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Digital Access Needs Mechanical Backbone

Digitalization continues apace in access control. But electronics also need robust, secure, trusted mechanical design, according to Kelly Gill, Chief Technology Officer at Assa Abloy Opening Solutions EMEIA.

Assa Abloy’s Aperio Wireless Locking Further Extends Support for Mobile Access

​​​​​​​Compatibility with a range of credential technologies can be a critical factor when selecting access control. As organizations across the world explore a move to mobile keys for access, it is more important than ever.

Assa Abloy: How Access Solutions Can Impact Sustainability Performance Across the Full Life-cycle of a Building

Embedding sustainability within any organization requires a broad, strategic perspective. Scrutiny should include the physical infrastructure itself: According to the IEA, buildings consume around 30 percent of global energy.

Madrid Multi-residential Complex Streamlines Operations With Assa Abloy Mobile Digital Access

Tenant and homeowner expectations in the multi-residential sector are evolving fast. Digital access offers a solution which fits a contemporary ethos blending design, functionality, technology and sustainability.

Collaboration with Assa Abloy Helps Achieve LEED Gold Certification For a New Manufacturing Plant

Improving sustainability performance is becoming a higher priority for building developers, owners and users. One consequence is fast-growing demand for green building certifications — and therefore specification. Specialist input can make the difference between hitting and missing a project target.

Assa Abloy: Digital Cabinet Locks for Helsinki Airport

​​​​​​​Helsinki Airport is a busy transport hub, with a network of flights connecting Finland with cities across Europe, Asia and beyond. Managing access in such a dynamic environment is a challenge.

Historic Munich Building Adds Digital Key-based Access Management from Assa Abloy

Munich’s Hofbräuhaus enjoys an iconic status, as both a heritage property and a spiritual home for lovers of German beer.

Choosing Door Closers is a Critical Element of Fire Safety

Every now and then, news reminds us of the devastation that a large building fire can cause. One consequence is that fire doors now receive the attention and regulation that they deserve, both nationally and internationally. Just as important, however, is that a fire door must be properly closed to be effective. Assa Abloy has a complete range of door closing solutions to meet the needs and regulations of almost every type of of door in every building.

Assa Abloy: Cam-Motion Door Closers for Better Security at Busy New Rail Station

Only one UK mainline station has ever been built specifically for a higher-education institution: University Station, Birmingham, inaugurated in 1978. In 2023 it was completely reimagined to meet the needs of 21st-century passengers and railway staff.

Security Management with C•Cure: Integration of Cliq Smart Keys and Cylinders

A new software integration with the Cliq Web Manager (CWM) brings even greater control and more streamlined processes to teams who deploy the C•Cure security management solution.

Assa Abloy: New Whitepaper Explores Access Trends and Market Drivers in Multi-residential Property

“Multi-residential” or “multifamily” housing is now Europe’s second-largest real estate sector. Here, as in many other businesses, digitalization is gathering pace. Access and security management can lead a move to digital, streamlining operations and making life more convenient for residents, property managers and landlords, as a new Assa Abloy whitepaper explores.

Assa Abloy: Protecting a Manufacturing Site with Incedo Access Control Solution

To ensure smooth and secure access control at commercial or manufacturing sites, it's crucial to have a reliable, secure, and convenient solution. The software and hardware should be easy to control through a unified interface, and adaptable to the organization’s changes over time.

Streamlining Fire Door Inspection with an App

The creation of clear, transparent audit trails boosts the safety of multi-residential properties and reassures both owners and building residents. Having a reliable and up-to-date source of specification information is essential to maximize the effectiveness of the inspection cycle. As at many other stages of the building lifecycle, digitalization can be an ideal solution.

Assa Aboy's battery-powered Aperio KL100 secures lockers

Boost workplace security and operational flexibility by securing more than just doors.

Assa Abloy: No More Missing Keys in Dutch College

Koning Willem I College in north-east Brabant, Netherlands, offers a broad range of educational and integration programs. In total, around 18,000 students take 250 courses at its 16 locations. A new location on Onderwijsboulevard in 's-Hertogenbosch was designed to be a model modern educational institution — and this included for its access control.

Assa Abloy: When Digital PINs Replace Traditional Keys, Staff in a Small Business Save Time

In many small businesses, the task of handing out and tracking keys is laborious and time-consuming. And because mechanical locking requires a keyholder to be present, staff absences or vacations cause a problem — including unnecessary waiting around for an important door to be opened. A simple, familiar solution is offered when businesses make a simple switch to digital PIN locking.

Assa Abloy in the Workplace: Electronic Access Control for More Than Just Doors

​​​​​​​Often overlooked, storage for valuables, documents and personal items deserves the same protection as offices, labs or accommodation. Yet many access solutions leave these important access points poorly secured. Intelligent electronic control often stops at the door, ignoring the critical safety needs of many forgotten openings.

Assa Abloy: Streamlining Openings and Fire Door Inspection With a New Multi-functional Mobile App

​​​​​​​The creation of clear, transparent inspection protocols boosts the safety of multi-residential properties — and reassures both owners and building residents. To maximize the effectiveness of the inspection cycle, a reliable, up-to-date source of specification info is critical. As at many other stages of the building life-cycle, digitalization can be an ideal solution.

Everyone should be able to open doors in comfort. Cam-Motion door closers from Assa Abloy ensure they can

At every step of a building design or specification process, stakeholders have a choice. Decisions made at this stage materially impact the building experience far in the future. For this reason, many regulations aim to protect the accessibility rights of all kinds of users, young and old, ambulant or wheelchair-using.

