ABB Group

ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. ABB operates in more than 100 countries and has offices in 87 of those countries to give its global and local customers the support they need to develop and conduct their business successfully.

ABB Saudi Arabia

As part of ABB Group, ABB Saudi Arabia acts actively to serve the local customers with a full range of world-class power and automation technology products and services. Being integrated in the local market makes it possible to provide the correct products and services which suit any special needs or requirements. In order to ensure that, ABB is represented in Saudi Arabia through several companies covering ABB’s wide range of activities, like manufacturing, contracting, servicing and trading.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

ABB Saudi Arabia was looking for a new and standardised access control system that was to be installed at multiple sites. These sites were Riyadh Head Office, Riyadh SAARA, Riyadh SAAUT, Al Khobar, Dhahran and Jeddah. The security system for these six sites had to be controlled from two control rooms on two different sites. UTCFS approached ABB Saudi Arabia together with its local installer and presented their solution.

UTCFS’s solution

For this project, UTCFS selected its Secure Perfect system. This is an access control application that enables the comfortable management of a large scale system through one simplified interface. The system is in place on all six sites of ABB Saudi Arabia and is controlled from both the SAARA factory server room and its security office. These two client systems monitor and control over 60 access points distributed over the six sites. Furthermore, for this specific project, ABB has the possibility to expand to three more client sites, thus leaving room for possible future growth.