What happens when smart-security buildings and social benevolence are combined? A new standard of temporary housing with privacy and dignity for all. PROVIDING DIGNIFIED HOUSING The group uses a mix of properties However, with such a transient It can’t be easy to be a migrant worker: to provide accommodation for its community, access control has travelling far from home to work in an workforce. More recently however, proved to be a real challenge. unfamiliar country. There’s a chance to Ruigrok has started to build its own The group found that they were make money but there’s also the risk apartment blocks, complete with spending up to €30,000 on keys, of exploitation. It’s one of the reasons laundry facilities, common rooms, largely because residents forgot the Dutch temp-agency, Ruigrok, wifi and outdoor spaces. Far from to return them. prides itself on its employee services. being cramped and overcrowded, the rooms are spacious and A SOLUTION FOR TRANSIENT Ruigrok is not your average well-furnished, each with its COMMUNITIES employment agency. It contracts own kitchen and bathroom. Ruigrok already had an workers, mainly from Poland and accommo dation management system Ukraine, to support a range of For the founder, Peter Ruigrok, in place, so the team looked for an businesses, particularly the Dutch decent housing is a basic right: access control solution that could be flower industry. Aware of the “We want people to feel at home integrated with their own software. vulnerability of its employees, as much as possible, because if They chose the Tapkey Web API the group offers to help with the basis is good, people will enjoy because it complemented their arranging transport, social security, going to work and clients can platform and offered the ability to accommodation and health care. count on motivated employees. use a keyless access system. That’s so important!” Best of DOM | 45