Incedo Cloud enhancements: New EAC-M90 updater controller for high flexibility with building access

In today's dynamic business landscape, where offices, manufacturing plants, co-working spaces, and multi-use facilities co-exist, organizations face an array of challenges, including the need for agile and future-proof access control.

How Openings Studio Software Simplifies Complex Specifications

Østre Landsret, the High Court for Denmark’s Eastern region, handles both civil and criminal cases. At large new premises, specifiers equipped more than 650 doors and coordinated multiple project stakeholders, including Swedoor, a major Swedish supplier of doors and related technologies.

Austrian Hotel Creates Modern Guest Experience with Access Control System

Hotel Flint in Dornbirn, Austria, is a new hotel which combines the best of contemporary and traditional hospitality. In renovating 19th-century Villa Weiss, and extending it with a 21st-century structure, developers sought an intelligent access solution which would both look good and help hotel staff to manage the site and provide guest services more effectively.

Assa Abloy Opening Solutions EMEIA Acquires Kinetron

Assa Abloy Opening Solutions EMEIA is pleased to announce it has acquired Kinetron, a leading specialist in motion-based energy harvesting systems for self-powered products, as part of its efforts to accelerate growth and continue its journey as a leader in digital access solutions.

Helsinki Airport Secured by Full Suite of Connected Access Solutions from Assa Abloy

​​​​​​​Controlling access into and around Helsinki Airport is a complex task. Around 15,000 people work there; daily pre-pandemic passenger numbers hovered around 60,000 to 70,000. Airport managers chose electronic and electromechanical locks, keyless padlocks and readers to secure the site and improve access management.

Assa Abloy: Openings Studio Software Simplifies Complex Specification Projects in Denmark

Østre Landsret, the High Court for Denmark’s Eastern region, handles both civil and criminal cases. At large new premises, specifiers equipped more than 650 doors and coordinated multiple project stakeholders, including Swedoor, a major Swedish supplier of doors and related technologies.

Assa Abloy's Code Handle: The Easy, Digital, Keyless Locking Solution for Medical Practices

​​​​​​​Even in the busiest dental or doctors’ practice, there is a simple way to give patients privacy, protect medical equipment and keep personal belongings safe: a Code Handle Door Lock. This simple, secure door handle with inbuilt digital PINpad is easy to fit and straightforward to use — with no need for specialists or software. It’s the perfect security solution for waiting rooms and medicine rooms, drug stores, consulting rooms and staff rooms.

Assa Abloy Partnership Helps Property Developer to Gain LEED Certification

Interest in greener buildings is rising fast. To drive and meet demand, Polish developer Torus aim for the highest level of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification for all their properties in the Gdansk area. To achieve this for two new office developments, they sought a partner for security solutions with extensive experience supporting green building certification and specifications. They partnered with Assa Abloy Opening Solutions.

Access Control For a New Paris Media Headquarters Uses a Suite of Connected Assa Abloy Devices

​​​​​​​For new headquarters in a Paris suburb, media giant Canal+ specified a connected smart building to enable efficient, flexible working. Choosing the right connectable access technologies can be a time-consuming task, all too often requiring compromises in the name of compatibility.

Assa Abloy: The Benefits of Mobile Access with Incedo

​​​​​​​Mobile access adoption is growing fast. Why? Because the convenience, security and cost-saving benefits of managing access control with smartphone keys are becoming impossible to ignore.

The Role of Access Control in Making Work More Flexible

A recent Future Forum survey found that 58 % of knowledge workers already follow a hybrid work pattern: “Flexibility is the expectation – and increasingly the norm,” the report concludes. Further growth in flexible working is a certainty. These changing work patterns make flexibility in security even more critical. Choosing the right access control solution makes a big difference.

Five Ways Building Projects Benefit From Working With Assa Abloy

​​​​​​​The digitalization of building design and construction presents challenges and major opportunities. The need to manage and marshal project information is much greater than in the “analogue” world. Yet if done right, a shift to digital processes can save money and time, and end with a greener, more usable building. However, to fully realize these benefits, many projects are missing a key ingredient: expertise.

Assa Abloy: Wireless Access Control Can Help to Save Money and Energy at Every Stage of its Life Cycle

​​​​​​​Installation, operation and expansion: electronic access control has costs attached to every stage of its lifetime. But these costs are not fixed.

Assa Abloy: A Door Closer That Opens Like It Isn’t Even There

When a door is equipped with a high-quality door closer, building users feel safer. They know that fire doors shut tight and sensitive openings are protected against unauthorized entry. But sometimes, door closer technology can also create barriers to genuine access-for-all. The problem is greater still for users who — for many reasons — have restricted strength or mobility.

French Hospital Takes Control of Employee and Contractor Access with Assa Abloy's Ecliq

​​​​​​​The Marin Hospital of Hendaye in the French Basque Country faced common challenges posed by mechanical access control. Relying on mechanical lock-and-key technology made it difficult or impossible to know who had been accessing sensitive areas like treatment rooms and medicine stores.

Assa Abloy Supplies New Munich Housing Development With Master Key System

For more than five decades, developer Demos Wohnbau has been a leading provider of new residential properties in Munich. Contemporary architecture and upmarket fittings are the hallmarks of every Demos project, whether an owner-occupied apartment, a terraced or semi-detached house, or a detached single-family home.

Your electronic security could save you money at every stage of its life-cycle - if you pick the right locks

Installation is where it all begins. Installation stage is also the largest contributor to the potential cost saving in choosing wireless. In calculations for a recent cost savings report, ASSA ABLOY experts examined likely costs of a 100-door installation. Labour cost savings for those who chose wireless versus wired locks were a staggering 82.5%*.

