TONALI: INNOVATION AND TRADITION

History
Tonali's been actively exploiting the security field since long. It was founded by Francesco Tonali in the '30ies and the first anti-robbery, armoured desk, inside a bank building, has been installed in 1958. This solution was conceived with steel reinforced aluminium profiles integrating some bullet-proof glass, at the time imported from the USA: it was the first of about 6000 Tonali security installations of that period.
But the second part the '60ies already sees the Company positioned as the most advanced reference point in the anti-robbery security field for banks. But the incoming '70ies alert Tonali to reformulate the "prevention" concept.

A new proposal was born: interlocked doors equipped inlets, moving from a static and completely passive protection concept to a more open and dynamic vision.
The ‘80ies saw the technical evolution and designers’ skilfulness leading to the manufacturing of the first interlocked, automatically managed security gate of the PRIORA® breed. This featured the innovative self-management denomination, so common in the following years to become a market symbol and widely used to identify any protected automatic access.

The '90ies, besides witnessing an uninterrupted flourishing of more and more versatile PRIORA® models, lead the Company to new, sophisticated access-control systems, advanced technological solutions, and biometric devices.
The natural evolving of this philosophy brought to the introduction of high-security access-control systems to restricted areas and basic models for Time & Attendance both in the industrial and retail sectors.
In the last years Tonali has been hardly working on this line, acquiring a wide know-how, to be extensively used either in the security field and in the huge Building Management scenario.
Time & Attendance, access control, different protection levels, building environmental data have been integrated into a single Building Automation concept with products and programs with an eye to energy-savings.
A careful study of the standards and possible solutions, pursued with an unlimited development horizon, is the basis of the TonaliBAS proposal, a system conceived within the distributed intelligence and international standards environment: global security and energy-savings managed by a single integrated system on the LonWorks™ based bus technology.