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The thoughtful home
Internet guru Joakim Jardenberg has been helping to facilitate ASSA ABLOY’s digital transformation since 2016. He hopes that the next step will be “turning …
Taking event ticketing into the mobile world
Ticketing for events such as football matches and exhibitions is set for a dramatic leap into the digital realm of smartphones, thanks to an innovation …
Podcast: Unlocking the Security of Security
On this final episode of Unlocked, three campus security experts share how to keep your physical security devices secure, and why it’s just as important …
How to prepare for the urban shake-up
Urbanization is taking place worldwide and having a profound impact on the built environment. Eric Fang, principal at Perkins Eastman architecture firm, …
Podcast: Unlocking smart cards
Whether you call them credentials, badges, or ID cards, the world of access card technology can be a confusing one. Learn about the misconceptions and …
Podcast: Yale smart lock solution for Amazon Key
ASSA ABLOY Group company, Yale Locks & Hardware recently announced that it has teamed up with Amazon on a new service exclusively for Prime members …
Deliveries on your doormat – even if you’re out
In Sweden, a new smart door lock from ASSA ABLOY is making the “While you were out...” delivery card a thing of the past. PostNord customers can now …
Podcast: Unlocking Video Surveillance
Security cameras are smarter than ever before. The move from analog to IP-based digital video surveillance has allowed cameras to go from a documentary …
Digital identities in your everyday life
Trusted identities will soon move from simply an add-on feature to become embedded in applications used in daily routines for both consumers and professional …
Podcast: Unlocking Physical Security Costs
In Episode 2 of the new podcast 'Unlocked', we take you on the journey of an IT Director at a small college as he navigates through the sometimes choppy …
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 …
Benefit from young innovators
By 2020, Millennials will make up over a third of the global workforce, bringing with them challenges as well as opportunities for potential employers. …
How safe are autonomous cars?
Driving a car is an extremely complex activity – somehow we manage to control all that technology and keep our eyes on the many things going on around …
Sustainable manufacturing with 3D printing
Among it's many advantages, 3D printing can contribute to making manufacturing more efficient and sustainable by reducing waste and transportation. Ultimately …
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 …
Regulating the rise in drones
Camera-equipped drones have taken to the skies like never before and regulatory bodies are taking notice. Yet recent regulations in Sweden citing privacy …
3D printing and the future of manufacturing
The potential of 3D printing is mind boggling. Soon, we will be printing our own food, entire houses and even body replacement parts. Let’s step back and …
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 …
Mobile IDs will change your interaction with governments
Once only a futuristic concept, mobile IDs have arrived and will fundamentally change the way governments and citizens interact. A mobile ID is a government-issued …
Listening to the Voice of the Customer
How can you understand customer needs and increase benefits of new products? ASSA ABLOY is using Voice of Customer (VoC) exercises to do just that. Customer …
Tracking for security and safety
Ever tried using GPS indoors? You probably noticed that it's not very effective. Real-time tracking of personnel, vehicles, or assets indoors in high-risk …
The future of indoor positioning
Whether the goal is simply to aid shoppers in a mall or prevent accidents in warehouses, the solution is increasingly spelled IPS, as in Indoor Positioning …
Shift on the wearable horizon
From smart watches and smart jewelry to Fitbits and Jawbones, wearable technology is becoming ubiquitous in today’s world. But wearables are evolving …
Accelerating access control and inventory tracking
Businesses today are demanding new access control and inventory tracking solutions to improve security, enhance convenience and increase efficiency. When …
Reducing mobile security risks
Mobility may be a fact of life in just about all enterprises, but that doesn’t mean IT organizations aren’t concerned about its impact on security …
Developing mobile access for hotels
We recently posted and article about how products are developed at ASSA ABLOY's shared global innovation organization, Shared Technologies. We continue …Member only
Physical Security for Today’s Data Centers
Data center managers, faced with an increasingly stringent regulatory environment, need to rely on the latest technology and the industry’s best practices …
Defining Big Data
Ask 10 experts to define Big Data and you’ll get three different answers. But when Future Lab asked the experts to explain how Big Data is being used …Member only
Q&A: Security in Asia
Securitas is a global leader in security, offering specialized guarding, technology solutions, consulting and investigation services. In Thailand, Securitas …
Smart energy savers
Growing climate change concerns and constantly rising energy prices are increasing demand for environmental solutions in the home – from the simple …
High-tech home care
An aging population opting to stay at home is generating new solutions and technology. In the US alone, the market for technology to help seniors age …
Home safe home
Increased integration, more software, and remote monitoring are just a few of the growing trends in home security. Yet some industry players suggest a …
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 …
Safe for – and from the public
Achieving adequate levels of security in public facilities often means treading a fine line between granting taxpaying citizens their constitutional right …
Olympic Games: A catalyst for change
The tension is mounting as London gears up for the 2012 Olympic Games. Heightened security measures are triggering debate, as well as encouraging innovative …
Stadiums keep track for better control
Technology is helping improve safety and security at football stadiums and could help consign the crowd disasters of the past to history.
