Access control applications

King’s College Hospital chooses Access Control Technology for their access control solution

Kent-based installation company NT Security has implemented door controllers from Access Control Technology (ACT) at the King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London. NT Security were able to offer the trust a role-based solution by creating a relationship between an individual's job profile and their privileges in terms of moving around the hospital. The approach was open and transparent since it used existing third-party readers already on site. The ACT controllers also met a vital...

HID Global in retail: ASDA case study

Recognised as the second largest supermarket group in Britain, and part of the Wal-Mart family, ASDA stores have become a household name amongst thousands of families in the UK, providing high quality products at competitive prices. With an increasing demand for high security, ASDA understood that it was now more important than ever to take appropriate action in securing stock and protecting employees in the chain’s 300 branches. In considering security alternatives, the company recognised...

KPN Hotspots B.V., Holland’s largest provider of Wi-Fi® hotspots partners with Proxim to deliver Wi-Fi hotspot access to millions

KPN Hotspots B.V., Holland's largest provider of Wi-Fi® hotspots, has partnered with Proxim to deliver Wi-Fi hotspot services for nearly three years. To date, KPN has more than 2,000 of Proxim's ORiNOCO® AP-700 and AP-4000 access points deployed throughout Holland, providing Wi-Fi hotspot access to millions of people each year. In 2009, KPN announced that it ordered more than 600 additional access points from Proxim to continue the expansion of its network. "Providing our customers wit...

eneo complete systems are being used in over sixty Müller health and beauty retailers

Müller is one of Europe’s leading health and beauty retail companies. Nearly 24,000 employees work in over 600 locations all over the continent. And Müller continues to grow: an average of 50 new stores are opened each year with a product range which includes CDs, toys and stationery and really sets itself apart from the competition – at prices which Müller invites you to check against competitors’ prices, in accordance with their slogan: “You should compar...

US Housing Authority increases operator productivity and reduces investigation with Honeywell IP-based video management

In existence since the late 1930s, the Trenton Housing Authority (THA) provides decent and affordable housing for low and moderate-income residents throughout the city of Trenton, New Jersey, USA. Its mission is to provide safe and sanitary housing for residents and to lead them toward self-sufficiency. For the past 30 years, the THA has served nearly 2,000 households. Today, the THA is an autonomous body that is chartered by the State of New Jersey, partially funded by the federa...

São Paulo-based WISP chose Proxim technology to enable broadband service in 10 cities throughout Brazil

RDL Comunicações, Ltd., a São Paulo-based Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP), was preparing a large-scale wireless broadband rollout to deploy broadband service to 10 rural cities and need to find a solution with an ideal balance of high-performance and cost-effectiveness. After evaluating solutions, RDL deployed Proxim's unlicensed WiMAX and wireless backhaul technology to enable broadband service in 10 cities throughout Brazil. Utilising a combination of Proxim's T...

Nomura invests in a global, state-of-the art Honeywell access control system

Headquartered in Tokyo, Nomura is a top tier international bank providing investment and merchant banking services to corporate and institutional customers. With offices in all major financial centres across the globe, the mission of Nomura is to deliver superior services and solutions to meet all investment needs of their clients. To ensure they execute their mission in a safe and secure environment, Nomura has invested in a Honeywell access control solution that is expandable for the future....

Malaysian Kenanga International Building equipped with state-of-the art access control system

Refurbishment work was recently completed at the K&N Kenanga International building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a 22-storey commercial structure with a three-and-a-half-storey annexed podium block, located in Kuala Lumpur's central business district. New features of the refurbished main lobby include a physical access control system based on the contactless LEGIC technology, a food and beverage area and an information counter. Kaba Jaya Security was selected to provide electronic access con...

Integration is Key for St Botolphs Security

Committed to providing the best possible security for their tenants, the landlords of the prestigious new St Botolphs Building in the City of London specified an integrated security installation that would combine CCTV and access control. Appointed by Skanska to provide this installation, independent electronic security specialist Quantum UK Ltd. selected the SiPass integrated access control system from Security Products from Siemens as the basis of its design.The SiPass integrated system w...

West Virginia University uses Siemens for new approach to institutional sustainability

As higher education facilities’ professionals look for innovative ways to fund campus refurbishment programs and upgrade building systems, performance contracting is becoming an increasingly popular means through which efficiencies can be achieved with a budget-neutral approach. Administrators at West Virginia University (WVU) chose this option to address their eight million square foot built environment, significantly improving facilities and increasing energy efficiency, while at the sam...