What Should Modern Access Control Solutions Offer?

Assa Abloy show what modern access security can offer in a variety of scenarios to secure every door.

Assa Abloy Supplies New Brussels Office Building with Openings Studio Software

Project management for large building designs benefits from both collaboration and effective digitalization. On a landmark new office development in central Brussels, Assa Abloy’s Openings Studio software helped achieve the ultimate goal: excellence in design, balancing cost, delivery time and sustainability concerns.

Assa Abloy: Expert Whitepaper Can Help Inform More Strategic Facilities Management

​​​​​​​A new expert-authored whitepaper from Assa Abloy Opening Solutions considers practical security strategies which facilities managers can put into action right away.

Access Control System Also Covers Time and Attendance

The Bucharest Transport Company (STB) provides public transit for Romania’s capital city and the surrounding area.

Assa Abloy Webcast: How BIM and Specification Support Benefits Architects and Building Managers

​​​​​​​Facilities and security managers, architects, building managers and many others can benefit from the time-saving support provided by a BIM and specification partnership. An Assa Abloy webcast on December 8th introduces the process for a non-specialist audience — and explains how partnership frees up time and reduces project costs.

Assa Abloy’s Incedo Access Control System Also Covers Time and Attendance

The Bucharest Transport Company (STB) provides public transit for Romania’s capital city and the surrounding area.

Luxury Hotel Dubai integrates BIM with Access Control System

Openings Studio Software from Assa Abloy Streamlines the Specification Process for a Luxury Dubai Development.

Assa Abloy: Why a Specialist Manufacturer Chose Scalable Incedo Access Control to Protect its Multi-use Premises

Securing King Engine Bearings’ manufacturing facility in Israel posed all the challenges of mixed-use sites. Their location in Kiryat-Gat is used for manufacturing, sales and distribution. To control and manage access to offices, the warehouse and a packaging facility, they needed an integrated solution with flexibility and a comprehensive device range to match.

Assa Abloy: Improving Energy Efficiency With Door Closers

​​​​​​​A properly shut door provides comfort and protection to whoever is using the space behind it. However, closing doors can have a wider impact on overall building performance. Fully closed doors affect both user security and a building’s energy consumption.

Assa Abloy's Provides Access Control for Bucharest Public Transport Provider

The Bucharest Transport Company (STB) provides public transit for Romania’s capital city and the surrounding area. They operate a range of tram, bus and trolleybus services — around 2,000 vehicles in total — from several depots and terminals*. To manage time, attendance and ID for a staff of approximately 11,000 people, they sought an innovative, user-friendly technology solution.

Assa Abloy's Acquisition Alcea Complements Critical Infrastructure Offering

Assa Abloy Global Solutions’ strategy to be the global go-to full solution provider now also offers access control for critical infrastructure customers.

French Town Unifies Municipal Access Management with Assa Abloy's Ecliq

​​​​​​​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.

Assa Abloy: Real-time, Cable-free Access Control for French Coworking Space

Focus is a French real-estate company in a booming sector. With offices nationwide, it specializes in business colocation, offering turnkey office spaces and related services. In 2019 alone, the total number of flexible workspaces across France grew by 20 percent*.

How Can Facility Managers Lock Down Buildings Remotely?

With intelligent access control, a facility manager can pre-define over 250 different lockdown zones. Smartair wireless online access control system from Assa Abloy gives facility managers more flexibility.

Assa Abloy: BIM and Specification Partnership with Pioneering Spanish Architects

​​​​​​​Fenwick Iribarren Architects have many years’ experience working with BIM. They have benefited from its transparency on projects in Spain and abroad. For Campus Acciona, a landmark new business and office development in the Hortaleza neighbourhood of Madrid, they sought a trusted BIM partner to streamline the specification process.

Assa Abloy Secures Finnish Sailing Club

​​​​​​​Many businesses know this problem. Securing dispersed sites poses specific problems for facility managers. Cylinder replacements when a key goes missing often involves 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.

Assa Abloy: Door Closers and Fire Safety

​​​​​​​No one needs a reminder of the devastation caused by fire in a large building. One result of recent tragedies is that fire doors now receive the attention and regulation they deserve. Just as importantly, however, any fire door must be properly closed to be effective. This is where a building manager’s choice of door closer technology can make the difference.

Assa Abloy: ​​​​​​​How Wireless Access Control can Address the Data Centre Security Puzzle

​​​​​​​Streamlining access while also giving private, valuable data the security it needs: This is the balancing act which every data centre manager faces. The answer could be simpler than they think: Choosing the right electronic access control solution, integrating it and maintaining flexibility for every data centre user, visitor, customer and temporary contractor.

Assa Abloy: ​​​​​​​Energy Harvesting Electronic Locks for a Danish Sustainable Construction Project

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 which promotes sustainable construction — and sought efficient access control in keeping with A Place To’s contemporary style and sustainability ethos.

Assa Abloy: Emergency Access Control

Situations can arise when a facility manager needs to lock down their premises remotely. With mechanical security this is, of course, impossible. Likewise, many existing wireless electronic access control systems do not have the ability to lock down efficiently — or even at all.

Assa Abloy Secures Flagship Turkish Hospital

​​​​​​​The new Tekirdağ City Hospital represents a landmark in medical care for northwest 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.

Assa Abloy: ​​​​​​​Code Handle Secures Belgian Medical Clinic

​​​​​​​When one medical clinic in Belgium extended their premises, they 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.