Balancing act for museum security
Public facilities such as museums and libraries have the complex task of being open and accessible to the public while at the same time protecting priceless …
Solutions boost sales and security
In retail, as in other fields, safety and security concerns sometimes conflict with marketing and sales. New solutions in video analytics and store design, …
The greening of retailers
Environmental awareness and energy savings have become a priority for many retailers, who are starting to rethink such things as an open-door policy.
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 …
Theft tops list of retailer challenges
Retail losses from theft – both internal and external – are staggering. Protecting goods must be a top priority for retailers, according to …
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.
Sharing the holiday investment
An appealing blend between staying in a hotel and owning your own home, timeshare holidays are growing in demand. How do they handle security challenges?
Safe and sound hotel
In a recent survey carried out for Choice Hotels Europe, 100 hotel managers said that the top amenity desired by business travelers staying at a hotel …
Systems enhance guest experience
Hotels are following the “smart home” trend by increasingly integrating their access systems with other functions such as lighting and temperature …
Airport security grows up
New technologies such as Advanced Imaging Technology and video analytics could help make long lines at airport security checkpoints a thing of the past.
Shipping cargo safely
Human beings are the weakest link in supply chain security, but solutions using RFID and GPS offer interesting options for the future.
Security on track
Railway stations, tracks and yards are coming under increasing scrutiny as security needs are elevated in the transportation sector.
Executive protection on the move
An increasing number of companies are turning to executive security, not only for the office and home, but to protect executives while they are traveling.
Pride fosters secure schools
As security requirements expand within schools, educators are faced with a balancing act. How do you ensure safety without turning schools into fortresses?
Schools combat cheating
The Internet, wireless communication and mobile phone cameras have put cheating within clicking distance for students. Schools are responding with increasingly …
Smartphones open campus doors
Mobile phones are second nature to today’s students which is why security and NFC mobile phone applications are making their way to campuses worldwide.
Not without my magstripe card
Magnetic stripe cards have been popular on campuses for years and their appeal shows little sign of waning. But external factors may be providing the impetus …
Utilities Cyber Threat Legislation on the Rise
Operational systems like SCADA and DCS [1] that control plants, refineries of all sorts and the flow of electricity in power grids, are now interconnected …
When nature attacks
Those who have a generator and a well in their backyard don’t have to worry, but for the rest of us, the security of the gas, electricity, and water …
Lights are on, but nobody’s home
A smart house knows exactly what to do.
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 …
Hospitals keep disease at bay
One of Canada’s largest hospitals has taken effective measures to prevent the spread of contamination and ensure secure access to pharmaceuticals.
Hospital friendly design
Hospital design is evolving along with advances in technology, safety and security.
NFC waiting for Apple?
VISA runs shopping trials using iPhones and rumors circulate about NFC capability in the next version of Apple’s iPhone.
Health is a private matter
As hospital records move from paper to electronic form, maintaining patient privacy takes on new dimensions.
Identity control online
As technology improves, establishing who’s who, especially online and through non-traditional identification methods, is becoming increasingly difficult.
