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	Absolute diminishes the threat and fear of violent theft for Swedish pupils

Absolute diminishes the threat and fear of violent theft for Swedish pupils

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Facility Management
Use Cases	Geofencing Remote Asset Management Theft Detection
Services	System Integration Training
Challenge	The mobile devices are a huge educational benefit to students, but giving expensive items to young people to use anywhere runs the risk of loss, theft or older children taking devices from younger ones. Kungälvs Kommun found that on average around 17 devices a year were going missing. But despite the loss of the devices, the main concern for Kungälvs Kommun was the potential risk of harm that pupils faced if they were to be threatened with violence during a theft. Read More
About Customer	Kungälvs Kommun is the local government authority for the town of Kungälv, which is in the county of Västra Götaland on the south west coast of Sweden, near the city of Gothenburg. It provides a range of public services including housing, transport, environment, social services and education, to a population of 41,000. Under its education remit, Kungälvs Kommun is responsible for both junior and senior schools in the town. Along with core education services, the authority also provides IT equipment and support to schools. To help students communicate with teachers, access information and complete assignments efficiently, Kungälvs Kommun decided to provide senior school pupils – aged between 12 and 18 years – with mobile devices such as laptops and tablets. Pupils use the devices in school, but also outside the school environment for work at home and for personal use. Kungälvs Kommun supports around 5,000 mobile devices used by pupils. Read More
Solution	When Kungälvs Kommun launched its education mobile device programme it wanted to minimise the threat of users being harmed so it decided to use Absolute. Kungälvs Kommun started a rolling programme to install Absolute on all of its 5,000 mobile devices. Peter Borg, from the Education IT Department at Kungälvs Kommun, says, “The main reason why we needed Absolute was to protect our students. But, thankfully, so far none of our students has suffered any form of violence as a result of having a device stolen.” With Absolute on each device, one of the innovative actions that Kungälvs Kommun took was to run a series of advertisements in the local town and regional press announcing that pupil devices had a powerful security solution installed. Borg says, “The idea was to put the message out that these devices are traceable so don’t bother trying to steal them. So for us Absolute is as much a tool to deter theft, as well as an effective means to recover a stolen device.” Kungälvs Kommun has been able to recover the majority of lost or stolen devices protected with Absolute. Kungälvs Kommun is now starting to look at how it can use some of the other features of Absolute such as geotechnology, and reporting and analytics capabilities to improve the management of its fleet. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Facility Management

Use Cases

Geofencing

Remote Asset Management

Theft Detection

Services

System Integration

Training

Challenge

The mobile devices are a huge educational benefit to students, but giving expensive items to young people to use anywhere runs the risk of loss, theft or older children taking devices from younger ones. Kungälvs Kommun found that on average around 17 devices a year were going missing. But despite the loss of the devices, the main concern for Kungälvs Kommun was the potential risk of harm that pupils faced if they were to be threatened with violence during a theft.

About Customer

Kungälvs Kommun is the local government authority for the town of Kungälv, which is in the county of Västra Götaland on the south west coast of Sweden, near the city of Gothenburg. It provides a range of public services including housing, transport, environment, social services and education, to a population of 41,000. Under its education remit, Kungälvs Kommun is responsible for both junior and senior schools in the town. Along with core education services, the authority also provides IT equipment and support to schools. To help students communicate with teachers, access information and complete assignments efficiently, Kungälvs Kommun decided to provide senior school pupils – aged between 12 and 18 years – with mobile devices such as laptops and tablets. Pupils use the devices in school, but also outside the school environment for work at home and for personal use. Kungälvs Kommun supports around 5,000 mobile devices used by pupils.

Solution

When Kungälvs Kommun launched its education mobile device programme it wanted to minimise the threat of users being harmed so it decided to use Absolute. Kungälvs Kommun started a rolling programme to install Absolute on all of its 5,000 mobile devices. Peter Borg, from the Education IT Department at Kungälvs Kommun, says, “The main reason why we needed Absolute was to protect our students. But, thankfully, so far none of our students has suffered any form of violence as a result of having a device stolen.” With Absolute on each device, one of the innovative actions that Kungälvs Kommun took was to run a series of advertisements in the local town and regional press announcing that pupil devices had a powerful security solution installed. Borg says, “The idea was to put the message out that these devices are traceable so don’t bother trying to steal them. So for us Absolute is as much a tool to deter theft, as well as an effective means to recover a stolen device.” Kungälvs Kommun has been able to recover the majority of lost or stolen devices protected with Absolute. Kungälvs Kommun is now starting to look at how it can use some of the other features of Absolute such as geotechnology, and reporting and analytics capabilities to improve the management of its fleet.

Impact #1	Pupil Safety: In threatening situations, pupils can remain safe – handing over their device and leaving the investigation and recovery to Absolute and local authorities.
Impact #2	Theft Prevention: By communicating to the community that Absolute is installed on pupil devices, theft and other criminal activities are deterred.
Impact #3	Mobile Security: The device data collected by Absolute provides additional features and tools that will improve.

Impact #1

Pupil Safety: In threatening situations, pupils can remain safe – handing over their device and leaving the investigation and recovery to Absolute and local authorities.

Impact #2

Theft Prevention: By communicating to the community that Absolute is installed on pupil devices, theft and other criminal activities are deterred.

Impact #3

Mobile Security: The device data collected by Absolute provides additional features and tools that will improve.

Benefit #1	Kungälvs Kommun supports around 5,000 mobile devices used by pupils.
Benefit #2	On average, around 17 devices a year were going missing before the implementation of Absolute.

Benefit #1

Kungälvs Kommun supports around 5,000 mobile devices used by pupils.

Benefit #2

On average, around 17 devices a year were going missing before the implementation of Absolute.

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Absolute diminishes the threat and fear of violent theft for Swedish pupils

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