Code handle: Secure keyless door locking solution

Many businesses and buildings need trustworthy, keyless door security without the expense and invasiveness of an advanced access control system. For these premises, PIN-based digital door access adds this security efficiently, freeing managers, employees, and visitors from the cost and hassle of handling physical keys.

In all kinds of workplaces, private rooms need separating – securely and reliably – from spaces where the public have free access. Their doors need a simple, standalone locking solution, whether for a stock or medicine store, staff breakroom, private office, or any similar room.

Mechanical locking cylinder

A Code Handle PIN lock is an elegant device designed for precisely these use-cases. A Code Handle keeps a space secure, while admitting authorised employees via a digital PIN code on its discreet handle-keypad. Designed to add valuable door security to any private room facing interior public areas, it is already proven across multiple applications and environments to keep unauthorised people out.

Fitting is simple, only requiring a change of handle. The existing mechanical locking cylinder stays in place and may still be operated with the existing key. Staff need no specialist knowledge or outside help to manage their doors with Code Handle. This flexibility has seen it deployed successfully in a wide range of small and medium-sized settings, including all of the following.

Small healthcare facilities

In a busy medical facility – surgeries, dental practices, pharmacies, or physiotherapy suites – it is easy to accidentally leave a door unlocked*. With expensive equipment or controlled drugs on the other side, any opening invites opportunists. With a Code Handle digital PIN lock, practice managers need never worry again.

Doctors and patients expect privacy during consultations. With Code Handle, they get it. To secure controlled drugs and hazardous waste bins, a Code Handle is quicker and safer than tracking a physical key – with no need to change the lock when one goes missing. Many treatment and examination rooms have expensive or dangerous equipment such as X-ray machines, dental tools, and physiotherapy equipment. With Code Handle, all this gets the extra level of security it deserves, without the expense of a software-based access system.

Shops and retail environments

Every store has doors from the retail floor where the public should not go. Managing keys for these openings creates unnecessary workload and distracts staff. At the same time, a bulky mechanical PIN lock can ruin carefully thought-out aesthetics. Retail managers can instead secure these doors with a slimline, contemporary handle. Code Handle adds reliable, aesthetic, digital security to almost any interior door. It is easy for shop staff to operate, no training required. When an employee moves on, it is straightforward to cancel their PIN in seconds without removing the handle.

In a shop, outlet, petrol station, or car dealership, Code Handle is a convenient, low-cost solution for stock rooms, staff toilets, or offices facing any space where the public is free to roam.

Home-based workspaces

The contents of an office may be sensitive, valuable, private… or all three: not everyone at a workplace should have free access. Staff should be able to grab a coffee without worrying about the laptop or handbag left inside. Designed for office doors of any kind, Code Handle keeps such stuff safe and private. When the door shuts, Code Handle locks it automatically – staff do not even need to put down whatever they are carrying.

The growth in work-from-home (WFH) and hybrid working strategies has also led to an increase in private workspaces within the home and other communal settings such as co-working premises. These require their own security and privacy, whether to make video calls or have a sensitive conversation. Commercial security is always desirable. In many industries, it is required by law: the physical security of documents, data, and conversations may be the responsibility of those who keep them.

As experience across sectors and locations has demonstrated, the most elegant, seamless way to put an effective barrier between a residence and a private workstation is with a Code Handle digital door lock.

Other education settings

Staff and school administrators can relax when they know private rooms and equipment stores are properly secured. Currently, many teachers carry cumbersome key bunches to ensure pupils do not enter rooms which could put themselves or school equipment at risk. With Code Handle, this is possible without having to constantly lock and unlock by key.

Fitting a Code Handle brings a sense of security and privacy to the staff room: teachers can leave marked work or mobile phones where no pupils can enter. A Code Handle makes it easy to separate pupil toilets from PIN-protected staff toilets.

PIN-protected staff toilets

With Code Handle fitted to just a few important doors around the building, school principals ensure sports equipment, musical instruments, cleaning stores, and kitchens are protected against unauthorised access or theft.

Health and safety are also part of the package. Code Handle is fire-door compliant (EN 1634) and with a certified lifetime of at least 100,000 operations. Product design makes disinfecting easier. Unlike mechanical push-button PIN locks, a Code Handle has a smooth surface without corners or ridges. Germs have fewer places to hide. A disinfected damp cloth is all a caretaker needs to keep a handle hygienic – and school doors and storerooms secure.

Keeping track of keys

Code Handle devices are easy for any small organisation to retrofit to their existing doors: the cylinder or lock remains in place and its handle simply swapped for the new device. For power, two standard batteries (CR2) slot inside the handle, typically lasting 30,000 lock/unlock cycles before replacement. Installation needs no wires, specialist tools, or drilling. Two screws attach it to almost any interior door up to 80mm thick.

Door management becomes easy and keyless. Every Code Handle comes with a Master Code and 9 different user PINs, making it simple to abandon the inconvenience of carrying and keeping track of keys. PINs are easy to set and to change whenever an office manager decides. It is this easy to transform the security of private rooms which face public spaces.