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Racecourse managers at the Hippodrome Côte d’Azur faced a familiar dilemma. How to stop duplicatable mechanical keys jeopardizing security for employees and visitors? And how to drastically reduce the time they were wasting in getting locks replaced when someone lost their key? Assa Abloy’s SMARTair solution provided the solution.
The racecourse’s 63-hectare site incorporates tracks used for many equestrian disciplines. Around 30 workers are employed full-time, but during meetings it welcomes up to 1,000 horses and 3,000 participants. Many stay in one of 130 onsite rooms. On race days, grandstands and spectator areas hold up to 11,300 people.
The racecourse chose a SMARTair Update on Card access control solution for this complex site. They now control and secure access points more efficiently and effectively than with their old key system. Projected long-term cost savings and significant key management workload reduction convinced Hippodrome managers to choose this wireless solution.
With SMARTair Update on Card, security staff encode user credentials directly for convenient access management. From among SMARTair’s long menu of compatible RFID technologies, Hippodrome managers chose iCLASS. They can delete users or lost cards instantly and collect audit trails when needed. Easy, flexible credential management enables them to program fine-grained, individual access to around 200 doors in six separate structures.
“In the long term, SMARTair access control is cheaper than keys to manage,” confirms Bernard Arnaud, Supervisor for Accommodations at Hippodrome Côte d’Azur.
Multiple devices, mobile credentials
Tough, durable, battery-powered locking devices are deployed cost-efficiently at different types of opening around the Hippodrome site. During 2018, around 100 rooms and technical areas were equipped with SMARTair readers, wireless escutcheons and wireless cylinders. Access to the accommodation building is controlled with a SMARTair wall reader. In the past, people who had lost their key had forced their way in by kicking the entrance. Now, a SMARTair device secures it.
The access control upgrade continues through 2020, in racecourse offices and grandstands. Managers also plan to trial the SMARTair Openow app. With Openow, administrators can send virtual ‘keys’ directly to a visitor’s smartphone — convenient for racecourse guests arriving late at night.
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Improving security at Hippodrome in Côte d’AzurFind out how Assa Abloy's SMARTair solution helped improve access control security at the Hippodrome Racecourse in France.
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The racecourse’s 63-hectare site incorporates tracks used for many equestrian disciplines. Around 30 workers are employed full-time, but during meetings it welcomes up to 1,000 horses and 3,000 participants. Many stay in one of 130 onsite rooms. On race days, grandstands and spectator areas hold up to 11,300 people.