Telecom Italia

Telecom Italia is a major enterprise drawing upon tried-and-tested competencies and new competitive assets to transform and reinvent itself. The company is active in eight different countries, concentrating on innovation and customer orientation. Their main focus is, as its name suggests, telecommunications. In total, Telecom Italia employs over 83,000 people - all contributing towards its success.
In Italy, Telecom Italia is one of the market leaders in the telecommunications market. The company has been known as Telecom Italia since 1994, but its roots go back to 1964 when it had the brand name of SIP. Its headquarters are based in Rome, Italy. Telecom Italia supplies over 36 million mobile telephone lines and 7.7 million broadband internet connections to the Italian market.

Pre-existing situation & UTCFS’s role

Originally, Telecom Italia had no real need for access control systems on its numerous sites. However, as Telecom Italia planned to directly manage and remotely control the access points for authorised non-Telecom Italia personnel, the sudden need for an ac

UTCFS’s solution

UTCFS proposed a quality solution, which proved to be an ideal fit for Telecom Italia. Together with its installer, I&SI, 120,000 access badges were provided, along with almost 5,300 badge readers. These readers register over 500,000 daily transits. This access control system is connected to a national control center, where all access is monitored through UTCFS’s state-of-the-art Picture Perfect software. This provides a centralised supervision system with diverse control applications. Its modular architecture and customised software solutions make the system easy to manage despite its inherent complexity and geographic expanse. With its solution, UTCFS entirely meets Telecom Italia’s requirements for scalable access control.