CLIQ Go ensures only authorised residents enter these private London gardens

Challenge

For years residents of Leinster Square Gardens in London used traditional mechanical keys to access their communal garden. However, garden managers found handling traditional keys increasingly difficult: residents would lose keys or move on without returning them. It became hard to track who should (and should not) be using the gardens.

The Trust sought a new system with the following requirements:

• Trusted security for garden users at Leinster Square, with better access control and monitoring of keys and easy audit of cylinders 
• A system with no need for power supply to the locks, because they are outside, and easy battery replacement for keys
• Hardy electronic locking cylinders sized the same as standard mechanical cylinders, to make the upgrade process easier

Solution

Leinster Square Gardens chose a CLIQ Go app-powered access system, with electronic eCLIQ cylinders plus electronic padlocks from the same range to secure tool storage areas. The gardens are now locked with 5 weather-resistant and dust-proof cylinders. Around 300 authorised users have been issued with programmable, battery-powered keys.

Installation was straightforward. Existing locking hardware was simply removed to retrofit the new ASSA ABLOY system. The design of eCLIQ cylinders conceals their inbuilt technology, so nothing external draws vandals’ attention.

Management of a CLIQ Go system is easy, via an app for either Android or iOS mobile devices. With eCLIQ’s programmable keys, managers can fully control who can and cannot access the gardens. Lost or non-returned keys are quickly deleted from the system — removing one of the time-consuming issues they were experiencing with mechanical keys.

Working with local security provider MLS, ASSA ABLOY provided training sessions to educate managers on how to draw an audit trail; add and remove keys; and generally administer their new security key system. CLIQ Go makes it all very easy.