Creating a Safer, More Accessible World
Allegion is striving to create a safer and more accessible world for people where they live, learn, work and connect. Our employees — who are experts, makers and consultants — each play an important role in developing, creating and supporting the solutions from our brands that help keep people safe and connected in these spaces.
By leveraging innovation, focusing on accessibility and integrating seamlessly with modern ecosystems, Allegion in 2024 continued to help create environments where people are empowered to live their lives with confidence, ease and peace of mind.
Where we live
The Schlage® XE360™ Series of wireless locks is an electronic portfolio designed with multifamily market needs in mind — like style and technology — and made to fit a wide range of common area openings. The locks operate in offline or No-Tour environments, eliminating the need for property managers to visit the lock to update the access rights. The XE360 Series is a versatile and affordable solution to create safe and secure communities for residents and enhance the multifamily living experience. It was chosen as the top product in its category, Door Hardware & Locks, in The Security Info Watch’s Readers’ Choice Product Awards, which are decided by the security professionals who use and install the products — making the honor a true reflection of industry needs and preferences.
Combining our signature style with the latest technology, the Gainsborough Freestyle Trilock Wi-Fi Smart Lock is now available with built-in Wi-Fi. Sold in Australia, the award-winning smart lock is packed full of discreet technology, boasting the Trilock 3-in-1 function, built-in Bluetooth® technology and a stylish slide cover to conceal the PIN code keypad.
Zentra has integrated resident keys capability in Apple Wallet™ for use by customers and their residents. This enables residents to easily and securely add their resident keys to Apple Wallet and unlock their apartment with a simple tap of an iPhone or Apple Watch. With this new capability, residents are able to unlock their building doors, amenity spaces and individual apartment units without contact using their iPhone or Apple Watch — eliminating the need to use a traditional, physical key.
Residents at a multifamily housing location in New York City can now access the building, their units and amenities with an iPhone or Apple Watch, thanks to Allegion and its partners, Silverstein Properties, SwiftConnect and Castle. The tenants of Silverstein's Silver Towers residential property at 606 West 42nd St. in New York City now have an easy and secure way to add a resident key to Apple Wallet to access the apartment building and unlock their homes with a simple tap of an iPhone or Apple Watch — thus eliminating the need to use a traditional, physical key.
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Where we learn
Launched in 2024, Schlage® Indication Solutions is a best-in-class lock portfolio designed with K-12 and higher education security needs in mind while also serving the privacy application needs of healthcare, commercial and retail markets. The visual indication trims offer enhanced lock status visibility with some of the largest viewing windows and a patented 180-degree visibility that helps ensure clear messaging from any angle — so you Know It’s Locked™. The Indication Solutions were selected as a winner of the Campus Safety 2024 Best Electronic Systems Technologies (BEST) awards in the Locks and Door Hardware category and was an honorable mention in the Security Info Watch’s Readers’ Choice Product Awards, which are decided by actual users and installers, making the honor is a true reflection of industry needs and preferences.
Allegion’s SimonsVoss brand launched AX2Go mobile key, offering the ability to open its range of digital locking components with a smartphone. An alternative to conventional media like transponders and key cards, this technology enables more flexible and secure short-term authorizations for educational campuses, where students, faculty, visitors and contractors move through multiple entry points daily. With thousands of people accessing campus facilities daily, universities must ensure their security measures are robust and futureproof. AX2Go offers end-to-end encryption and real-time cloud-based access rights management.
Allegion equipped three major U.S. universities with mobile credential technology so students, faculty and staff can use their smartphones and wearable devices for secure, convenient access across campus. In 2024, together with CBORD, a leading provider of campus card and cashless systems software, Allegion helped bring seamless access to Baylor University in Waco, Texas; Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana; and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
School security and safety is more than just a product conversation; it’s part of Allegion’s mission. While we’re proud to design and manufacture high-quality doors and hardware that play an integral role in school safety, we’re even more proud to come alongside U.S. K-12 leaders and their teams as partners to help build standards, connect industry players and develop layered security approaches and related policies. In 2024, Allegion U.S. became a Mission Partner of The "I Love U Guys" Foundation, which operates programs for schools’ crisis response. Partnering with the foundation — in addition to our existing relationships with Safe and Sound Schools and the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools — reflects Allegion's ongoing efforts to drive productive conversations on school security and support organizations that are advocating for safer students, every day.