Airport alert
When an airport experiences a major security breach, officials scramble to implement new, sometimes invasive technologies to keep airlines and passengers …
Smart power
It used to be so simple. You had a big power plant here, people using the power there, and power lines between them. A man in a van went round to read …
Enhancing home security
Home automation is expanding, with many systems based on existing security packages. Now, in addition to ensuring that windows and doors are locked, users …
Where did your data go?
A civilian employee of a police department disables warehouse security cameras and steals backup tapes putting identity numbers and the direct-deposit …
Protecting the privacy of others
With every action you take in our wired world, whether making an Internet purchase or posting a blog, you leave a digital footprint, a record of who you …
Unleash the power
New technologies have emerged that can power up security systems without wires or batteries. Solar, wireless power transmission and energy harvesting solutions …
Getting a handle on bacteria
According to the British National Audit Office, 300,000 people pick up infections in British hospitals every year, and at least 5,000 of them die as a result.
Anything to declare?
The main impulse for e-passports is security. As the British passport authority says on its website: “The increasing threat of identity fraud means …
Fraud fighters
Seven percent of GDP was lost to fraud in 2008, according to the US Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. That's $994 billion a year. But new technology …
Risky business
January 20, 2009: Washington DC is in a state of high alert. A new president is to be inaugurated and a couple of million people want to watch. But a new …
Bridging two worlds
Previously, the physical and virtual worlds couldn’t be further apart when it came to security. You entered a building using a physical token like …
Hotels check in
The last time you were in a hotel, you probably didn’t ask to check how good the locks were. You probably were more interested in the quality of …
Retailers combat shrink
According to the Global Retail Theft Barometer Results, the combination of crime and loss prevention costs the worldwide retail industry $108 billion annually …
Protecting the priceless
In 2004, armed, masked robbers stormed into the Munch Museum in Oslo and stole two masterpieces – “The Scream” and “Madonna” …
Campus protection up a degree
Two campus tragedies within two years – including the Virginia Tech massacre in which 33 people lost their lives, as well as the Valentine’s …
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 …
A safe investment
It’s hard to overlook the eye-catching Göteborg Opera House, a 160-meter wide building, which graces the Swedish city’s harbor. Designed …
Hands-on access
A recent survey of passengers on Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, showed that fingerprint identification has become widely accepted. Over 70% of Swedish respondents …
Easy opener
Most people wouldn’t dream of trading in their remote control car keys for standard ones, yet how many residential owners have swapped their house …
Home under control
The smart home is almost as popular a dream as the flying car. Who wouldn’t want the house to turn on the lights according to the sunlight? Enter …
Take the money and run
One would think that with all kinds of e-wallets and other electronic payment methods and devices, cash in transit would have already gone the way of the …
It’s a Phone; It’s a Wallet; It’s NFC
Touching your phone to a sensor to make a purchase is one of the most compelling NFC applications – and it’s also one of the most complex. …
RFID: Up Close and Personal
In the competitive travel sector, sought-after business and luxury travelers are hard to please and even harder to impress. Accordingly, hotels are investigating …
Hotels at sea
If you wanted to describe the security challenges of a cruise liner, you could think of a hotel inside an airport. When it comes to the individual cabins, …
Place your bets on RFID
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used to track everything from border crossings, cattle, blood samples, beer, and other consumer …
Check-in phone
Long queues after a tiring day on the road is an unwelcome sight for any traveler, but a new electronic-locking solution, which communicates with cell …
Getting in the swim
Lower-cost passive RFID technology is beginning to appear at hotels and resorts that value its ability to improve security and service. For properties …
The Future of Airport Security
Security at airports has always been tough. But the terrorist attack on New York, showed that it was not tough enough. The airports employ various security …
Life on the fast lane
It’s been a tremendous challenge for airports in the U.S. and around the world: How can they measure up to new standards in traveler screening and …
Security built from ground up
Airports face two difficult security challenges: First, they must get the right people to destinations around the world, quickly and safely; second they …
RFID has a lot of baggage
The history of computerized baggage systems could hardly be called smooth. The baggage systems at US airports alone lose about 3.5 million pieces of luggage …
The Benefits of Commonality
Despite its highly competitive environment, the automotive industry is set to cooperate and establish an open standard for electrical and electronics architecture. …