Assa Abloy's Cliq Improves Security at Food Manufacturer

Site security, food safety and employee health must all work in harmony to ensure the efficient operation of a large-scale food producer. At LFC Milling in South Africa, Assa Abloy Cliq key-operated electronic access control helps to ensure that happens.

Why Connected Access Control Makes Life Easier for Security Managers

To enjoy the benefits of connected security, businesses need security technologies which work seamlessly with each other. In a recent survey of industry professionals, over 90 percent noted the critical importance of integration across building management functions*.

Assa Abloy: Electronic Access Control Committed to Sustainability

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 energy-efficient access control which respected and reflected these principles - and found their solution in Assa Abloy's Aperio system.

Assa Abloy: Wireless Access Control for French Hospital

​​​​​​​When Groupe Hospitalier Mutualiste Portes du Sud looked to modernize door security, their focus was clear: A battery-powered rather than wired solution was required to meet the access control challenges of a hospital environment.

​​​​​​​Assa Abloy: Energy Harvesting Access Control Solution Wins at the Building Climate Awards

Assa Abloy's access control technology Pulse has been recognized for its innovation in powering electronic locks with energy harvesting technology rather than batteries or mains electricity. It was awarded the Energy Prize at the 2022 Danske Byggecentre Building Climate Awards.

Assa Abloy: Choosing the right Door Closer For Accessibility

​​​​​​​When it comes to access for everyone, no matter their size, age, strength, dexterity or abilities, not every door closer is created equal. Installing the right one — for access through an entrance or interior door — can be the difference between making buildings accessible and simply swapping one barrier for another.

​​​​​​​Assa Abloy: Energy-efficienct Access Control for Building Sustainability

Electronic access control systems have become widespread, thanks to benefits like the security they provide to medium-to-high traffic buildings and their flexibility in access provision.

Assa Abloy Consultants Help Polish Hotel Developer to Control Costs

​​​​​​​As a property investor, Structure Capital aims to create buildings which combine form and function with a return on investment. In the hotel and hospitality sector, this vision centres on harnessing modern technology to improve the design, functionality and construction efficiency of the build.

Versatile Hub for Connected Building Security

Business systems must always be under review because none of us can predict the future with 100% accuracy. Things change, so people and processes should therefore always be ready to adapt, but adaptation in security is easier said than done when systems are static. Accommodating change and diversity — with flexibility, scalability and the widest possible range of devices — was the ethos that Assa Abloy applied when they launched their Incedo access control ecosystem.

Assa Abloy Secures Czech Bike Rental Business

Managing access control from the cloud gives start-ups the chance to think differently. In Czechia, the remote management and instant scalability of Assa Abloy's Incedo Business Cloud helped Kolovna to reimagine bike rental on a national scale.

Assa Abloy: Privacy and Security for Your Home Office

​​​​​​​Has the growth in working from home outpaced our ability to keep a home office environment secure? Hybrid working — combining working from home with on-site attendance — grew steadily in the decade up to 2019. It is now here to stay. However, many repurposed domestic spaces are not equipped with the security or privacy working from home requires.

Assa Abloy: ​​​​​​​Three Ways Businesses Benefit From Wireless Access Control

​​​​​​​An access control system is familiar technology to organizations of every size. Access control may operate as standalone electronic locking. It can also integrate with complementary business systems such as HVAC, time-and-attendance, in-house payments and more. What many businesses may not know is that, by restricting their access system with wires, they are not using its full potential, says Assa Abloy.

How Incedo became an even more powerful hub for connected security

Business systems must always be under review because none of us can predict the future with 100% accuracy. Things change, so people and processes should therefore always be ready to adapt, but adaptation in security is easier said than done when systems are static. Accommodating change and diversity — with flexibility, scalability and the widest possible range of devices — was the ethos that Assa Abloy applied when they launched their Incedo access control ecosystem.

Assa Abloy: New Senior Vice President & Head of Digital Access Solutions

David Moser has been appointed as Senior Vice President & Head of Digital Access Solutions EMEIA. He succeeds Stephanie Ordan in the post, who became Executive Vice President & Head of Assa Abloy Global Solutions late in 2021.

Ifsec Global and Assa Abloy: New White Paper on Security Integration

To reap the benefits of connected security, businesses need technologies which are primed and ready to work seamlessly with each other. In a recent survey of security professionals, over 90 percent noted the critical importance of integration across building management functions. But what exactly are the benefits — and how can organizations deploy effective strategies to realize them, even with a limited budget?

Assa Abloy: Security Specifications for Swedish Architectural Business

​​​​​​​Speed and accuracy are critical to finalizing door specifications in any complex architecture project. Working with Assa Abloy’s Openings Studio specification consultants helps Sweden’s TM Konsult to support customers of every size with clearer information. Collaboration speeds up the process and allows architects to focus on building design.

Assa Abloy at Intersec 2022: New Incedo Business Cloud Offline

Assa Abloy Opening Solutions recently demonstrated their products at the 2022 Intersec showcase in Dubai. A highlight was the Incedo Business solution, created for businesses on the move, who need a security solution which grows with them. With the launch of new Cloud Offline functionality at Intersec 2022, security managers have more choice on how they work remotely, while maintaining control over all their buildings.

​​​​​​​Assa Abloy Case Study: Cloud-managed Access Control for Deutsche See

Headquartered in Bremerhaven, Deutsche See is number one in Germany for marketing fish and seafood. At 19 sites across the country, it employs around 1,800 workers and supplies over 35,000 customers from the food retail trade, gastronomy and corporate and social catering sectors. Deutsche See also supplies end consumers all over Germany via its own online shop.

