Yearbook 2021
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Touchless security upgrade showcases the way of the future for commercial buildings The Gateway building in Sydney’s Circular Quay is Australia’s first office tower to use fully integrated touchless fingerprint scanning to allow authorised office workers and guests into the building
T
he solution had to work seamlessly to enhance the user experience and building security for tenants and visitors at the 46-storey landmark building in Sydney’s CBD, owned by Dexus Wholesale Property Fund. “Tenants have a duty of care to protect their employees and visitors as well as valuable data and intellectual property, and they need the cooperation and support of a responsible and innovative building manager to manage secure entry into the building,” says Boon Edam Australia Managing Director Michael Fisher. Boon Edam delivered the entrance security solution, with speedgates that are the slimmest in the market, which added to the aesthetics, and helped with design considerations within the width of the lift lobbies. “We have tenants in Gateway who requested ground floor security, so we went out to tender to seek the best combination of sophisticated security and elegance, without being obtrusive to the building’s users,” says Dexus’ Senior Project Manager Stephen Hodge.
92
safetynews.co.nz
infrastructurenews.co.nz propertyandbuild.com
The new entrance involves a complex integration of security and technology experts, including Boon Edam, Schindler Lifts, Honeywell and IDEMIA (the manufacturers of MorphoWave fingerprint scanning technology). Gateway’s access solution begins with a sign-in system for guests, while authorised tenants will have their unique finger pattern saved. The guest pass, or your finger ID pattern, is then used on a MorphoWave fingerprint, which grants access to authorised personnel. MorphoWave scans and verifies four fingerprints through a simple hand wave gesture, during which the sensor takes several 3D photos of the fingerprints to extract biometric data and compare with the authorised fingerprints stored in the device. If they match, the user is granted access. This process all happens in less than one second. Each Morphowave scanner is connected to Schindler’s PORT Technology, which then receives the user’s credential data and is cross-checked in the base building access control database. If the user is valid,
