SECURITY
From little acorns Aalborg University, Europe’s largest access control system
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ith 4,500 card readers across 55 university buildings, Aalborg University in Denmark is G4S’s biggest integrated access control implementation in Europe. What started out as a simple security contract, providing a handful of officers at two university buildings
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25 years ago, has grown into G4S’s biggest integrated access control implementation in Europe. Aalborg University founded in 1974 is Denmark’s fourth largest higher education institution and is organised across three campus cities; Aalborg, Copenhagen and Esbjerg. It provides Bachelors and Masters degree programmes in a range of
subject areas including engineering natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and health sciences. With 4,500 card readers on different doors to classrooms, laboratories, offices and libraries, more than 100 external cameras and intrusion alarms, the G4S solution at Aalborg University is a large-scale, integrated access control, alarm and