Russell Wagstaff on Slow Spread of Building System Integration

Interview with the Plat-form Director at Assa Abloy on the Long Availability but Slow Spread of Building System Integration

Assa Abloy: Versatile Access Control for Flexible Workspaces

Following a change in employment practices created by the pandemic, many office-based employees now follow a hybrid schedule, working where they are needed or find convenient. The fast-growing use of flexible offices and co-working spaces is testament to this emerging trend. With employees coming and going as they please, a change in how security and access control are managed is an urgent but overlooked aspect many firms are just waking up to.

Assa Abloy's Pulse Receives French Innovation Award

​​​​​​​Access control technology Pulse from Assa Abloy has been recognized for its combination of energy harvesting power generation and security features designed to meet the challenges of the next decade. France’s Expoprotection Trophées de l’Innovation 2021 highlight a select few new products and systems across the whole spectrum of security, cybersecurity and fire safety.

DesignEuropa Awards Shortlist Assa Abloy’s Aperio Handle

Every two years the prestigious DesignEuropa Awards select products across the spectrum of industrial design. These awards are sponsored by the European Union Intellectual Property Office, which protects and promotes the intellectual property of EU organizations. Assa Abloy’s Aperio H100 Wireless Handle has been recognized by the jury for its design and security functionality.

BIM Partnership Between Assa Abloy and Assar Architects

​​​​​​​As the construction industry becomes ever more digitized, it is important that project information is shared not only quickly, but also accurately. Building Information Modelling, or BIM, is fast becoming the solution to deliver this, led by BIM innovators like Assar Architects.

Do your wireless locks already have mobile capability built in?

Mobile access is changing the way we manage buildings and their security. The smartphone becomes a mobile key just as easily as a payment card or a map. A device which users are already carrying can unlock buildings or rooms, across one or multiple sites, securely and at a lower cost to the business than standard credentials.

Assa Abloy: Digital PIN Locking for School Staff Rooms

​​​​​​​Staff and school administrators can relax when they know private rooms and equipment stores are properly secured. Currently many teachers must carry around cumbersome keys to ensure pupils do not enter rooms which could put themselves or valuable school equipment at risk.

Powering access control wire-free with intelligent electronic keys

Programmable keys put the powerful features of electronic access control into a convenient technology. They have the advantages of traditional lock-and-key security: familiar and user-friendly. But they have evolved.

Assa Abloy: Managing Security for Multi-residential Housing Blocks

​​​​​​​When renovation is required, many multi-family housing organizations also take the opportunity to upgrade door security. Managing multiple units and regular tenancy changes with mechanical lock-and-key technology is time-consuming and inefficient. It can also create security vulnerabilities when keys are lost. An easier, electronic solution without wires or batteries can save management time and money.

Saving Time and Money in a Building’s Design, Construction and Security

In the last few years, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has grown from relative infancy to a critical element in many construction projects. GIT SECURITY put five questions to Marc Ameryckx, BIM manager at Assa Abloy Opening Solutions EMEIA, about the benefits of a process which is apparently much easier than many imagine.

Assa Abloy: Programmable Electronic Keys for Municipal Facilities

​​​​​​​Running a unified locking system for multiple municipal services may bring operational efficiencies. However, if the system is based on mechanical locks, it can also create time-consuming headaches. When keys go missing, for example, or user access requirements change, mechanical security does not have the flexibility to adapt quickly.

Assa Abloy: 21st-century Locking for Old Buildings

Retrofitting modern security to old or protected heritage buildings used to be an installer’s nightmare. Wiring could be complex; damage to ancient architecture or door hardware was a constant risk. Now wireless access control devices which match the protection and durability of wired technology have made it straightforward.

Assa Abloy: Improving Staff Health and Safety

​​​​​​​The responsibilities of the modern facilities manager combine site security with employee health and safety. At Hydreaulys, a French water and waste management utility, a simple switch to programmable key-based access control helped them make improvements on both counts.

How BIM Product Files Helped an Architects Team

A BIM (Building Information Modeling) partnership between an architect and Assa Abloy Opening Solutions has kept a complex project moving forward. Working with Assa Abloy building information modelling (BIM) consultants helped Zarhy Architects and Studio PEZ maintain the flow of up-to-date information for a complex, constantly evolving project, and left them free to focus on creativity and delivery. Collaboration was key to successful design and building specification for the Broadcom R&D Center at Tel Aviv University.

Assa Abloy: Entrance Design meets Door Security

Entrance design is about making a great first impression. Yet the journey from architect’s vision to the front face of a building can demand compromises, especially where heavy doors need closing aids for safe, barrier-free operation. Floor Springs make use comfortable and compliant, for any door, without clutter or unsightly furniture.

​​​​​​​BIM Partnership Between Architect and Assa Abloy

Working with Assa Abloy building information modelling consultants helped Zarhy Architects and Studio Pez maintain the flow of up-to-date information for a complex, constantly evolving project - and left them free to focus on creativity and delivery. Collaboration was key to successful design and building specification for the Broadcom R&D Center at Tel Aviv University.

Assa Abloy: Wireless Access Solutions for Healthcare Security

Security stakes are high at healthcare premises. Patients expect and deserve privacy and safety. Yet most medical buildings must remain welcoming spaces, many open around the clock. The protection of drugs and confidential data is critical — and every breach demands thorough investigation. Such needs go way beyond what the mechanical security was designed to meet.

