Case studies

DEPLOYMENT OF ACCESS CONTROL ACROSS 60 INTERNATIONAL ENTITIES

A GLOBAL ACCESS CONTROL PROJECT ASSOCIATED WITH A SINGLE CARD

The Alstom group consists of several Business Units and has a turnover of 20.5 billion euros with 95,000 people worldwide.

“Ideas were good at Horoquartz. We defined the specifications and decided to make Protecsys 2 multi-site and multi-company. The solution has been designed to be adaptable to all possible Alstom infrastructures in France and abroad” says Raslan Leguet, IT Engineering and Security Project Manager.

A GLOBAL SECURITY SYSTEM: CENTRALISED INFRASTRUCTURE AND REAL-TIME OPERATION

For Alstom, the architecture of the access control system had to be centralised, guaranteeing real-time operation and eliminating the problems of distance and network breakdown. It also had to guarantee the confidentiality of the data.

“We also wanted to use the same card for physical access to buildings and for logical access to IT applications in a secure manner,” says Raslan Leguet.

Horoquartz’s access control solution was chosen to equip all group units around the world. “All Alstom units making new internal access control requests worldwide must be equipped with Protecsys 2 Suite.”

Today, 60 sites are deployed worldwide across the 1000 Alstom sites in France, Belgium, Switzerland, USA, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and India. Over 1,700 doors worldwide are thus secured.

The solution also integrates complementary intruder detection and video surveillance services to provide a comprehensive security offer to requesting sites.

Standardisation of procedures and methods

“We have moved to an industrial solution in the field of access control, all of which is secure” says Raslan Leguet

 

"Any employee in the world can go to any site using the solution"