Master Thesis Student

Master Thesis projects ASSA ABLOY

Spring 2026 

  

Are you a master’s student in engineering looking to collaborate with a global innovation leader for your thesis project? Then this is your opportunity! 

 

ASSA ABLOY is the global leader in access solutions and provides the latest technologies to give access to physical and virtual spaces for millions of people every day. We are one step ahead of Google on the Forbes Top 100 list of the World’s most innovative companies. Joining ASSA ABLOY means being part of a fast-moving and highly innovative company with diverse opportunities in more than 70 countries. 

 

 

What we do

 

• ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems: We have supplied the world with automatic entrances for decades. Our products are crucial for millions of people whose business relies on an efficient movement of goods and a steady flow of people, where every breakdown or errors issued by an automated door has an impact on business and people safety. 

• ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions: We ensure safety and security for the hospitality staff, marine guests, tenants, during transport, and while you keep track of the energy or petrol production. ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions is always there to make sure workers and clients feel comfortable, safe and in control. Emphasizing innovation and growth to offer the most suitable and high-performing products and solutions. 

 

 

Why Write Your Master Thesis With Us? 

 

We’re offering a range of exciting master thesis projects at our Landskrona site for the spring semester of 2026. Whether you're working solo or with a classmate, we look forward to collaborating with you! Here’s why students love doing their thesis with us — and why you might too: 

 

• Innovation & Impact – Work on projects that matter, contribute to real solutions, and help shape the future of access.
• Global Opportunities – We’re part of a large international group where you can build a career to be proud of
• Supportive Culture – Our student community, buddy system, and regular social activities ensure you’re never alone and always feel connected
• Career Development – Many of our students go on to join us full-time – your thesis could be the first step in a long and exciting journey. 

 

 

How to Apply 

 

• Explore our available Master Thesis projects via this link: ASSA ABLOY Master Thesis Program - Landskrona.pdf 

• Indicate the project number(s) you're interested in. 

• Share your initial thoughts on how you would approach the project. 

• Applications are reviewed continuously, so don’t wait too long! 

 

 

Available Master Thesis Projects

1. Find a disruptive method to install a sliding door (Pontus Heijdenberg)

• Visit a couple of installation sites to understand the installation process and learn what's difficult about installing sliding doors.​

• Brainstorm ideas of solutions to increase efficiency & reduce the need of two installers for every door.​

• Target is 2 doors per installer per day.​

• Get the ideas reviewed by subject matter experts.​

• Create prototype of the most viable solution.​

• Test the solution on site if possible.

 

2. Automated test of a Touch Panel without a robot with a human finger (Roger Dreyer)

• Investigate the touch panel to understand its complexity.​​

• Identify most critical functionality to verify after each new firmware update.​​

• Suggest methods of verification and how to automate.​​

• Implement test setup and verify the test coverage.​​

• Hand over a usable solution to our developers for further development.

 

3. Authorization method for door Touch Panel (Roger Dreyer)

• Find different technical solutions to Authorize the user.​​

• Identify most critical areas to verify.​​

• Validate the feasibility of the technical solutions in relation to the appropriate use case. ​​

• Create a prototype and verify the solution with real users.​​

• Hand over a verified solution to our developers for further development.

 

4. Mechanical design of a plastic housing for a Bluetooth adaptor to Pedestrian door operators (Roger Dreyer)

• Small user needs investigation to understand requirements.​

• Summarize requirements and approval for next step.​

• Concept development & selection.​

• Prototype design & 3D-printing of 2-3 alternative concepts.​

• User testing & Verification.

 

5. Battery simulation during test of door operator (Roger Dreyer)

• Find technical solutions for simulating various battery performance, like inner resistance and charge level due to temperature and aging.​

• To be able to test how our products behave under different battery states in a controlled way during automatic testing. ​

• Creating the necessary HW/SW to set the relevant parameters during charge/load cycles. ​

• The possibility to simulate various battery technologies would be very good.​

• Focus would be on NiMh and NiZn batteries.

 

6. What materials can be used to drastically reduce the weight of automatic doors (Roger Dreyer)

• Can we change material in the door leaves to gain weight and reduce CO2 footprint.​

• What materials will withstand our requirements.​

• What requirements do we need to change to be able to reduce the weight.​

• What side effects can we see by doing this.

 

 7. What can automatic doors contribute with in future smart buildings (Roger Dreyer)

• If automatic doors are components in future smart buildings what is then important to contribute with.​

• What data is available only from the entrance and what can the entrance control in the building.​

• Is there a standardized building management system interface or will there be several different to follow?​

• How can ASSA ABLOY differentiate their offering compared to competition.

 

8. How will the Retail market develop the next 5-10 years and how can ASSA ABLOY contribute to that (Roger Dreyer)

• Investigate current retail market with regards to their future needs.​

• Identify needs that ASSA ABLOY could help providing solutions to.​

• Set up a suggested business proposal that we can offer our Retail customers.​

• Base the business proposal on a clear business case. 

 

9. How does the decision-making process look like today for doors in new buildings vs. retrofitting doors in existing buildings (Roger Dreyer)

• How does the decision-making process look like for new buildings vs old buildings and retrofit.​

• What can be expected to change in the next 5-10 years.​

• What is important for ASSA ABLOY to change or improve to stay relevant.​

• Is there some golden opportunities that we should focus on.