Assa Abloy: Switching to Mobile Access Control Fast

​​​​​​​The smartphone is changing access control and security management at every scale and level, from global corporations to small companies. Making the switch to mobile access control, however, can seem daunting. Questions may arise around cost, practicality and the potential need for new door hardware. Yet going mobile is actually a lot simpler and quicker than many think, as one new guide explains.

Assa Abloy: The Benefits of Building Information Modelling

In the last few years, Building Information Modelling, or BIM, has grown from relative infancy to a critical element in many construction projects. Marc Ameryckx, BIM Manager at Assa Abloy Opening Solutions EMEIA, talks about the benefits of the process.

Assa Abloy: Wireless Access Control in Education Sector

With a combination of duty of care, valuable equipment and personal data, the education sector presents one of security’s biggest challenges. Choosing the right access control solution is critical. Could going wireless be an option?

Assa Abloy: Door Upgrade for Better Accessibility

A door should be an opening, not a barrier. But the reality for the elderly, young and disabled is that inappropriate doors often shut them out. Upgrading to the right door closer can guarantee that premises welcome everyone, no matter their age or dexterity.

Assa Abloy: Protecting Data Centres With Better Physical Security

​​​​​​​Critical business assets demand multi-layered security. This principle applies equally to virtual and physical assets: Data may be mission-critical to a business, just as people and premises are. Data security tools will include the latest in cyber-security — perhaps even artificial intelligence — working alongside physical security technologies such as electronic access control.

Assa Abloy Provides Access Control Platform for Global Manufacturer

It can be a challenge to find an ideal electronic lock for every opening, and then to manage them all within a single, integrated solution. All too often, security procurement involves difficult compromises: A system which works perfectly for one door or department leaves another where the same solution doesn’t quite meet its needs. At newly built commercial premises in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, power-tool manufacturer Makita stocks and distributes batteries, and runs wholesale supply logistics. They searched for a single, intuitive system to control every access point — now and in the future.

Assa Abloy: The Importance of BIM Consultants and Software

When Brunelleschi built his famous dome on Florence cathedral, he had to design his own scaffolding. He built lifts for moving materials above ground level. He created airborne kitchens, so workers needn’t descend all the way just to eat lunch. Plug-and-play building technologies have improved since the 1400s. Yet a surprising amount of any project is still administered manually, in a way Brunelleschi might have recognized. A disruptive, digital revolution is imminent. Every building project demands coordination of vast amounts of information. Realizing a vision from brain to bricks and mortar depends on marshalling it successfully. For architects and engineers, building owners and contractors, digitization is here to help — and to stay. Building Information Modeling, or BIM, sits at the heart of a project.

Assa Abloy: Transforming Interior Door Security in Under a Minute

Assa Abloy has introduced a new Code Handle digital PIN lock that can be fitted to a standard interior door in less than half a minute. With the new handle, security for private offices, stock rooms, staff toilets, equipment stores, consulting rooms, home offices, boardrooms and more can get a major security upgrade — with no wires, no keys and no need to run an access control system.

Assa Abloy: Meeting Locking System Standards

Standards and compliance perform a critical role for security and facility managers. They set a quality baseline for locking and security hardware. They help customers quickly compare attributes across products. Insurance providers require security to meet relevant standards. Taking a short-cut could prove an expensive mistake - Assa Abloy aims to combat this problem with easy and affordable access control.

The smarter, electronic way to run key-based access control

Intelligent, programmable keys put the powerful features of electronic access control into a convenient technology. They have the advantages of traditional lock-and-key security: familiar and user-friendly. But they have evolved. An electronic locking solution minimizes security risks when keys go missing. Facility managers can manage everyone’s access from anywhere, at any time — electronically, securely and cable-free.

Belgian Expo Centre Switches to Assa Abloy's Cliq System

​​​​​​​Size can be a major factor for any security project. The bigger the scale, the greater the challenge. With hundreds of doors and a 3km perimeter, the Flanders Expo is larger than most buildings. They sought a modern replacement for mechanical locking - and finally decided on Assa Abloy's Cliq locking system.

Assa Abloy: Keyless Door Security for Modern Barcelona Office

Busy offices need convenient interior security for any private spaces. Not everyone should be reading the important memo on the CEO’s desk. But nobody wants to be left looking after the keys. At a co-working space in Barcelona, Assa Abloy's Code Handle Door locks solve the problem.

Platform-Based Access Management can Meet the Security Challenges of the Next Decade

As the way we live and work continues to change, people, data and goods move more fluidly than ever. It already seems less useful to think about building management functions in isolation. Rapid urbanization, technological change and shifting patterns in global working put these systems to use simultaneously, every day. How can a new generation of security technology address this?

Assa Abloy and Nedap: Optimizing Access Control with Integration

Aperio wireless locks from Assa Abloy Opening Solutions now integrate seamlessly with the versatile AEOS access control by Nedap to bring a range of concrete business benefits. Optimizing access control with these battery-powered wireless locks can boost convenience for building users and help make better use of spaces.

Assa Abloy: eCLIQ For French Museums

Two museums, a single security environment. As a result, access management was eating up significant time and budget for the museums’ Technical and Security Manager. The solution for simpler access management was eCLIQ, an electronic locking system built around easy-to-fit cylinders and programmable, battery-powered keys.

Assa Abloy: Education Sector Security with Smartair

Every place of education owes a duty of care to its users. This raises the stakes for security. Add the valuable equipment and personal data held on-site and this becomes one of schools’ and universities’ biggest challenges - and choosing the right access control solution is critical. Wireless locking like Assa Abloy's Smartair system can be a cost-efficient solution.

