 Press release
KABA GMBH
Access with Google Glass – as simple as 'Open sesame'
Essen, Germany, September 23 2014 – How will physical security systems look in the
future? Will they be the same or completely different? How will people be identified? How
will systems behave in the future? These are the questions for which the Kaba Group's
Innovation Management are finding the answers. At Security Essen, the Kaba Group will
be unveiling their new technology study, "Access with Google Glass".
Visions in the heads of individual scientists and engineers do not, however, amount to user-friendly and
practical solutions. These ideas must be continually balanced with the wishes of future users. This is the only
way to obtain workable solutions that will meet the customer's actual requirements. There has been much
talk of 'wearable computing' in the media over the past few months, with the first devices now available on
the market. What trends can we expect with regard to the use of these? Private devices and business
equipment have also started to merge, the first devices serving both these purposes being smartphones and
tablets.
One example of this new 'wearable computers' category are data goggles such as Google Glass, or similar
devices made by other manufacturers, such as Meta Spaceglasses or Atheer One. The question now being
asked is where these will be used in the future and how they will make life easier for us. Here's one possible
scenario: Employees come to work in the morning and walk towards the office door, look at a certain part of
the door and it opens without them using their hands. This all happens without there being any reduction in
security for the system. They may also get their flexitime balance, reminders of that day's meetings or a
congratulatory message for successfully completing a project shown to them on the goggles. On paper this
all sounds very nice, but is it so convenient in reality? How fast does this process need to be, how close do
you need to be to open the door and what extra functions would be useful? To find this out and gain
experience of using the goggles in practice, Kaba has put together a technology study. "We want to work
together with our customers to scrutinize these ideas and check their marketability," explains Dr Andreas
Häberli, CTO at the Kaba Group.
Kaba GmbH, Philipp-Reis-Straße 14, 63303 Dreieich
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Picture: Access with Google Glass
Contact for the press:
Petra Eisenbeis-Trinkle, Tel. +49 6103 9907 455, email: petra.eisenbeis-trinkle@kaba.com
Kaba GmbH, Philipp-Reis-Straße 14, 63303 Dreieich
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ABOUT KABA
Kaba – beyond security
Kaba's innovative products, system solutions and services have made the global technology group the
leading provider of high-quality access management solutions, locks, cylinders, physical access systems,
time and enterprise data collection systems and hotel access systems. The corporate group is also the world
market leader in high-security locks, key blanks, transponder keys and key cutting machines. The listed
group has a turnover of approximately CHF one billion and around 8000 employees in over 60 countries. For
more than 150 years, Kaba has been going the extra mile to set trends in functionality, comfort and design
as well as security, with a focus on achieving optimum benefits for its customers.
Kaba GmbH, Philipp-Reis-Straße 14, 63303 Dreieich
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