Intelligent Asset Management for Airport Environments

• Further recognition for Milton Keynes-based Traka’s pioneering work to create the electronic key management market
  
• Follows £5m Ministry of Justice contract to roll out Traka cabinets to all UK prisons
• Previous awards won for Innovation (2004) and for International Trade (2008)

Traka, the intelligent access management systems company, has been awarded a third Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Traka won an award for innovation for its work to automate the management and se- curity of high-value and mission critical assets within organisations. Traka’s intelligent lockers use a combination of RFID and biometric technology to enable organisations to manage, secure and audit access to devices ranging from police radios to tablet computers in schools.

This is the third time Traka has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise and recognises the pioneering work done by Traka to create the electronic key management market in the UK and abroad. In this case, the development of a product for automating and tracking the usage of high-value items. It follows the company’s most successful year, which saw a £5million contract win with the Ministry of Justice to supply Traka electronic key cabinets to potentially every HM Prison in the UK. The company has grown to over 100 employees and generated turnover of £10million in 2011.

CEO and founder of Traka, John Kent said, “The secret of our success has been the development of our core solu- tion, the electronic dispensing of keys, to solve common problems faced by many organisations. Whether its radios in police forces or iPads in schools, more organisations now operate shared pools of high-value electrical items and Traka’s intelligent lockers are helping them to manage and secure access to these precious assets. With each new product we’re essentially creating a new market.”

“This is another very proud moment in Traka’s history and it is an honour to have been recognised for the third time for our continued efforts to find innovative solutions that meet our customers’ different needs. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise demonstrate that innovation in Britain is alive and well.”

Organisations like schools, police forces and security firms that use and distribute shared high value portable devices – such as laptops, airwave radios and data terminals – often find this equipment to be prone to being lost, damaged, mislaid, stolen or even borrowed. With Traka, access to devices is via biometric or card access, meaning organisations have control and an audited at-a-glance overview of who accessed any device at any time, creating a greater sense of user accountability and ensuring the devices are always returned after use.

Traka won a Queens Award for Innovation in 2004 and a Queen’s Award for International Trade in 2008. This year, the Traka intelligent locker was recognised for “outstanding innovation” in the Queen’s Award for Innovation category,