2026 | Professional

French Design Awards Silver Winner

THE GLOVE™

Entrant Company

PROTECTION SYSTEMS DCP PTY LTD

Category

Product Design - 3D Printed

Client's Name

PROTECTION SYSTEMS DCP PTY LTD

Country / Region

Australia

THE GLOVE™ Secure Custody Module

As digital devices become repositories of critical personal, commercial, and national information, traditional storage solutions no longer address the most significant risks. THE GLOVE™ is a transportable, modular secure custody system designed to protect devices not just from physical theft, but from invisible electromagnetic, wireless, and proximity-based threats that operate beyond the reach of conventional lockers and safes.

Rather than relying on a single shared enclosure, THE GLOVE™ introduces a one-asset-per-module architecture. Each Secure Custody Module (SCM) is a fully independent, RF-shielded environment designed to isolate a single device. Manufactured-on-demand leveraging additive processes each parametrically designed module meets is an optional form and fit, while also. eliminating shared cavities, seals, and cascading failure modes, ensuring that every stored asset maintains its own discrete security boundary. What appears externally can be a single or a multi-compartment system which in itself is a collection of individually sealed custody environments, each auditable, serviceable, and independent.

Collectively individual modules can also be housed together within THE GLOVE BOX™, a secondary containment enclosure that provides structure, concealment, and orchestration. THE GLOVE BOX optionally deploys with additional concealable, spatially separated base stations forming a decentralised security mesh. This distributed approach avoids single points of failure and enables higher-confidence monitoring through spatial correlation, reflecting the resilience principles of modern digital networks.

THE GLOVE™ adopts secure keyed, tamper evident and a physics-first security approach, controlling the electromagnetic environment through shielding, seam geometry, and controlled access distances. By addressing RF leakage and proximity interrogation at the physical level, the system mitigates entire classes of threats that software alone cannot reliably solve.

Designed as a maintained system rather than a static object, THE GLOVE™ incorporates scheduled verification and consumable seal replacement protocols to preserve performance over time. Its visually restrained, modular design integrates seamlessly into professional and public environments, translating complex, invisible security challenges into a calm, human-centred industrial design solution.

Credits

Senior Industrial Designer
Karl Falzon
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