eCLIQ helps improve the Historial & Thiepval Museums security

Challenge

These two Somme museums — memorials to Europe’s Great War — operate as a single security environment. Access management had been eating up significant time and budget for the museums’ Technical and Security Manager.

He sought a “new technology” solution, with simplified access management, including activation and deactivation of keys and the administration of access rights and schedules for the external providers who work regularly for the museums.

Additional requirements for the new access solution included:

• Dependable, trusted, secure entry and exit control to reduce the number of thefts 
• User-friendly management of access rights for both internal and external users
• A system able to cope easily with changes, site extensions and two-site operation
• A way to remove the need to change all cylinders when an employee loses a key
  

Solution

Since 2015, the Historial and Thiepval Museums have been equipped with eCLIQ locking cylinders. Across the two sites, they have distributed 40 durable, compact and waterproof eCLIQ keys, of which 19 are already allocated to regular users. These Bluetooth-enabled keys are available to both employees and contractors, helping the latter to improve their responsiveness when they are needed on-site.

Installing the eCLIQ system has allowed security teams to better monitor their service providers — and their movements around and between the two sites. It is straightforward for museum managers to limit contractors’ access rights to the duration of a task, whether recurring or one-off.

Fitting eCLIQ locking was simple and wire-free: museum staff performed the cylinder installation themselves. One training session with the admin software was sufficient to put them at ease with the new system.

“I am very happy with the eCLIQ solution.” says Mr Guyot. “Normally, as a user client, we try to help you improve your products but there was nothing to say in this case.”