Assa Abloy's Aperio: One device, multiple applications

Assa Abloy's Aperio Secures Dutch University

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Assa Abloy: Easing the Switch to Electronic Access Control

Assa Abloy’s VP Digital and Access Solutions Discusses Future of Access Management

Following the launch of their new platform-based access management solution, Incedo, Stephanie Ordan, VP Digital and Access Solutions at Assa Abloy Opening Solutions EMEA, talks about the future of access control — and how Incedo will meet the changing landscape.

Assa Abloy: Intelligent Keys in the Leisure Sector

Assa Abloy: Wireless Locking Saves Money at Every Stage of its Life-cycle

Assa Abloy: Equipping 16th-century Doors with 21st-century Access Control

Assa Abloy: Wireless Locking for Three European Industries

Assa Abloy Opening Solutions EMEA launches Incedo Business

Assa Abloy: Three Levels of Physical Server Security

Wireless Access Control: Multiple Solutions for a More Efficient Workplace

Three Questions for Three Experts: Mobile Access

Special Focus Access Control: The Ins And Outs

An Overview of Some of The Access Control Systems and Solutions Currently Available.

Assa Abloy's Smartair Secures French Racecourse

Four Ways Access Control Matters in a Coworking Space

Assa Abloy at The Camp: Real-time Access Management in Style

Assa Abloy’s Smartair in Use at New Student Residence

Assa Abloy: Code Handle implemented at UK design agency

Intelligent Electronic Locking at University Hospital in Frankfurt

With its 32 clinics and 20 research institutes, the University Hospital in Frankfurt is the largest hospital in Hesse, Germany. More than 4,500 employees treat around 270,000 patie...

Access Control for London’s Innovation Hub

Modern office design needs access control that is powerful, flexible and aesthetically in tune with workspace users. Aperio achieves all three wirelessly at Plexal, a new 15 mill...

Assa Abloy: The New Smartair Knob Cylinder

Assa Abloy has released their new Smartair Knob Cylinder. Part of the Smartair access control system, the device with integrated RFID reader is now more resistant to attack and qui...

Assa Abloy: Access Control For London’s New Innovation Hub

Assa Abloys wireless access control solution, Aperio, is in use at Plexal, a new 15 million flexible work environment for East Londons innovation community. The system was chosen f...

Assa Abloy: Choosing the Right Access Control System

What factors determine the right access control for a building or business? Assa Abloy recently released a five-point checklist to help customers develop a strategic approach to ch...

Assa Abloy: Wireless Access Control Secures French Town

Assa Abloy outfitted a French towns Municipal Technical Center and several local schools with their wireless access control system Cliq. Instead of previously forty keys, employees...

Aperio: 10th Anniversary of Assa Abloy’s Wireless Access Control System

In July 2019, Assa Abloy celebrated a decade since the launch of their wireless access control system, Aperio. Compatible with all major door profiles, and available for indoor and...

Modern Access Control – With a Smartphone

According to official EU data, by 2016 94% of European large businesses were issuing their workers with some sort of connected mobile device. With access control solutions like Sma...

Assa Abloy Secures Danish Health Facility with Wireless Access Control

Assa Abloys Smartair wireless access control system is being used at a Danish health facility to keep sensitive areas under control. The system requires no physical keys, making it...

Wireless Access Control Doesn‘t Tie You Down

As the Wireless Access Control Report 2018 recently highlighted, more and more organizations are switching to wireless access control to secure their premises. Wireless devices off...

Assa Abloy: Wireless Access Control For More Flexibility

In light of more and more organizations switching to wireless access control systems, Assa Abloy presents their wireless access control solutions for higher flexibility and added s...

Secure Water Treatment with Access Control in French Mountains Region

Critical infrastructure requires locks that are proven, tested and trusted. Sometimes electronic locking is the right choice; at other times, mechanical locking does the job. Using...

Wireless Access Control Report 2018

In the early 1980s McKinsey projected that 900,000 mobile phones would be in use around the world by the turn of the century. The management consultancy undershot spectacularly: 90...

French EHPAD care home puts its trust in SMARTair wireless access control

Residential care homes often find a major renovation is the ideal time to upgrade or replace an outdated access system, whether based on mechanical keys or an obsolete wired techno...

Multiple remote sites are no problem, as CLIQ cuts break-ins at a French public utility

The Communauté dAgglomération, or district, of La Rochelle in western France operates 13 public waste reception centres which were experiencing frequent break-ins and theft of valu...

SMARTair brings flexible access control to a new Dutch superstore

Witzand has been a trusted supplier of building materials since the 1890s. Their largest retail outlet dubbed XL and head office is at Almelo, in the eastern Netherlands. Here th...

With Openow from SMARTair your mobile phone becomes a secure virtual key

Openow, the new complete mobile solution for SMARTair wireless access control, makes life easier and more secure for everyone. Users of a SMARTair access control system can open do...

Safety boost for Berlin’s “traffic light man”

The Ampelmännchen (little traffic light man) from the former GDR is a cult figure around the globe. For tourists, the shops of AMPELMANN GmbH in Berlin are a big draw. Branches are...

What’s so good about open standards in Access Control? An industry round-table responds

As solutions proliferate in the access control market, interoperability has never been a more pressing topic. A recent industry report* finds: 91% [of professional respondents to a...

Can a single, integrated locking system protect banking halls, ATMs and cash in transit?

It is hard to think of somewhere with more critical security needs than a bank. While cyber-security grabs the headlines, in the day-to-day business of banking, physical security o...

