Kodaa & HID Mobile Wallet Gains Momentum for Building Access as Landmark 101 Collins Street Tower Proves the Model
HID, a global company in trusted identity and access control solutions and Kodaa, an Australian digital consultancy, announced that Melbourne’s 101 Collins Street tower is emerging as a live example of how mobile credentials are moving from pilot projects to everyday building operations, with thousands of tenants and visitors now accessing one of the city’s commercial towers through their mobile wallet, without the need for a physical card.
The deployment, delivered by Melbourne-based digital consultancy Kodaa with HID Mobile Access, has been live for nearly a year and is supporting thousands of active users across more than 35 tenancies. Rather than introducing new hardware or layered systems, the integrated solution embeds access directly into the mobile wallet, with HID providing the trusted identity backbone through secure mobile credentials.
“Through HID’s proven ecosystem of credentials and readers, we enable partners like Kodaa to deliver frictionless, mobile-first experiences at scale,” Steve Katanas, head of ANZ, HID Physical Access Control Solutions. “There’s often a perceived trade-off between security and convenience, but mobile access solutions remove that compromise entirely by combining strong identity and device-level security, which sets a new benchmark for workplace access control.”
Seth Khouri, founder, Kodaa, added, “A year on, we’re supporting thousands of active users, and the feedback is overwhelmingly positive. People don’t want to go back. Also, the project didn’t require a full infrastructure overhaul. The integrated solution is built to work with existing systems and HID ensures modernization without disruption, making the transition low risk and the results immediate.”
Katanas said, “As hybrid work continues to influence tenant expectations, office buildings are under increasing pressure to deliver smarter, more seamless experiences from the moment someone arrives. What 101 Collins has shown is that digital credentials can be deployed at scale without disrupting existing infrastructure.”
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