CASE STUDY
ASSA ABLOY secures Auckland War Memorial Museum Auckland War Memorial Museum has finally retired its mechanical door lock system in favour of the flexible and affordable smart lock system designed by ASSA ABLOY The customer Auckland War Memorial Museum stands on the hill known by Māori as Pukekawa and was first built in 1929 in remembrance of those lost in the First World War. It has grown to house a pre-eminent Māori and Pacific collection, significant natural history resources and major social and military history collections. Today, it is recognised as one of New Zealand’s iconic landmarks and one of our finest heritage buildings. The challenge With so many precious artefacts housed inside, the museum needed a more secure, modern door and display case locking system that would be sensitive and appropriate to a significant heritage building. The solution The wireless capability of the ABLOY PROTEC2 CLIQ locks provides modern access control for the museum’s existing doors without any need to run power to them. It was the perfect solution to
Sir Kenneth (Ken) McKenzie, Auckland War Memorial Museum head of security
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Auckland War Memorial Museum has over 170 doors to manage.
maintain the character of heritage doors, avoid damage to heritage fabric, and avoid the great expense of running wires. The CLIQ solution has given the museum a level of control far beyond what it had before and in keeping with state-of-the-art museum security global best practice. Managing over 170 doors with more than 500 metal keys was cumbersome and expensive for Auckland Museum. The legacy fob card and metal key combination wasn’t overly difficult for staff to use, but behind the scenes it was a frustrating manual system for the security team that incurred high annual maintenance costs. Each member of staff was assigned a set of keys that they were required to secure in a key cabinet each time they left the building. When a key was lost or misplaced, additional security guards had to secure the affected doors while a locksmith installed new lock barrels and
replaced the keys. This manual system lacked all the security features and audit trails that a digital system can provide. “We needed to bring our door security into the twenty-first century,” said the museum’s head of security, Sir Kenneth (Ken) McKenzie. “But we were faced with costs of between $3,500 and $8,000 per heritage door for new electronic locks and swipe card readers. With over 170 doors, the cost was simply out of the question.” An affordable wireless, smart locking system Following an introduction by the museum’s architects, Ken met with the ASSA ABLOY team to view the ABLOY PROTEC2 CLIQ system and evaluate its suitability. Brought about by new technology and the Internet of Things, CLIQ is a connected system of wireless smart locks, operated with batterypowered keys.
August / September 2019
