Zone barriers are quietly present in all our lives.

Every day we walk through passages, doors or hallways. We move between rooms and buildings. Our mission is to transform the interaction between zone barriers and people, from mere mechanical action into an emotional one.

Zone barriers have changed little since ancient times. Walls are created to separate spaces by function. Public and private spaces have been distinguished for millennia.

the earliest locks were created over 6000 years ago. The first metal lock is said to have been made by the architect, sculptor and inventor Theodorus of Samos in ancient Greece, roughly a century before Socrates walked the earth.

Zone barriers are in frequent use, some zones by plenty of people at different times. Until today, zone barriers and access control have been merely a mechanical process. Locks are present to control who can physically enter a space or not. Digital technologies does something similar in having user names and passwords to access content online. As such, barriers carry the potential of being a user access point – for opening both physical and digital spaces.

With new mechanical and digital technologies, we aim to create access control systems that quietly distribute information to and from users of a zone, easing the mobility of people while heightening security – to deliver all-over clean functionality and a great user experience.