Bosch sets new trend in school surveillance with integrated fire and security system installed at Hallbergmoos High School

Hallbergmoos High School is an educational site, a meeting place and a workplace for 15 teachers, more than 120 students and many participants of evening classes. The Hallbergmoos community in Upper Bavaria set a great example with their investment. The trend-setting Bosch security technology installed at the site soon proved its worth when young intruders were identified from recorded video images, allowing them to be apprehended just a few days later. Faced with such strong evidence, the culpr...

LEGIC technology secures the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama

The Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama is Scotland's international conservatoire and the only one in the UK to offer music, drama and dance to degree level. With around 800 students from 45 countries, the Academy offers a performance-based training where excellence and the student experience are at the heart of every-thing they do. It was here Kaba Ltd was invited to undertake a security survey to identify, provide and install a fully integrated solution that would meet all their secur...

PegaSys intelligent access control system from Ingersoll Rand secures University campuses

IntroductionThe University of Applied Science for Technology, Economy and Media in Offenburg is one of the most renowned educational institutions in the southern Upper Rhine region, and is divided into two campuses: Offenburg and Gengenbach. Founded as a state college of engineering in 1964, the university now has faculties including technical business administration and, more recently, media and information sciences.The briefThe university needed an electronic access control system to provide a...

SALTO AMOK escutcheon ensures safety of educational institutions

SALTO Systems has launched a brand new electronic escutcheon designed for use in the educational environment. It ensures schools, colleges and universities are a secure and safe place to learn by enabling buildings and facilities to be quickly locked down during a security or other emergency event.In such a situation it could be safer for students and staff to remain in a classroom, securely locked in until the emergency is over. SALTO AMOK escutcheons enables authorised users to put the electro...

Door controllers from Access Control Technology on field at the Sheffield College

Installers Ninehundred Communications are securing The Sheffield College with door controllers and software from Access Control Technology (ACT).This is a multi-site campus with a student population of 23,000 spread over three locations with courses including entry level and higher academic education as well as vocational study. The ACTpro 3000 controllers have been installed on more than 150 doors, primarily in building entrances. ACT has not only shown their open-system credentials by integrat...

ViconNet system meets daily security challenges at Fairbanks International Airport

Even before considering the extreme nature of its sub-arctic climate, Fairbanks International Airport is unique in many ways. While serving a local population of only 82,000, the airport offers non-stop passenger service to Europe, Asia and Canada, making Fairbanks the smallest U.S. market to offer this level of international air service. In the words of Mike Supkis, Police and Fire Chief of the airport, “We are a little airport with a lot of really big planes.” The extensive interna...

Security a focus in award winning airport project

In Queensland, Australia, sixteen domestic and international airports are involved in a groundbreaking research project to help strike the optimum balance between the implementation of future-proof security solutions and the efficiency of the entire site. The “Airports of the Future” project spans seven interrelated disciplines: business process management; business continuity and incident response management; human systems; identity management; intelligent surveillance; airport info...

Flexible access control system for port terminals

primion Technology AG has designed and implemented new access control systems and access restrictions to several premises on behalf of Rhenus Midgard Wilhelmshaven GmbH & Co. The result is a global solution, which can be extended at any time and which guarantees advanced security at the port terminal. Rhenus Midgard in Wilhelmshaven is part of the Port Logistics division of Rhenus AG & Co. KG. Rhenus is one of the leading European logistics service providers and is present in all major...

TDSi protects the transportation sector through integrated access control

The last few years have seen the risk (and also the perceived risk) to mass transportation passengers increase significantly, so there has also been a firm desire to make sure that individuals who enter secure areas do so with full clearance and authentication. This has become a prominent preoccupation for the travel industry, but thankfully the access control sector recognises and embraces these concerns and specialist manufacturer and supplier TDSi is leading the vanguard with regards to makin...

The importance of Building Integration Systems: How to safeguard transport hubs

Public spaces, such as airports, metro systems or railway stations, are commonly full of people and full of life. Whether it is a sense of internationality, the rush of daily commuters or simply the colorful dynamic of a heterogeneous environment, there is always lots to see. In order to uphold this inspiring perception of public areas and to ensure their trouble-free operation, a great deal of work goes on behind the scenes – particularly with regard to safety and security. Due to the ma...

