Helsinki Central Railway Station
Safeguarding a national treasure – ABLOY PULSE ensures a seamless meeting of history and the future at Helsinki Central Railway Station
The first rays of morning sunlight slide along the imposing granite walls that rise up to 50 meters above Helsinki city centre. From there, you can watch the city wake up: people passing busily by the Stone Men, under whose watchful eyes time has been spent and friends have been met, heroes celebrated, protests held, reunions and farewells experienced, daily life lived, and dreams pursued. We are at the Helsinki Central Railway Station, designed by Eliel Saarinen, where its iconic architecture holds over a hundred years of history, yet behind the scenes beats modern technology. The digital ABLOY PULSE locking system ensures a secure meeting of cultural history and the future.
The system allows for the creation of individual access rights for each user, which is particularly beneficial in the station’s mall-like environment, with various commercial spaces, office tenants, and a wide range of third-party service providers. When tenants change, keys can easily be transferred to the next tenant, and access right changes are easily managed through cloud-based software. There’s no need for separate lock programming, as changes are communicated through readers to the keys within the system.
Since the system gets its operating power by inserting the key to cylinder and thus does not require any electrical wiring, there was no need to seek approval from the Finnish Heritage Agency for cabling. Every time a PULSE key is inserted into one of the PULSE locking devices, energy is generated that powers the lock's encrypted electronic security features.