Moving to a new office presents a natural opportunity for companies to re-evaluate access control. In a recent webinar, Moving to Mobile Access Control, James Moore of IFSEC Global and Peter Walsh of HID Global spoke with Allan Dawson, Workplace Services Team Manager at aircraft leasing company Avolon, about his company’s 2018 relocation to a new global headquarters in Dublin.
They moved to a 77,000 square-foot building. That was a big change for them. They were previously in a 20,000 square-foot building, that was part of a larger building at the time.
Mobile access reader
When they moved to this new facility, they took the entire building. And that presented its own challenges in terms of access control. Previously, they used the landlord's system. Now, they had the opportunity to put in place their own.
They spoke to their integrator, Summit Security, and Robbie Devlin, and they started to explore the opportunities
And this building was literally finished with construction two days before they started their fit-out. So, it was all about what's the best technology that they can put in? What's going to sustain them into the future so that they do not have to revisit these things every 18 months or two years? They spoke to their integrator, Summit Security, and Robbie Devlin, who's the local HID contact, and they started to explore the opportunities and technologies that were available.
Mobile access solution
The mobile access reader was brought in, and straight away they were like, “Yeah, this is definitely something that we want to get onto.”
Cards are great, and one hangs them around the neck, and they are an identifier. That's fantastic. But cards are not convenient. People leave cards in their cars. They leave them in their handbags. They leave them in their other pair of trousers. And this process of constantly reissuing cards can be a pain. It gives, as I would say, unnecessary administrative overhead that they could all do without. So, this mobile access solution was right on point for them.
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