Solutions in the Built Environment

ASSA ABLOY is the largest dog 'chipper' in the world!

Well, strictly speaking, we provide the microchips and the vet does the rest…

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag can be incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radiowaves.

The bottom line is that RFID is now being used for security, safety, error prevention, anticounterfeiting, cost reduction, increasing sales, entertainment, crime prevention, customer convenience and art and there is more to come. It is rather as if we had just invented the wheel… or paper.

Innovations

You probably already know what’s important to your business, have made plans for dealing with fire and crime, protocols for personnel, protection from on-line attack and taken measures to secure your premises. However, every organisation needs to routinely review their plans – not only because the nature of threat is changing, but also because our working patterns are changing too.

ASSA ABLOY employ some of the world’s finest security specialists. Our forensic locksmiths are frequently asked to pick ‘unpickable’ locs, our security specialists delight in finding breaches in ‘locked down’ environments and our R&D team enjoy testing our own innovations, just for fun. This is what we do. And because we understand what’s possible our quest is to make it as impossible as we can. Here are some stories about how we do that.

Open your hotel door with your mobile phone

Vingcard is a locking system that makes use of Near Field Communications (NFC) – allowing hotel doors to be accessed by smartcards. But we’ve moved on a little since then…

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Loo doors light up!

Brighthandle doors are lighting up a ladies-only lounge at the new, trendy club PUSH, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The man behind Brighthandle, renowned designer Alexander Lervik, was also responsible for the club’s interior.

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ICT and security: R&D

The convergence of information, communication, and security technology is generating new solutions and services. It is also stepping up industry alliances and forcing security companies to quickly adapt to changing circumstances.

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