Siemens provides a decade of security for Emmaus

The access control system at Campus Malle started life in 2000 as a relatively modest installation, covering 24 doors in a single building. Today, it has grown into a system that covers over 400 doors in nine buildings on the multi-hectare Zoersel site, and 54 doors in a building on a separate site 15 km away. After further extensions planned for 2012 have been completed, the installation will expand even further, to 700 doors. The current system is also directly linked to the Emmaus human resou...

Access control from HID breathes new life into patient safety

Safety is at the forefront of hospitals across the nation. According to a landmark report 'To Err is Human' (2000) by The Institute of Medicine (IOM), between 44,000 and 98,000 patients die a year in the U.S. due to preventable medical errors including wrongful administration of medication. Beyond the cost of human life, these errors cost the healthcare industry as much as $29 million per year. This figure takes into account the expenses associated with additional care, loss of income and disabi...

SALTO’s smart access control system installed at one of Spain’s most newest and eco-friendly hospitals

One of Spain’s newest and ‘greenest’ hospitals, Sant Joan Reus has been jointly designed by the architects’ studios Corea & Moran and Pich-Aguilera, specialists in hospital architecture. The hospital, which has 460 beds, specialises in treatments such as oncology, bariatric surgery, plastic surgery and repair, vascular medicine and thoracic surgery.  The new hospital is integrated into the local environment not only from a landscaping point of view but has also...

The Royal National Institute for the Blind reduces security costs with Honeywell

The clientThe Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) is a world leading charity providing information, support and advice to almost two million people with visual impairments or blindness. It relies heavily on public funding to carry out vital research into eliminating avoidable sight loss, as well as supporting research into sight loss and other eye health issues. The RNIB is Europe’s largest Braille publisher. Its main production centre is based in Peterborough, where it produces...

John Lewis stores secured by Honeywell and Orion

John Lewis opened its relocated store in Liverpool One in the summer of 2008. The £1bn regeneration of the heart of Liverpool's shopping district has brought over 1.5 million people to a revitalised city centre to experience the shops, restaurants and beautiful green spaces on offer. The situation John Lewis Department Stores, one of the UK's leading retail groups, has invested in Honeywell's access control and intruder detection security solution.  Orion Security Solutions - an Eli...

HID Global delivers first gift card issuance project to major retailers in Korea

HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, today announced that it has introduced a pilot digital gift card issuance project at two Korean retail giants, Home plus and Shinsegae E-mart, utilising HID's FARGO® HDP5000 high-definition printer/encoders. With the HDP5000, the two retailers can now brand and customise gift cards for corporate customers and individuals, adding a level of personalisation not available with conventional paper gift vouchers. The digi...

LEGIC based solution for cashless payment installed at the new City Hall of Hanghzou, China

For the huge new City Hall of Hanghzou, one of the largest metropolitan areas of China, the local government was searching for a new payment system. 3Core Technologies offered a LEGIC based solution that remains open for future applications. Hangzhou City Hall is the new representative municipal building of the City of Hangzhou, located as a landmark in the modern district on Qiantang bank. With a floor area of 580,000 m2, the City Hall is composed of six main buildings, four surrounding buildi...

Salto’s access control technology on guard at the City of Moonee Valley

The City of Moonee Valley is a local government area located within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia. It comprises the north-western suburbs between 3 and 13 kilometres from Melbourne city centre, and was formed in 1994 from the merger of the City of Essendon and part of the City of Keilor.To manage their mixed array of buildings including the main depot, offices, administration areas, public toilets, community halls, shared use venues, leisure & recreation facilities etc, Moone...

Security Systems Design Limited banks on Samsung

Security Systems Design Limited has successfully completed the installation of a Samsung CCTV system at the London offices of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Following  a refurbishment of its  offices  on the third floor  of Senator House in Queen Victoria Street, EC4, the Bank asked Richard Slee, a Director of Security Systems Design Limited, to design a CCTV system which could assist security personnel to provide a high level of protection for staff as well as the Bank...

TDSi protects the Banking and Finance sector through integrated access control

In tough economic times the banking and finance sector is under even greater scrutiny than ever. Whilst online banking gets a great deal of attention, one of the key considerations for the sector continues to be physical security and access control – something which can be a challenge when the organisation has numerous branches and facilities spread across a large geographical area. TDSi, a global leader in access control systems, offers a range of solutions that cater for the numerous and...