Locking
Studies in wireless and electronic locks, electromechanical locking, padlocks and Digital Door Locks (DDL’s).

Developing energy harvesting products
For the last few years ASSA ABLOY has been developing energy harvesting technology to enable its products to be operated from external energy sources. …
Wireless Access Control in 2018
The market for access control is changing. But how? How fast? And what factors will affect your business between now and 2025? A new report by IFSEC Global, …
Podcast: Unlocking Campus Lockdown
Active shooter emergencies are a reality on today's campuses. On this first episode of the podcast series 'Unlocked', we take a look at what can go wrong …
Students impress with innovative designs
A futuristic smart lock system resembling an animated robot character has been voted the most innovative design in a competition held for industrial design …
Trends in smart door locks
What’s trending in the world of smart door locks? A new study identifies consumer demands for 2016 and beyond. A co-published report from IFSECGlobal …Member only

Report: Smart-Home Security in 2016
This report reveals answers to key questions about the growing market for smart locks. What do consumers think a digital door lock should do? How do they …
Wireless Access Control in 2016
Given the critical advantages wireless technology has over both mechanical locks and wired access control, we would expect to find the market moving steadily …
The locksmith of tomorrow
Once upon a time, if you wanted a lock, you went to a locksmith. That's no longer true – you might go to a home improvement store, or the Internet, or …
Busting the myths around wireless access control
EXPERT OPINION. Let’s begin with something that’s hardly front-page news: the market potential for wireless access control is huge. At January’s …
Bringing new products to life
ASSA ABLOY Shared Technologies develop platform technologies to be integrated in ASSA ABLOY group company products. Thinking outside the box is encouraged …
Beyond your current key
The key to home doesn’t have to be a key. Fobs, fingerprints and phones can all do the same job. There are plenty of options available on the market …
Giving – and getting retail service
Whether it’s a security system or an entrance system, retailers cannot afford downtime. Various services are popping up to ensure that doors, locks …
Taking the pulse on hotel security
What would be an ideal security wish list for a hotel? Security experts share their experience and insights with the Future Lab.
Ins and outs of utility access
There are many ways to manage access rights in an industrial facility like a power plant or a water utility. Electro-mechanical locking solutions are among …
Extending ethernet capabilities
Hailed as a watershed innovation when first standardized in 2003, Power over Ethernet (PoE) offers a way of supplying electricity to network devices over …
No limits for intelligent readers
Card readers were once highly proprietary and difficult to install, and they mainly served the single purpose of granting access to a building or a section …
Quick Escape
The main purpose of locks and door closures is to keep people either in or out (otherwise every door could be like the flaps in the old Western saloons), …
Korea’s digital revolution
"At the third stroke, it will be ten past four pm and ten seconds. Beep, beep, beep. At the third stroke . . ." That's what the British call the speaking …
The smartest lock in town
A new intelligent, wireless lock is set to make extending access control quick, painless and affordable. ASSA ABLOY’s new WiFi lock, the Sargent …
LUSAX anticipates security future
Are deadbolts dying out? Will keys soon be a thing of the past? What do end users want – and will security companies rise to their needs in time? …