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Innovation Awarded
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ASSA ABLOY Security Solutions, a UK
division of ASSA ABLOY, the global leader in
door opening solutions, has won the title of
‘Most Innovative New Product’ at the 2017
Housing Innovation Awards.
Held at The Grand Connaught Rooms
in Covent Garden, London, the award was
presented to ASSA in recognition of how
it is helping transform access control and
effective key management in the social
housing sector.
John O’Brien, Director of Innovation at
BRE (Building Research Establishment)
Innovation Park, one of six esteemed housing
professionals judging the awards, said,
“We found ASSA’s innovation gave housing
associations more control over their void
properties, reduced costs in repeated visits
and allows them to control the whole process.
Another area that the judges were particularly
excited about is extending the product
to provide access for care workers and
addressing health issues such as dementia.”
The technology allows housing
organisations to give key holders, regardless
of location, remote access to a property.
Each key can be programmed and updated
individually, which means key holders have
access only to the areas relevant to them and
during their allocated time or dates.
ASSA CLIQ® Remote is also reducing
the time empty properties stand vacant
between tenancies. By eliminating the need
for physical key handovers, the technology
removes workflow delays, ensuring
maintenance staff or contractors are able
to access void properties as and when
needed.
The judges highlighted the impact the
technology has already had on organisations
such as Rotherham Metropolitan Borough
Council (RMBC). Since being implemented
12 months, ASSA CLIQ® Remote is saving
staff approximately 40 hours of time
every week due to improved operational
efficiencies, while delivering an additional
£60,000 a year to RMBC in rent and council
(l-r) Andrew van Doorn, Deputy Chief
Executive at HACT; Mark Nearney, Head
of Contract Services and Development
at Rotherham Metropolitan Borough
Council; Simon Wilson, National
Sales Manager for CLIQ® Remote at
ASSA; and comedian and compere
for the evening, Justin Moorhouse.
tax from properties that would have
otherwise remained empty for longer.
Simon Wilson, National Sales Manager
for ASSA CLIQ® Remote, said: “We are
absolutely delighted that ASSA CLIQ®
Remote has collected the prize for most
innovative product at the 2017 Housing
Innovation Awards. We are proud of how
CLIQ® Remote is helping revolutionise
access control for the social housing market,
and this award is recognition of that.”
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ACCESS CONTROL IN STORE
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control systems from ACT at Asda stores
and distribution centres across the UK.
The roll-out has already covered 500
sites all of which are networked to Asda’s
corporate headquarters in Leeds.
Asda is benefiting from ACTpro 4000
two-door controllers, which can extend
to 16 doors via ACTpro door stations.
In turn, up to 250 of the controllers can
be networked via a PC interface. The
ACT hardware offers low bandwidth and
auto-discovery for easy installation and
maintenance, alongside features such
as timed anti-passback and counting
areas.
The Asda sites are using ACT’s
software platform, ACTpro Enterprise,
which distinguishes between different
user types such as installer, security
guard or system administrator so as to
factor out accidental system changes
and minimise maintenance. ACTpro
Enterprise gives users a familiar web-
browser experience using hyperlinks,
‘backwards’ and ‘forwards’ buttons and
powerful search functionality.
Typically, an Asda staff member might
present their MIFARE contactless smart
card to a reader in order to access a
secure area of the site. The ACT software
then grants or denies access according
to the user’s privileges which can be
defined according to seniority, job profile,
time of day and day of the week.
Asda managers are benefiting from
integration of access control with CCTV
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and intercoms through use of the Sky-
Walker Integration Platform from Belgian
developer Entelec, which manages
disparate data types to provide a true
PSIM system. At a large site such as
a distribution centre, a staff member
seeking an access privilege outside their
user profile in terms of location or time
of day might identify themselves through
intercom and receive instructions.
Similarly, the Entelec software can trigger
CCTV recording in an unusual situation.
Rob Cox of CBES, said: “The main
benefits for Asda are central monitoring
from headquarters and integration of
access control with CCTV and any other
IP-enabled building management system
in use at the stores. Crucially, the ACT
software has allowed uniformity by being
able to function with Asda’s existing
smart cards. This has produced both
financial and time savings in terms of the
intrinsic value of the cards themselves
and the avoidance of any re-keying of
data.”