Give Kids The World Village

Customer:

Give Kids The World Village is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide critically ill children and their families with dream vacation experiences. Situated in Kissimmee, Florida, the 89-acre resort welcomes countless families each year who seek to take a break from medical procedures and instead enjoy a week-long stay at no cost.     

Challenge:

As a location catering to families with children, Give Kids The World Village recognized that maintaining enhanced resort-wide security would be crucial to ensuring an enjoyable and stress-free stay. Resort leadership therefore sought to perform a security access upgrade that would protect its guests using the industry’s latest capabilities while maintaining convenient service.   

Solution:

Benefitting from a decades-long relationship with ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions, Give Kids The World Village has consistently been able to keep pace with evolving trends and standards in property security. This is due to both the proactive guidance of ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions technicians as well as the scalable design of the company’s various solution offerings.

For the most recent donation, the Village was able to update each of its 166 villa door locks to VingCard Classic RFID in addition to multiple onsite venues, bringing the total locks installed to 216 alongside the installation of eight remote readers. By simply adding an RFID reader to existing locks and without requiring any hardware replacement, the Village is able to protect its guests with the latest in keycard data encryption technology. By leveraging RFID-enabled locks, guests staying at the Village not only gain enhanced peace of mind but can now also sidestep inconvenient keycard demagnetization issues that can leave them locked out of their units.

As part of the latest security upgrade project, VingCard Classic RFID’s adoption was also joined by the implementation of an advanced key management solution by Traka Americas. By using the platform, Village leadership and employees can maintain enhanced accountability over who has access to specific keys and physical assets. The solution is also able to monitor and track when a key is taken, used and returned, preventing lost or stolen keys from degrading into an increased security risk.