Case Study: Haymarket Media Group achieves integrated, cost-saving security with HID Global iCLASS

Making good things that work for our audiences with HID Global

Haymarket Media Group, a global publishing house, sought to upgrade its security infrastructure from traditional proximity cards to a more advanced, multi-functional smart card system. Their challenge was to implement a solution that would enhance both physical security and operational convenience for staff while reducing overall costs. They turned to trusted vendor HID Global for its iCLASS smart card technology.

HID Global implemented a seamless migration to its iCLASS smart cards, creating a single-card solution for access control, parking, remote monitoring, and follow-me printing. The solution integrated perfectly with Haymarket's existing systems and enabled remote monitoring of premises. This resulted in annual cost savings of approximately £300,000 from reduced manned security needs and improved printing efficiency, alongside achieving an extremely low card failure rate of less than 1%.

Haymarket Media Group

Andy Erskine

Group Facilities director