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Standard Offline by OSS

Company :
Zurich Police and Justice Center (PJZ)
Segment:
Public facility
Location:
Switzerland, Zurich
Access control system:
Keylezz® furniture locking system
OSS standard components:
Offline Furniture Locks: Keylezz Latch Lock and Keylezz Turn Lever Lock
Management software: Keylezz LockManager
Construction year:
2022

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  • The project
    • In a modern new building, the Zurich Police and Justice Center brings together all judicial and law enforcement bodies from over 30 locations, a unique situation in Europe. The SIPORT control system is chosen as the access management system based on a Legic solution, which will also be used to manage the electronic locking systems for the furniture. Flexibility and variety in the application of Keylezz® furniture locks convince the management. In the new complex, approximately 7,400 individual pieces of furniture will be equipped, with the Keylezz® latch lock for wooden fronts and the Keylezz® Turn for metal lockers.
    • The integration into the administration takes place via an OSS system. With the components of the Keylezz® system, interaction is possible without any problems. In close coordination with the furniture supplier Witzig and our partner in Switzerland, easyID, the project was successfully implemented despite pandemic-related difficulties.
    • With the Police and Justice Center Zurich (PJZ), the canton of Zurich is getting a competence center for fighting crime. The PJZ allows the consolidation of the cantonal police, previously spread over more than 30 locations, with the law enforcement agencies, the police schools, the Forensic Institute and the police and judicial prison. With its approach of combining all police and justice departments in one building, the PJZ is unique in Europe. When completed, the PJZ will house over 133,000 square feet of floor space, more than 2,000 workstations, 241 detention spaces, and several 10,000 pieces of furniture.
    • The client is the structural engineering office of the Canton of Zurich, which designed the security and furniture locking concept for the Zurich Police and Justice Center in consultation with later users, including the Zurich Cantonal Police, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Zurich Cantonal Prison, external consultants.

    The Police and Justice Center requires a highly secure and very flexible furniture locking system.

    • It should be easy to use for both users and administrators. In total, more than 7,400 pieces of furniture, most of them individual, are to be electronically locked. That’s why they opted for a battery-based offline system.
    • The electronic furniture locks on the more than 5,600 items of office furniture, most of which are made of wood, should be “invisible” from the outside as far as possible. The furniture has both hinged doors of various designs and sliding doors (lateral cabinets).
    • There are over 1,700 metal lockers in the basements, which are designed to be easy to use and locked via a sturdy lock with an external battery. A LEGIC CTC MM 410 was specified as the badge technology.
    • Authorizations and their revocation must be updated on a daily basis. If necessary, it must also be possible to withdraw these immediately.
    • Lock information such as usage, log file, battery status and error messages must be automatically transferred to the management software, where they can be easily evaluated.
    • To ensure maximum flexibility, both in terms of functionality and product variety, an offline OSS (Open Security Standard) system was tendered.
    • The contractor should offer both a complete OSS system with management software, update reader and furniture locks and, alternatively, only the OSS furniture locks and their configuration if the furniture locking system is to be completely integrated into the access control system directly in the first step (see graphic).
    • In order to be able to react flexibly to the changes and expansions of the Keylezz® furniture locking system itself, the PJZ security team wanted to be able to configure the system itself and, in addition to the evaluations via the Siemens SIPORT system, to be able to read out the OSS configurations and battery statuses directly at the lock. Therefore, the PJZ security team was equipped with the Keylezz® Configuration APP and the Keylezz® Lockmanager OSS Configuration.
    • Mathias Oltmanns, Group Manager Safety Operations PJZ: “It was important for us to be able to adjust the system independently – this is very easy with the Keylezz® tool, which is super.”

Challenge

  • The original planning assumed that the placement and labeling of the furniture as well as the configuration of the furniture locks would be done before the first users moved into the building.
  • Due to the Corona pandemic, there were significant delays in the construction of the PJZ building. In addition, supply chains and delivery times, including for the procurement of materials for furniture production, were severely affected. Therefore, furniture, labeling, and configuration had to be done in stages based on the move-in schedule of each department. –
  • Due to the tight schedule and the low availability of furniture (pre-products), partial furnishing was necessary. Thus, the main furniture was placed so that the departments could move in and work. The other furniture was then successively delivered during ongoing operations. With approximately 10,000 pieces of furniture, this procedure was very planning-intensive and especially challenging for the configuration of the furniture locking systems. Since in the OSS offline system the Door ID is the primary factor to which the system is aligned, it is elementary that this is assigned to the correct furniture. With the help of the Keylezz® configuration APP, which makes it possible to flexibly record the Door ID in the field, assign it to the respective lock and also adjust it if necessary, it was possible to configure the system relatively easily despite the immense challenges.
  • With a tight schedule, very challenging general conditions and the considerable size of this furniture (lock) project, it was a team effort by Witzig, Siemens, EasyID, D&K and those responsible at the PJZ and the Zurich Building Authority that succeeded in implementing this giant project within the time frame.
  • Christian Rufer, Head of Security Operations PJZ: “We are very satisfied with the Keylezz® milking lock system and the advice and support from Witzig and the Keylezz® team. We can be proud of what we have implemented here together.”

In close coordination with the PJZ project’s general furniture supplier, Witzig -The Office Company, the following concept was developed for the furniture locking systems: For the office furniture with wooden fronts, the Keylezz® latch lock was offered for all furniture with hinged doors, which can be installed invisibly behind the door front on the outside.

  • For the more than 2,000 sliding-door cabinets, a new Keylezz® lock was specially developed with a remote antenna housing on the front of the lock, which is mounted on the furniture body and can thus also invisibly lock sliding-door cabinets (lateral cabinets).
  • The Keylezz® Turn was planned for the more than 1,700 metal lockers in the building’s basements. It can be installed very easily in new furniture and retrofitted in existing furniture.
  • Keylezz® Lockmanager OSS Solution, as well as Keylezz® Update Terminals, were offered to manage the system. The Keylezz® furniture locking system can be seamlessly integrated with access control or another third-party system via interfaces and many other options.
  • Alternatively, the customer could also obtain only the Keylezz® furniture locks as an OSS version as well as the configuration tools. The customer was also free to choose the scope of services and project consulting.

Assignment and project design

  • The customer chose to manage the furniture locks from Siemens’ SIPORT central access control system.
  • The Keylezz® furniture locks were ordered as projected. The Keylezz® latch lock was used for the office furniture and the Keylezz® Turn for the metal lockers.
  • The contract was awarded by the Zurich Building Department to the general supplier of the furniture, Witzig. The commissioning and configuration of the Keylezz® furniture locks was also awarded to Witzig and implemented by D&K ID Group in cooperation with its Swiss partner EasyID.
  • Immediately after the order was placed, the installation situation of the Keylezz® furniture locks in the office furniture was determined with Witzig using CAD data and sample locks, and a delivery schedule was created for all furniture and furniture locks.
  • With the PJZ was determined the marking and labeling of individual furniture.

Project follow-up

In order to be able to react flexibly to the changes and expansions of the Keylezz® furniture locking system itself, the PJZ security team wanted to be able to configure the system itself and, in addition to the evaluations via the Siemens SIPORT system, to be able to read out the OSS configurations and battery statuses directly at the lock. Therefore, the PJZ security team was equipped with the Keylezz® Configuration APP and the Keylezz® Lockmanager OSS Configuration.

Mathias Oltmanns, Group Safety Manager Operations PJZ:
“It was important for us to be able to adjust the system independently – this is very easy with the Keylezz® tool, which is super.”