 1980 to protect the region. Katamai is widely known for its remote beauty and wildlife, including sock-eye salmon and the brown bears that feed...

LJMU also use a dedicated CEM Alarm Event Display workstation, which allows University to view current status of the entire system Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) is one of the largest universities in the UK. A large city-based university dating back to 1823, LJMU has been described as an innovative modern university with a number of outstanding centers of excellence. LJMU has 27,000 students enrolled on its own courses around the glo...

The project enables Genetec to demonstrate its latest unified IP security solutions in a simulated control room Leading control room furniture manufacturer, Winsted has supplied a customized console solution at the Genetec UK Solutions Centre, located in Reading, UK. The project enables the physical IP security solutions provider to demonstrate the very latest in their unified IP security solutions in a simulated control room. For over 15 years, Genetec has led the developmen...

CLIQ® remote programming devices enable managers to update keys anywhere even in the field Challenge Founded as a private gas company in the 1800s, Industrielle Werke Basel (IWB) is now an independent utility owned by the city and canton of Basel. It employs over 750 people and supplies around 190,000 customers in Basel and north-western Switzerland with electricity, district heating, biogas and natural gas, energy services, telecommunications and safe drinking water. As...

Xesar and EPS locking systems meet very strict security standards and provide ideal protection More than 200 students in various secondary school types receive tuition and training on their way to becoming high-performance athletes. The secondary school in Vösendorf, south of Vienna, is due to open its doors in September 2014. An educational institution requires a flexible security system. Xesar – The Ideal Solution EVVA Partner Wehrhan TPS Sicherheitstechnik...

The stainless steel pull handles have been fitted to 27 doors of the school’s new sixth form center Kingdown School, a co-educational secondary school in Wiltshire, is using stainless steel door handles from the Impressionist range by Alpro. The pull handles have been fitted to 27 doors created by Richmark Aluminum Systems on the school’s new sixth form center designed by E10 Architects. The civil work was performed by Ken Biggs Contractors Ltd. based between Bris...

LEGIC provides its Connect trusted service through an existing Kaba Saflok room key management solution Opening hotel rooms with smartphones became reality in Las Vegas. The Cromwell Las Vegas decided to use the combination of the LEGIC Connect trusted service, Kaba Mobile Access Solutions and Bluetooth Low Energy, allowing the hotel to send keys onto smartphones with the touch of a button. The Cromwell Las Vegas, operated by Caesars Entertainment, is now one of the first hot...

see bigger image The contract follows a pilot program that allowed ESBT to ascertain benefits of LOCKEN’s access control solution ESB Telecoms (ESBT), a subsidiary of Ireland’s public electricity distribution company, has contracted LOCKEN to upgrade its access infrastructures. The contract, which covers the provision of 1,000 access systems for Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM) base stations at 450 locations throughout the country, follows a pil...

TBS partner, United Systems, deployed 36 2D-Terminals increasing Dhofar Insurance’s efficiency and productivity Dhofar Insurance has 25 years of experience in delivering a wide range of insurance services in every region of the Sultanate of Oman. The company has a network of 45 offices, spreading from the major cities to the remotest areas. Dhofar Insurance was searching for a progressive Time & Attendance biometric solution that would allow employees to log-in in o...

With Nedap’s flexlockers, students can now only claim a locker when they need it, using their existing smart card Leading university hospital, King Khalid, has saved significant time and money by shifting from traditional, key-based metal lockers to flexlockers secured by Nedap’s electronic locks. Locker key management was becoming increasingly more time consuming and expensive, but it’s important for the university to provide a safe place for students’...

Alpro’s overhead transom closers are a means of hydraulically controlling the opening and closing of an aluminum door The Exhibit, a retro-themed bar, restaurant and cinema in south London, is using transom door closers and bespoke handles from Alpro Architectural Hardware. The Balham site which has a focus on art and creativity wanted custom-made aluminum-framed glass doors with a Fifties design which have been constructed by Essex-based IDF Aluminium Ltd. Alpro&nb...

SMARTair’s all-in-one access control solution reduces the cost and inconvenience associated with wiring Mul-T-Lock’s innovative SMARTair™ access control system has been installed at the White Hart Hotel in Harrogate as part of a refurbishment programme of works, carefully planned to be sensitive to the historic significance of the Georgian manor house. Mul-T-Lock at White Hart Hotel The White Hart Hotel is one of the finest hotels in Harrogate and has b...

The wireless access control system comprised of products from ASSA ABLOY brands Adams Rite and Sargent Customer Andersen & Sons Shelling, located in Vina, California, farms and ships walnuts to customers around the world. In 2002 it expanded with a world-class nut processing facility.  Challenge Andersen & Sons makes food safety and security a top priority. The 110-year old family agricultural business wanted to address modern facility challenges by simultaneou...