Can phones challenge the resilient plastic card?

Mobile access control will increasingly keep pace with modern mobile working, says Thomas Schulz, Director Marketing and Communications, Digital and Access Solutions at ASSA ABLOY ...

When should you extend your access control? 3 questions you must answer first

Your business doesnt stand still, but your security feels static. Whether its mechanical keys or wired door locks, access control doesnt always have the flexibility a changing envi...

CLIQ access control and mechanical locks work side-by-side at a major new London museum

It took an 83 million investment, stellar architects and a decades work to create a new London site for the Design Museum. This new space needed an access control system suited to ...

Valuable medical equipment is in safe hands with SMARTair

Genuine real-time access management, fast deployment and energy efficiency during operation: these were the key demands of the Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Cordoba (...

Assa Abloy: Electronic Locking System for an Italian Bank

Creval a regional bank in Italy has chosen eCLIQ key-based wireless access control, a scalable electronic extension of the CLIQ access control system manufactured by Assa Abloy.R...

Assa Abloy EMEA appoints new Vice President, Digital and Access Solutions

Stephanie Ordan has joined Assa Abloy as Vice President, Digital and Access Solutions EMEA. She succeeds Chris Bone in the post, who became the Groups Chief Technical Officer earli...

Escape Door System from Abloy

Abloy UK has launched an innovative Escape Door System (EDS) that offers easy access and egress while ensuring compliance, security and the ability to implement dynamic lockdown pr...

Smart Home Security: The Smart Lock Bonus

Technology touches so many areas of our domestic lives. Homes are becoming automated, and increasingly filled with intelligent appliances. When were away, we monitor them with smar...

Major new access control industry report shares freshly researched data and expert analysis

The market for access control is changing. But how? How fast? And what factors will affect access control for your business between now and 2025? An exclusive new report by IFSEC G...

Combining the Advantages of Mechanical and Electronic Keys and Locks into One System

Lock and key security has come a long way since Ancient Egypt. Over the centuries, the Romans, the lever tumbler and Linus Yales pin tumbler all took the technology forward. Each w...

Keyless Access Control in Plans For More

Multiple key systems, various entrances including fire doors, glass doors, offices, pharmacies, car parks and lifts plus hundreds of workers and contractors using different access ...

Campus Security: Secure Student Accommodation

Given the choice, would you rather run security at a bank vault or at student halls of residence? At least the bank job is straightforward: keep the money inside, and everyone else...

ABLOY UK enhances expertise with new appointments

Security expert Abloy UK has appointed three new members to its team, Duncan Rigby as Technical Sales and Specification Manager, Geoff Bowers as Systems Integrator Channel Manager ...

High-End Component Design and OEM Integration for Hotels

The new Hyatt Regency Dubai Creek Heights is a major addition to the Dubai hotel scene, catering to a high-end business and leisure clientele. The new hotel administration an ele...

Access Control Seminar at Isec 2017 by Abloy UK

Security expert Abloy UK is calling for visitors to Isec 2017 to attend its seminar, which explains important changes to access control locking applications on fire and escape door...

Wireless Wins

A glimpse at our article on page 36 in the December issue of GIT SECURITY will give you the figures showing the significant growth of electronic locking systems over the past coupl...

Fire, Escape & Security Solution for ScottishPower

Abloy UK has supplied ScottishPower with a compliant fire door solution to secure their Battery Rooms without compromising on health, safety or aesthetics. ScottishPower is part of...

Abloy wins Sustainable Building Product Award

Abloy has received the Gaia Award for sustainable building products at Big 5 in Dubai, winning the accolade for its range of Low Energy Locks.The Big 5 in Dubai is the largest cons...

Assa Abloy: Stay Connected, Stay Secure at Intersec 2017

At Intersec in Dubai, Assa Abloy will highlight integrated, wireless, IoT-powered access control for businesses and homes. Among the innovations in commercial and residential acces...

Market Data Suggests Access Control is Going Even More Wireless

Customer research points to continued strong growth for wireless locking solutions, as Thomas Schulz, Marketing and Communications Director, Digital and Access Solutions, at Assa A...

Open Approach to Standardisation

The physical security industry has a long history of making do with proprietary systems. This has led to todays challenges of dealing with incompatible legacy systems, wasted inves...

Assa Abloy's Success at Ifsec

Assa Abloy generated a buzz at IFSEC 2016 through exhibiting its journey from mechanical to digital security. Assa Abloys stand was the busiest to date, with its leading brands, in...

Assa Abloy acquires Cedes in Switzerland

Assa Abloy has signed an agreement to acquire the Swiss company Cedes, a manufacturer of sensor technology to the door and elevator industry. It is with satisfaction that I welcome...

Securing critical infrastructure: New solution guide

Can you afford to take risks with your security? We live in a world of diverse threats to our critical infrastructure. Vandalism, theft and deliberate sabotage are ever-present d...

Aperio and the Quickest Way to Give Facilities a Security Boost

A mechanical master key system is expensive to run. Losing a master key means replacing cylinders and keys right across your facility. There's no short cut - or is there?How many r...

Access Control - Energy Matters: Cost Savings With Wireless Access Control

Access Control Case Study -Cabled access control doors are expensive: installation requires extensive wiring, and powering the locks needs a permanent connection to the mains. As a...

Installation of a battery powered cylinder: How long does it take?

How long does it take to add wireless access control to an office or meeting room? Two minutes with the Aperio cylinder from Assa Abloy. No drilling and no cabling is needed. Se...