2024 marked the second year of Allegion’s podcast, The Changing Face of School Security, which is hosted by Paul Timm, Allegion’s director of education safety, a board-certified Physical Security Professional, author and nationally acclaimed expert. From school security coordinators and analysts to nonprofit organizations and trusted advisors in the K-12 solutions space, this podcast highlights the changemakers in the education industry.
In 2024, Allegion Ventures recognized one year of collaboration with Ambient.ai, following its 2023 investment in this artificial intelligence (AI)-powered computer vision intelligence (CVI) company that’s transforming enterprise security operations. Allegion Ventures and Ambient.ai leaders sat down together to reflect on shared passions, in particular for improving physical school security.
Where we work
In April 2024, Allegion Americas began supporting Google Wallet™ mobile credentials to provide a seamless and secure way for employees to access their workplace facilities using their Android smartphones. In December 2024, Allegion became the first security solutions provider to support mobile credentials on Wear OS by Google smartwatches. The innovative offering is set to revolutionize the way workforces interact with company infrastructure and streamline daily operations. Our support for employee badge in Google Wallet is a commitment to enhancing the employee experience — they can now enjoy seamless access to buildings, secure areas and more with a simple tap of their phone or smartwatch. This enhances our full portfolio of premium mobile credentials for higher education, multifamily and corporate customers in Google Wallet and Apple Wallet.
Interflex, Allegion International’s security and workforce management solutions business based in Germany, celebrated 50 years of business in 2024. A market leader in Europe, its thousands of system installations manage more than 5 million employees at critical infrastructures, government institutions, private companies and banks, to name a few. Interflex’s interface to SAP was recertified in 2024 for Time Recording, and its new software release of IF-6040 has provided customers with smart features that make their working environment even more comfortable and secure.
Allegion Ventures, the company’s corporate ventures fund, led a Series A funding round for Serenity, a leader in innovative, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered environmental, health and safety (EHS) software solutions. The cloud-based AI-powered tools drive safety, compliance and operational efficiency for businesses across the globe.
Where and how we connect
Schlage® announced its smart lock integration with Airbnb. Airbnb hosts with listings in the U.S. and Canada will have seamless access to the industry-leading Schlage Encode™ Smart WiFi Lock Family directly within the Airbnb app, improving and simplifying entry and exit logistics for guests. Hosts can now streamline the check-in and checkout process with automatically generated access codes for guests, removing the need to create unique codes for each visitor manually.
Allegion is a Promoter Member of the Connectivity Standards Alliance made up of more than 600 companies creating, maintaining and delivering open global standards for the Internet of Things (IoT). As a part of this organization, Allegion helps develop and promote those standards expected to improve user experiences in smart home and smart building ecosystems. In 2024, the Connectivity Standards Alliance announced the release of Matter 1.4, now available for device makers and platforms to integrate into their products.
The evolution of the Matter specification in the 1.4 release reflects the support of hundreds of Member companies and the dedication of thousands of engineers and product experts globally.
Allegion U.K. launched a new ‘Fire Door Hardware Fundamentals’ guide, designed to support responsible persons through the latest fire safety regulations and fire door hardware best practice. The newly published guide draws upon key insights from Briton’s leading industry experts, and in response to the U.K.’s developing regulatory framework, aims to deliver accessible information on the Fire Safety Reform Program and the responsibilities associated with fire door safety. Allegion’s guidance details the pivotal issues in the current landscape and looks to further raise awareness of and connect communities to the role of fire door hardware, while also sharing trusted advice on specification, installation and maintenance.
