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Digital access and sustainability over the building life-cycle: maintenance

2024-10-16

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Every building system needs maintenance. However, the frequency and type of maintenance required can vary significantly. Not all maintenance is invasive or energy-intensive. With some digital access solutions, all it needs is a battery change. Less maintenance translates to fewer journeys and lower energy consumption, as well as greater convenience and budget savings. Wireless access technologies with a proven track record of reliability and durability hold a big advantage.

Advantages of wireless digital technologies

Many ASSA ABLOY wireless digital locking devices use standard batteries which are optimized for a long life – typically two years or more, although this varies by model and usage.

Under normal circumstances, a battery change is the only maintenance required, unlike wired systems that frequently need specialist electrical maintenance to extend product lifetimes and ensure electrical safety in the building.

Battery efficiency and minimal maintenance

Standard battery replacement is almost always easy to perform in-house, eliminating the need for technician callouts or unnecessary journeys.

Programmable key systems with electronic or electromechanical devices are likewise designed for minimal lifetime maintenance.

An ASSA ABLOY eCLIQ key-operated digital cylinder, for example, has an integrated lubricant reservoir which ensures it typically remains maintenance-free for up to 200,000 cycles.

Case study: ASSA ABLOY smart keys

eCLIQ battery-powered digital smart keys have a typical lifetime between battery changes of up to 10 years.

«We are very satisfied with eCLIQ, as the system is very flexible», explained Angelo C. Brecht, who redeveloped an historic building in Erfurt, Germany, for mixed commercial/residential use and chose ASSA ABLOY’s smart key digital access system.