 

10. Efficient Online Learning on Resource-Constrained Devices for Intelligent Door Systems (Roger Dreyer)

• Select an online learning algorithm optimized for resource-constrained hardware.​

• Create a dataset suitable for pre-training and real-world scenarios.​

• Train lightweight models for efficiency and accuracy.​

• Deploy the model on embedded or low-power devices.​

• Design a system for continuous online data collection.​

• Implement an on-device online learning loop for incremental updates.​

• Benchmark against alternative models and deterministic approaches.

 

11. Refurbished parts strategy (Ida Ydremo)

• Market investigation to identify circular best practices and regulatory demands with focus on refurbishment​

• Internal review of circular solutions and businesses​

• Crystalize a refurbished parts strategy from a business idea to technical solution ​
  including the financial business case, technical feasibility, operations solutions and sales strategy ​

• Suggest a roadmap to optimize cost and emissions reduction

 

12. Sales & Operations Planning: Create a model to support Supply Chain focus on Resilience and Cost optimization (Cecilia Wahlin)​

• Main challenges in securing material availability with an increase of material flows​

• How does the shift impact inventory levels, lead times and delivery reliability​

• How can suppliers and logistics partner support ​

• How can digitalization support the transition

 

13. Smart Service Identification with IoT & GenAI/Machine Learning (Anders Löfgren / Nils Maltesson)

• How can we design a model that accurately sifts through IoT event logs to distinguish between normal door usage sequences and abnormal sequences that indicate service needs?​

• Which approach—from classical Machine Learning to modern transformer-based LLMs/GenAI—is the most robust and efficient for identifying contextual customer pain points, and why?​

• How do we empirically validate the model's accuracy, reliability, and computational efficiency when deployed in a live, high-volume data environment?​

• What are the minimum input data prerequisites for the model to operate effectively, and how well can it generalize across different types of IoT devices?​

• What is the optimal deployment architecture that balances factors like latency, security, and scalability for real-time service integration?

 

14. Battery Lifetime and Capacity variation in Industrial Doors (Anders Löfgren)

• Explore ways to optimize the battery charging parameters to extend the overall lifespan.​

• Propose a method to monitor changes in battery capacity and predict its remaining lifespan.​

• Investigate additional factors currently influencing battery lifespan that should be taken into account.

 

15. Strategic Data Streaming from IoT Connected Doors To Cloud (Linda Vallenhag / Nils Maltesson)

• What existing data parameters are optimal for edge-to-cloud transmission from the door control unit (for different equipment types)? Conversely, what ideal data parameters should we prioritize for future collection, solely considering their potential for value generation for customers or our service teams?​

• How do we measure and ensure the quality and integrity of this streaming data for reliable applications?​

• What is the real effort and cost required to move different data types from the door to an actionable insight in the cloud?​

• How can we achieve an optimal trade-off between data volume, network traffic and the business value generated, specifically contrasting edge computing against direct cloud transmission?​

• What is the most suitable architecture for our chosen data streaming strategy, and what are its operational deployment pre requisites?

 

16. Industrial Door Dual Drive motor torque investigation (Anders Löfgren)

• Investigate where we are loosing efficiency​

• Propose design changes to increase the efficiency​

• Test your proposals and evaluate the best way forward​

• Design and prototype a test rig to evaluate the motors before they hit the field

 

17. Industrial Door Dual Drive motordrive (Anders Löfgren)

• Evaluate the already made electric circuitry​

• Program the motor drive 

 

18. Industrial Door light weight burglary protection (Anders Löfgren)

• Evaluate how the burglary tests are performed​

• Find the doors weak points and propose reinforcements​

• Build up a door including all your proposed solutions​

• Test the burglary resistance in accordance with the standard SSF1074 edition 1, class 2

 

19. Industrial Door Wireless Dual Drive Door (Anders Löfgren)

• Design and prototype a energy transmission system which is active while the door is closed​

• Design and prototype a wireless communication system for the control unit to talk with the motors ​

• Investigate limits of power transmission​

• Investigate limits in lifetime and wear and tear

 

20. Industrial Door optimized roller bracket (Anders Löfgren)

• Conceptualize new roller bracket and roller designs,keeping in mind​

• Installation​

• Service​

• Production costs​

• Strength​

• Adjustability​

• Prototype at least one solution and test on a real door

 

21. Industrial Door Improved U-value of our 42mm panel (Anders Löfgren)

• Design an “end-cap” with a broken cold bridge.​

• Order prototypes and test them on doors in our facility in Landskrona.​

• Visit our production site in the Netherlands to see how an enlarged broken cold bridge in the panel could be realized.

 

22. Industrial Door optimized ratch tool (Anders Löfgren)

• Analyse the tool and its components​

• Design and prototype alternatives​

• Try to reduce the amount of different production methods and tooling bound parts​

• The more standard off the shelf parts the better​

• Test and validate proposed design

 

23. Advanced mmWave Radar Sensing for Safety in Automated Revolving Doors (Oscar Fogelberg)

• The core objective is to design, implement, and evaluate ammWave radar-based system capable of accurately detecting human speed and potential falls within a revolving door environment. ​

• The central research questions are:​

• How can signal processing and algorithmic techniques be used to effectively identify and mitigate strong multipath reflections originating from the glass structure of a revolving door?​

• What are the most effective strategies for coordinating a multi-sensor radar setup to eliminate or minimize mutual interference while maintaining complete spatial and temporal coverage?​

• Can a real-time algorithm be developed that reliably distinguishes between normal pedestrian traffic, dangerously high speeds, and fall events using the processed data from the multi-sensor radar system?

 

24. Injecting Vingcard credential data blob into locks for test automation ( Joakim Månsson / Hassan Shirazi)